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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
Thu Mar 21, 2013, 07:11 PM Mar 2013

Here we go again!!! Boehner vows to manufacture another debt ceiling crisis in the next few months.

John Boehner Sets Up Debt Ceiling Battle With Demand For Major Cuts

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) laid down a tough requirement for raising the debt ceiling Thursday, all but ensuring a reprise of the tense standoff two years ago that saw America's credit rating downgraded.

Speaking at his regular news conference, Boehner said the only way the House would go along with raising the country's borrowing cap was if President Barack Obama and the Democrats came up with an equal amount in budget cuts.

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Republicans have been eying steep cuts to health care and entitlement programs as a way to slash more. Asked if he saw the borrowing cap as leverage to extract entitlement reform from the president, Boehner said, "There might be some there."

Boehner is the second GOP leader this week to foretell a new debt showdown this summer. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also did so, arguing that the only way to get Obama to the table for "serious" talks was to drag him ""kicking and screaming over the debt limit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/john-boehner-debt-ceiling_n_2924662.html
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Here we go again!!! Boehner vows to manufacture another debt ceiling crisis in the next few months. (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Mar 2013 OP
Agent Orange needs to stick a pineapple up his butt KamaAina Mar 2013 #1
Democrat challenging Boehner: elleng Mar 2013 #2
Since he didn't suggest from WHERE these much-neeed cuts should come from, Volaris Mar 2013 #3

Volaris

(10,274 posts)
3. Since he didn't suggest from WHERE these much-neeed cuts should come from,
Thu Mar 21, 2013, 08:40 PM
Mar 2013

If I were Obama, I would propose cutting EVERY PENNY of it from The Pentagon, and then tell the House GOP+Yertle to go fuck themselves, I DID what you wanted. Oh, now you don't WANT what you said you wanted? Fine. Then go ahead and destroy America's credit rating, and see how that works out for you in the mid-term cycle. I fucking DARE you.

to misquote a favorite film, "...these Men of Power, need a lesson in what REAL Power really IS."

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