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Boehner Tells GOP He Will Unveil New Debt Strategy [Short-Term Debt Extension]
Washington Post ^ | July 22, 2011

Posted on 07/23/2011 2:03:38 PM PDT by Steelfish

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1 posted on 07/23/2011 2:03:43 PM PDT by Steelfish
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If this guy was negotiating for me,I would jump off a bridge.
2 posted on 07/23/2011 2:08:11 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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Republican leaders remain worried that even a temporary lift of the government’s borrowing authority would fail on the House floor.

They SHOULD worry. Those newbies in the House hold all the cards in this particular hand; they shouldn't give them up for love nor money. The financial markets have needed correction for a long time. They've been propped up by funny-munny from the governments. The prospect of such a correction is 1) a normal thing, and 2) obama's problem, if anyone's.

The House must get their big budget cuts and NO tax increase. The tax code needs to be dealt with separately.

3 posted on 07/23/2011 2:10:24 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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The House holds the purse strings. All they have to do is target the spending cuts and balance the budget.


4 posted on 07/23/2011 2:11:27 PM PDT by crz
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To: Cheetahcat
Where is Boehner from again? Judgeing from his actions I'd say he was from a

FIGGIN' CAVE!!!!!

Because that is all he does!!!

5 posted on 07/23/2011 2:11:40 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If Sarah can't be elected in 2012, then Phase II will fall into place, may G-D have mercy on us all)
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"super committee"

We need another damned committee like we need another porkulus bill!

6 posted on 07/23/2011 2:12:52 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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And the jackass stands on the sideline in amusement.


7 posted on 07/23/2011 2:13:35 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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Dam@it Bonehead, no. No damn compromise and screw the Asian markets.


8 posted on 07/23/2011 2:14:21 PM PDT by Logical me
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I’m thinking Soros is holding his children in a cabin at an undisclosed remote location until this thing goes his way.

I’m really only partly joking. Something is up here.


9 posted on 07/23/2011 2:14:43 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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Okay, I’m raising the Boehner Cave Alert Level to HIGH.


10 posted on 07/23/2011 2:18:03 PM PDT by FreeReign
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Budget Cuts that go out as far as 10 years. Get real. We have been down that road too many times. Reagan, Bush1, Bush2, CR Deal.

No congress is bound by “future cuts”.

We have tried it your way... for decades and it hasn’t worked.

I would take a short-term deal, with REAL Spending cuts.


11 posted on 07/23/2011 2:19:18 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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That’s the proverbial example of taking a bucket of water out of the deep end of the pool and dumping it in the shallow end.

Borrowing more money in effort to cut excessive spending is a zero-sum game.

Cut, cut, cut.

Then cut all over again. And again after that.


12 posted on 07/23/2011 2:19:43 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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In the call, Boehner stressed that the path forward would be a new plan, not a proposal offered earlier this month by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to authorize Obama to raise the debt limit on his own, without explicit congressional approval.

Thank God. Putting Obama in charge of the debt limit is like giving a monkey a loaded gun.

It is LONG past time to have cut up these idiots' credit cards, especially since they are in our name. Enough, already.

13 posted on 07/23/2011 2:19:43 PM PDT by truthkeeper (Vote Against Barack Obama in 2012!)
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>> If this guy was negotiating for me,I would jump off a bridge.

If this guy were negotiating for *me*, and he came back with a deal this lame... I’d push *him* off the bridge.

What is it with these guys and their “committees to find spending cuts”? We don’t need no stinking committee. All we need are legislators with principles and spines.


14 posted on 07/23/2011 2:21:01 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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Boehner’s ONLY response until after 8/2/11 should be: “The House has done it’s duty to increase the debt limit by passing CC&B. It’s the President’s and the Senate’s job to step up to the plate.”

Boehner shouldn’t be negotiating or renegotiating ANYTHING. The House has already spoken.


15 posted on 07/23/2011 2:21:54 PM PDT by ziravan (Are you better off now than you were 7 Trillion Dollars ago?)
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To: KC_Lion

“Where is Boehner from again? Judgeing from his actions I’d say he was from a

FIGGIN’ CAVE!!!!!

Because that is all he does!!!”

We need to chip in and get that weepy guy, some of Herb Cohen’s Books. I am having a hard time watching all this, Fail!


16 posted on 07/23/2011 2:21:54 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: Steelfish

If he and McCollum are the best we got, we are in deep doodoo


17 posted on 07/23/2011 2:22:53 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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he still hopes to slice as much as $4 trillion out of the federal budget over the next decade

Still pushing the "over the next decade" scam

18 posted on 07/23/2011 2:24:06 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Nervous Tick

“>> If this guy was negotiating for me,I would jump off a bridge.

If this guy were negotiating for *me*, and he came back with a deal this lame... I’d push *him* off the bridge.

What is it with these guys and their “committees to find spending cuts”? We don’t need no stinking committee. All we need are legislators with principles and spines.”

LMAO Very True.


19 posted on 07/23/2011 2:24:29 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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raising the federal debt ceiling to avoid roiling Asian financial markets when they open Sunday

Boner surrenders. The fix is in. The talking points have already been issued.
20 posted on 07/23/2011 2:25:10 PM PDT by jimbo123
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