House to vote on tea party-backed debt plan APBy ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press | AP – 4 hrs ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — With a default deadline drawing ominously near, House Republican leaders are giving the tea party what amounts to a symbolic floor vote on a "cut, cap and balance" debt-limit plan while behind the scenes work continues on a fallback measure that could become the framework for a compromise.
The chamber will vote Tuesday on the plan to let the government borrow another $2.4 trillion — but only after big and immediate spending cuts and adoption by Congress of a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget.
The plan is doomed in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and the White House has promised a veto.
The cut, cap and balance measure — and the veto threat issued Monday — sparked the latest in predictable tit-for-tat exchanges between combatants of Capitol Hill and in the White House, even as it was revealed that President Barack Obama hosted House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., at the White House on Sunday.
Let's see what the reps are made of now! Kenedy's seat was taken over by a rep, who WAS against obama care. Rand Paul got elected. The reps swept the election with a 'promise'. Let's see if they keep it! I highly doubt it myself.
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Let's see what the reps are made of now! Kenedy's seat was taken over by a rep, who WAS against obama care. Rand Paul got elected. The reps swept the election with a 'promise'. Let's see if they keep it! I highly doubt it myself.
The problem there is the true conservatives in the GOP are still limited to a hand full, Rand Paul for example gets as much opposition from the right then he does from the left even fiscal issues. So we may have the majority in the house but there are still many rhinos and neo-conservatives who aren't getting the hint about what the people want.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
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