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Biden blasts Republican lawmakers, telling them to "just get out of the way" as U.S. approaches debt ceiling
CBS ^ | 04 October 2021 | SARAH EWALL-WICE

Posted on 10/05/2021 12:22:50 AM PDT by blueplum

President Biden slammed Republicans Monday for refusing to help raise the debt ceiling, and ...said Democrats are willing to raise the debt ceiling alone this week but Republicans are stopping them, having blocked two attempts to suspend the debt limit in just the last week....

...In a letter to Mr. Biden on Monday, McConnell reiterated Republicans would not help raise the debt limit, and Democrats would have to do it on their own, a stance Republicans have taken since mid-July.

"The debt limit is often a partisan vote during times of unified government. In 2003, 2004, and 2006, Mr. President, you joined Senate Democrats in opposing debt limit increases and made Republicans do it ourselves," the letter read. "You explained on the Senate floor that your 'no' votes did not mean you wanted the majority to let the country default, but rather that the President's party had to take responsibility for a policy agenda which you opposed. Your view then is our view now."....

....The president accused GOP senators of obstruction, calling their efforts "hypocritical, dangerous and disgraceful."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: accountability; debtceiling; mcconnell; senate
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That Biden is such a honey-tongued diplomat. His words as sweet as jam.

But he forgot "deplorable".

1 posted on 10/05/2021 12:22:50 AM PDT by blueplum
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2 posted on 10/05/2021 12:24:36 AM PDT by Doofer
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A Uniter not a Divider!


3 posted on 10/05/2021 12:25:32 AM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL is a )
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To: blueplum

If his 3.whatever trillion spending spree costs net 0, then there us no need to raise the debt ceiling.


4 posted on 10/05/2021 12:28:53 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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Biden the moderate. Biden has never been anything but a nasty vile stupid gaffe machine partisan hack. Oh, and demented.


5 posted on 10/05/2021 12:32:47 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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Yes, indeed. 😀🤗😃


6 posted on 10/05/2021 12:56:34 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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He’s going to stroke out.


7 posted on 10/05/2021 12:57:11 AM PDT by Trillian
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I believe that is what they are doing... getting out of the way as the Democrats destroy the country.


8 posted on 10/05/2021 12:58:30 AM PDT by freespirit2012
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FU Biden #notmypresident


9 posted on 10/05/2021 1:05:04 AM PDT by cranked
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Shut it down. Shut it all down.


10 posted on 10/05/2021 1:38:33 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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11 posted on 10/05/2021 1:52:41 AM PDT by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can't use legal means because Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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Let’s Go Brandon!


12 posted on 10/05/2021 1:58:07 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Xo Xi Dung and his fellow travelers want one party rule in the USA, just like China, Cuba, North Korea, and the old Soviet Union.


13 posted on 10/05/2021 2:05:16 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (You are not a horse, you are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.)
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Nope! Their job is to save the country by blocking you.


14 posted on 10/05/2021 2:45:19 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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This is unity

/sarc

Heres a new orwellian phrase he could have used:

Divisiveness is Unity.


15 posted on 10/05/2021 2:50:24 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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At-a-boy Joe….great example of unity…..pathetic. The world is watching
how weak a leader you are.


16 posted on 10/05/2021 3:25:27 AM PDT by wardamneagle (c)
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“The American Story”. “The American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us.” (from the clown’s inaugural address)

The American story Joe was referring to is actually “The Haunting of Hill House”


17 posted on 10/05/2021 3:41:59 AM PDT by Toespi
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That’s a loaded phrase: “Just get out of the way!” , instead of negotiating.
Too many nutcases will hear that phrase as a request to harm these Republicans and to permanently “get them out of the way”.


18 posted on 10/05/2021 3:55:32 AM PDT by lee martell
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“The Haunting of Hill House”

Required reading in a HS english curriculum. Scariest book I ever read, creepy scary.


19 posted on 10/05/2021 3:56:30 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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I have always loved it when a politicians own words can be brought back against the very thing they support now, but McConnell is not the best spokesman for that. Get someone to repeat Bidens vies from 2004 who can jazz it up a little bit.


20 posted on 10/05/2021 5:16:32 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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