Don't count your Hatch McConnell before he chickens.
they caved:
“McConnell deputy chief of staff Don Stewart said that Obama’s “threats about Social Security are no longer real if this bill passes.”
The debt ceiling should be called the debt suggestion.
GOP Snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
The boys are chickening out and the Dems will hit them over the head with that beginning NOW.
Wow. What a disapopointment.
Yep, here is the compromise OweBama was begging for. Pubbies caved again.
How does this impact the 2012 budget? I understand that the 2011 budget runs out on September 30, 2011 and none of the 2012 budget bills have been passed. I thought they would take care of the 2012 budget at the same time as the debt limit but this throws a monkeywrench in that. Or will they just give 0bama the right to write his own budgetalso?
“I plan to be really really really tough when confronting Obama, but if I’m not, I have another plan up my sleeve.”
Arrrgggg! When will the people of Kentucky send this wuss into retirement?
What part of NO does McConnell not understand?
I’d sure like to get these guys in a poker game. They don’t know when to hold and when to fold.
NO DEBT CEILING INCREASE. NO TAX INCREASES.
Pretty simple if you ask me. But then, they aren’t asking me (us) are they?
It was Republican stupidity to negotiate directly with Obama. This gives Obama a platform to look presidential, and ultimately makes the Republicans look weak when they cave. Besides, and "deal" agreed to here still has to pass the House, and then the Senate will finally have to pass a budget that contains the "deal."
Instead, this should have stayed in Congress, forcing the Senate Democrats to go on the record with a plan, and making Obama look like the bystander that he really is.
-PJ
I believe that many people are at the limit of tolerance, of this President and Congressional leaders of both Parties, and that we should be vigilant, watching and expecting violent physical reactions on the part of the general citizenry.
Don’t ask me what sort of actions - I haven’t a clue about what others intend. At this point, if I could leave the country, I would.
What we’re seeing in Washington, D.C., right now, is disgusting.
Don't count your Hatch McConnell before he chickens.
Surrender by any other name is still surrender.
After I got over my first "They Caved" kneejerk reaction I stopped and thought about it for a minute. I don't know what McConnell is thinking, but he sure as Hell won't get enough Republican votes in the House to pass anything as silly as this.
Well, I just tried calling (Obama’s)Bitch McConnell’s DC office—busy; four offices in KY—all busy.
Guess they are are hearing from pissed off people all over the US, or they took the phones off the hook.
Chester “Trent” Lott, Bill Frist, Mitch O’Connell—every time we have needed a leader in the Senate, we got a limp dish rag for the last 15 years.
Full details were not yet available as of Tuesday afternoon — and the proposal would likely be subject to approval by both chambers of Congress — but it appeared that the proposal would allow for the debt limit to be raised without locking in those spending cuts, something that could draw opposition from the Republican rank-and-file.
Mitch the ass McConnell.
The American people did not need a “Plan B” from you Mitch.
They depended on you to hold to the plans under which your party was sent to Congress - stop Obama and stop the spending, and under the plans of the American people it is Obama that needed to come up with a “Plan B”, not you.
Yes. He terrorized you into giving up our plans and allowing his plans to remain unchecked. Why?
Because it is the debt ceiling and only the debt ceiling that is right now fighting the fight the GOP was sent to Congress for - stopping the spending.
Once the debt ceiling is raised, the GOP has no majority in both houses to scale back Obama’s spending. The increased debt limits allow him to go on as he is with no other action from Congress.
Your a fool Mitch.
Where is the recall petitions for Mitch.
After all this wrangling.... McConnell... once again... surrenders.