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Posted on 07/12/2011 2:04:58 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Now that the table is set, here’s how the proposed plan would work: Republicans in Congress would agree to vote to authorize the president to propose three separate incremental debt ceiling increases, spaced over the remainder of his term. He would be required to couple each request with a corresponding set of spending cuts that exceed the dollar amount of his sought-after debt limit hike. These cuts would be of his choosing alone. The first pair of requests would come prior to the August 2 deadline. It would be for roughly $700 Billion. The next requests, for $900 Billion, would come in the fall, and the final tranche (also for $900 Billion) would be scheduled for summer of 2012 — in the thick of the campaign cycle.
In all likelihood, on each occasion, Republicans would overwhelmingly vote to disapprove of the president’s debt ceiling increase request. This allows GOP members (and almost certainly some vulnerable Democrats) to technically vote “no” on raising the debt ceiling. If, as is likely, simple majorities in both houses vote to disapprove of the president’s requests, he’d be forced to veto each disapproval, pinging the issue back to Capitol Hill. If Congress can’t override those vetos with 2/3 majorities (and Republicans won’t have the votes, even with some Democrats), the debt ceiling will increase. But not without the exacting a substantial political price from the president and his allies in Congress. They will own the debt ceiling hike. Period. Members of Congress who vote with the president will set themselves up to be targeted by brutal attack ads (“so-and-so has voted to increase the national debt limit three times in the last year alone,” etc).
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No. No. No. No. NO.
Once again, politics and getting re-elected are more important than what is best for the country. Time for a third party.
This is simple, a press conference by Mcconnel and boner..
Mr PBO, unless your suggesting a tax holiday for all businesses, and all workers, which we would welcome in the middle of a depression...money keeps comming in to the treasury. If you and turbotax timeh, choose to rob seniors of their SS checks, while continuing to funding abortions around the world, well that’s your choice, Oh and BTW, after running guns illegally, passing no budget in 800 + days, and a litany of lesser high crimes, if you choose to rob seniors, and fail to cut spending, Please understand you will face investigations, and impeachment proceedings until we ride your corrupt butt clean back to Chicago, and maybe the way Blago choose to go!
Completely unnecessary. I didn't read past this insult.
Ready. Aim. Fire.
It's a deliciously devious plan . . . me likey.
Make him come to Congress. Their is a great advantage in selecting the place of negotiating and so far he has all the advantage. Change that!
All these actions, or rather, inactions, of Congress do seem poised to make Feckless Leader consider them, ultimately, irrelevant. Not to mention poor little old us, the American people. How can McConnell think that people cannot already see what a weasel Floppy Ears is? Moreover, how can a more or less sentient being believe that essentially giving a would-be dictator more power is ever a smart idea, much less beneficial to one’s self? He is proposing that Congress give him another taste of carte blanche, basically. Sheesh.
Is that what you think the highest priority is - to come out of a fight unscathed? There's a word for people who think that way.
Doesn’t sound practical. Infact, it probably has enough loopholes for Obama to ride right through. Hope this is just a proposal that McConnell expects Obama to reject, because it’s wacked.
It gives Obama 3 trillion bucks. Stoopid!
If you aren't taking politics into at least a little bit of consideration, then you're not being realistic about 2012.
Tax hikes are what they plan to slip in under the propaganda about the debt ceiling. McConnell’s plan is really a way to talk about the debt ceiling three times over the next year and a half while slipping big tax hikes into those bills.
Talk about not being realistic!!! Not only will it be possible for Obama to do so... he will, with every media talking head agreeing with him! You and McConnell both make the same mistake: you assume that anyone in the media will call Obama on his lies. Well, the press hasn't to this point.
In fact, if Obama went on TV and blamed this very law for the economy, McConnell will have ten Sunday-shows calling to ask why he wrote a law specifically designed to destroy the American economy.
You (and McConnell) need to be realistic. There's no way to "spin" this without the press' help. That's why Republicans need to achieve something... not place their hopes on political spin...
I have a news alert for you, Obama is going to blame the GOP no matter what happens.
What the GOP should seek is clarity. Namely, that Obama favors a debt ceiling increase so he can increase govt spending while the GOP opposes a debt ceiling increase because the GOP wants to decrease govt spending. Provide the voter with that clarity and let the chips fall where they may.
If our fellow citizens are worthy of the free Republic that we have inherited, then they will do the right thing. And if they are not, then no amount of tactical cleverness by the GOP will save them.
Jon Stewart could do a week on each of the phony votes against the 3 increases.
This could be laid at Obama's door, only if the MSM goes along, which they won't. It will be pointed out that Obama was allowed by the Republicans to have this power, and that he was forced to use the power because the Republicans wouldn't raise taxes.
Here is reality. No debt ceiling hike, and Obama continues to destroy the economy at a faster rate, deliberately, and he'll blame the GOP for it. I just don't see why this is such a terrible idea (other than the 2/3 vote; I'd like to see a simple majority vote in the House).
It seems like I remember a time in the recent past when a republican led senate tried to enact a line item veto structured somewhat like this proposal. It was struck down as being unconstitutional because congress can not transfer to the president that power assigned them by the constitution. A change in constitutional power requires an amendment to the constitution. It is not enough just to desire to shift blame for unpopular policy.
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