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  • Tea party to GOP: We could (will) make 'examples' of you over debt ceiling

    07/15/2011 3:40:07 PM PDT · by tobyhill · 20 replies
    cnn ^ | 7/15/2011 | By Shannon Travis
    Right now, some Republican lawmakers in Washington may be wondering how to wiggle out from between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, they're staring at a possible financial nightmare if the nation's debt limit isn't raised. On the other, many are feeling the heat from tea party demands that bluntly warn: Vote against us and suffer political consequences. To be sure, Democrats are also under pressure from progressive constituencies who are pushing for more revenue in the form of tax increases -- and for them to stand firm against cuts to entitlements such as Social Security, Medicare...
  • House GOP freshmen turn Boehner’s dream job into a nightmare (It's the Tea Party's Fault!!)

    07/13/2011 6:35:59 PM PDT · by Pan_Yan · 48 replies
    Globe and Mail ^ | Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 9:09PM EDT | KONRAD YAKABUSKI
    The 87 freshmen Republican congressmen who took their seats in the House of Representatives in January were supposed to ensure John Boehner’s place in American history books. They still could. Just not in the way the Speaker might have hoped. ... Mr. Boehner mused this week that negotiating a debt deal acceptable to President Barack Obama, the Republican House majority and a Senate that is nearly evenly split between the parties is like solving a Rubik’s cube. But that is only partly true. At least every side moves on a Rubik’s cube. “John Boehner is an old-style Republican. He’s conservative,...