GAME ALMOST OVER: Boehner To Let The Senate Debt Ceiling Deal Come To The Floor

[florida08]

Source: Bussiness Insider

The 2013 debt ceiling crisis and federal government shutdown are almost over.

House Speaker John Boehner has agreed to take up the Senate's plan to raise the nation's borrowing limit and reopen the government, National Review's Robert Costa reports. Boehner will allow the bill to pass with mostly Democratic votes.




Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/debt-ceiling-senate-deal-plan-reid-mcconnell-boehner-house-vote-shutdown-2013-10

[MindMover]

1. All the while making a complete fool of the USA ....

[groundloop]

2. Is that going to be a totally clean, no-strings-attached bill?

Or is it the one that Reid and McConnell are currently negotiating?

If the former, great! If the latter, probably less great.

[robinlynne]

3. the latter.

[Stuart G]

4. Right Wing Idiots have Lost. They Lost Bad, Humiliating, Overwhelming...Great!!!!!!!!!

[wtmusic]

5. As Cruz shops for book deal: "How to Ruin your Political Career Without Molesting a Minor" nt

[Soylent Brice]

9. lmfao

[cyberswede]

17. !!!

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. Heh. +1

[Ellipsis]

6. Cool... Treasury Department will still be able to use "extraordinary measures"

The aide also said that under the deal, the Treasury Department will still be able to use "extraordinary measures" to work around the debt ceiling in the case that it is not raised by Feb. 7. This was a key White House priority.

[freshwest]

8. So we're facing a Valentine Day's massacre next February? Aw, shit.

[yellowcanine]

10. That restriction would clearly have been a violation of the 14th amendment, imo.

Because it would indeed be questioning the validity of the public debt.

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

[yellowcanine]

7. It is official: John Boehner has jumped the shark.

It was scary for a moment there but I cleared that sucker with room to spare.

[hamsterjill]

11. I am never going to forgive these idiots for what they have put this country through.

And I'm going to use every moment afforded me (and I live in Texas, so that should be quite a few!!!) to chastise anyone who will admit to having voted for these fools.

Boehner could have stopped this farce long before this point.

[Dopers_Greed]

15. Ditto

I live in Texas as well. Next time I talk to any of my RW relatives, I can be sure they will moan about the shutdown. I am giddy at the prospect of getting to inform them that they voted for Cruz. They likely did the "All republican" option on their ballot, so they may not even know that they put him in office.

[Lochloosa]

20. Welcome to DU Dopers_Greed

[gopiscrap]

24. Welcome to DU

[florida08]

27. you are not alone

Why we miss Kay Bailey Hutchison

We're not sure how much difference one person could make in the toxic, chaotic, hyperpartisan atmosphere in Washington, but if we could choose just one it would be Hutchison, whose years of service in the Senate were marked by two things sorely lacking in her successor, Ted Cruz.


http://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/Why-we-miss-Kay-Bailey-Hutchison-4898405.php?cmpid=opedhprr

[DinahMoeHum]

12. CAREFUL: That schmuck Cruz may still try to filibuster in the Senate.

Watch carefully.

[florida08]

14. was just about to type that

It ain't over till it is.

[ffr]

16. That would be the icing on the cake for his legacy.

Dash the country's hopes in the 11th hour.

[Liberalynn]

25. Somebody should "accidentally" lock him in the bathroom

during the vote.

[warrenswil]

13. GOP caves! Hooray!

Catastrophe is 24 hours away and what’s happening in Congress looks like a circus.
I am still optimistic a deal will be made: the Republicans will cave.
We said so in
GIGANTIC MISCALCULATION: As rats flee sinking ship, GOP will cave on impasse.
Their base is deserting them, they are plunging in the polls.
If the Democrats hold firm, the Tea Party is history.
In the (K)now

[AlinPA]

18. Next headline we will see: "Cruz meets with Boehner. Boehner now says no vote"

[maryellen99]

19. yes I don't trust any of them nt

Even if this bill passes, I think the economy has been significantly damaged anyway.

[dipsydoodle]

22. Announcement in about 15 minutes time

according to Sky News who are keeping a link open in readiness.

Now says Fiscal Deal expected at 5pm UK time.

[sofa king]

23. Wait, I'm rooting for the assholes, now!

If Republicans can just take this to the wire--if they can just touch the default line for a second, I am convinced that some national security provision kicks in which permits--perhaps compels--the President to coerce Congress, somehow, into backing the plan that The President proposes.

I think that the President's plan is the best possible deal we're going to get this year, one better--perhaps far better--than any compromise which can reached with Republicans. I've noticed most of his remarks in recent days have been translated into Senate legislation, but if just one Republican Senator decides to screw everyone over by running out the clock, we get EVERYTHING we want and they get less than nothing.

I'm also rooting for some secret provision which allows the President to shoot Republicans for destabilizing the economy in time of war and national emergency. But that's probably wishful thinking.

[BlueInPhilly]

26. Who are those Heritage Action Guys?

Will they be coming in from under the rocks again to stop a deal? Who are they anyway, and why are they so powerful? (Sorry, no time to Google them nor ponder their importance)