Sen. Corker FLIP-FLIPS On Debt Ceiling Demands

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Run time: 00:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pbc_NN2MQ8   Posted on YouTube: July 26, 2011 By YouTube Member: ThinkProgressVideo Views on YouTube: 19   Posted on DU: July 27, 2011 By DU Member: Segami Views on DU: 1333

 
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ThinkProgress:


" A week and half ago, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) — along with his colleague, Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — broke ranks and admitted that using the country's debt ceiling as a bargaining chip to force massive spending cuts might have been a bad idea. "Maybe the debt ceiling was the wrong place to pick a fight, as it related to trying to get our country's house in order," Corker said. "Maybe that was the wrong place to do it."




Corker appears to have changed his mind. In an appearance today on MSNBC, he backtracked:




MITCHELL: I think I'm hearing something from you, though, that suggests — and so please tell me if I'm wrong here — that as long as you all are talking about real deficit reduction, which you've been talking about for quite some time and you have a lot of relationships across party lines, that you think perhaps the House Republicans should separate out the debt ceiling and deal with that as a separate issue or come up with some way to finesse this?



CORKER: No. No, I think, Andrea, that, you know, there's been a lot of debate about whether or not the debt ceiling should have been used for this debate or not. I think that it was the right place and rhetorically have asked questions on the Senate floor if it wasn't for the debt ceiling what are we going to use to make us actually address this issue.



Corker's lack of consistency isn't a surprise. After all, he was pro-choice until it became politically inconvenient — and, not so long ago, he happily voted to raise the debt ceiling.



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1. He is not even half as stupid as the people that voted for him.

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2. I despise that maggot!

[Hulk]

3. We have GOT to find better opponents to run against these idiots....

Ford Jr. is pathetic. Same goes for the dude that ran against Rand Paul. I'm not so sure I would have been eager to vote for EITHER of those two clowns. The same for the candidates that ran against the PA Senator and michelle bachmann..whatever their names were. We used to refer to those kind of people as "plastic"...phony! And what can you say about the candidate that ran against deMint in SC? Jesus...how dumb can you get.

Can't we groom some decent opposition to these numbskulls. I'm not asking for everyone to be as bright as President Obama, or Russ Feingold, or Alan Grayson....but we gotta do better than these picks. OUR candidates at least have to be better calibre than their clowns.

[lumpy]

4. He has a very deep bruise on his arm from a severe

arm twisting.