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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-11 04:43 PM
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Bronze age Mutant Ninja Turtle opts out of debt limit talks


Bronze Age Mutant Ninja Turtle Mitch McConnell just can not put his name to the destruction of the World economy so desired by the drooling Tea-baggers he helped to elect in 2010.

After swimming through their tongue drippings McConnell has come up with a plan that could avoid him getting shot at by lunatics on his side. The Tea Party Terrorists of course want him hung drawn and quartered as a result and if it were a liberal site, "Red State" would be getting a visit from the men in black. They want him burnt in effigy. Of course as they are Rethugs they are more likely to burn themselves and end up as a blue suicide statistic.



Of course as a Rethug articles like this are perfectly acceptable to "leftist" media CNN.

The current Bronze Age Mutant Ninja Turtle proposal is to revert to from. Deficits do not matter. Even if it is a Democratic President. Republicans would agree to make a series of three debt ceiling votes this year, but the default on each of those votes would be that the debt ceiling would get raised unless the House and Senate denied the move by a 2/3rds vote. And that isn't likely to happen, which means they all go through.

No cuts. No tax rises. No billionaire tax-loopholes closed. No need for Teabaggers to propose second amendment solutions.

All proposals to increase the deficit would therefore be blamed on the President. The debt limit would be blamed entirely on the President and the Democratic Party. The Bronze Age Mutant Ninja Turtle could live with what he considers a conscience and happily blame the liberals.
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-11 05:15 PM
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1. He doens't wan't Obama to get the credti for cutting the deficite...
becaue it would be bad for his side.
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The Big Vetolski Donating Member (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-11 07:16 PM
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2. This is a copout of monumental proportions. The Mutant Turtle(my
apologies to turtles, mutant or otherwise, everywhere, but he DOES look like one)comes up with a way to do what his corporate masters want, ie raise the debt ceiling, while being able to superficially claim that he and the other Republicans really, really, really voted against it.

As I understand it, McConnell would cede the Legislative's branch's Constitutional power to propose the budget, at least the debt part of the budget, to the President. That way, Obama can raise the ceiling on his own, then Congress can pass a resolution saying they don't approve, then Obama can veto it, thus making it Obama's and the Democrats' fault that the debt ceiling was raised while McConnell's corporate sponsors laugh all the way to the bank.

And then the campaign commercials start: Obama and the Democrats hocked your grandkids' future!!!!

I take it back. McConnell's not a turtle; at least they HAVE spines. More like a jellyfish. Is there such a thing as a jackal jellyfish?
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