McConnell: No real deficit deal

[Will E Worm]

McConnell: No real deficit deal until Obama is gone

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.

And lawmakers from both parties want to use the threat of that deadline to work out a broader package on long-term deficit reduction. Republicans are looking to cut trillions of dollars in federal spending, while Democrats are pushing for a more "balanced approach," which would include both spending cuts and higher revenue to the government.

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100% correct

He has to go. :hammer:

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

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100% correct

He has to go. :hammer:

Really? Reagan and O'Neill as well as Newt & Clinton could found common ground!

Notice at the bottom of the article the entire U.S. business community wants him to put aside political BS and hash something out?

I am not saying Obama doesnt need to make some major sacrifices, but he needs to as well!

 

[Will E Worm]

E-Ann-Hilden

There's no common ground to be found with Obama. He hates the west and America. He's a Marxist.

 

[Rey C.]

I wouldn't trust Mitch McConnell to run a lemonade stand for me. He'd waste half the day questioning the lemons to see which ones had been picked by Democrats and which ones picked by Republicans. He's just another wingnut ideologue. He is (IMO) part of the problem, not part of the solution.

 

[StanScratch]

McConnell is just some rich white boy who robs from the poor and gives to the rich, all the while supporting a theocracy-controlled military state, which means you are wrong.

:hammer:

 

[tsans]

The Debt Limit has been raised 10 times in 10 years. This Nonsence MUST stop. Worse case would be Revenues would be used to pay the Debt intrest, and the remainder would be used to fund the Government,resulting in a partial Government shutdown. Then maybe we could get a Budget for the first time in over 2 years.

 

[Hot Mega]

Of course not. It's not in their interests politically to get it done.

They're interested in fodder for talking points and political ads...oh, and making sure Barack Hussein Obama is a one term president.:dunno:

Hopefully I'm wrong but just seems to me the most important thing some politicians want out of this is to be able to at some point say Obama was the president who either defaulted the US or nearly did so...

Another label....from the party more adept at creating labels and talking points than governing.

 

[Straight Shooter]

The Debt Limit has been raised 10 times in 10 years. This Nonsence MUST stop. Worse case would be Revenues would be used to pay the Debt intrest, and the remainder would be used to fund the Government,resulting in a partial Government shutdown. Then maybe we could get a Budget for the first time in over 2 years.

Wrong. Average spending-minus interest-outpaces revenue by about $118 billion a month, so Geithner won't be able to pay all the country's bills.That means he will have to pick and choose who to pay and who to put off every day. And there's no guarantee that paying interest while shirking other legal obligations will protect the country from the perception of default.

 

[Will E Worm]

McConnell is just some rich white boy who robs from the poor and gives to the rich, all the while supporting a theocracy-controlled military state, which means you are wrong.

:hammer:

Says "white boy" StanScratch. :tongue:

I didn't say I stood behind everything he stands for.
Just that Obama has to go.

 

[StanScratch]

Says "white boy" StanScratch. :tongue:

I didn't say I stood behind everything he stands for.
Just that Obama has to go.

You are still wrong, because it would just put another rich white boy in charge, who would continue to screw the middle class and lower class while giving the top 3 percent more privileges and tax breaks than they have ever needed, all the while probably taking us into another long-term war that the rest of the world does not agree with, cannot win and do not need. :eek:

 

[Hot Mega]

Just a prediction....

The economy will have turned (improved) pretty good by the early fall IMO no matter what the terms of this debt deal would have been or ended up being.

As it stands though, not one House Republican voted for Obama's stimulus plan and only 3 GOP Senators did (if I'm not mistaken).

Betcha' dollars to donuts (or even cupcakes if you want) as soon as the economy starts to turn you will have GOPers front and center (especially McConnell and Cantor) lying through their teeth about how it was because of them forcing Obama's hand one way or another on this issue that 'saved' the economy..

Watch...just watch...lol.

They are as predictable as night following day. I just don't see why Demos don't see this coming a mile away as GOPers have been playing this type of game for years now.

 

[CunningStunts]

Just balance the freaking budget already!

I'm so sick of both major parties... they both suck donkey balls and are too busy pandering to the retarded masses for votes that neither has the balls to make the tough decisions that MUST be made.

 

[lurkingdirk]

There's no common ground to be found with Obama. He hates the west and America. He's a Marxist.

This is the most hilarious thing that I will read for weeks.

Thanks, Will. You have certainly confirmed your views with this simple couple of sentences. I would suggest you learn what a Marxist is, but I know that would be pointless.

:wave2: to the mod to whom this gets reported.

 

[Will E Worm]

:troll:

 

[D-rock]

Remember that there are people out there whose blind political ideology and pandering to elite and powerful is actually more important to them than preventing the destruction of the American people. Not to mention their own self interest is more important than anything else to them.