Posted on 03/09/2015 7:10:11 AM PDT by bestintxas
Republicans will raise the government’s borrowing limit without threatening a default, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell guaranteed Sunday, placating the markets but potentially surrendering the party’s leverage as Congress gears up for another debt showdown.
The current debt-ceiling holiday, to which Congress agreed a year ago, expires Sunday, starting the clock on debate and sending the Treasury Department scrambling to tap into its “extraordinary measures” to keep from breaching the limit.
Budget analysts say Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has about seven months of spare room, meaning a deal would have to be reached by October or November.
Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said on the CBS program “Face the Nation” on Sunday that Republicans may try to attach some of their priorities to the debate but won’t force another shutdown showdown as it has in the past.
“I made it very clear after the November election that we’re certainly not going to shut down the government or default on the national debt. We will figure some way to handle that. And, hopefully, it might carry some other important legislation that we can agree on in connection with it,” he said.
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VOTE REPUBLICAN! LESSER OF EVILS!
Why? I have no friggin’ idea.
He actually thinks the November Tsunami was an approval of the job he’s pitifully done in his tenure as Majority Leader.
In 2016, he is going to find out that was not the case. There is no way in hell I am going to vote for anyone who thinks this putz is a leader in shape, form or fashion.
Mitch is still looking for a “battle” to “pick and choose from” to fight. LOL! Clowns.
perfect
I actually have a 1936 French MAS (7.5 X 54 French cartridge) bolt action rifle. It is perhaps the most pristine rifle I own.
This isn’t surrender, it is complicity.
Note also that EXEMPT McConnell still makes money,
as does EXEMPT Pelosi (and in Samoa, as well)
from the ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE which is for
nonMoslems too stupid to not work for,
or payoff, the EXEMPT in Congress or SCOTUS.
Now, republicans vow to raise debt ceilings.
She’s Beautiful. Bravely caving.
He’ll find that battle the moment the Chamber of Commerce wants something. Then, he’ll fight like hell.
The Uniparty must be destroyed.
LOL - reminds me of that quote by Jay Leno (I think)...”Why should the French help us kick the Iraq out of Kuwait? They didn’t help us kick the Germans out of Paris.”
We need to get an address from Obama’s bitch so we know where to send the knee pad replacements. I’m sure that he has worn out more than one set by now. Maybe some Kleenex so he can wipe his lips too. What a sorry SOB.
This comment is nothing more than flipping the bird to the base of the party. He is telling us, we don’t tell him what to do, he will tell us. Or maybe he is just getting payback for the criticism he received after the DHS surrender, but he is telling us who is boss.
What does he care? Its not his money.../s
Must have a third party. This is ridiculous....
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