Friday, July 29, 2011

Friday Morning Fights

Friday Morning Fights

FIGHT!

  • Potential Debt Limit ‘Plan C’ Emerges, Democrats Say (GOP ready to shaft Conservatives, again)

    Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:04:31 PM · by tobyhill · 13 replies
    Fox News ^ | 7/28/2011 | Ed Henry
    Democratic officials are cautiously optimistic that the outlines of a potential compromise – a “Plan C” – are emerging that could bridge the differences between plans pushed by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The officials said President Obama has spent the past couple of days quietly reaching out to leaders in both parties to try and start hammering out the details, though it's clear this is still only in the discussion phase and they are not close to a deal yet. Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., hinted at such a compromise earlier...
  • Romney 'Applauds' Boehner Plan    

    Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:56:05 PM · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 22 replies
    National Review ^ | June 26th | Robert Costa
    Former Bay State governor Mitt Romney supports Speaker John Boehner as House Republicans move forward. His campaign says that he is reviewing the Boehner plan. "Governor Romney thinks President Obama's leadership has been an historic failure. He applauds Speaker Boehner for standing firm against raising taxes when our nation can least afford them," says Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for Romney, in a statement to National Review Online.
  • What the final deal is likely to look like (Hybrid of Boehner/Reid/ McConnell plans)

    Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:50:18 PM · by Qbert · 19 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 07/28/2011 | Ezra Klein
    [Snip] The smart money in Washington continues to be on some hybrid of the Boehner/Reid/McConnell plans. If I had to place a bet now, I’d say the final deal looks something like this: Cuts: $1.2 trillion in discretionary spending cuts, with somewhat more of the total falling on defense spending than in Boehner’s bill and somewhat less of the total falling on defense spending than in Reid’s bill. Committee: The bipartisan “Supercommittee” will be formed and charged with developing a plan that cuts the deficit by $1.8 trillion or more. Unlike in Boehner’s plan, future debt-ceiling increases will not require...

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

My plan:

Congressional salary, benefits, and pensions will only be paid with surplus funds. If the budget is not balanced, no pay.

Seriously, though, this is easy. 1) Ask the general accounting office to determine this year's Federal revenue. 2) go back through the Congressional record to find the most recent budget below the revenue amount. 3) that becomes the budget for this year.


But they don't want solutions. they want the appearance of two parties working against each other to entertain and distract us while they pick our pockets and trick us into building our own prisons. In reality, the two political parties are simply two fellow travelers on the way to hell. One in a hurry, the other is taking his time.

--Jack

Alear said...

I'm declaring this to be another Piss on Lenin day.

Eat your peas, give piss a chance (wrong one? screw it, I live in flyover country).

Anonymous said...

Damn them, just damn them.
75% of them are beneath contempt.
I received a letter today from our AWOL Senator Jim Webb (D, VA). He spent three hundred words or so trying to convince me how critical it was to raise the debt ceiling $2.4 trillion (so Obama won't have to talk about it any more before 2012 was not mentioned, of course) or our world will end and unexpectedly, women and children will be hardest hit.
The full court press is on folks.
WV = credo; "I believe"
How do it know?
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick

toadold said...

Well it looks like Boneher is going to offer the tea party group more cuts and other goodies to get their votes. If Reid didn't like the original Boneher plan he'll really be faced with a dilema on the new one. As one wag put it, Reid kept the Senate up late and now they'll have even less time to come up with something before their own scare deadline hits. It looks like cuts in defense are off the table but there are more cuts and more guarantees for moves like a balanced budget law. More popcorn for the weekend and monday. Heh.

Anonymous said...

In other news, China Puts US on eBay

http://www.borowitzreport.com/

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