Posted on 07/29/2011 9:33:47 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet
House Republicans will link passage of a balanced-budget amendment to Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) last-ditch debt-ceiling plan, which GOP lawmakers said would move the measure to passage in a high-stakes vote later on Friday.
Republican lawmakers voiced confidence the enhanced bill would pass muster with conservatives, as Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) predicted the balanced-budget amendment change would bring 10 to 20 more GOP members on board.
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RUN, SARAH, RUN! :)
“This BBA is smoke and mirrors and it gives the Tea Party folks cover.”
That’s why I called it out as a stupid trick.
Re: The Upshot
July 29, 2011 1:10 P.M.
By Daniel Foster
In other words, a debt-ceiling increase that is weaker on enforceable cuts than either version of the Boehner plan will become law, and the House conservatives who were so crucial to ensuring the failure of the old Boehner plan will be entirely irrelevant to the vote on the weak Senate compromise. Hooray?
We're SCREWED!
Re: GOP Calls an Audible
July 29, 2011 1:04 P.M.
By Robert Costa
Leaving this morning’s conference meeting, freshman Rep. Mike Kelly (R., Pa.), known for his Fighting Irish spirit, told reporters that House Republicans are “pretty fired up and ready” to back the Boehner plan, which should hit the floor this afternoon. Rep. Steve Chabot (R., Ohio) agreed. “It will have the votes to pass,” he said. “I would like to go further but this is the best we could do under the circumstances. I was ready to vote for the plan yesterday, but this [change] just makes it better.”
Freshman Rep. Raul Labrador (R., Idaho), however, was not as enthusiastic. A firm “no,” Labrador told me he has “no comment” about Boehner’s balanced-budget maneuver. Rep. Joe Walsh (R., Ill.), another freshman who has vocally opposed Boehner’s plan, acknowledged that the tides have turned. Boehner’s changes, he said, are what “a lot of folks needed” to vote “aye.” Still, he noted, “if it were up to me, we’d resend ‘Cut, Cap and Balance’ back to the Senate.”
For what it’s worth, as of 1 p.m., leadership sources say Boehner has all but wrapped this up.
Requesting your forgiveness, for the trap snared me.
Role call vote in the house rules committee has passed the amendment 8-4.
THERE you go!!!
The democrats first tabled then voted against a Balanced Budget Amendment!
Daily ads on TV. . .
CUT, CAP and BALANCE. Accept nothing less.
We have ALL know - ALL along how this would end. It won’t be a win for the American public.
In 5 to 8 years we will likely be around 18-20+ trillion in debt. Who will be surprised? We KNOW this.
Only way to change this is a shift in power. More Tea Party candidates run and win.
The establishment is not going to change.
Now it appears we are absolutely still in a recession.
This is going to get ugly and get ugly fast. America is on a path of civil war or slavery to debt. One or the other.
It will be up to the people.
We are already in a Civil War. It just hasn’t come to bullets yet.
I missed something, forgiveness for ?
IF we lose in 2012, there WILL be bullets.
Then it ain’t over. Just heard TP wants hard language. Still balking. say it’s too weak.
Oh brother, please stop trying to pin the blame on Hussein.
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Yeah, he has done nothing to create our financial mess. He is really clean and innocent here (/sarc).....you need to rethink that comment completely.
Sorry about your attitude. There are some heavy adjustments that need to made in Washington, and I will leave it there.
Let’s hope for the best. Fate works in strage ways.
I share your concern about the BBA.
The fact is, for the first time I can remember as a conservative, *we’ve won if we don’t do anything*. Keep the debt ceiling in place and the government gets an INSTANT haircut.
I bought the hook, line and sinker of BBA. Now I understand there is no language for a BBA. I jumped the shark and believed Congress was about to do the right thing. After praying, listening, and reading, I realized how wrong I was.
Bachmann: Obama Should Get on the Phone Himself
July 29, 2011 1:35 P.M.
By Katrina Trinko
Even with the Balanced Budget Amendment thrown in the Boehner plan, Michele Bachmann is giving no sign that there is any possibility she will switch her vote to ‘yes.’
“The President isn’t fooling anyone. He wants this increase so he can continue to waste taxpayer dollars on his failed economic policies,” Bachmann said in a statement released this afternoon. “Someone has to say stop. Someone has to say no to all of the massive spending and debt this President continues to give us. I will.”
She did not mention Boehner in the statement, focusing entirely on President Obama’s remarks this morning.
“His definition of compromise is to have everyone agree with him that we should raise the debt limit, increase spending and increase taxes, but he is unwilling to provide the leadership to reach any agreement. The President asked the American people to call their members of Congress, he should be the one on the phone calling them to make a deal,” Bachmann said.
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