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Debt Ceiling Passes. No conditions.

Posted: Feb 12, 2014

Filibuster denied. Took a lot of guts on the part of M. McConnell. TP will hit him hard in Kentucky. But he did the right thing.

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They are all finally learning to play politics. - ZvilleMT

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Some of them put on a good show, talking about how they weren't going to vote for it, etc., but in the end they knew it would be political suicide for them not to pass it. This removes one thing from the democrat arsenal. I think the plan is to keep the pressure on those that voted for the ACA until midterms and hope that's enough.

Yes, but I think it's more like learnin' the yunguns :-) Good post NM - OP

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Given a "good schooling".. - ZvilleMT

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as my grandma used to say :) You're probably right on that one!

201 House Pubs voted against debt ceiling - Bluebird

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I do not think they learned anything. Even Boehner had to vote for it and as majority leader he would not ordinarily vote. The Pubs are still just as willing to tear the country down in their tantrums as ever. After the last debt ceiling debacles, the Republicans do not have much credibility at all.

Mitch McConnell is not in the House. I think the OP was - Truthhurts

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talking about the Senate vote, at least that's the article the OP linked.

It passed in the Senate 55-43.

232 Republicans willing to default on America's debts - Bluebird

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That would be 201 House Republicans and 31 Senate Republicans voted against the debt ceiling. Thanks, Truthhurts, for pointing that out.

My post was about the debt ceiling. It's right in the subject line. - OP

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That really is the topic, after all, and the fact that the Reps didn't allow the TP'ers to shut down the government again. It was kudos to all the Republican leaders who are wising up and doing the right thing at the potential expense of being TP'd in their primaries and losing their offices. Doing what is right for America. Not letting the extreme wing of their party exert undue power. This is a step toward the GOP taking back their party, I hope.

My post opened the door to many offshoot discussions. I have no problem with it going in any direction any poster chooses to take it. That is the nature of discussion.

So was mine. Your link was to an article about the SENATE: - Truthhurts

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"G.O.P. Senate Leaders Avert Debt Ceiling Crisis" which vote was 55-43. That was what I was referring to in my post. There's only 100 Senators, and the other post was talking about the HOUSE votes.

Did the House have anything to do with debt ceiling vote? And the HOUSE was mentioned - in the link

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"Congress gave final approval on Wednesday to raising the nationâ��s borrowing authority, the first â��cleanâ�� increase since 2009. It followed Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio delivering a House vote on Tuesday on the backs of Democratic votes, as Republican leaders stood up to absorb the blows from the Tea Party elements in their party.

For Mr. Boehner, the challenge was putting a debt ceiling increase up for a vote, without preconditions. For Senate Republican leaders, it was to actually cast the votes. In both chambers, their actions provided crucial political cover to their colleagues, who then were free to vote against the measure while also escaping blame in the midterm elections for the harm to the economy that a debt default would have wrought."
But it really doesn't matter what my link was. A lot of people don't even click on the links.

It was about the debt ceiling. Any comments on that are acceptable. For you to suggest otherwise is inappropriate.

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