Pelosi: We can win

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Banjo, Oct 28, 2013.

  1. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Rye whiskey, mostly.
     
    #61     Oct 29, 2013
  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    He's the forum Palooka.

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    #62     Oct 30, 2013
  3. Ricter

    Ricter

    Lol, you're affected.

    Meanwhile, if you want to see the spending cuts Obama proposed, you can look it up on Wikipedia.
     
    #63     Oct 30, 2013
  4. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    You could have provided the link for all the typing you did. I'll happily read through which spending cuts Obama was for if you want to show me.
     
    #64     Oct 30, 2013
  5. Lucrum

    Lucrum


    In a story that has received almost no attention so far, the Senate voted to reject Republican plans to block a debt limit hike. No Republican voted for it. But something else is happening in the Senate that would be laughable if it weren’t so scary. Apparently Democrats Chuck Schumer, Barbara Boxer, and Mazie Hirono are proposing that we avoid all debt limit conflicts by making them solely up to the president.

    From Yahoo!

    The Senate voted along party lines Tuesday to reject a GOP effort that would have blocked the approved increase in the national debt limit.

    The chamber voted 54-45 against the GOP move to try to use a special “disapproval” process to block that increase.

    The move came as Senate Democrats proposed to avoid future showdowns over the so-called debt ceiling by giving the president authority to authorize additional federal borrowing unless Congress can muster veto-proof margins to block him.

    The move by Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, is aimed at heading off future Washington confrontations over increasing the government’s borrowing cap. Debt limit battles this fall and in 2011 spooked financial markets and took the government precariously close to a default on its obligations.

    "It’s time for us to put in place a straightforward process to avoid a catastrophic default on our nation’s debt," Boxer said, adding that the legislation "sends a strong message of certainty to the markets, to our families and to the world."...
     
    #65     Oct 30, 2013
  6. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    #66     Oct 31, 2013
  7. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    #67     Oct 31, 2013
  8. Ricter

    Ricter

    Hmm. Was there a recession, like a big one, during Obama's presidency?
     
    #68     Oct 31, 2013
  9. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    And you consider that an acceptable excuse?
     
    #69     Oct 31, 2013
  10. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    So we're full circle now on the recession, are we. 6 years later, still the recession's fault.
     
    #70     Oct 31, 2013