Comments on: Boehner gets standing ovation from Senate Rs

By: MM in NC

MM in NC — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:33:59 +0000

It is appalling how this biased news outlet leaves more than half of the information out to make it palatable to their followers and keep the rest ignorant about the truth.
Outlets like this and so many others should be sued on account of malpractice in their job of reporting the NEWS not fabricating them and lying to the country.
The reason Republicans gave a standing ovation to Boehner was because he asked the democRats in the senate and the WH to show their plan to reduce the debt that falls in their laps and for which they are responsible.
Harry Reid doesn’t have a plan. When confronted last night and asked to put it up for a vote he refused to do it because he knows there are no votes and what he says he will do is a lie.
The WH has no plan either. Go to their website, do a search and see if you can find one. It doesn’t exist.
So for the democRats and this administration to ask for a blank check to raise the debt limit until after the next election with no controls on the deficit attached should be something the American public should be concerned about. We can’t continue to spend and borrow without taking control of the debt. Any American family knows that.
Shame on you ABC, I take the “news’ word out because it doesn’t belong to this organization. You are just one of several campaign managers for this administration set on destroying this country. Our worst enemy is found within us.
Shame on you!

By: win

win — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:53:52 +0000

Just so “radical” to want a balanced budget amendment, something Jeffereson wanted. So radical that many states have asked Congress for one. So radial to expect the government to spend the peoples meoney frugally and with responsibility.
Radical as in governemnt for the people by the people.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:31:12 +0000

I don’t understand why they can’t just raise the debt ceiling like they have done in the past. And then debate this other stuff later. Why make it so difficult?

By: richard40

richard40 — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:35:09 +0000

I’ll give Boenher a standing ovation too. He is the only adult in this mess. In the midse of dem inaction and demagaguery, and some extremist Tea Party posturing, he was the only one that finally produced a plan that is fair to both sides, and may actually stand a chance of passing. The Boehner compromise buys us 6 more months to work out a well thought out long term deal, while not doing anything that violates the fundamental values of either side. The senate should pass it, and Obama should sign it. If they don’t we will know who actually wants a solution, and who wants somebody to blame.
Mind you, I would rather have cut cap and balance, but with control of only 1 house we have to take what we can get.
And we can still push for cut cap and balance over the next 6 months, since the Boehner compromise still leaves all those options open over the coming months. Ultimately I think it will take a repub senate and prez, after 2012, to permanently settle this, but more deals like the Boehner compromise can buy us time till 2012.
This also buys us 6 months more time for a real long term solution, without being under Obamas artificial smoke filled room, secret plan, drop dead deadline pressure. Both houses can now do what they are supposed to do, carefully legislate, openly and publically, and produce deficit and debt limit bills carefully examined by committee, that everybody actually has time to read.
And Obama can do what he does best, make demagagic speeches, have more secret talks that he can leak about to make himself look good, while having NO PLAN.

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:23:56 +0000

Now that was an excellant example of unbiased journalism. NOT! When is the “main stream media” going to wakeup and realize that this type of reporting is loosing them viewers. We are exasperated by your unwillingness to cover the news without interjecting your perspective.

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:23:56 +0000

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:20:55 +0000

Way to go, Speaker Boehner! This man has busted his %ss to get a deal, both inside and outside his party. Whether agree or disagree, no one can deny how many stress-filled hours he has spent trying to save the country from default. I daresay he has done yoeman’s work to cobble a deal together. Is it perfect? No. But someone had to step up and assume a leadership role and I’m proud as I can be of the work he has done.

By: teapartydoc

teapartydoc — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:50:19 +0000

Go to Powerline and hear a great song about this.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:38:36 +0000

Bill:
The presidents rhetoric to the contrary, no one is threatening social security payments. Any social security securities that must be redeemed by the treasury to pay beneficiaries can immediately be funded without raising the debt ceiling, since it is a 1:1 replacement of outstanding securities. The president simply wanted to scare seniors. The facts don’t support his position. But then, they often don’t.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:36:25 +0000

Raising the debt ceiling only allows the Treasury to pay bills that Congress has enacted to spend money in the past. To prevent increasing the national debt, CONGRESS will have to vote to cut spending for the future. It will take good will on all sides to change the tax codes and to streamline or elimate government programs as quickly, efficiently and least painfully as possible.