Posted on 07/26/2011 9:45:25 AM PDT by free me
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) delivered a blunt message to the Republican Conference Tuesday morning: Quit the “grumbling” and “whining” and come together to rally behind Speaker John Boehner to pass his debt ceiling plan.
Cantor’s heavy rhetoric came out in a closed session at the Capitol Hill Club as the GOP majority tried to whip up support for Boehner’s latest deficit package. Cantor summed up what he knew many Republicans were thinking as they head into another critical vote.
The debt limit vote sucks,” he said, according to an attendee of the closed meeting. But Republicans have three options, Cantor said: risk default, pass Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) plan — which he thinks gives President Barack Obama a blank check — or “call the president’s bluff” by passing the Boehner plan, which not only cuts deeply into domestic spending but calls for a bipartisan commission to find more savings.
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Conservative have got to wise up. The Obot press knows they can play you for fools. You all really got to quit believing every little thing they publish. They are NOT on your side.
CCB is the best compromise plan available.
Do you really think the Democrats whose entire constituency depends on hand outs from the Feds would choose no raise in the debt limit instead of CCB.
Media and dems: It’s the pubbies fault!
Pubbies: We passed a bill that’s a huge compromise and takes the debt ceiling off the table through 2012.
Winner: America
I agree you’ve got to pass something that is at least somewhat palatable to the independents and quickly so that Obum and senate are stuck on no for the last few days.
I read that thread an still have a hard time believe only 6 billion in cuts. Heck, the GOP cut more in 2011 than that. Gonna need a creditable source or two before I believe only 6 billion in 2012.
The House can vote, the Senate will table it = no progress.
’ Without the republican spigot, there is NO water going thru the hose or coming out the nozzle.’
If the government under the Constitution ceases to function, would that resurrect the government under the Articles of Confederation, with 13 states and 37 plus territories or foreign governments? This would be pretty urgent after your proposal defunds the military.
Okay, it's NOT deep cuts - it's barely any cuts - which means the debt continues to grow unbounded.
And we don't want any commission. We want Congress to the their jobs.
Just DAMN
Yes, working for the left...why waste anyone’s time reading and believing this organization BS...
Why? FWIW, I'd be happy if we hit the debt ceiling. That looks to be only way we have up cutting up Congress's credit card.
Conservative have got to wise up. The Obot press knows they can play you for fools. You all really got to quit believing every little thing they publish. They are NOT on your side.
Politico does suck but the bill from Boehner is real and that bill is a sell out and a disaster for America.
>>The House can vote, the Senate will table it = no progress.<<
Sometimes hitting the ball into the other guys court is progress. The other guy has to do something with it. What they do with it becomes the topic of conversation and revelation.
Wall Street bankers have ally themselves with the Dems on this issue and have used all their lobbyists and agents in MSM to pressure GOP. Why? Simple, Wall Street bankers have made tons of money helping the feds borrow and sell bonds to investors to keep this ponzi scheme going. Our country is already finished and Wall Street wants to delay the collapse so they can get their families out of the country and loot what is left. Since Main Street is destined to die in an economic collapse, then let us dragg Wall Street with us to the death. Otherwise as we die in the future, bankers will be sipping drinks and laughing at us after they have robbed us. Furthermore, crash the economy you crash Obama in 2012. Vote NO and default!!!
Sounds like getting rolled again. Then again, it's vacation time & all of these fools got THEIR agenda to take care of.
‘I can’t believe Cantor called Republicans ‘whiners’!’
I can’t either. Furthermore I see no evidence that he did so.
What happened when Reid tabled the last one? Absolutely nothing.
A raise in the debt ceiling of 1 trillion dollars, no real spending cuts and a “commission” that will make it easier to raise taxes is everything Obama wanted and more.
Ya, what’s up with this commission idea? Obama had a commission, the Bowles/Simpson commission. He ignored their report, but, we’ve been/done that with special comissions with a mission to do something.
My position is that it is immoral to further enslave our posterity by further borrowing.
"CCB" raises the debt ceiling by $2.4 TRILLION dollars.
So, tell me, just how is this a "compromise"?
Looks to me like the borrowers and spenders are getting everything they want, bottom line. And me and my family, unto several generations, are getting the bill, with interest.
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