I called my congressman’s office when he announced that he would support the Boehner plan and got a decent explanation of it being a strategic vote.
When Reid kills this one it will be the second bill he’s killed and it becomes increasingly tough to portray the republicans as holding up the process.
I wish it was that easy. The left has been able to portray the House as extremists while offering nothing in return. Now, Harry gets to try and play the reasoned negotiator and avert a crisis.
I just have no idea how the House can stomach anything worse than what has already been passed.
How can you believe that is true? Reid has been absolutely silent to this point as far as anything concrete. So, when he guts the Boehner bill and sends it back, regardless of its content, the Tea Party is going to be demolished under wave after wave of propaganda, calling them terrorists, obstructionists, or worse.
Boehner has created a nightmare for conservatives by allowing CC&B to be tabled and then weakening its terms without ever demanding a counteroffer. What kind of bargaining is that?
It is difficult to distinguish the incompetence from malice.
I called my congressman’s office when he announced that he would support the Boehner plan and got a decent explanation of it being a strategic vote.
When Reid kills this one it will be the second bill he’s killed and it becomes increasingly tough to portray the republicans as holding up the process.
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i sincerely pray that your congressman is correct.
in this case, i’d be very happy if Rush, Mark Levin, and others are wrong.
if they’re not, then we’re going to get screwed worse than tarp,
(“Boehner said the same thing before the TARP vote. He said the exact same thing. He wasn’t Speaker then but before the TARP vote in 2000 he said,
“It’s crucial. We’re at a pressure point in the country where we can’t let ideological purity stand in the right thing to do.””)
and worse than the last “battle” Boehner fought,
when he got 60 billion (1 weeks worth) cut from the budget.
frankly, based on the track record, i’m not hopeful.
and the reason the debt agencies threaten to downgrade us,
is NOT because of the “ceiling” problem. its the deficit.
they’ve said so. if we don’t cut at least 4 billion,
we WILL get downgraded. and that will simply make the TRILLIONS we’re overspending now, cost more.