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GOP rallies around Boehner on deal
Politico ^ | 7/31/11 | JAKE SHERMAN & JONATHAN ALLEN

Posted on 07/31/2011 11:33:36 PM PDT by Rabin

Edited on 08/01/2011 8:38:33 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

By JAKE SHERMAN & JONATHAN ALLEN | 7/31/11 7:17 PM EDT

House Republicans praised Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the deal he cut to avoid a national default during a rare Sunday night conference call, giving first-blush approval to a plan that must still be committed to legislation and passed by both chambers of Congress.

Now comes the hard part for the four heads of congressional caucuses: Selling the fine print. That’s the job that Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signed up for when each gave his or her word to President Barack Obama Sunday night that the deal was in hand.

It’s complicated, multi-dimensional and full of peril for the priorities of each side — so much so that while the White House pointed to the possibility of the Bush tax cuts expiring, House Republican leaders were telling their rank and file that the deal made that scenario less likely.

It’s not “the greatest deal in the world,” Boehner told his troops.

“But it shows how much we’ve changed the terms of the debate in this town,” Boehner said on the call, according to a transcript released by the speaker’s office. “There is nothing in this framework that violates our principles. It’s all spending cuts.”

Come Monday, all eyes will be on House Republicans because they seldom jump in line without a fight.

Boehner’s lieutenants, including Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), applauded the speaker for pushing the president as far as he could while avoiding the economic and political calamity that could result from a default on the nation’s debt — which the Treasury Department has said will happen after Aug. 2 if...

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To: Psalm 144
You are not going to undo 100 years of Progressive politics with a single vote.

This is a battle in a much larger, longer war.

This is what is wrong with too many supposed “Conservatives”. You are so use to screaming and whining about everything you are incapable of doing anything else. You think of Politics as sport. It is not. It is war.

You Internet "Conservatives" think that there is either absolute victory, or absolute defeat and nothing in between.

US Politics doesn't work that way. Our Founders designed a system that is evolutionary, not revolutionary, in it's working. You are NEVER going to win one grand annihilating victory that forever changes everything to be exactly what you feel it should be. Our political system is specifically designed to prevent such events.

So instead of looking for some titanic great victory and then being pissed when you don't get it, learn to take your victories as they come and start on the next battle.

81 posted on 08/01/2011 7:35:29 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: MNJohnnie

“You think of Politics as sport. It is not. It is war.”

I thought wars had fights? You know, opposition?


82 posted on 08/01/2011 7:37:17 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: MNJohnnie
You are not going to undo 100 years of Progressive politics with a single vote.

Well, especially when both "major" parties are "Progressives."

83 posted on 08/01/2011 7:37:51 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The only thing still propping up the GOP is the dwindling illusion that it's at all conservative.)
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To: Psalm 144
Please do not spam me with your platitudes and excuses for the the plantation Republicans. Take your pom-poms and go.

You posting style betrays you infilTraitor. Your posts all are in the same style and fashion normally found on Leftist propaganda sites.

So which moron clown posse on the Left is paying you to infiltrate here and scream "Hate the GOP" propaganda?

No wonder you are in hysteria mode today. Your paycheck is probably now in jeopardy.

84 posted on 08/01/2011 7:39:00 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: MNJohnnie
So instead of looking for some titanic great victory and then being pissed when you don't get it, learn to take your victories as they come and start on the next battle.

Okay. How about we start by throwing every Congressman out who in any way supported borrowing and spending in excess of two TRILLION dollars?

What were there, like NINE who didn't?

85 posted on 08/01/2011 7:40:57 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The only thing still propping up the GOP is the dwindling illusion that it's at all conservative.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

In all the hand-wringing and hysteria today, one important fact has been overlooked.
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Going into a brutal 2012 reelection campaign, 0 has just totally demoralized and demolished his political base.


86 posted on 08/01/2011 7:41:06 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: MNJohnnie

Frustrated?

No one listening to you?

Ain’t got no respect?

Po’ lil’ overseer, watching all them ungrateful field hands leaving the plantation.


87 posted on 08/01/2011 7:41:38 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: MNJohnnie
You think of Politics as sport. It is not. It is war.

That's hilarious, coming from a defender of a party who just showed once again that the most advanced weapon in their arsenal is a white flag.

A white flag Boehner was already waving as hard as he could the very first day the Tea Party freshmen hit the Hill.

88 posted on 08/01/2011 7:44:18 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The only thing still propping up the GOP is the dwindling illusion that it's at all conservative.)
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To: Psalm 144

Sure you are. Your habitual use of Stalinist tactics and progressive debate styles is simple happenstance.


89 posted on 08/01/2011 7:44:36 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: MNJohnnie

Hah! That is rich!

Which flavor do you prefer to lick for your GOP owners?

Boot, spittle, or are you a true “insider”?


90 posted on 08/01/2011 7:45:34 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: EternalVigilance
My my seem to have struck a nerve.

Don't like having your real motivation for being a one note wonder on every issue being exposed

91 posted on 08/01/2011 7:46:32 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: MNJohnnie
Going into a brutal 2012 reelection campaign, 0 has just totally demoralized and demolished his political base.

Right. As he rifles through the trillions more in newly printed borrowed money ready to be distributed to his constituencies and chuckles to himself.

They're all so devastated!

/s

92 posted on 08/01/2011 7:46:58 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The only thing still propping up the GOP is the dwindling illusion that it's at all conservative.)
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To: Psalm 144
Your conduct exposes you. See Conservative think about politics, they do not emote.

You, on the other hand, never bother to think but always emote.

93 posted on 08/01/2011 7:47:54 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: MNJohnnie
Don't like having your real motivation for being a one note wonder on every issue being exposed

I know Tea Party folks in every state in the Union. NONE of them supported raising the debt ceiling ONE PENNY.

So, go ahead and laugh, Mr. Chamberlain.

94 posted on 08/01/2011 7:48:42 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The only thing still propping up the GOP is the dwindling illusion that it's at all conservative.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Your conduct exposes you. Servile, panicked, dictatorial and frustrated. So which one of the dead souls in Congress owns the keys to your chains?


95 posted on 08/01/2011 7:51:23 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: Psalm 144
I might take you seriously if you bothered to actually read what I wrote to you. I sent you 2 pages of text and you responded to it in 57 second.

Obviously you are not even bothering to ready anything that doesn't validate your emotional dogmas. Either that or you are a propaganda bot not bothering to actually think about the issues but merely responding with pre programed paid for responses.

So which is it? Are you political fool or political fraud?

96 posted on 08/01/2011 7:51:38 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: EternalVigilance; MNJohnnie

So, go ahead and laugh, Mr. Chamberlain.

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It is funny how this capitulation simian is leaping from thread to thread this morning, screeching and flinging poo about how no one is a real conservative but him and the rest of the banderlog. His demands for all to be quiet and obey are noted too . . .


97 posted on 08/01/2011 7:55:12 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I might take you seriously if you bothered to actually read what I wrote to you. I sent you 2 pages of text and you responded to it in 57 second.

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To read spam I would have to respect the source.


98 posted on 08/01/2011 7:58:11 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I might take you seriously if you bothered to actually read what I wrote to you. I sent you 2 pages of text and you responded to it in 57 second.

Obviously you are not even bothering to ready anything that doesn’t validate your emotional dogmas. Either that or you are a propaganda bot not bothering to actually think about the issues but merely responding with pre programed paid for responses.

So which is it? Are you political fool or political fraud?

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Just out of curiosity I checked my mail and all of your posts. The screed above and the six lines of banalities at post 81 are the longest bits of inanity that you have sent me. (NOT THAT I AM COMPLAINING MIND YOU!)

Anyway, that falls far short of 2 pages of text. No such text was sent, or at least no such text was sent to me. This raises the possibility that your issue is not one of bad faith or stupidity, but that you are not lucid. A further possibility is that if you are not lucid, that misfortune is beyond your control.

I shall proceed on the theory that you are non compos mentis and just genrally ignore you when you are having an ‘episode’. Take care, and take your meds.


99 posted on 08/01/2011 8:11:40 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: Steel Wolf

Exactly.


100 posted on 08/01/2011 9:00:16 AM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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