Video: Marco Rubio vs. John Kerry on the debt crisis
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7/30/2011
“Compromise without solutions is a waste of time.”
A long clip but worth every minute. Trust me. Just watch it.
Related: Moody’s: Boehner, Reid plans don’t go far enough
Who wrote John Boehner’s bill?
The late-night jousting in the Senate followed a vote on House Speaker John A. Boehner’s debt-limit measure, which would extend the Treasury’s borrowing power until early next year and force another economy-rattling fistfight within a few months.
Drafted largely by aides to Reid and McConnell last weekend, the measure was originally designed to appeal to the more centrist Senate.
Everything we’ve gone through this week was elaborate theater to get us ultimately to an even worse conclusion. At least 22 Republicans didn’t fall for it.
Boehner, McConnell say deal may be on the way (7/30/2011, 5:44 PM)
Update: Donald Trump: The Tea Party is Making Washington Think
And at the same site, MSNBC Guest: “Anybody that thinks the Tea Party exists is smoking crack cocaine.” Heh.
And speaking of drugs, Bob Beckel: “Barack Obama is the greatest economic President since FDR.”
Update 2: Kathy Shaidle notes the irony of suggesting the elderly who live on Social Security and Medicare are independent (and wonders how they pay mortgages as suggested by CNN). “Life may have to revert to pre-1940s reality!!”
Also at Five Feet of Fury, Greedy old people are living too long and ruining the world:
By now, it’s obvious that we need to rewrite the social contract that, over the past half-century, has transformed the federal government’s main task into transferring income from workers to retirees. (…)
These transfers have become so huge that, unless checked, they will sabotage America’s future.
Older Americans do not intend to ruin America, but as a group, that’s what they’re about.
Update 3: The 22 Republicans who didn’t get their ‘asses in line’ for Boehner
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