Senate rejects GOP debt plan

[nmbluesky]

the Democratic-controlled Senate rejected the GOP's "cut, cap, and balance" deficit reduction plan Friday, voting 51-46 to set the measure aside and clear a path for further talks on what Democrats insist must be a more centrist measure balancing spending reductions and tax hikes.
"Cut, cap, and balance," which passed the Republican-controlled House earlier in the week, would have tied a debt ceiling increase to sweeping reductions in federal spending, caps on future expenditures, and a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. While the measure was never expected to become law, holding votes on it allowed Republicans to demonstrate their preference for steps favored by many in the conservative tea party movement.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/07/22/debt.talks/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[Mz Pip]

1. No surprise there

Shame on the Tea Party congresscritters for wasting everyone's time with this nonsense. The games are getting tiresome.

[CarmanK]

2. TPARTY know NO SHAME. Invincibly Ignorant!

The tparty has no shame because it is a tool of the CORPORATE PERSON who has no soul. King Grover Norquist, Karl Rove, the Swiftboaters are all the schemers and the minions follow. I just wonder what all those old fools who wore tea bags on their hats last summer are going to do if their SS checks don't arrive, because the tparty wants to protect yacht owners and the jet set billionaires.