Breaking Now On C-Span Repugs Pushing A Bill To Pay Certain Items Should Ceiling Not Be Raised......

[global1]

To pay our debts. To pay SS recipients. To pay active duty military. Should the debt limit not be raised.

They are pushing this to the brink. They are saying that the blame and responsibility is going to be placed squarely on the shoulders of the President.

Vitter, Toomey, Walsh. et al. are all speaking now.

[Raven]

1. This is good. Let them push a bill like that. Shows bad faith and

will give Obama one more reason to invoke the 14th A remedy.

[global1]

5. What Kind Of Game Are They Playing Here?.......

I just both amazed and appalled by the politics and the maneuvering that is going on in this. Finally Pelosi is on talking about jobs. That is what we need to talk about - JOBS!!!!!!! Get Americans back to work. Quit this senseless, useless partisan dance and get on with the business of this country.

[RKP5637]

12. Exactly! The republicans never talk about JOBS!!!!!!! And that is the

major problem in this country. The republicans of toady are the most clueless dumb asses I've ever seen in office. Most of them don't even have the qualifications to hold a political office. And, they want to fuck over the majority of the citizens in this country. ALL of them should be dumped out of office and I think we will see that in 2012.

[snappyturtle]

2. Thank you!

[Solly Mack]

3. Americans gets fucked over while government plays the "Not me" game.

Parent: Who broke the lamp? Children (all at once): Not me

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. LOL! That isn't under their sphere of authority

It is solely a function of Treasury, but I'm sure it is making for some excellent soundbytes.

:eyes:

[global1]

8. And You Should Hear The Soundbytes........

they are absolutely decimating the President and the Dems. What pisses me off is that the Dems don't fight back.

[Lifelong Protester]

6. A basic CYA move, IMHO

They KNOW they will get the blame if this all goes down.

I told my R senator last night (I guess as well as my D) that the American people will blame the Republicans and their Tea Party cohorts for this debacle. Period.

[blogslut]

7. So it's being introduced in the Senate?

Good. Then it won't pass.

[kelly1mm]

24. A bill saying that SS and military gets paid first won't pass the Senate? I think you are wrong.

It is a smart political move by the R's. Can you imagine the ads against the 23 Democratatic Senators if they vote against this? I do agree it is a CYA by them but a politicaly smart one.

[lpbk2713]

9. A desperate move to save face.

And needless to say it won't work.

[Liberalynn]

10. Got news for them

I saw a poll on Headline News that said 65 percent of those polled blame the PUKES for not being willing to compromise. Of course the only problem is PUKES don't care what the Public thinks. And the public has no say anymore.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. How is it the President's fault that they refuse to do their job?

[RKP5637]

13. This country is under a major siege, I hope Americans are waking up to

the shenanigans the republicans are up to, if not, they are going to find themselves living as peasants, and many already are ... IMO too many Americans still take everything for granted, because many Americans today have been breed as lambs to serve the system, and that system is being morphed into peasantry by republican thugs.

[maryellen99]

17. I've always said this

the american people won't rise up and take to the streets until their cable gets cut off and they can't watch Fox news and their reality shows.

[RKP5637]

19. Sadly, that is quite true! n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

14. I assume they include themselves. n/t

[ProfessionalLeftist]

15. I think their plan is to push him to use the 14th, then impeach him

that, or destroy the economy.

[n2doc]

20. Can't impeach without the Senate agreeing

If they go that route everybody will see it as Clinton II and it will look even worse for the idiots.

[reformist2]

16. And Medicare be damned?? They are literally playing with people's lives.

[JHB]

18. Obama could do this without a bill...

...since if new borrowing is not authorized it falls to his secretary of the treasury to determine who gets paid up front and who has to take a raincheck.

Spell out who will get paid on time, and who won't, sort it by state and congressional district, in other words put it in real terms for constituents, and point the anger at the Republicans as individuals.

The whole key to Republican Radicalism is their Politburo-grade lockstep Party Line voting. Break that up, and the radicals wind up on a foundation of sand.

[Fuzz]

21. Why would they need a bill? They've been saying nothing will happen if we bust through the ceiling.

[HopeHoops]

22. Their own salaries are "not on the table".

[flamingdem]

23. The repugs want to destroy and then micromanage what's left to make themselves "look good" nt