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Boehner to Bring Debt Ceiling to Vote Without Policy Attachments

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WASHINGTON — Facing a rebellion over his latest debt ceiling proposal, Speaker John A. Boehner on Tuesday told House Republicans that he would bring legislation to a vote that would raise the government’s borrowing authority with no strings attached.
“You all know that our members are not crazy about voting to increase the debt ceiling,” Mr. Boehner said, explaining that his conference was frustrated with President Obama’s refusal to negotiate over a debt ceiling increase. “And so the fact is we’ll let the Democrats put the votes up. We’ll put a minimum number of votes up to get it passed.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/u...-to-vote-without-policy-attachments.html?_r=0

You have GOT to be kidding me!!! Boehner is useless! :(

The Senate Conservatives Fund says that it is time for House Speaker John Boehner to go and they will keep track of the GOP lawmakers that support their effort to oust him from his leadership post.The group, which is targeting several incumbent Republicans in primary races this year, said Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, has sold out small government principles on too many occasions and the last straw came this week when House GOP leaders signaled they were going to support a bill to increase the nation’s borrowing limit without attaching any strings to reduce spending.


Read more: Conservative group calls for House Speaker John Boehner's head - Washington Times
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As well they should! Sweep all the weak ass punks out....

After storming out of the GOP's debt ceiling meeting and pacing furiously 100 yards down a hallway deep the bowels of the Capitol, South Carolina Republican Rep. Jeff Duncan wheeled around to face a couple reporters that had managed to keep up with him.“Why don't you talk to my son?” Duncan asked, pointing angrily at his black iPhone. “Tell him about the debt that he's going to pay. $17.3 trillion right now. This is him on the phone. He's a Clemson student, I'd be glad for you to explain how he's going to pay that back,” Duncan added, his voice full of sarcasm.
Duncan was irate about the plan Speaker John Boehner and the House GOP leadership team had just unveiled to raise the debt ceiling. Rather than use the must-pass vote to tackle rampant deficits, Boehner's plan would actually increase spending now and theoretically “pay for” the new spending with more sequester cuts five election cycles from now.


UPDATE: Republicans Move to 'Clean' Debt Ceiling Today

Duncan is right! These are political cowards we have in leadership now....

In other news related....

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — There are eerie parallels between the stock market’s recent behavior and how it behaved right before the 1929 crash.That at least is the conclusion reached by a frightening chart that has been making the rounds on Wall Street. The chart superimposes the market’s recent performance on top of a plot of its gyrations in 1928 and 1929.
The picture isn’t pretty. And it’s not as easy as you might think to wriggle out from underneath the bearish significance of this chart.

Scary 1929 market chart gains traction - Mark Hulbert - MarketWatch

So, as these dumb asses in DC play their little games, we are poised to go over the cliff...Wonderful!
 
Huehuehue... Boehner... Huehuehue
 
They want to get out of town before the snow storm.
 
They want to get out of town before the snow storm.

Is there an actual explanation for this apparent surrender? I'm surprised, what changed?

Honest question seeking honest answer/
 
Just get rid of it and permanently solve the problem.
 
I'm still trying to figure out why we have a debt ceiling in the first place when we have a congress who authorize all spending in the first place.
 
If the only thing they are asking for in trade is a cost of living raise for military retirees then there shouldn't be any problems.
 
You have GOT to be kidding me!!! Boehner is useless! :(



As well they should! Sweep all the weak ass punks out....



Duncan is right! These are political cowards we have in leadership now....

In other news related....



So, as these dumb asses in DC play their little games, we are poised to go over the cliff...Wonderful!
So long as Reid runs the Senate and Obama sits in the White House, tying things to the debt ceiling will never go anywhere. Its not Boehner. If republicans want to control spending they have to win a few election cycles.
 
Boehner has become another Hagel.....A Fool and Tool.....but the vote is on Wednesday. Lets see if he shuts down the Repeal on COLA that was already in the works. We have the Dems cold and we need to let it play out like it will.


Is Your Member With The Career Military Or Against Them?.....

It looks like the House will consider a one year hike in the debt limit joined to a repeal of the cut to the retirement benefits of the career military that was engineered by House Appropriations Chair Hal Rogers last month and acceded to by a majority of the House GOP. The dumbest move of many dumb moves by the House GOP over many years. The only 6 billion the House GOP took a real stand against borrowing out of 17+ trillion in debt was the $6 billion earned by and owed to the men and women who fought the war. Beltway cluelessness at its flood tide.

Some GOP House members are threatening to vote against the debt limit hike even with the repeal attached to it. If they are that foolhardy, then they can look forward to being branded as anti-military for as long as they remain in Congress. This will be one of those votes that stick. Unlike the 40+ votes to repeal Obamacare or the past debt limit votes, or any of the shutdown votes, or even the TARP vote, any vote against repeal of the cut for any reason will have an audience that will score it for real –not in a Club for Growth/Heritage/ACU sort of way, but scored in memory and for good. Many Members have already figured out that their vote for the cut in career military retirement benefits deeply offended not just the uniformed military and their families, but also their friends and a vast cross section of Americans who understand the war sacrifices of the past dozen years have been shouldered by a very small percentage of the population and that “budget resolve” at the expense of this group is posturing at best.

Democrats say they may vote against anything except a “clean debt limit hike.” Another interesting vote and no doubt many of the anti-military left will think nothing of doing whatever they think the president wants them to do. Again, this vote will be a mark on the permanent record. A “clean debt limn it” versus the real lives of real soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. Go ahead, their GOP opponents must be saying, make their day.

A pox is already on the House members who voted for the cut to begin with, but a double pox will be on those who stand in the way of its repeal. It is that simple, and though I have no doubt some GOPers will talk themselves into that box, they shouldn’t be surprised when very few friends of the military offer to help them out of it in the future.....snip~

The Hugh Hewitt Show - Opinion and Information with a Unique Twist


What's Cantor and Ryan saying? What about Price?
 
No matter how good he is at raising the roof, Boehner can't dance around this issue. *drumroll*
 
Is there an actual explanation for this apparent surrender? I'm surprised, what changed?

Honest question seeking honest answer/

From what I can see, the side that wants to attach something to the debt ceiling bill, can not agree with the side that doesn't inside the republican caucus. So, instead of having the backbone to stand up to demo's on this, Boehner did a preemptive cave so that they could call it a week, and hurry to Dulles.
 
There really shouldn't even be a debt ceiling.

If Congress appropriates three trillion dollars to spend on stuff, but has also placed a limit on their borrowing to where they can only spend two trillion, they've passed two laws that conflict with each other.
 
Boehner has become another Hagel.....A Fool and Tool.....but the vote is on Wednesday. Lets see if he shuts down the Repeal on COLA that was already in the works. We have the Dems cold and we need to let it play out like it will.


Is Your Member With The Career Military Or Against Them?.....

It looks like the House will consider a one year hike in the debt limit joined to a repeal of the cut to the retirement benefits of the career military that was engineered by House Appropriations Chair Hal Rogers last month and acceded to by a majority of the House GOP. The dumbest move of many dumb moves by the House GOP over many years. The only 6 billion the House GOP took a real stand against borrowing out of 17+ trillion in debt was the $6 billion earned by and owed to the men and women who fought the war. Beltway cluelessness at its flood tide.

Some GOP House members are threatening to vote against the debt limit hike even with the repeal attached to it. If they are that foolhardy, then they can look forward to being branded as anti-military for as long as they remain in Congress. This will be one of those votes that stick. Unlike the 40+ votes to repeal Obamacare or the past debt limit votes, or any of the shutdown votes, or even the TARP vote, any vote against repeal of the cut for any reason will have an audience that will score it for real –not in a Club for Growth/Heritage/ACU sort of way, but scored in memory and for good. Many Members have already figured out that their vote for the cut in career military retirement benefits deeply offended not just the uniformed military and their families, but also their friends and a vast cross section of Americans who understand the war sacrifices of the past dozen years have been shouldered by a very small percentage of the population and that “budget resolve” at the expense of this group is posturing at best.

Democrats say they may vote against anything except a “clean debt limit hike.” Another interesting vote and no doubt many of the anti-military left will think nothing of doing whatever they think the president wants them to do. Again, this vote will be a mark on the permanent record. A “clean debt limn it” versus the real lives of real soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. Go ahead, their GOP opponents must be saying, make their day.

A pox is already on the House members who voted for the cut to begin with, but a double pox will be on those who stand in the way of its repeal. It is that simple, and though I have no doubt some GOPers will talk themselves into that box, they shouldn’t be surprised when very few friends of the military offer to help them out of it in the future.....snip~

The Hugh Hewitt Show - Opinion and Information with a Unique Twist


What's Cantor and Ryan saying? What about Price?

Hear, hear....It is unthinkable to pull the rug out from those that served their country voluntarily. This is a slap in the face of these brave men and women.
 
Folks, move your money into money market funds now. This kind of stuff is about to crash this market, I fear.

Somebody please lock Boehner in a tanning booth with a carton of cigarettes and leave him there. Tired of that spineless crybaby.
 
Folks, move your money into money market funds now. This kind of stuff is about to crash this market, I fear.

Somebody please lock Boehner in a tanning booth with a carton of cigarettes and leave him there. Tired of that spineless crybaby.

Did it crash the market last time?

How about the 50 or 60 times before that?
 
There really shouldn't even be a debt ceiling.

If Congress appropriates three trillion dollars to spend on stuff, but has also placed a limit on their borrowing to where they can only spend two trillion, they've passed two laws that conflict with each other.

Doesn't matter. The new head of the FED said she's gonna continue what the old FED leader did so, that means borrow and spend. Since they're in charge, so be it.
 
Folks, move your money into money market funds now. This kind of stuff is about to crash this market, I fear.

Somebody please lock Boehner in a tanning booth with a carton of cigarettes and leave him there. Tired of that spineless crybaby.
I think you're being hyperbolic. In addition money market funds have a lower return than the inflation rate. So do CDs.

You literally lose [Return Rate] - [Inflation Rate] = % loss on all money market funds. Unless it's 1939, money markets are a HORRIBLE idea.
 
Boehner has become another Hagel.....A Fool and Tool.....but the vote is on Wednesday. Lets see if he shuts down the Repeal on COLA that was already in the works. We have the Dems cold and we need to let it play out like it will.


Is Your Member With The Career Military Or Against Them?.....

It looks like the House will consider a one year hike in the debt limit joined to a repeal of the cut to the retirement benefits of the career military that was engineered by House Appropriations Chair Hal Rogers last month and acceded to by a majority of the House GOP. The dumbest move of many dumb moves by the House GOP over many years. The only 6 billion the House GOP took a real stand against borrowing out of 17+ trillion in debt was the $6 billion earned by and owed to the men and women who fought the war. Beltway cluelessness at its flood tide.

Some GOP House members are threatening to vote against the debt limit hike even with the repeal attached to it. If they are that foolhardy, then they can look forward to being branded as anti-military for as long as they remain in Congress. This will be one of those votes that stick. Unlike the 40+ votes to repeal Obamacare or the past debt limit votes, or any of the shutdown votes, or even the TARP vote, any vote against repeal of the cut for any reason will have an audience that will score it for real –not in a Club for Growth/Heritage/ACU sort of way, but scored in memory and for good. Many Members have already figured out that their vote for the cut in career military retirement benefits deeply offended not just the uniformed military and their families, but also their friends and a vast cross section of Americans who understand the war sacrifices of the past dozen years have been shouldered by a very small percentage of the population and that “budget resolve” at the expense of this group is posturing at best.

Democrats say they may vote against anything except a “clean debt limit hike.” Another interesting vote and no doubt many of the anti-military left will think nothing of doing whatever they think the president wants them to do. Again, this vote will be a mark on the permanent record. A “clean debt limn it” versus the real lives of real soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. Go ahead, their GOP opponents must be saying, make their day.

A pox is already on the House members who voted for the cut to begin with, but a double pox will be on those who stand in the way of its repeal. It is that simple, and though I have no doubt some GOPers will talk themselves into that box, they shouldn’t be surprised when very few friends of the military offer to help them out of it in the future.....snip~

The Hugh Hewitt Show - Opinion and Information with a Unique Twist


What's Cantor and Ryan saying? What about Price?

When has being compared to chuck hagel a bad thing?
 
Folks, move your money into money market funds now. This kind of stuff is about to crash this market, I fear.

Somebody please lock Boehner in a tanning booth with a carton of cigarettes and leave him there. Tired of that spineless crybaby.
:lol: Yes, the markets love political gridlock that calls into question the credit worthiness of the US and dilute consumer confidence.
 
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