Posted on 02/05/2014 7:49:41 PM PST by SkyPilot
House Speaker John A. Boehner scrambled on Wednesday to sell a new debt-ceiling solution to his Republican colleagues, encouraging them to demand a restoration of recently cut military benefits in exchange for a one-year extension of the federal government’s borrowing authority.
Though Boehner (R-Ohio) did not formally endorse the idea as his own, he did ask his lieutenants to test it among rank-and-file Republicans. House Speaker John A. Boehner scrambled on Wednesday to sell a new debt-ceiling solution to his Republican colleagues, encouraging them to demand a restoration of recently cut military benefits in exchange for a one-year extension of the federal government’s borrowing authority.
Though Boehner (R-Ohio) did not formally endorse the idea as his own, he did ask his lieutenants to test it among rank-and-file Republicans.
“Unlike other recent periods when we have had to use extraordinary measures to continue financing the government, this time these measures will give us only a brief span of time,” Lew said Monday in a speech at the Bipartisan Policy Center. “Given these realities, it is imperative that Congress move right away to increase our borrowing authority.”
Outside the House chamber Wednesday night, the plan was gaining momentum, with dozens of GOP members saying they could back it. The benefits for retired military personnel were reduced in last year’s bipartisan budget agreement, which cut $6 billion in payments to veterans over the next 10 years.
“I’d support it in a heartbeat,” said Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.). “We need to figure this thing out, and that’s a way to do it.”
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said, “A lot of people are supportive right now, and this idea could be a vehicle that wins backing from a lot of Republicans.”
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Oh who I hate these vile slime balls, let me count the ways. Everything these scumbags do is planned to make one another look good or bad. They play gams with real peoples lives in turn for votes. There is no death or cost/confinement equal to their evil deeds.
Boner makes a “proposal”. Then he says “No? Then how ‘bout this, Mr. President. No? Uh, I’ll come up with something you’ll like eventually so don’t turn on me.”
Hmmm
Boehner is an idiot
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