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Home Front: Politix
Senate rejects House-proposed budget-cutting plan
2011-07-23
(KUNA) -- US Senate politicians voted 51 to 46 on Friday to reject a conservative Republican-proposed bill aimed at slashing federal spending and raising the debt ceiling.

The "cut, cap and balance" bill passed earlier this week by the House of Representatives as an alternative to the Obama-backed legislation to raise the nation's debt ceiling before it defaults on its loans on August 2nd.

The vote against the measure, which would have imposed strict caps on all future federal spending while making it significantly tougher to raise taxes, came shortly after House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner
... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans...
 told news hounds he and President Barack B.O. Obama had failed to reach a separate agreement to resolve the debt crisis.

But Democrats and Republicans have been deadlocked over terms of a deficit-reduction package linked to the debt-limit increase, with Democrats demanding some tax increases and Republicans insisting on doing it just with spending cuts.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Today is the 24th of July. We have approximately ONE WEEK? Yes?....until the United States defaults?

Gas goes up to $6/gallon and the dollar is devalued to about a dime. Businesses fail, banks fail. Government services fail. No body picks up garbage, mail only three times a week. Houses standing empty and the bank goes under. Crime increases. And your daughter is a prostitute and a thief. And your son sells drugs.

President Barack Hussein says he cares about the United States, but what if he doesnt and thinks privately to himself that an economically crippled Nation in financial chaos will be easier for him to manipulate so that he can institute changes which will PERMANENTLY make the US like some EUroweenie country....what if the President of the United States HAS NO INTENTION of reaching a deal or making a compromise in any form which will keep the US credit status? What if he WANTS the US to slide and wants to see a chaos and ruin where he can better manipulate the changes he has in mind?

They are going to default. Its going to happen. And Congress wont survive but Obama will. There is going to be an election and the Democrats were the ones who gave us Dan Rather, arent they? That's the way Democrats play. They knew THAT was a lie and that it was right during an election and they lied ANYWAY. That IS what they are.

You own a gun?
Posted by: de Medici   2011-07-23 22:27  

#3  Reid acted shabby in cutting off debate in the cut, cap, and trade bill although it probably would not have made any difference in the vote outcome. He comes across as a bitter, mean-spirited old fart.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-07-23 20:32  

#2  the same Democrat-controlled Senate that hasn't produced a budget- any budget - in over two years
Posted by: Frank G   2011-07-23 10:50  

#1  Democratic Party controlled Senate Rejects House-Proposed Budget Cutting Plan on Party Line Vote

FIFY. Spend, spend, spend!
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-07-23 07:43  

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