Republicons Say Obama Has No Choice But To Sign Cap & Trade

[Me.]

“WASHINGTON -- Republicans are willing to push President Obama to the wall with their budget-slashing bill to raise the debt ceiling because they are convinced he will capitulate on his veto threat and sign it, GOP lawmakers declared Thursday.

The Republican bill, which passed the House Tuesday and which Democrats warn will require even steeper cuts than the unpopular House budget plan that passed in the spring, is starting debate in the Senate.

And although the President has threatened to veto the measure and Senate Democrats say it is unacceptable, the group of Republicans from the House and Senate said it was Democrats' only choice to avoid defaulting on America's debt -- and that Obama would take it to stave off catastrophe.

"This is the only viable plan, right now, that will do that," said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) "And I will bet you a porterhouse steak that, if it lands on his desk, he'll sign that puppy."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/21/tom-coburn-republicans-president-obama-veto-capitualte_n_905989.html

[spanone]

1. i fart in their general direction

[11 Bravo]

4. I unclog my nose at them. Their mothers were hamsters and their fathers smelt of elderberries.

[abelenkpe]

2. So no negotiation? Typical. Nt

[mmonk]

3. No Democrat could possibly sign that and survive politically.

They know that.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. If it lands on his desk

I bet him a can of peas it doesn't

[no_hypocrisy]

6. It's short-sighted. Assumption that Senate dems will pass cap-and-trade.

Assumption Obama would either sign it.

[frazzled]

7. You don't mean cap and trade: it's "Cut, Cap, and Balance"

Cap and trade would be great: it's an environmental policy tool to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Cut, Cap, and Balance is about slashing spending beyond anyone's comprehension, capping spending at an unheard of rate in American history, and requiring a balanced budget. Bad.

[pampango]

9. I thought for a second that repubs had flip-flopped and were supporting cap-and-trade

now. That would be too good to be true. I should have known better.

[Vincardog]

8. Did it pass the DEMOCRATICALLY controlled Senate?

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. No, and it won't, and Obama wouldn't sign it if it did

Coburn's blowing smoke. Our lefties love Republican talking points, so needless to say Coburn is instantly believed.

[AlinPA]

10. ?? Cap and Trade? Does not compute in the current debate.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. The Republican plan is NOT cap-and-trade

Though their devious naming of cit-cap-and-balance seems to be working even on people who should know better.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. It's "viable" in the way that a man with an arm tired of holding a weight

deciding to chop his arm off is "viable". It would certainly mean his arm was no longer having to hold the weight up; but it might just induce one or two other problems for his body as a whole.

[underpants]

14. Hey Coburn - he is going to sign a puppy?

or was that a Freudian slip showing how little you really care about living things?


BTW - porterhouse steak (probably oil lobbyist paid for) and puppy in the same sentence is not a good imagine

[Viking12]

15. No, Obama kicks puppies.

The he sends them off to muslin re-education camps so they'll be good comrade in the islamo-socialist caliphate takeover of the world, bwahahahahahahaha.

[cali]

16. Harry Reid says it's the worst legislation in U.S. History. It ain't gonna land on Obama's desk,

you fuckwad.