This is absolutely asinine.
Carry out the spending cuts. Real spending cuts. Be fiscally responsible for once.
Raising the debt ceiling is the very definition of being fiscally irresponsible. The notion of “we’ll raise your debt ceiling if you agree to spending cuts” is about the stupidest trade-off I can imagine.
We Will Not Increase the Debt Ceiling Without Spending Cuts!
ROLFLMAO, sure that will happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Truly cutting spending eliminates the need to raise the debt ceiling.
The Speaker of the House is a complete buttplug, so the chances of him holding a hard line on anything are about the same as the chances of my head jumping off my shoulders and flying around the room under its own power.
boner will give the rats everything they want and shed a quick tear for dramatic effect.
The GOP is useless at this time.
Unless we raise it and set up a super committee (to come up with cuts) who will not do anything which will trigger a sequester which we will delay.
But we really mean it this time.
Sadly, this will not happen.
Obama, dems, and RINOs will simply cite that elections have consequences.
And everyone else will forget that, for some reason, the 2010 elections did not have consequences.
What we got in the post 2010 election debt ceiling debate was the sequestration plan of today.
They’re completely oblivious to their oxymoron, aren’t they?
LOL. That's the same thing we head before the last debate on the debt ceiling and what did we ultimately get? Higher taxes, a raised debt ceiling AND spending increases. I think we've passed the point of no return and don't have the political will to do what has to be done. The REAL fiscal cliff is fast approaching in the windshield and nobody in going to hit the breaks.
The fight for sensible, prudent, non-socialist government is over.
The people made their choice in November and the moochers carried the day.
The only direction the USA will go for the next four years is down.
Our only hope (and it is a small one) is that Obama drives the country so far into the ground that people come to their senses when the 2016 election rolls around.
But don’t count on it.
Odds are that the same insanity that put Obama in the White House will get Hillary elected.
Who’s “we”? Maybe there’s a mouse in their pocket. I know they ain’t talking about the Repubs.
How many lines in the sand will get washed away with Boehner’s tears. There will be no recovery for America until we have a radical RINO-ectomy!
If I were Speaker, I’d issue this statement:
“To date, the President has failed to follow through on ANY of the promises he’s made, regarding compromise or negotiations on spending, and has exempted his contributors from his tax increases, or the costs of his Obamacare mandates.”
“Because of this lack of integrity and follow through, there is no point in engaging with him in the future.”
“To be lectured about “fairness”, while he exempts his friends and contributors, will no longer go unremarked.”
“We are through negotiating against ourselves, and will not move, until the President has made good on his end of the bargin.”
too bad “we” doesn’t involve Congress
Social Democrat definition of expenditure cut: Decrease in planned deficit budget expenditures. (It doesn’t exist)
Social Democrats are laughing at us because they haven’t submitted a budget in four years and the so-called cuts in planned expenditures is the biggest behind the scene “wink” b/s joke at the annual correspondents dinner.
Every conversation between Repubs and Dems should begin, “Here is the list of items we want cut.” It should be brought up on the floor of the House every day!