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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:19 PM Original message |
So Boner and the Pukes blinked!!! Could not agree to an BIG Obama proposal (because they don't |
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senseandsensibility (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. Really? |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 11:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. Yup. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 08:39 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Ellen, what do you think that last part of the last sentence of the article meant by |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 10:30 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Dunno, Surely a reference to Greece, but don't know what 'assets.' |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:44 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Well, I don't like it one damn bit. I want to find out what it means because |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:55 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Ain't no dotage, yank, but all we've got now is rumor, innuendo, etc., |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:19 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Yes, there is that, but I don't like really vague language, |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
2. they have no intention of raising the debt ceiling...imho |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Oh, they'll raise it. Big busines would lose more than anyone, and these |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. That's what I've always thought. That it was a bluff |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:50 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Yep-- just like the bank bailouts. They're holding a gun |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Well, no. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
28. well, we'll see shortly. boehner can't get his idiots to agree on anything |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Agreed, they're going over the cliff this time. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. There's a 0% chance of that. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 11:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. They have no choice |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 11:10 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. They will raise it AFTER they allow a default. |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
7. That's exactly correct. |
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Me. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
8. What's The Blink? |
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Fuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
10. Olbermann predicted this, but it's not a big victory really. |
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LiberalAndProud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
11. I am almost convinced that the end game is default. |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 11:13 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. +1. It's strategy. They'll keep walking away until a default happens. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 11:14 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Indeed, it's going to be a long hot Summer. |
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toddwv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
16. So was this all the equivalent of going "all-in" in poker? |
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Kurmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:21 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. ""Refused to compromise. 100% responsible for any default on debt." I agree 100%. but... |
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toddwv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:06 PM Response to Reply #19 |
30. Definitely. |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 08:18 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Yes! |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
17. I think Wall Street called him on the carpet... |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 08:18 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Link? |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
24. Yes, it seems like we dodged that bullet this time |
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