Comments on: Could the GOP’s bill be a prelude to ending the debt limit?

By: besser tot als rot

besser tot als rot — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:28:37 +0000

But the new plan has an added advantage for Republicans: It renders moot the GOP’s recent demand that a debt-ceiling increase be matched with an equal amount of spending cuts over the next decade.

The new plan has essentially no advantage for Republicans. In fact, it is worse than Obama’s plan. As usual, the GOP takes a bad Obama offer, makes it much, much worse, passes the bill, and calls it victory.

By: besser tot als rot

besser tot als rot — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:27:22 +0000

Well, they did end the debt limit. For a few months at least. I wonder if they made it illegal for Treasury to borrow $100T from the Fed in those few months, deposit the money with the Fed (zeroing the balance), and thereby effectively eliminating the debt limit.

By: Steve Eggleston

Steve Eggleston — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:58:53 +0000

Hell, all the Gutless Ossified Party will have to do is modify the date on which the debt-ceiling “holiday” ends.

It. Will. Happen.

By: MelonCollie

MelonCollie — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:29:47 +0000

To the poster who was so bloody clueless on why I was mad at the GOP’s cowardice on the debt limit, here’s why: because this is the result. A blank check for the Democrats.

By: ChunkyLover

ChunkyLover — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:29:35 +0000

That would be something like giving a fat kid the keys to a candy store

ChunkyLover on January 24, 2013 at 11:27 AM

and then being shock when they gorged themselves on candy

By: ChunkyLover

ChunkyLover — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:27:55 +0000

That would be something like giving a fat kid the keys to a candy store