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Danger Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 06:58 PM Original message |
What exactly do the Republicans hope to accomplish in this debt ceiling debacle... |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm beginning to think their paymaster want a default. |
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90-percent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
2. Possibility |
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Danger Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. And honestly, what can be done to stop them? |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. If THAT is the true goal |
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90-percent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 08:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
26. The thought |
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Still Waters (85 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:19 PM Response to Reply #2 |
19. I think it goes further than that. Since Reagan it has been their strategic goal to starve and |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. They want to prove that this is all Obamas Fault..... |
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Danger Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:04 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. They're idiots, right up to the bloody end, that's for sure. |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:04 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. That's pretty much it |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. They know that they could destroy the system |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
6. To bring down Obama, no matter what the cost |
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FLyellowdog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Precisely. nt |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. bingo! |
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Parker CA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
10. They want cuts. Enormous cuts. To everything. They refuse revenues. All of them. If they |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
11. It's a distraction. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Excellent point!!! n/t |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
13. Two things, IMO |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
14. They want failure til the midterms |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
15. IMO they don't care. They don't want to do what's best for the country. In the |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
17. They should all be arrested and thrown in jail for NOT defending the Constitution of the United |
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Sparkly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
20. Obstruction. nt |
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creon (723 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. Ruin Obama |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
22. i guess they think if it all comes tumbling down, america will turn to them |
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hairyHans (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
23. YOU have to do something simple... INSIST |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
24. Same thing they 'accomplished' by shutting the govt down in the 1990s. |
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ProfessionalLeftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-24-11 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
25. avoiding be thrown out of Grover's tree house club. n/t |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
27. Actually, they do want Medicare/Medicade/Social Security slashed... |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
28. to crash the economy under a (D) president since it has crashed under 2 (R)s |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
29. Their main objective is to end the New Deal, win back the presidency by |
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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
30. Default. And to blame it on President Obama. nt |
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