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Democratic House Whip tells lawmakers that debt vote has been "postponed."
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Thursday, July 28, 2011

Posted on 07/28/2011 2:59:25 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

GOP aide confirmed and said it would take place later Thursday evening.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: boehner; boehnerbill; boner; debt; debtceiling; debtdeal; debtdealpostponed; debtlimit; default; reid
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Anything that stops a compromise forces Reid to bring up CCB AGAIN (which under the rules he can do and will have to do). So, I say, “no deal!!!!”


41 posted on 07/28/2011 3:23:04 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Rational Thought

Should be three if West hadn’t caved. Really disappointed in him.


42 posted on 07/28/2011 3:24:06 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: reaganaut1
Exactly right.

I concur.

43 posted on 07/28/2011 3:24:22 PM PDT by Calliecat
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To: MinorityRepublican
When one walks toward a cliff and does not stop, everyone knows what will happen. When one turns around and refuses to walk off the cliff, solutions become realities eventually.

Congress is voting to ask Americans to walk toward a cliff, and when Americans arrive at the cliffs edge, Congress expects each of us to volunteer to be thrown over that cliff. Carrying the grandchildren toward the cliff I know I must learn how to fly for the cliff's face is being torn away each moment by my own government with each vote to increase the debt on my children, my grandchildren and each and every American. Cut the spending Congress! Give America a chance. Back away from the cliff, and let us talk solutions.

44 posted on 07/28/2011 3:24:54 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: LS

Okay explain something to me... bill goes to Senate they make changes does it go back to House or goes to Pres.


45 posted on 07/28/2011 3:25:08 PM PDT by GoCards (I am a Hobbit)
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To: Ingtar
The last count I saw was that 25 GOP were holding to principles;...

Principles, something that, no doubt, has thrown the beltway lifers into a loop of total confusion.

46 posted on 07/28/2011 3:25:08 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Beaten Valve

The big value of Twitter is that most Twits reveal their stupidity there.


47 posted on 07/28/2011 3:25:11 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: RushingWater

Wrong! How about forcing Obama to spend less without raising the debt!!

Hold the lines folks we have a winner. Let the debt ceiling stay where it is... NO BILL. Let the US take her medicine now while she can still swallow it, make 0 spend only what he takes in, then blame 0 and the Dem congress pf 2006-2010 for increasing spending past the breaking point.


48 posted on 07/28/2011 3:26:54 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, "Paradise Lost")
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To: Sacajaweau
Obama wants it out of the picture when it’s closer to election time.

That's obama's line in the sand. Reid made it clear. That's the tipping point.
49 posted on 07/28/2011 3:27:45 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: St. Louis Conservative

No, Reid will vote it down in the Senate, make it more satisfying to Dems, and send that result back down to the House — and Boener is back on the hook again.....>p>The libs are not very smart, but they are VERY cunning.


50 posted on 07/28/2011 3:28:15 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: All

boner can cave and obama definitely wins re-election.

He can stand on principle and MAYBE obama wins re-election.

I’m for number two!


51 posted on 07/28/2011 3:28:28 PM PDT by Terry Mross (I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: Rational Thought

Just called Cong. Mike Turner’s office (he’s the rep from Dayton, OH) and the cheery staffer took down exactly what I said: “No to the Boehner compromise. Hang on just a little longer. We’ve almost won. Make them go with Cut, Cap, and Balance.”


52 posted on 07/28/2011 3:29:07 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: GoCards

Back to the House or to Senate/House Conference Committee to iron out differences.


53 posted on 07/28/2011 3:30:02 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: LS

It’s a tough spot for some of the freshmen.


54 posted on 07/28/2011 3:30:39 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: Ingtar
The last count I saw was that 25 GOP were holding to principles; this is enough to kill it.

Good for them. A bad deal is worse than no deal. And any deal that doesn't directly address the built-in profligacy that is baseline budgeting is a bad deal.
55 posted on 07/28/2011 3:30:51 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: St. Louis Conservative
Here's the deal. Let's say Boehner's Plan passes the House and is sent to the Senate. The Senate will vote no on concurrence, and refer the bill to committee where it will be amended. The amended bill, still called "Boehner's Plan," though it will have been changed to something Senate Democrats can support, will return to the Senate floor and be approved.

Then, the Senate-amended substitute (still called "Boehner's Plan" by the screaming-idiot media) will then return to the House, where the House will vote not to concur and a House-Senate Conference Committee will be appointed to work out the differences.

And we're back to square one.

The House has already voted on a plan, and Reid had it tabled, without a recorded vote.

No one who supports "Boehner's Plan" can tell me where all this high drama, when the Senate majority has already said it will not concur, is to our advantage.

Obama wants to let his artificial deadline pass, and make the GOP responsible, or get his way, this issue out of his way, through the election.

56 posted on 07/28/2011 3:31:21 PM PDT by Prospero (non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
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To: ez
What you typed is the truth and the best way to go forward, away from the cliff, unless the goal is to make lemmings, by the Congress, out of all Americans.
57 posted on 07/28/2011 3:31:48 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: All
"We thank you from the bottoms of our cold, black hearts."

Divide & conquer worked against the GOP. Again.

58 posted on 07/28/2011 3:32:58 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Reid, Pelosi & Obama have the champaign on ice.)
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To: tobyhill

Pass it in the dark of night. Yeah that looks real transparent. Looks like what Jim Wright used to do until he got ousted. U do remember Jim Wright don’t u.


59 posted on 07/28/2011 3:33:07 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: MinorityRepublican
All our South Carolina Congressmen,even our one Democrat, ain't cracking and I am so proud. Keep sending CC&B and nothing else!!!
60 posted on 07/28/2011 3:33:59 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Will Geico save you 15% on your insurance? Is Obama an evil Marxist tyrannical son of a bitch?")
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