McConnell: No real deficit deal until Obama is gone

[somone]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20078766-503544.html

McConnell: no real deficit deal until Obama is gone
By Corbett B. Daly, Brian Montopoli

The Senate's top Republican said Tuesday that he did not see a way for Republicans and Democrats to come to agreement on meaningful deficit reduction as long as President Obama remains in office.

"After years of discussions and months of negotiations, I have little question that as long as this president is in the Oval Office, a real solution is probably unattainable," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said in remarks on the Senate floor.

The remarks come as negotiations between Republicans and Democrats intensify on long-term deficit reduction ahead of a looming deadline on how much the United States can legally borrow.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and many economists have warned of economic catastrophe if the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling is not raised before August 2.

[SharonRB]

1. How about...

"no deal until the Democrats have full control of both the House and the Senate back in their hands after the 2012 election."

[Liberalynn]

2. I like your version much better.

:toast:

[SharonRB]

5. Thanks!

Hopefully it's the more likely version.

[alpizzy]

3. I just placed a hex on Mitch n/t

[dawg]

4. In other words ...

no compromises until we get *exactly* what we want.

[socialist_n_TN]

7. Wasn't that the Republican version of "compromise"

back in the Aughts under Bush? IOW, nothing's changed.

[Tennessee Gal]

6. Who ya got that can beat Obama in 2012, fool?

Better get used to it.

[Safetykitten]

8. Nothing like the soothing, silky words of bipartismanship loved and adored by our President.

It must make him warm and teh fuzzy with love that he oh so requires in our nations quest to solve our financial problems.

Oh, what glory awaits us as we walk hand in hand with out republican friends towards the solution to our balanced budget, through the garden of dead bodies in the ditch, beyond the gate of lost hope and approaching the glade of permanent republican rule.

Our leader. He's the one to thank.

[Urban Prairie]

9. Rethugs, along with their global corporate capitalist handlers

are the real (domestic) terrorists.

Every single US citizen that is, or will become an exception to the rightwing's rigid definition of personal responsibility is an "anti-American" tax-sucking socialist, and they must be eliminated through legislation.

[CatholicEdHead]

10. If they really want to talk to Biden they can do it now

He will come in as VP and talk to them.

[shraby]

11. I think McConnell will be gone before Obama.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Translation. And excuse the language...

No compromise until the NEGRO is gone...

Yes there is an aspect of that...and not just democrat...