From 6 of 2009.
Posted on 07/13/2011 9:22:40 AM PDT by yoe
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that his party is united in opposing any effort to raise the debt ceiling, even as he maintained that the country will not default on its debt obligations.
“I bet there won’t be a single Republican vote to raise the debt ceiling at the end of the day,” the Senate’s top Republican said in a radio interview Wednesday morning with conservative commentator Laura Ingraham.
McConnell’s remarks come one day after the Kentucky Republican (sketched out a “back-up plan”) that would shift the political burden of raising the debt ceiling to President Obama and congressional Democrats, allowing for the borrowing limit to be raised without any Republican votes.
McConnell’s “Plan B” would first need to be approved by both chambers and signed into law by Obama in order to take effect – a prospect that was uncertain at best Tuesday evening, as some lawmakers of both parties balked at the idea.
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Back to “Plan A”! Plan B stinks the place out.
♫Who do...Who do you think you're fooling?♫
From 6 of 2009.
Maybe Obama’s base isn’t paying close attention, but the Republican base IS.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: McConnell has to go.
Is it too early to replace McConnell with Rand Paul?
The debt ceiling will only be raised with corresponding cuts...otherwise, skip it.
Plan B was a trial balloon to see if we were all paying attention. And, yes, we were paying close attention!
Won’t get a single Republican vote, eh?
Sounds like you were lamenting that fact, Mitch... thus your “Plan ‘B’” end-around.
Turd.
From 5 of 2009
Call (502) 582-6304 and tell McConnell’s office that you think Plan B stinks.
Amen to that.
McConnell’s Compromise boils down to one thing — the Republicans who support it want big government every bit as much as the Democrats do. Unfortunately, they realize that they depend on us conservatives to put them in office. At the end of the day, they want to be able to raise the debt ceiling AND convince us that they haven’t betrayed our core values.
It’s called having your cake and eating it too. That’s what McConnell is trying to do and it’s just plain insulting. I personally will consider any Republican who votes to give Obama this authority as having voted directly to raise the debt ceiling.
I’m beginning to think that - like the president, McConnell is also a d*ck.
Make our day, McC...we don’t need you either, and when the riots come, woe be to any senator who actually gets a pay or pension.
...Then we'll talk.
So he was for it before he was against it, before he was for it again?
He’s been taking lessons from Myth........ Round and round he goes, where he stops, nobody knows.
Senator McConnell,
Your plan is frankly immature and off-point. It is centered around “who gets the blame” rather than STOPPING THE SPENDING. Please give your countrymen more credit for their meddle. We know that cutting back will bring some hardship and we are braced for it.
The first thing to do is to protect the military budget. The next thing to do is introduce social security reform such as means-testing. Then, keep the ceiling where it is and let the president decide what gets cut. If he tries to take away SS or food stamps, Republicans can wonder why he’s keeping the funding of opera and modern art via the NEA. These are rich man’s pursuits that should not be publically funded. By exposing his priorities, republicans can put a lot of pressure to cut the ridiculous examples of pork spending. The best strategy for republicans is to remember who their constituents are, and HOLD THE LINE!
Everyone please return your knees to the folded position.
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