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Obama: Republicans Using 'Extortion' On Debt Limit [Will Boehner Capitulate?]
BBC ^ | October 07, 2013

Posted on 10/08/2013 12:26:18 PM PDT by Steelfish

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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Write or Call to Boehner to tell him that!


61 posted on 10/08/2013 1:18:03 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Is John Boehner the Neville Chamberlain of American Politics?)
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To: Yaelle

melt down hugely on TV
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That is the moment that I think is coming. He has thin skin. Narcissists don’t deal well with criticism and challenges to their own sense of superiority.


62 posted on 10/08/2013 1:20:44 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Steelfish

If the GOP caves on this one, or are beaten into it by the communist press, we’ve officially become a communist dictatorship. The GOP will be a housebroken shop-window opposition (some would say they already are), but given a generation they will be progressively restricted then outlawed. These communists have been very patient about their subversion of the United States. That will continue, until a new “Constitution” is written.

Maybe that will be after I’m dead and gone. Maybe not.


63 posted on 10/08/2013 1:20:58 PM PDT by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: rrrod

WE need to fortify Boehner,,via phone calls, emails ,,tweets,,whatever! Do it! His name and neck is on the line (and I am no fan of his, but he IS the face of the opposition,,,along with Cruz)


64 posted on 10/08/2013 1:21:24 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Steelfish

Make the new debt limit $100 Trillion, then pass a CR with 25 percent cuts across the board, military excluded.


65 posted on 10/08/2013 1:21:42 PM PDT by Argus
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To: RedMDer
"Also teabaggers, astroturf, spitters, anarchists, mobsters... I'm sure there's more."

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How about "creepy ass cracka'?

66 posted on 10/08/2013 1:27:33 PM PDT by hummingbird (Don't be afraid of the big words.)
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To: Steelfish
Will Boehner Capitulate?

Do bears ...

67 posted on 10/08/2013 1:31:11 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Steelfish

It is Obama who is making all the threats.

He’s saying he will default or worse if the House GOP does not agree with him, though, agreement or not there is no requirement or authority for him to default. He simply needs to cut federal spending on federal departments - defense and social security excluded, by an amount equal to any pending additional deficit - until HE comes to some agreement with Congress, with the House; an agreement he will have to make compromises to get.

Obama is the one making all the threats, threatening “it’s default or else, unless I get what I want”.

The petulant-in-chief is miffed.


68 posted on 10/08/2013 1:38:04 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Yaelle

Its making the rounds on twitter.


69 posted on 10/08/2013 2:08:54 PM PDT by rintense
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To: hummingbird

LOL! And racists.


70 posted on 10/08/2013 2:10:52 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Starboard

China ain’t doing anything. If they ‘dump’ treasuries they may bankrupt their own central bank in the ensuing price collapse. Also, there is nothing they can buy with the money, which is why they bought bonds in the first place. Extensive foreign investment in the West is blocked to them.

China is very good at shouting orders but their own country is a meltdown waiting to happen.


71 posted on 10/08/2013 4:04:14 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: hummingbird

The Asian countries begging for our military protection ?


72 posted on 10/08/2013 4:06:03 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: JSDude1; All

We need to do what illegals and Black Panthers do to get what they want. A massive Tea Party march on Washington.

The Republican Public Relations machine is completely dead. Where’s reminding the public what Obama said about the raising the debt ceiling- calling it unpatriotic? Where the barrage of Obama quotes? This is a sad and disorganized Republican Party. They re-elect a loser like Priebus.


73 posted on 10/08/2013 5:31:45 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Argus

bad idea imho. You just make it possible for them to increase spending later. 25% cut may not be enough to balance the budget, then a year later, they increase spending by 100% and whats to stop them?


74 posted on 10/08/2013 7:07:00 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Steelfish

That’s right we do! (I hope the apathy period is OVER)! Contact New Media to get it started....


75 posted on 10/08/2013 9:13:03 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Is John Boehner the Neville Chamberlain of American Politics?)
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To: sunrise_sunset

China ain’t doing anything.
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I wouldn’t be too certain about that. China and Japan unloaded over $40 billion in U.S. Treasuries in June 2013. Other countries joined in as well making it the largest selloff since August 2007.

One thing is certain: China is growing increasingly nervouse about the dysfunction in the U.S. government, the out of control debt, and its impact on our economy. The dumping issue is a very complicated one with lots of moving parts. Yes, it could hurt China but there are many possible scenarios that should not be dismissed out of hand. There’s a lot of literature on this topic so some think it could happen in some form.


76 posted on 10/10/2013 6:48:36 AM PDT by Starboard
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