It is not a trust fund. You've been here since '07 and are just figuring this out now?

Note my use of the word alleged Gen.

Is it Wrong of Me to want to see Stuttering Hank in Moments Like These?

Hope house republicans don't fall for McConnell's treasonous suggestion.

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C'mon, that's all the other side of the aisle has? Obama just ratcheted things up in a huge way. Surely the R's must have a bazooka of their own...

Birth certificate, gunwalker, Holder ignoring voter intimidation, defacto amnesty etc. When those come to light, old Bammy will say that the Republicans are focusing on unimportant things while the country goes broke. His presidency has a better chance of avoiding impeachment if this thing goes to the wall, as he still has a chance to pretend to be the hero if it does.

BBBBB' But ... I Killed Bin Laden.

Remember?

Oh Noes! Please Raid my 401k to fund Social Security!

Republicans best move is not to make one. Sit on your hands and let this man, er, hang himself with the words from the teleprompter.

Mitch is bailing

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/07/12....
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Consider the Associated Press’s headline right now: “GOP Leader McConnell proposes giving Obama new power for automatic debt limit increase”

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Mitch McConnell is right now talking about making a historic capitulation. So fearful of being blamed for a default, McConnell is proposing a compromise that lets Barack Obama raise the debt ceiling without making any spending cuts at all.

Consider sending McConnell a weasel as testament to his treachery. His address is 601 W. Broadway, Room 630, Louisville, KY 40202 and the phone number is (502) 582-6304.

McConnell’s idea is to make the debt ceiling automatic unless Congress, by a 2/3 vote blocks the increase. Oh yes, he put a salve on it by dressing it up in tough talk that, to quote the Wall Street Journal, “[a] ‘eal solution’ to U.S. fiscal problems isn’t possible as long as President Barack Obama remains in office.” So since no “real solution” is possible, McConnell proposes to go Pontius Pilate and wash his hands of spending, blaming Obama while doing nothing himself.

Here is how the plan would work.

In a nutshell, the President would get to raise the debt ceiling three times in the next year at several billion bucks a pop without making any spending cuts unless two-thirds of both houses of Congress disagree. In his press conference, McConnell says he would not give the President “unilateral authority to make spending cuts on his own,” but this plan would allow the President to raise the debt ceiling pretty much automatically.As the Politico notes,

Senate Republicans are actively pursuing a new plan under which the debt ceiling would grow in three increments over the remainder of this Congress unless lawmakers approve a veto-proof resolution of disapproval.

In effect lawmakers would be surrendering the very power of approval that the GOP has used to force the debt crisis now. But by taking the disapproval route, Republicans can shift the onus more onto the White House and Democrats since a two-thirds majority will be needed to stop any increase that President Barack Obama requests.

Yes, instead of putting the burden on the White House, McConnell would make it damn near impossible to block a debt ceiling increase. We’ve seen this before. The House once had the Gephardt rule that required the debt ceiling vote be attached to a more popular measure so members of Congress could escape a tough vote.

Consequently, the debt ceiling has gone up to $14 trillion without Congress ever having to make a tough choice about debt.

And now Mitch McConnell wants to make it even easier by allowing Congress to go through a dog and pony show of feigned cuts that never get cut while allowing escalation of our national debt. So much for accusing Barack Obama of smoke and mirrors.

2014 cannot come soon enough to destroy the political future of this weasel.

Consider sending McConnell a weasel as testament to his treachery. His address is 601 W. Broadway, Room 630, Louisville, KY 40202 and the phone number is (502) 582-6304.

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Updated again: Changed to title to something less incendiary. I still encourage weasels be mailed.

UPDATE: Some of the most willfully ignorant and willfully naive McConnell supporters are coming out of the woodwork to say this is not *the* plan, but a contingency plan if *the* plan can’t be agreed to. So let’s get this straight: if Democrats won’t agree to make spending cuts, we’ll fall back to the contingency where they get to raise the debt ceiling without making spending cuts.

That’s not a contingency, that’s handing the Democrats a silver platter.

The Republican contingency plan is to double down on their primary plan to sell out the country.

Lame - this is just the logical next evolution of the Democrats time-tested "Those Wascally Wepubwicans want to starve the old and push granny off a cliff in a wheelchair so their rich fat-cat buddies can light their cigars with $100 bills" tripe that has worked electorally for them, basically but for a very few hitches along the way, forever.

Oh, and if this report on McConnell is correct it's all the validation I will ever need as to why I left the GOP for good last year. There is only so much serial stupid one can take.

The August 3rd threat of no Social Security checks is bogus. The checks go out via electronic deposit on the 1st of the month. So August 1st the money goes out and they still have 31 days to kick the can.

Email this snake right now:

http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index....

Here's my email:

Don't you dare cave in just because Obama played the Social Security scare game. As a lifelong Republican, I have observed the GOP leadership sell out again and again. This R vs D dog and pony show is designed to keep the voters ignorant while Congress bleeds us dry. CUT SPENDING NOW or this country is doomed.

His form makes sure you can't rant for long.

And this is the jackass that insisted on the SS employee payroll tax holiday and wants and employer holiday. Not that they would not have stolen the money anyway...

There is no reason social security can't get paid. The government has more than enough revenue to cover all important expenses.

The truth about Social Security has been out there for a while. I remember Jhenjhis Kherry in '04 nattering about income tax cuts and Social Security. The only way present income tax rates matter with respect to an entitlement presumably funded by the payroll tax (changes in which NOBODY was discussing at the time) is if there's nothing in the kitty, and the checks are being kited. Who hath ears, let him use a Q-Tip.

McConnel is in on it.

Contacting him will do little good.

He's a rino in the Trent Lott tradition...

it may do nothing, but I am going down swinging.

Screw the GOP like they screw us! No money, no support.

The comments from that yahoo link are pretty entertaining! Them some*****ed off old people!!!

"I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it,"



Please let the checks stop. Please let the checks stop. Please let the checks stop.

Well I get my SS payment on the 10th of August. Can I get by without it? Yes. The wife will just have to work a little longer.

Frankly Obummer I don't give a damn. Lets hit the wall full throttle and we shall see who has more fear in their heart. The time is now. Let's do it!

Oldno7,

I like the cut of your jib.

(Whatever a jib is.) Did I just come out?