A chaotic fall awaits Capitol Hill when lawmakers return to Washington in two weeks and face imminent fiscal deadlines to avoid sending the economy into a tailspin.
The spotlight is on Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), who faces perhaps his toughest test yet as he tries to talk rebellious House Republicans out of risking a government shutdown or worse. Instead he’s floating a potentially riskier strategy: pass a short-term funding resolution, preserve sequestration and take the debt ceiling hostage to goals like unwinding Obamacare and cutting spending.
think about this doesn't it sound painfully familiar? there is nothing on the republican side except the same old same old, they didn't bother to dust it off and uses the same words they were going to change, why one reason to vote for them racist and bigots are excused we already know your bandwagon reasons.
First, President Obama and Democratic leaders have made clear they won’t negotiate over the debt limit. Back in January, when Democrats demanded a clean hike in the borrowing authority, Boehner acquiesced to lifting the limit without substantive concessions but rather a kabuki dance that ended in the Senate passing a nonbinding budget resolution.Second, the conservative base is currently animated by the goal of using the impending fiscal deadlines to defund Obamacare. Influential conservative advocates have mobilized on behalf of this goal during the August recess. And a significant faction of congressional Republicans has threatened shutdown or worse if Obamacare isn’t defunded.
did you get that they are looking forward to downgrading our economy again and as Pres. tells us this is money to pay bills that congress has already spent, and banking on their lies prevailing in our minds that Pres. spent the money, he can't unless they let him so more appropriate the money they have spent is the argument.
Third, conservative House Republicans have made clear they will not vote to raise the borrowing limit without major concessions like securing dollar-for-dollar spending cuts, ideally by slashing Medicare, Social Security or Obamacare.“If Republican leaders are going to be all tied up again with the debt ceiling and government showdowns, that really is a big negative,” said Steve Bell, a well-connected former Senate GOP budget aide who now works for the Bipartisan Policy Center. “We went through this with Clinton. I was in the room when we did this. And it isn’t going to be blamed on the President.”
they are banking on the opposite but they need to remember they are no longer undercover we see them as they are, lies won't get them where they think they want to go any longer
