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To: i-node who wrote (619740)	7/17/2011 11:51:39 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576318

Wingers, your BS is getting well documented. If there is a default on the debt ceiling, the GOP will be put on a deathwatch. Your party will make Casey Anthony look like the much loved heroine in a children's cartoon. GOP leaders ignore Obama’s deadline By Alexander Bolton - 07/16/11 01:35 PM ET House Republican leaders have missed a 36-hour deadline President Obama set during a Thursday meeting for lawmakers to give him a plan to avert a national default. The deadline came and went Saturday morning without a response from House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). Instead, Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) plan to move the Cut, Cap and Balance Act on the floor next week, which would require passage of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution before the debt limit is raised. A House GOP leadership aide said at noontime Saturday that Boehner and Cantor did not send Obama a revised proposal to raise the debt-limit, as the president requested. A White House official said talks continue despite the missed deadline. "The president, vice president and staff have been in frequent communication with leaders and staff in both chambers and parties, discussing various options," said the official. At a meeting late Thursday afternoon, Obama gave congressional leaders 24 to 36 hours to meet with their colleagues to figure out a plan that could pass both chambers. “It’s decision time,” Obama said. Ignoring Obama’s directive, Republican leaders are coalescing around the Cut, Cap and Balance bill that is expected to pass the House but has virtually no chance in the Democrat-controlled Senate. House Republicans discussed it at a special conference meeting Friday morning and plan to put it on the floor next week. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is pushing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to schedule votes on the Cut, Cap and Balance bill and a balanced budget amendment in the upper chamber next week. A Senate Democratic aide said it’s likely that at least one of those Republican priorities will receive floor time next week because it would clear the way for passage of a last-ditch contingency plan later this month. The contingency plan, proposed by McConnell, has become more politically viable as negotiations between Obama and congressional leaders have broken down. No meetings of the leadership group have been announced this weekend and at least two negotiators are out of town. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has flown back to Illinois and McConnell is in Kentucky. thehill.com

To: i-node who wrote (619740)	7/17/2011 12:04:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576318

Wingers, get on your cell and tell your leaders to get their act together.......the clock is ticking. Obama Pushes for Debt Deal While Dismissing Republican Plan businessweek.com

To: i-node who wrote (619740)	7/17/2011 12:21:21 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576318

When the individual mandate is put before the Court, they're going want an explanation of how it is different from mandating weight watchers. Or 100 other similar questions about limitations on government's power. Comparing mandated weight watchers to paying a small share of YOUR health care now? Is there no limit to the small minded, simplistic, puerile thought process of the right? As I said, you [collectively] are analytically challenged. You have no answers. Only partisan, ideological, liberal, "feelings", which are meaningless in the context of the law. Now if you had said "should obese people pay a higher health care premium?" I'd have said "sure...don't obese people with health issues, or smokers, who buy insurance already do?"...where's the correlation with WW or forced exercise or any such_like health oriented regimen ? ZERO IDEAS...nothing to offer...oh, forgot, tax cuts...LOL...your side is a political anachronism dating back to paleontological eras. Al