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BREAKING>>>> 43 Republican senators announce opposition to Reid debt-limit plan | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1488457  United States07/30/2011 02:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1484118  Canada07/30/2011 02:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Forty-three Republican senators on Saturday penned a letter outlining their opposition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill to raise the country’s debt ceiling, a move that ensures the measure will fall short of the 60-vote threshold necessary to avoid a filibuster. [link to www.washingtonpost.com] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1488457that's it: whatever happens when the us gets its credit radting downgraded and defaults (or, maybe the other way around) is going to happen soon. |
tkwasny  User ID: 1487214 United States07/30/2011 02:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | S&P announced last week that the spending cap plan sent to the senate was the only show of good intent that would avoid credit score degrading. A credit drop is inevitable regardless what they do with this latest piece of legislation. |
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| tkwasny User ID: 1487214 United States07/30/2011 02:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | S&P announced last week that the spending cap plan sent to the senate was the only show of good intent that would avoid credit score degrading. A credit drop is inevitable regardless what they do with this latest piece of legislation. Quoting: tkwasnyAn increase in interest rates is a tax imposed on everyone that profit bypasses the governments and goes straight into the bankers accounts to buy momma that second caddy. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1484118 Canada07/30/2011 02:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't they need 51 yes votes ? Isn't the majority the winner? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1466124100-43 =57. That is a majority. they need 60 to place a limit on debate time and avoid a filibuster i think is the situation. it could pass in the senate, but not in a timely way. any americans who know congressional procedure able to confirm this? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1309466 United States07/30/2011 02:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | S&P announced last week that the spending cap plan sent to the senate was the only show of good intent that would avoid credit score degrading. A credit drop is inevitable regardless what they do with this latest piece of legislation. Quoting: tkwasnyA balanced budget ammendment will save our rating ,but nothing short of that. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1484118 Canada07/30/2011 02:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't they need 51 yes votes ? Isn't the majority the winner? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1466124100-43 =57. That is a majority. your one dumb s.o.b. why be a dick? it's not like it's that easy to follow. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1488457 United States07/30/2011 02:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As the clock runs down toward the witching hour on August 2, I see three possible solutions to the crisis. First, the Republicans and Democrats in Congress can agree on a compromise plan that raises the debt ceiling for a reasonable period of time and deals with at least some of the issues of spending cuts and new revenues that have thus far so furiously divided the parties. I suppose this is still possible, but it seems unlikely. Second,... |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1411695 United States07/30/2011 02:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't they need 51 yes votes ? Isn't the majority the winner? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1466124100-43 =57. That is a majority. your one dumb s.o.b. He is? You're the one who spelled "you're wrong". It's not "your" it's "you're". Looks like you're the dumb S.O.B. No pun intended. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1484118 Canada07/30/2011 02:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't they need 51 yes votes ? Isn't the majority the winner? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1466124100-43 =57. That is a majority. your one dumb s.o.b. He is? You're the one who spelled "you're wrong". It's not "your" it's "you're". Looks like you're the dumb S.O.B. No pun intended.  |
| Sol-Magmatard 26 User ID: 1488330 United States07/30/2011 02:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't they need 51 yes votes ? Isn't the majority the winner? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1466124100-43 =57. That is a majority. they need 60 to place a limit on debate time and avoid a filibuster i think is the situation. it could pass in the senate, but not in a timely way. any americans who know congressional procedure able to confirm this? Basically 60 Senators are require to support the motion to bring the item to vote regardless of whether they support the item being voted on. formerly Magmatard 26 |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1484118 Canada07/30/2011 02:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't they need 51 yes votes ? Isn't the majority the winner? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1466124100-43 =57. That is a majority. they need 60 to place a limit on debate time and avoid a filibuster i think is the situation. it could pass in the senate, but not in a timely way. any americans who know congressional procedure able to confirm this? Basically 60 Senators are require to support the motion to bring the item to vote regardless of whether they support the item being voted on. thanks! |
| anonimalle User ID: 1488475 United States07/30/2011 02:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't they need 51 yes votes ? Isn't the majority the winner? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1466124100-43 =57. That is a majority. your one dumb s.o.b. Why so hateful? Behind every myth lies a mystery, and every legend holds an echo of the truth …… Que Sera Sera "For not by numbers of men nor by measure of body but by valor of soul is war decided" Bilisarius " At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war." Gates of Vienna. "May we smite our enemies to the darkest chamber of hell, for we wish only to live in peace, and they desire only to put their boot upon our neck." |
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Phennommennonn Forum Administrator User ID: 1483248 United States07/30/2011 03:25 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | political correctness is a doctrine.... fostered by a delusional, illogical minority...... and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media; which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. |
| SHR Forum Administrator 07/30/2011 03:29 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | S&P announced last week that the spending cap plan sent to the senate was the only show of good intent that would avoid credit score degrading. A credit drop is inevitable regardless what they do with this latest piece of legislation. Quoting: tkwasnyYeah the same awesome ratings agencies that had Enron, Freddie fannie...AAA right up to the point they all tanked like the Hindenburg...now all of a sudden they the most important oracles on the planet. ____________________________________________________ E-mail anytime [email protected] Inquiring about a ban?, include the IP address found here. [link to www.showmemyip.com] Ooooh, see the fire is sweepin' Our very streets today... Burns like a red coal carpet, Mad bulls lost the way... War, children, it's just a shot away...it's just a shot away.... |
| Biochemky User ID: 919411 United States07/30/2011 03:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't they need 51 yes votes ? Isn't the majority the winner? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1466124100-43 =57. That is a majority. they need 60 to place a limit on debate time and avoid a filibuster i think is the situation. it could pass in the senate, but not in a timely way. any americans who know congressional procedure able to confirm this? Basically 60 Senators are require to support the motion to bring the item to vote regardless of whether they support the item being voted on. To quote Harry Reid himself: "For more than 200 years, the rules of the Senate have protected the American people, and rightfully so. The need to muster 60 votes in order to terminate Senate debate naturally frustrates the majority and oftentimes the minority. I am sure it will frustrate me when I assume the office of majority leader in a few weeks. But I recognize this requirement is a tool that serves the long-term interest of the Senate and the American people and our country." [link to republican.senate.gov] |
| Biochemky User ID: 919411 United States07/30/2011 03:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Forty-three Republican senators on Saturday penned a letter outlining their opposition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill to raise the country’s debt ceiling, a move that ensures the measure will fall short of the 60-vote threshold necessary to avoid a filibuster. [link to www.washingtonpost.com] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1488457Here's a PDF of "The McConnell Letter" that is on the United States Senate Office of the Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (senior Republican Senator feom Kentucky) stationery: [link to mcconnell.senate.gov] By the way, just as was true during the Civil War and as President lincoln so aptly noted, "I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we can not hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland. Letter to Orville Hickman Browning (22 September 1861) [link to en.wikiquote.org] |
| truthwillsetyoufree User ID: 927177 United States07/30/2011 03:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't they need 51 yes votes ? Isn't the majority the winner? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1466124100-43 =57. That is a majority. your one dumb s.o.b. You might be a numbers guy, but you don't know how to spell LOL. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1328821 United States07/30/2011 03:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You have got to love the politics at play here. Senate saying the republicans are not very good at laying out a plan that will pass, in the house democrats refused to vote yes on a plan that passed. These guys are flushing us down the drain while aiming to make us believe they are doing anything but. What acrock of shit/ |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1331107 United States07/30/2011 08:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | S&P announced last week that the spending cap plan sent to the senate was the only show of good intent that would avoid credit score degrading. A credit drop is inevitable regardless what they do with this latest piece of legislation. Quoting: tkwasnyAn increase in interest rates is a tax imposed on everyone that profit bypasses the governments and goes straight into the bankers accounts to buy momma that second caddy. +1 wall street is going to be rolling in dough thanks to the increased interest charges they will probably buy a mountain-sized heap of cocaine to celebrate |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1436873 United States07/30/2011 09:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't they need 51 yes votes ? Isn't the majority the winner? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1466124100-43 =57. That is a majority. your one dumb s.o.b. You don't even know how to use YOU ARE or you're properly. You are the worst kind of dumbshit. Nothing worse than a dumbshit calling someone dumb. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1286656 United States07/30/2011 09:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't they need 51 yes votes ? Isn't the majority the winner? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1466124100-43 =57. That is a majority. your one dumb s.o.b. You don't even know how to use YOU ARE or you're properly. You are the worst kind of dumbshit. Nothing worse than a dumbshit calling someone dumb. Word. |
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