McConnell: Debt bill creates "entirely new template" for raising debt limit

[Ruby the Liberal]

pairing it with cuts.

Magically, only if a D is in the WH. :grr:

http://www.businessinsider.com/live-coverage-the-debt-ceiling-endgame-2011-8

[FSogol]

1. Can't we run someone against that seditious clown?

:shrug:

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. Ask the people of Kentucky

Who just voted in Rand Paul.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. "never again will any President..be allowed to raise the debt ceiling" w/o cuts

Hes on Cspan yammering away.

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. Here's your legacy, Obama. n/t

[gratuitous]

5. It's an historic grand bargain, all right

Now, who would have thought that even before both chambers of Congress passed it, that the Republicans would be out in front of the cameras and microphones setting the terms of the agreement, and fixing them in the public discourse? Nobody, that's who! Because otherwise, it looks like the Democrats got rolled again, and we know that can't be the case, because all the smart people are saying that our genius President left Boehner holding the tea bag (*snicker*).

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Reid up now. "Compromise not perfect"

Calling for order (sounded like gallery heckling)

Hey Harry, you don't pronounce "Capitulation" KOM-pro-mize