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John Boehner: New debt option ‘may be worthy'
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Posted on 07/14/2011 7:09:59 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: Sub-Driver
Boehner has been all over the place today.

Telling Obama he wont meet at Camp David this weekend.

Putting the Balanced Budget Amendment back on the books.

And throwing the RINO/DINO Globalists a bone.

21 posted on 07/14/2011 7:27:49 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Sub-Driver
something like telling Pickett’s charge to go around Cemetery Ridge and not up it.

Actually it's more like telling Picket's men to kill each other.

22 posted on 07/14/2011 7:28:01 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Logical me

Look at this

The hot news of the night comes from S&P, which has warned that there’s a 50% chance that the US will lose its AAA rating over the next 90 days.

Obviously the debt ceiling fight as a lot to do with this, but there’s more! It seems S&P specifically wants to see $4 trillion in deficit reductions, and if this debt deal doesn’t produce that, then the US might still lose its AAA.

There’s virtually no chance of a $4 trillion deficit reduction without severe cuts to spending or tax hikes, either of which could be very negative to the economy.


23 posted on 07/14/2011 7:28:13 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: livius

Me either.

Does McConnell and Boner think the conservative base will support this capitulation??


24 posted on 07/14/2011 7:29:08 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Kevin in California

The House would pass it. The Dem-RINO Coalition has a big majority and the TEA Party is still small.

In the Boner brings it up while the MSM is proclaiming the country is in full panic over it, it’ll pass.

Giving Obama more power is supposed to be a good thing??


25 posted on 07/14/2011 7:33:35 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Sub-Driver
When this bonehead a$$hole Boehner says on national tv that he isn't really sure whether social security checks would still be sent out if the debt ceiling wasn't raised, I lost ALL faith in the SOB. These career politicians have served their purpose and the need to be put out to pasture.

TERM LIMITS

26 posted on 07/14/2011 7:34:56 PM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: Hojczyk

$4 trillion over 10 years is virtually guaranteed to be none at all. They will backload it and it’ll never happen.


27 posted on 07/14/2011 7:35:07 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: GeronL
-- Does McConnell and Boner think the conservative base will support this capitulation? --

All they have to do is fool a fraction of 'em into thinking Obama is the one with the spending problem; while Congress passes the spending bills.

The cause of the debt is the spending, and Congress is showing that it is unwilling to make substantial cuts in its spending. The "debt limit" is self-declared BS. Congress has control over it's own credit limit.

Nothing new here, past Congresses gave Bush the power to make new courts - until SCOTUS noticed that the constitution gives that power to Congress.

28 posted on 07/14/2011 7:38:22 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Sub-Driver

Amazing. RINOS are always inventing new ways to sell out this country.

I’m guessing that threats to vote the weasel(s) out are worthless - they have made their deals.


29 posted on 07/14/2011 7:39:09 PM PDT by KittenClaws (A closed mouth gathers no foot.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Other stories have characterized Boehner as giving ground, but when the details emerge, it is the opposite of that. I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.


30 posted on 07/14/2011 7:40:05 PM PDT by andyk (Interstate != Intrastate)
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To: Sub-Driver
"Speaker John Boehner signaled Thursday that he’s open to new options to avert a default next month, including a novel Senate plan that would surrender much of Congress’s power over Treasury’s borrowing to the president."

LOL! Congressmen of both parties have to grease the skids for sliding that federal pork back to the teachers, social workers and regulators in their cities, counties and states. Ain't bipartisan socialism grand? One party caters mainly to federal employees and the other to the locals.


31 posted on 07/14/2011 7:41:40 PM PDT by familyop (Rome was burned in a day--twice.)
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To: MWS
Boehner = “the Grim Weeper” to the conservative base
32 posted on 07/14/2011 7:46:52 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: Sub-Driver

New House Speaker may be necessary.


33 posted on 07/14/2011 7:47:37 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: Sub-Driver
The genius of the plan put forward by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is that it gives lawmakers what politicians most love: an out.

Genius? Genius?!!!

I thought we were looking for a solution. Not an "out".

This defines what the GOP does not understand. They weren't elected to find an out. They were elected to do the right thing!

And now is the time for them to do it. Pass a debt ceiling bill that raises the ceiling by a modest amount. And cuts spending by at least that amount -- loaded to the near future. And prioritizes spending in the event of a future failure to raise the debt ceiling.

Pass it. Send it to the Democrat Senate. Dare them to vote it down. Then dare the President to veto it.

Then, whether the Treasury defaults or the Social Security checks don't go out -- there will be only one party to blame. The Democrats!

The Republican House would've done their job. And they did it in a manner that most independent voters would understand, appreciate and support...because:

It was the right thing to do!

What the hell is wrong with these people?!

34 posted on 07/14/2011 7:48:39 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Sub-Driver

Cool I always wanted a king, I just didn’t see how it could be done, now I know. All you need to do isnjust have traitors in both houses, and a Aussie court.

On the other hand this may force Palin to make a move, or get out of the way. Can’t wait for the pressed tomorrow.


35 posted on 07/14/2011 7:49:05 PM PDT by itsahoot (--I will vote for Sarah Palin, even if I have to write her in. --He that hath an ear, let him hear.)
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To: okie01
What the hell is wrong with these people?!

America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution By Angelo M. Codevilla

36 posted on 07/14/2011 7:52:28 PM PDT by mewzilla (Forget a third party. We need a second one.)
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To: andyk
Other stories have characterized Boehner as giving ground, but when the details emerge, it is the opposite of that. I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I agree with your characterization of other stories and I have been [until tonight] proud of the DC Rs.

But this is dumb. Some new crazy law to avoid blame?

How about take charge and write a reasonable increase WITH reasonable cuts?

37 posted on 07/14/2011 7:53:01 PM PDT by Principled
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To: GeronL

Then again McConnell might announce a plan to beat Obama by making him dictator for life. “Then he can have all the blame” McConnell will say.

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I know. Is it not the absolute nadir of Stockholm Syndrome absurdity? Rove, McConnel, Boehner, Steele, Powell, Graham, McCain, Murkowski . . . .

Liars all.

Frauds all.

Traitors all.


38 posted on 07/14/2011 7:56:37 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: Cheetahcat
I hold the winning hand,all the cards favor me....must find a way to lose....cave.....can't actually let those tea party whipper snappers ruin things....New York Times profile....60 minutes segment....I've grown into the job....not an extremist....Rachel Madow interview...lady fingers with Lindsey Graham....where was I oh yeah "We hope to find a way to work with the President to achieve a solution together...."
39 posted on 07/14/2011 7:57:03 PM PDT by bonehead4freedom
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To: Nuc 1.1

“Time to think the unthinkable. Remember 1789.”

Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons !
Qu’un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons !


40 posted on 07/14/2011 8:05:31 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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