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Cantor to GOP: Quit whining and vote
POLITICO ^ | 7/26/11 11:05 AM EDT Updated: 7/26/11 12:14 PM EDT Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/ | By JAKE SHERMAN

Posted on 07/26/2011 9:45:25 AM PDT by free me

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) delivered a blunt message to the Republican Conference Tuesday morning: Quit the “grumbling” and “whining” and come together to rally behind Speaker John Boehner to pass his debt ceiling plan.

Cantor’s heavy rhetoric came out in a closed session at the Capitol Hill Club as the GOP majority tried to whip up support for Boehner’s latest deficit package. Cantor summed up what he knew many Republicans were thinking as they head into another critical vote.

The debt limit vote sucks,” he said, according to an attendee of the closed meeting. But Republicans have three options, Cantor said: risk default, pass Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) plan — which he thinks gives President Barack Obama a blank check — or “call the president’s bluff” by passing the Boehner plan, which not only cuts deeply into domestic spending but calls for a bipartisan commission to find more savings.

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Cantor to America, The Tea Party and Conservatives: Screw you!
1 posted on 07/26/2011 9:45:29 AM PDT by free me
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To: free me

Would we be better off with a default?


2 posted on 07/26/2011 9:47:51 AM PDT by wastedyears (SEAL SIX makes me proud to have been playing SOCOM since 2003.)
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To: free me

>>Cantor to America, The Tea Party and Conservatives: Screw you!<<

I’m with Cantor on this one: Shut up and vote.


3 posted on 07/26/2011 9:49:44 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: free me

Eric Can’t or.


4 posted on 07/26/2011 9:50:56 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: wastedyears
Would we be better off with a default?

It's going to happen eventually, and the longer we put it off, the worse it will be.

5 posted on 07/26/2011 9:51:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: free me

No.

Cantor is truly urging his colleagues to call Obama’s bluff.

Face it: until Nov. 2012, Republicans control only one-half of the two branches of government required to enact legislation. That is one-quarter power.

All they can do is all they can do. Best we can hope for until a new election is damage control. Don’t blast Cantor for speaking the truth.


6 posted on 07/26/2011 9:52:00 AM PDT by Jedidah (I'll vote for an earthworm before I'll vote for Obama. So wiggle on in, Rick Perry.)
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To: RobRoy

Shut up and vote NO


7 posted on 07/26/2011 9:53:02 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: free me

Does he mean quit winning and vote?


8 posted on 07/26/2011 9:53:59 AM PDT by jessduntno (Liberalism is socialism in a party dress. And just as masculine.)
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To: free me
It it has only $6 billion in cuts in FY 2012, then they should vote no and have Boehner try again. It needs to be front end loaded because any cuts after FY 2012 don't really count. We've been stung way too many times with Dems' promises of future spending cuts for immediate tax or debt limit increases.
9 posted on 07/26/2011 9:54:01 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Dems demanding shared sacrifice are like Aztec priests doing it while cutting out my heart.)
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To: free me

Are you folks buzzed or something??? Anything written on “Politico” is political spin for America hater/destroyer, POTUS Barack Hussein Obama!!! End of story!!! Believe nothing you read on “Politico”!!!


10 posted on 07/26/2011 9:54:24 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: wastedyears

There is no chance of default. Do you mean would we be better off not raising the debt limit at all?

If so then the answer is yes.

Still I’m happy to go along with the compromise bill passed by the House: Cut,cap&balance.

Too bad Boehner sabotaged it.


11 posted on 07/26/2011 9:54:50 AM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012 - GAME ON!!)
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To: free me
Psalm 82

1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods.
2 How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked? Selah
3 Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy; Free them from the hand of the wicked.

5 They do not know, nor do they understand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are unstable.

6 I said, “You are gods, And all of you are children of the Most High.
7 But you shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.”

8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; For You shall inherit all nations.

***

Jeremiah 51:46 …Ruler against ruler

There’s a group of people in Washington that are going after the poor. No doubt about it!

Boehner should travel to Afghanistan and tell the women and men defending this country that they’re fighting for the rich, big oil and corporations.

Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed because the people were homosexual, they were removed because of how they treated the poor and the stranger.

What was the sin of Sodom?

A collection of classical Jewish texts
Compilation and commentary by Robert Kaiser
With an additional note from Arthur Waskow

Classical Jewish texts concur that God did *not* destroy Sodom and Gemorrah because their inhabitants were homosexual. Not at all. Rather, the cities were destroyed because the inhabitants were nasty, depraved, and uncompromisingly greedy. Classical Jewish writings affirm that the primary crimes of the Sodomites were, among others, terrible and repeated economic crimes, both against each other and to outsiders. Saying "God killed them because they were gay" is, to say the least, not the Jewish teaching on the subject.

Consider the following texts:

*****

http://www.iwgonline.org/docs/sodom.html

12 posted on 07/26/2011 9:54:50 AM PDT by Jeremiah Jr (Chei ha-Olamim)
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To: free me

At some point something is going to get passed. Boehners’ plan is the best of the three choices. Not raising the debt ceiling gives Obama too much power over what gets paid, when.


13 posted on 07/26/2011 9:54:55 AM PDT by Grunthor (Faster than the speed of smell.)
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To: Jedidah
Face it: until Nov. 2012, Republicans control only one-half of the two branches...

Republicans control one part of the government version of a spigot, hose, and nozzle. Without the republican spigot, there is NO water going thru the hose or coming out the nozzle.

14 posted on 07/26/2011 9:55:29 AM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
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To: free me

Wow! I can’t believe Cantor called Republicans ‘whiners’! Sounds like what the RATS and obamma would be saying! He lost my respect in a big way!!!!!!! Cantor, shut up!!!!!!!!!


15 posted on 07/26/2011 9:55:53 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: dfwgator

” It’s going to happen eventually, and the longer we put it off, the worse it will be. “

EXACTLY


16 posted on 07/26/2011 9:56:09 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: dfwgator
"It's going to happen eventually...."

At least this way we at least can gain the narrative, deny Obama even the remotest chance at what he would call a victory, and set the stage for larger cuts and greater reform when we gain the Senate and the White House in 2012.
Man, this sucks all of the juju from Zero - see him squirming last night? - it's gonna' get better when he has to sign Boehner's deal.

17 posted on 07/26/2011 9:56:53 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: RobRoy

But vote yes or no?

My question is sincere. I may not have kept up on all the details, but I am still not convinced that there will be a default, unless Obama wants one.

I think the question is do we want a govt shutdown, and its improper to frame the question as one of default. If the question is do I want a govt shutdown (except military and essential functions that can be justified constitutionally), the answer would most definitely yes.


18 posted on 07/26/2011 9:58:01 AM PDT by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: Grunthor
At some point something is going to get passed. Boehners’ plan is the best of the three choices.

The House has already passed the Ryan budget and CC&B. Either of those are better than the total sham Boehner is putting forward.

19 posted on 07/26/2011 9:59:10 AM PDT by kevkrom (This space for rent.)
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To: free me
Rather the help spread the Obot propaganda from known Obama propaganda site Politico, I will wait to hear a Conservative go on a Conservative show and repeat this before I believe it.

Conservative have got to wise up. The Obot press knows they can play you for fools. You all really got to quit believing every little thing they publish. They are NOT on your side.

20 posted on 07/26/2011 9:59:43 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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