Just walk away! Enough of this crap! Iceland baby. They can’t negotiate with commies.
The left is spinning this as “oh no, this means there will have to be 12 votes on the debt between now and the election!”
What they really mean is “don’t throw me into dat dere briar patch!”
I’ve been thinking about this since I heard about it and have concluded it stinks 6 ways to Sunday. Just dare Zero to hold SS checks from the oldsters and pin it all on him.
Why are they negotiating with the White House anyway? Just send Zero some good legislation with lots of cuts NOW (whole programs) and let him own the failure to raise the debt ceiling.
Stupid, stupid Republicans!
This proposal (I cringe to call it that) is nothing more than abject abdication of their elected duties. I sincerely hope you show them what thunder and lightning is really for.
Being from Arizona, I just sent this to Sen Kyle:
Good grief! The deficit will be $1,600 Billion just this year alone! Yet you want to give Obama a blank check - because you know DAMN WELL that your scheme will make it possible for him to raise the debt limit forever!
Stop being such a pathetic pansies and FIGHT for a change! Grow a spine! Borrow one! But stop rolling over and kissing the Democrat’s rear ends!
Was anyone watching Boehner just now of Special Report? He said that HE TRUSTS OBAMA! WHAT?!?!?? Boehner needs to go!
McConnell = sucker first class
playing poker with him is to play with an unarmed brainless idiot.
Cowards.
I don’t think there’s any way house Republicans would vote to pass this ridiculous “Plan B.” I guess we’ll see.
They’ll just build up suspence and put on a big show until the 11th hour. Then they’ll strike a “deal” and kick the can further down the road.
The Racket.
All part of the DC Banking Investment Bureaucracy Racket. The ones that actually have the Puppet spammer on leash.
The same ones that actually agreed to meet with the Spammer at Blair House for the “We Won” Vampire-Care so called conference.
Notice again the timing for the extension..right into the implementation of Vampire-care 2013, what the Racket is counting on.
What is the difference between Mitch’s Plan B and Obama’s Plan A?
That is even worse.
What a bunch of /// Well I can’t say. This is a family site.
Looks like they want Obambi to win the next election.
So, if the President can raise the debt ceiling over the objection of Congress by vetoing their disapproval, than how is Congress not abrogating their Constitutional duty? This sounds like a horrible plan from a separation of powers perspective!
Will someone in Congress PLEASE ramp up a no confidence vote on Bonehead and replace him ASAP with Allen West?
I tend to agree with an earlier suggestion that Mitch McConnell’s remarks may be little more than a trial balloon.
But I also have a darker theory... For McConnell to be publicly putting this “Plan B” position on the table could suggest that perhaps he and John Boehner have truly come to grips with the deeply sinister nature of Barry Soetoro Obama. They’re realizing what his harshest critics on the Right have been hysterically warning against since ‘08.... that Obama really is a diabolical madman who seeks total destruction and chaos of the United States one way or another and really doesn’t give a damn. Much like The Joker as portrayed by Heath Ledger.
That’s the only way McConnell’s bizarre plan could seem to make any sense. It’s like he’s seen Obama with a can of gasoline and a Zippo lighter and now wants to get the hell out of the building before it goes up in flames.
I think the House needs to pass a plan with deep front-loaded spending cuts, some closed tax loopholes, and no more than a MINIMAL raising of the debt ceiling and then let the Democrats be forced to vote on it. If they oppose it, the GOP can charge that the Dems refuse to balance the budget, rein in spending, and are willing to risk default all because they deemed it more important to raise everybody’s taxes during a bad economy.
We should have abandoned the Republican Party a long time ago.
You guys are all missing the point here. You have a petulant child in the WH backed by petty adults in the House and Senate. So how do you handle this issue, simple. You lay it all at their feet. You don’t vote to raise the debt ceiling you vote to let the President and his democrat friends slit their own throat if they so desire. You know the Bambster won’t be able to resist the temptation to go ever higher with the debt and the Republicans can vote against it every time he tries. At the end of the day next November you have a record to run on, the Dems are for ever higher debt and the Republicans are against same. If the people really agree with us then they have a clear choice. They put someone new in the WH and give the Senate to the GOP and then we get to do what needs to be done.
Keep in mind the GOP is not just fight an intransigent president they are also fighting an adversarial press who is the tank for the Dems. If SS checks don’t go out it won’t be the WH who takes the hit.
Would I rather we have huge spending cuts and a balanced budget, yes, but remember we only control 1/3 of the government and almost none of the press.
@1:05 - "There is a good deal of conservative support for what I laid out yesterday beginning with the Wall Street Journal editorial page today."
@1:44 - "Doing the right thing for the country is our first obligation, but we cannot force a result, we need to do the next best thing and that's clarify the differences between the two parties."
@2:14 - "They want to blame the economy on us and the reason default is no better an idea today than it was when Newt Gingrich tried it in 1995, is it destroys your brand, and it gives the president an opportunity to blame Republicans for a bad economy."
@3:03 - Laura: "While it puts the burden, it shifts the burden to the greatest extent to Obama, in effect there is kind of a vote at the beginning to raise the debt ceiling because you are ceding..." McConnell: "No, no. It only authorizes the president to ask for it. There will be no vote to raise the debt ceiling I suspect by any Republican."
Laura: "Isn't that passing the buck, Senator? Isn't that passing the buck of leadership to the White House?"
McConnell: "We've been trying to get this liberal president to sign a deal worth signing. You know it makes a difference when you only control a third of the government. If we were able to run the government out of the House of Representatives we would be able to get a result that we would like."
@4:40 - Laura: "When I see the New York Times on the other hand, praising the deal, Harry Reid seeming to be open to it, and even the White House murmers that it might be something acceptable I get a little nervous, why do you think they are embracing it?"
McConnell: "Because they want to raise the debt ceiling and of course we know that is going to happen. Just like we knew shutting down the government in 1995 was not going to work for us, it helped Bill Clinton get reelected. I refuse to help Barack Obama get reelected."
@5:34 - "If we go into default he [Obama] will say that Republicans are making the economy worse and try to convince the public, maybe with some merit, if people start not getting their Social Security checks, military families start not getting letters saying that service people overseas don't get paid, you know that's an argument he would have a good chance of winning and all of a sudden we are co-ownership, we have co-ownership of a bad economy. That is very bad positioning going into election."
@8:34 - "We had hoped this would present an opportunity to cut spending. It looks as if, it may change, but it looks as if it is only going to be an opportunity for him to try to entice us top raising taxes and as I said when I started I'm not going to be a part of turning the Republicans into tax collectors for the welfare state."
The only thing good about this sellout and unconditional surrender plan by Mitch McConnell is that it might serve as a diversionary tactic.
I want these debt limit talks to fail unless all the conditions put forth by Cantor so far are met i.e NO tax increases even through the route of closing loopholes unless they are offset by equivalent spending cuts
NONONONONONONONONONONONO NO !!!
BASTARD GOP CAVES......The Republican Party is history folks. GONZO!