'I can’t do this job unless you’re behind me,' Boehner said to House Republicans.
Scrambling for votes on his troubled deficit package, Speaker John Boehner bluntly told wavering GOP lawmakers Wednesday morning to “get your ass in line” behind his debt ceiling bill.
Call Speaker Boehner's office now at (202) 225-0600 -- and tell him we can't afford to let politics hold our economy hostage. It's time to put ideological demands aside and agree to a balanced approach.
"The votes obviously were not there," conceded Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., after Speaker John Boehner and the leadership had spent hours trying to corral the support of rebellious conservatives.
It is a cluster F isn't it... Fire em all and start over I say.
-------------- After we screw up health care reform, let's take on the initiative of unscrewing the education system (gov't education) Tacitus: (c. 56 AD-c. 117) "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."
For what it's worth, Michelle Bachmann flatly said she would not vote for an increase in the debt ceiling regardless of the bill.
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Bachmann said it is a "flawed" assumption to believe that the debt limit must be raised in order for America to thrive.
She steadfastly promised she would not vote for any bills that would raise the debt ceiling, but rather urged for the White House to craft legislation that would lower the nation's debt.
While I will agree that we need to work quickly to get there, default does noone a bit of good. It's a levy on America via higher interest rates. Source and other Bachmann world view gems.
(10) BACHMANN CLAIMED THAT GLENN BECK COULD SOLVE THE DEBT CRISIS: During a February trip to South Carolina, Bachmann told a South Carolina audience, “I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].”
-------------- Merely to try is to prepare for failure.
It is a cluster F isn't it... Fire em all and start over I say.
but the major obstacle for true financial reform is all the fraud! Cut out the pork...get rid of lobbyist...implement term limits...
and 51% of the population not working leaves a heavy burden on the 49% who are!
We see this every time we go to the polls to vote... the democrats depend on buying the votes of the weak, by that I mean those on entitlement programs; be it food stamps, or welfare, or unemployment, or housing, or a plethora of other subsidies meant to be temporary and not a way of life. Social Security was not meant to be a sole form of income! The dems always claim the repubs are gonna take it all away tomorrow and leave you with nothing but your own resources! Scare tactics abound! Personally, I am sick of the name-calling, the denigration, the childish behavior, the egoes, and lies from ALL of them! The president needs to set an example if he expects the parties to display bipartisian leadership. He instead incites segregation and prejudice.
-------------- "Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turned out." Jack Buck
There was an old man walking on the beach one day and found an old lamp. He rubbed it with his shirt to read the inscription and out popped a genie!
The genie said "for releasing me from this lamp I will grant you one wish." The man paused for a moment, then said "I want to live forever!" The genie said "that I cannot do as it breaks the genie code" "Fine," the man said "then I want to live until congress pulls its head out of its a$s."
"Crafty Bas+ard" said the genie.
-------------- Merely to try is to prepare for failure.
-------------- I've upped my standards so....UP YOURS !!!
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth. (W. H. Auden)
There was an old man walking on the beach one day and found an old lamp. He rubbed it with his shirt to read the inscription and out popped a genie!
The genie said "for releasing me from this lamp I will grant you one wish." The man paused for a moment, then said "I want to live forever!" The genie said "that I cannot do as it breaks the genie code" "Fine," the man said "then I want to live until congress pulls its head out of its a$s."
"Crafty Bas+ard" said the genie.
NICE ONE
-------------- After we screw up health care reform, let's take on the initiative of unscrewing the education system (gov't education) Tacitus: (c. 56 AD-c. 117) "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."
The thing the frustrates me about the GOP plan is they dicked around to the last minute then delayed a vote so they could add a poison pill before sending it to the senate, knowing full well they will probably kill it there. What a bunch of cocky phucks, don't be playing games with the rest of the country, don't be playing politics. DO YOUR PHUCKING JOB!!!
-------------- After we screw up health care reform, let's take on the initiative of unscrewing the education system (gov't education) Tacitus: (c. 56 AD-c. 117) "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."
