It’s All Too Odd (Reid Boehner and Obama on same page)

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/07/27/its-all-too-odd/ ^ | 7/27 | red state

[RummyChick]

Consider that John Boehner and Harry Reid named their different legislation to raise the debt ceiling by the identical name.

Consider also that John Boehner and Harry Reid’s legislation are virtually mirror images to each other — a fact that the rhetoric has obscured, but is in reality accurate.

Consider, in fact, that Boehner and Reid use the same language in various portions of their legislation.

Consider that John Boehner told Sean Hannity tax hikes could come out of his deficit commission despite earlier denials.

Consider also that in one of the key differing portions, John Boehner uses Mitch McConnell’s gimmick of letting the President raise the debt ceiling on his own with merely a congressional vote of “disapproval” that the President can then veto. This is a gimmick embraced by Harry Reid.

Consider that John Boehner claimed actual cuts to the federal budget for 2012 would be just over $6 billion — that is for an entire year. The federal government spends $10 billion a day.

Consider that the Congressional Budget Office determined late last evening that the actual amount of cuts for 2012 would only be $1 billion for the whole year, or about 2.5 hours of federal government spending.

And then consider that the White House, after the Congressional Budget Office’s determination, defended John Boehner on the White House website even after White House officials said they would recommend the President veto Boehner’s plan — actually a different statement from the past. In the past, the White House said definitively that the President would veto the GOP’s idea. Now, they are just saying it’ll be recommended to the President.

Consider all these things and it seems the White House and Harry Reid are perfectly willing to let John Boehner pass his plan if he can get it out of the House. Their very hostility is designed to reassure Republicans. They’ll sign it into law. Then they will blame the GOP when our credit rating is downgraded — something sure to happen with John Boehner’s plan.

Finally, consider this — we are all being played. The conservatives are up front with what they want. The House, Senate, and White House seem to be working at cross purposes, but hiding some of their cards. The only group up front with what it wants — real spending cuts — is the Tea Party movement being portrayed even by the Wall Street Journal as fringe.

I’m left with the only inescapable conclusion one can derive from all of this. Republicans are being played for fools, will wind up with all of the blame and very few cuts and the size and scope of the federal government will continue to grow all thanks to John Boehner who is on his third plan continuing to compromise not with the Democrats, but with the Republicans

[RummyChick]

The White House coming out and defending Boehner's plan yesterday clinched it for me.

[McGruff]

It's like Deja Vu all over again.

[izzatzo]

Boehner needs to be replaced, he had the Beltway lobotomy long ago.

[Sopater]

A man is judged by the company he keeps. If you’re on the same page as Obama and Reid, you’re on the wrong page.

[RummyChick]

Remy: Raise The Debt Ceiling Rap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoS52fVtVQM&feature=youtu.be

Raise da debt ceiling!
Raise da debt ceiling!
Raise da debt ceiling!
Raise da debt ceiling!

14 trillion in debt
but yo we ain’t got no qualms
droppin $100 bills
and million dollar bombs

spending money we don’t have
that’s the name of the game
they call me cumulo nimbus
because you KNOW I make it rain

bail out all kind of cars
got all kind of whips
ladies ask me how I get em
I tell em STIMULUS

Social Security surplus?
Oh, guess what? it’s gone
I got my hands on everything
like Dominique Strauss Kahn

ain’t got no Medicare trust fund
son, that’s just absurd
spending every single penny that
we see, son, have you heard?

ain’t got no moral objections
ain’t got no kind of complaints
ain’t got no quantitative
statutory budget restraints

so...
[CHORUS]

Yo, we up in the Fed
and we living in style
Spending lots of money
while we sipping crystal

still making it rain
and yeah it be so pleasing
wait, not making it rain—
we be “Quantitative Easing!”

QE1, QE2
QE4, QE3
Dropping IOU’s
in every fund that I see

printing the cash
inflating the monies
callin up China
“a-yo we straight out of 20’s!”

in the club
we be louding out
while to the market, yeah
we be crowding out

on the beach getting tan
and sipping Corona
we got a monetary plan—
and it involves a lot of toner...

[CHORUS]

So if you look at the chart
and examine the trend
we borrow 40 cents of every
single dollar we spend

and non-discretionary spending
increases every day
do you have a comment for Committee?
I MAKE IT RAIN

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker
would you beam me up?
A Congressperson cutting spending?
Couldn’t dream me up

We’re gonna default
if we follow this road!
I should have thought of this
14 trillion dollars ago!

I’m the king of the links
I’m a menace at tennis
I’m sticking spinnaz on my rims
picking winnaz in business

if you’re looking for some cash
it’s about to get heavy
I got some big ol’ piles of money
and guess what—they shovel ready

[YellowRoseofTx]

When I heard Boehner and Reid were working on a compromise and their bills were basically the same bill, I knew it was bad news, then when Reid came out yesterday and said Boehner’s bill was dead on arrival, I knew this was nothing but a game.

[shield]

Looks as if there are close to a hundred House Republicans that will not vote for this bill.

[RummyChick]

Demint said Reid’s plan was decoy to drive people to Boehner’s plan

Boehner has to add about 150 billion in cuts to in plan and then CBO will score it again.

What are the chances that the 150 billion will be in 2012????? SLIM

[ryderann]

I knew it was coming when Boehner played golf with Obama last month. That’s when they planned how to play us.

[tennmountainman]

It appears that the GOP and RATS are two wings of the same bird of prey.

[andyk]

Raise da debt ceiling!

That was awesome.

[all the best]

Saw that video a couple days ago. Thanks for sharing it with folks here.

[Hojczyk]

6 billion this year

24 billion next year

the out years mean nothing..

Why bother...we need the senate and white house and another 50 tea party people..

[apillar]

I said way back in early May, when talks of a possible debt default were just starting to make the news that the “deal” had already been made between the major players. But it was going to be kept under wraps until 24-48 hours before a default occured, so both sides could tell their supporters that they held out until the last minute and fought for the very best deal they could get. Over the last month or so, they have been letting various aspects of the “deal” leak out to see how it plays with their respective bases and tweaked the “deal” accordingly based on the reaction. Nothing I've seen so far has changed my opinion on the matter. I predict as we get down to the last few day, amazingly everything will suddenly “click” and all these “lines in the sand” will magically disappear. Then come a day or so before default, the “deal” will be pulled out of a drawer and steamrolled through the congress, both sides will declare victory and head home for their august break.

[Rockingham]

Rhetorically, the three sides -- Obama, Reid, and Boehner -- have converged because the polling data and common political circumstances are driving them to it. A compromise is necessary because the they have exhausted their leverage against each other.

For now, the country is confused and wants the matter resolved, with the most immediate dangers avoided. Yet a resolution on the lines indicated now leaves Obama the loser because he is tagged as the out of control spender and will get the blame for the impending downgrade of US credit.