Posted on 07/31/2011 9:48:54 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion
Edited on 07/31/2011 9:53:31 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Have it on solid authority that Obama threw a major [bleep]-fit late this afternoon, eastern time, on whatever this is he agreed to as his back was against the wall because the speaker would not back down and apparently Reid and the Veep told the Prez it was over and to get over it. Developing. I should be able to confirm with sources in a few hours or by tomorrow's show.
How is this not the McConnell plan - giving the president more or less sole authority to raise the debt ceiling by $2.1 trillion in two years.
The spineless GOP negotiators gave away the farm. The House held all the cards with sole authority NOT to raise the debt ceiling. They had ALL the leverage. Obama and the Democrats had to cut spending until the House agreed to raise the debt ceiling. All the GOP had to to was HOLD THE DAMN LINE, force Obama to cave in, then make raising the debt ceiling contingent upon passing CCB and the balanced budget amendment. Which is to say, the House should have said, “after the Senate passed CCB making it law, AND after the House and Senate passed a balanced budget constitutional amendment off to be ratified by the states, THEN AND ONLY THEN, will we raise the debt ceiling”.
Credit downgrades be damn. Debt crisis be damned. The GOP run House had all the cards and could have demanded CCB and the balanced budget be passed in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
Chumps. I hope the Tea Party Republicans prevent it’s passage.
As far as the president not getting what he wants & alienating his base, I can’t see it. Instead of running up $9 trillion new debt over the next 10 years, the Dems will only run up $6.9 trillion to $21.2 trillion. WOW! what a huge GOP victory!
And the president has control over the debt ceiling WHICH IS SOLELY A LEGISLATIVE FUNCTION. Why bother with a Congress, just make the president dictator for life. Nothing in the convoluted agreement will be passed by the Democrat controlled Senate, so by default, the president will have the sole control over raising the debt ceiling. Nice.
WTF if the base alienated over exactly? What did Obama not get that he wanted? He got 80% of what he wanted and this is a GOP victory with Obama furious and alienating his base?
BULLS#!^.
No one else realized that the proper answer is “BRAIN, BRAIN WHAT IS BRAIN?”
Our nerds must be asleep at the wheel tonight!
(I am not a nerd — just “well-TV’d”)
Hannity is conservatism's Ron Burgundy.
O'Reilly reminds me of Loofah Day (barf).
It was the same with Libyan war, Lame Duck, No accountability to ATF, Black Panthers, missing stimulus money.....
Did he leave for a cone?
He got 2 Trillion dollars more to spend!
His birthday bash is in Chicago,i think Tuesday so no time for reading.
But did we get what we wanted? Did the Balanced Budget Amendment issue get tabled?
That's correct. He is already running his campaign on Higher Taxes (actions speak louder than words). He has already gone down from 250K to 200K.
He is also running against any Balanced Budget Amendment and has proven allergic to Budgets.
All the Tea Party and the Republicans need to do is keep O on the ropes, is to remind America of these facts.
Did he invite his sugar Daddy to his party?
We had a point, here in the South, about States Rights. Obamacare obliterated them.
Guess what, THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!
So maybe his occasional tantrums would explain the 0-boy`s head scars. Headbanging and all..
He`s learning for the first time in his pampered life exactly what it means to be told “no.”
Yeah, just like Clinton was furious at his deposition.
Riiiight.
Was he mad as Hell?....:)
You are mising the most important aspect, we didn’t vote for a Newt or Hastert in 2010!
They are so shallow. I csn see them claiming the Tea Party won this and then trying to blame them for everything that happens between now and next Nov.
Harry Reid was playing gatekeeper on this as Obama & his children in tha administration were too incompetent to strike a deal. One never knows but I suspect Reid's bottom line was to prevent CC&B. That would have been death to most liberal Democrats in congress over the next 3 election cycles. With this deal they only have Obama at risk.
“No Tax Increase” might be good for the Republican’s politically, but let’s keep it in mind thate the country’s economy, weak as it is, could not sustain a tax increase.
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