Hot Air » brinksmanship http://hotair.com The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Thu, 23 May 2013 02:41:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Quotes of the day http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/05/quotes-of-the-day-1339/ http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/05/quotes-of-the-day-1339/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:41:32 +0000 Allahpundit http://hotair.com/?p=253428

The brink.

The State Department said Thursday the United States had to take necessary defensive steps in light of North Korea’s escalating threats, but emphasized that it can “change course” if North Korea tames its rhetoric… Nuland also said that while the U.S. takes North Korea’s “bellicose threats” seriously, the situation on the Korean Peninsula “does not [...]

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Just kidding

The new year, as well as a New Congress, is always full of fresh hope, possibilities and opportunities. And after all of the complaints about gridlock, deadlock, padlocks or whatever other types of locks you don’t like, 2013 opens the door for a new spirit of bipartisan cooperation in DC and the Getting Done of [...]

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Brinksmanship.

A number of Republican senators say a partial government shutdown should be considered as an option if President Obama doesn’t concede on spending cuts to the GOP’s satisfaction… Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told the Dallas Morning News that he would be open to a partial government shutdown, pointing to the 1995 shutdown as “the greatest [...]

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Inexplicable.

I guess it wouldn’t be Christmas without some brinksmanship all the way to New Year’s Eve.  Last year that brinksmanship involved the extension of Bush-era tax rates and unemployment benefits.  This year, thanks to a very curious reversal, it will be the payroll-tax holiday — or more precisely, its length: The House voted Tuesday to [...]

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