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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday unveiled a “back-up plan” for raising the debt ceiling in case the ongoing negotiations between congressional leaders and the White House fail to produce a result by an Aug. 2 deadline.

Welcome back to (D) (D) (D) again in the beltway come 2012 if this is true.

What the he!! is wrong with these people???

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Republican Senators in the 2012 election

• Republicans retiring (2 seats)
  1. Jon Kyl of Arizona
  2. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas
• Republicans seeking re-election (8 seats)
  1. Richard Lugar of Indiana
  2. Olympia Snowe of Maine
  3. Scott Brown of Massachusetts
  4. Roger Wicker of Mississippi
  5. Dean Heller of Nevada
  6. Bob Corker of Tennessee
  7. Orrin Hatch of Utah
  8. John Barrasso of Wyoming