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Reid's Debt-Ceiling Bill Fails in Test Vote,,,(CCB still only "game" in town)
Fox News ^ | 7/31/2011 | fox news

Posted on 07/31/2011 11:17:42 AM PDT by tobyhill

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To: newzjunkey
“50-49? He couldn’t even hold his party together?”

Of course NOT. Remember in a little over a year 23 Democratic Senators are up for reelection and their votes on the national debt, a very easy thing for the average Joe to understand, will be remembered.

I am very surprise that the vote was this close; it must have taken a lot of arm twisting and political threats to get 50 Senators to vote for it.

61 posted on 07/31/2011 12:51:49 PM PDT by Nip (TANSTAAFL and BOHICA)
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To: mwl8787
Bottom line: Obama and the RATS continue to OWN the economy. They will OWN the downgrade as well. GOP is off the hook.

All of us here know that, BUT I am not sure Joe 6-pack watching his evening "news" (propaganda show) will realize what we know to be true. The GOP MUST win the propaganda war, and I fear we are losing that.
62 posted on 07/31/2011 12:51:53 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: conservativebuckeye
My error in date...thanks for the correction. That's such good news. I think this guy IS a marxist, Kennedy clone although definitely second-string.

He has to go if he doesn't shape up. Sometimes, just sometimes, there has to be CONSEQUENCES for faux Republicans like Brown and those two political ladies-of-the-night, Snowe and Collins.

The proof will be in the numerical pudding that the American Conservative Union puts out periodically.

Newcomer Brown has no scoring yet....nice to see Senators Sessions and DeMint with 100% conservative scores.

Leni

63 posted on 07/31/2011 12:52:49 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Too Bad Those of Us who Work for a Living Have to Support Those who Vote for a Living)
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To: JPG

Are you serious? Does he have a thing for cowboys? He complained about the cowboy poetry festival losing funding. Next, he will insist the Senate all watch brokeback mountain. This has to be a joke.


64 posted on 07/31/2011 12:54:23 PM PDT by I_be_tc
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To: tobyhill
Democrats' debt-ceiling bill failed to clear a key Senate hurdle Sunday afternoon,
Tea Party, Republican's, Palin's, Bush's fault
65 posted on 07/31/2011 12:54:41 PM PDT by lewislynn ( What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in commom? Misinformation)
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To: tobyhill

From the article:

“Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said talks are proceeding at a furious pace, with Vice President Biden deeply involved.”

Oh, okay. EVERYBODY RELAX. Joe’s got our backs. Whew!


66 posted on 07/31/2011 12:57:19 PM PDT by upchuck (ANY plan that spreads cuts over 10 years is a canard. Cut NOW, not in ten years. 1% plan is a winner)
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To: Raider Sam
You gotta love the picture of McConnell in this story.

Ya mean this one???


67 posted on 07/31/2011 12:57:25 PM PDT by tflabo ( to have been selected)
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To: newzjunkey

Yeah, will we get all kinds of news stories about how Reid couldn’t muster his own troops like we did for the pubs?

I jest. Of course we won’t.


68 posted on 07/31/2011 1:00:01 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: Cheerio

The immediate propaganda war doesn’t matter.

The GOP will not be complicit in anything that will happen with the economy going forward, whether it be a downgrade, unemployment, GDP, inflation etc.

We have preserved our virginity and framed a deal on our terms; and given our own members an out to vote NO on this crap sandwich in both chambers.


69 posted on 07/31/2011 1:05:41 PM PDT by mwl8787
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To: MinuteGal

Were you as suprised as I that Maine’s two RINOs stayed with the caucus. They could easly have voted FOR the Eid bill..their votes were meaningless..


70 posted on 07/31/2011 1:08:21 PM PDT by ken5050 (Save the earth..it's the ONLY planet with CHOCOLATE!!!)
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To: MinuteGal
"RINO traitor Scott Brown voted for this treasonous bill...."

This is what passes for a conservative in KennedyLand. They don't get any better than this.

71 posted on 07/31/2011 1:08:39 PM PDT by oldbrowser (They're socialists don't call them liberals)
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To: tobyhill
What does any member of the GOP have to gain by approving a compromise? If there is a compromise, Obama looks like a hero. If there is no compromise and the country defaults on August 2nd, then all the blame falls in Obama’s lap.
72 posted on 07/31/2011 1:08:47 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: GeronL

And he has a pickup and he looked so nice in his military uniform photo...what the exterior deception hides...


73 posted on 07/31/2011 1:11:49 PM PDT by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: mwl8787

They didn’t believe us last Fri about the need to pass the bill. I’m still getting flamed about that.


74 posted on 07/31/2011 1:12:14 PM PDT by Principled
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To: jacknhoo

A Massachusetts Republican is a big government socialist. Following in the footsteps of RINO Romney.

No one should ever doubt or forget that fact.


75 posted on 07/31/2011 1:16:59 PM PDT by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: jennings2004

I knew he was bad news when I found out he posed nude in a magazine. That was all I needed to know about him. It turned out my reaction to him weas spot-on.


76 posted on 07/31/2011 1:18:01 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: ThinkingBuddha

“RINO traitor Scott Brown voted for this treasonous bill. What a lowlife scumbag!!”

He wants to get reelected. He got nominated in a perfect storm. I doubt he will win in 2012 regardless of how much he bends over to the MA left


77 posted on 07/31/2011 1:22:08 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: ThinkingBuddha

” RINO traitor Scott Brown voted for this treasonous bill. What a lowlife scumbag!!”

True Benedict Arnold he has turned out to be.


78 posted on 07/31/2011 1:23:59 PM PDT by patriotspride
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To: GeronL

Fox reports that the debt deal is falling apart. Liberals won’t support it.

She loves me - she loves me not


79 posted on 07/31/2011 1:24:18 PM PDT by silentknight
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To: I_be_tc

Maybe he did that, at the caucus. The unrated version.


80 posted on 07/31/2011 1:24:48 PM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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