Geithner: GOP leaders told White House they'll vote to raise the debt ceiling

The Hill ^ | 04/17/11 | Sam Youngman

[Qbert]

Here we go again?

[Sprite518]

Why am I not surprised?

[clintonh8r]

More “Profiles in Courage”.......

[Morpheus2009]

Catastrophic Consequences? Catastrophic consequences my ....

Yeah, so are we going to get out of bombing third world countries?

Are we going to get people out of serious unemployment, where they can actually contribute to the funds?

What a waste!

[RonInNaples]

Well, of course they will. Was it ever really in doubt? Seriously?

[Qbert]

Yep. And evidently the little elf doesn’t think that the impending loss of our Aaa rating due to massive debt will be a catastrophic consequence.

[Steven Tyler]

If raising the Debt limit a little is necessary to ward off collaspe, why do we not double the ceiling to 28 Trillion dollars.

Would that not be fun Awesome, Super, much better?

[chainsaw]

More doom and gloom from the people that created this mess.

IT’S all Obamaa’s fault. And he gets us into another war to boot.

[scooby321]

"No responsible person" would play politics with the debt ceiling, Geithner said. Isn't that exactly what your boss said he did? Timmy

So he not a responsible person under your definition?

[Cheetahcat]

They better not!!!

[Gator113]

If I ever appear to believe so much as a single word coming out of a democrats mouth, please, put a bullet in my head.

[The Cajun]

*Boner* was probably busy all weekend writing his *post-cave* speech on why it was the only thing he could do.

[EQAndyBuzz]

STOP IT ALL OF YOU!!

It is the opening salvo of the left to get ahead of the issue.

Geez. Relax. It might happen. It might not. But there is no way it is going to happen if the 4 trillion from Ryan doesn’t get put in place. At that point you can raise it to 20 Trillion. Who cares? The deficit will be coming down, or at least it should.

[freekitty]

Can’t wait for this one to start serving his prison sentence.

[elpadre]

They say the same thing for everything - TARP, Stimulus, Obamacare, etc.

It has worked well for them so we can expect it.

[andyk]

Was it ever really in doubt? Seriously?

No, not really. But, it was kind of like buying a lottery ticket - you get to make outlandish fantasies up until the inevitable end.

[TCH]

Ramp up a “recall” petition for every spineless rump-swabbing SOB that votes to raise it!

The GOP “leadership” are an incompetent gaggle of eunuchs, clueless of the American mood! Damn fools are playing with fire... They are stoking the simmering coals of a revolt.

These Gutless Old Poltroons should be covered with hot pitch and feathers, strapped to an old ass—with a water jug hung off a stick in front of its nose... and sent packing into the into desert.

[Crim]

Turbo Tax timmy?

oh yeah...I believe him...totally...

[okie01]

I wonder how many folks commenting on this thread actually read the article vs how many just read and reacted to the headline.

They seem to be two different things...