Posted on 02/12/2014 11:12:42 AM PST by cotton1706
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday said he hoped enough Republicans would reject their "Tea Party overlords" to advance a bill to raise the debt ceiling.
The Nevada Democrat announced Wednesday the Senate would vote to end debate on the bill around 1:45 p.m.
If cloture is invoked, the Senate will then move immediately to final passage of a bill that the House passed Tuesday to raise the debt ceiling until March 2015, with no strings attached.
The bill raises the debt ceiling until March 15, 2015, which would allow the government to continue borrowing above the current $17.2 trillion cap. After the suspension ends, the new debt ceiling would equal the amount of debt the government has racked up by then. Many Republicans were disappointed Congress didn’t force the administration to agree to spending reductions before raising the debt ceiling, which will prevent a government default. That is why Senate Republicans are forcing a cloture vote, meaning Democrats will need 60-vote to advance the measure.
Some Republicans are expected to help Democrats get it past the 60-vote threshold.
Reid moved a vote on repealing cuts to military pensions until after the Senate deals with the debt ceiling. That vote is still expected later Wednesday.
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The 5 year long, lopsided power struggle continues on the now shredded Congressional Field of Battle in the District of Corruption, along the muddy banks of De Nile River.
The simple goal of the much-praised Left Team, also called “Democrats,” as stated by their team captain B. Hussein Soetoro-Obama is to “Fundamentally change the United States of America.”
The multiple, and very complex goals of the Right Team, as yet unstated but consistently acted out by Special Wrongway RINO Defense Squad Co- Captains John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Pete Roskam is to DO NOTHING that will irritate the Left Team.
The Right Team is also known by the name “Republicans,” a nostalgic name from a long-past time when there was “Liberty and Justice for all.”
The Left Team has a single Offense Squad with All Democrat Stars from many Schools of Higher Government Learning, to name just a few:
* Department of Gestapo Justice, (DOGJ);
* National Spy On U., (NSOU);
* Interrogate Ream Sue U., (IRSU)
* Reid Barrycade Senate Universal, (RBSU).
The Left Team always runs down the Congressional Field of Battle together, and has been admiringly nicknamed “ District of Corruption, United.”
The Right Team has never allowed the many Constitutional Offense Squads onto the Congressional Field of Battle, due to well-timed and strongly worded objections from many RINO luminaries such as Loser Emeritus, “Wacko Birds” McCain.
After a recent weekend, group-hug, bonding session, many caucus meetings, and private deal-making, Lead Co-Captain John Boehner picked up the ball yesterday and ran down the Congressional Field of Battle to score a goal for the Left Team.
Thanks to the RINO Defensive actions of “Wrongway” Boehner and his ‘gang of 27,’ an additional 1 to 4, (nobody is really sure), TRILLION dollars will be added to the National Poverty Debt Game Clock.
Co-Captain “Wrongway” Boehner was assisted by 27 Members of the Special Wrongway RINO Defense Squad.
Needless to say, “Wrongway” Boehner and his ‘gang of 27’ made no contact with any of the Left Team Members.
Time will tell if donations to the Special Wrongway RINO Defense Squad, (SWRDS), will increase or decrease before the Championship Game in November, 2014.
Godless Stalinist Reid needs an overlord.
We’re coming for you Harry.
Prepare to become the minority leader.
We’re coming for you Harry.
Prepare to become the minority leader.
Reminds me of Dr. Strangelove. Reid doesn’t like Tea Party stooges.
“Oh, only commie stooges, huh?”
I’m sure it’s just constructive criticism.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi
You know he’s just repeating the term “Tea Party” because they demonized it via the press.
If this is the Tea Party, what is the big crime - fiscal restraint? Big deal.
Its the DEMS & REPUBS vs. REAL AMERICANS (TEA PARTY)... yesterday ROVE defended CLINTON.
I wonder why Hugh Hewitt was so high on McConnell in his column today at Townhall?
-PJ
“Overlords”???? Hahahahahaha!
More like the DemoCRAP War Lords of the Senate & White House.
No words of wisdom from Schumer?
“Overlords”? There’s a telling phrase if ever there was one. Desperate to protect your duchy, aren’t you Dirty Harry?
I love the all the free publicity the Tea Party gets. You can’t BUY this kind of free publicity! Please, Harry, keep mentioning us by name! Get Pelosi to mention us a few more times in interviews, if you would, too.
Occupy Wall Street is crying in their coffee these days!
Who?
Exactly!
When will the GOP reject leftist fascists?
**** you harry and the whore that birthed you!
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore,
Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords.
Now here are the Viking Kittens to sing the Immigrant Song
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