{"id":5467,"date":"2011-07-26T01:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T08:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2011-07-26T01:18:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T08:18:49","slug":"one-told-the-truth-one-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/one-told-the-truth-one-lied\/","title":{"rendered":"One Told the Truth; One Lied"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hostage crisis in which Republicans refuse to budge from their \u201cour way or we kill the country\u201d stance continues unabated.\u00a0 My first reaction to the Read Plan was to tentatively oppose it, but now that I know what it contains, I still consider it a cave in, because it contains no revenue enhancements, but I can live with it, because it safeguards Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.\u00a0 The Boehner Plan is not only the old Republican plan in disguise, plus it preserves the option for Republicans to blackmail America again in the run up to a national election.\u00a0 Last night, two men gave news conferences.\u00a0 One told the truth; one lied.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"26Debt\"With the deadline for raising the nation’s debt limit and prospects for financial-market panic now a week away, an impatient, frustrated President Barack Obama warned the nation Monday night that the partisan impasse risks “sparking a deep economic crisis, this one caused almost entirely by Washington.”<\/p>\n

But House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, presenting the case for the Republicans, countered that “the solution to this crisis is not that complicated. If you’re spending more money than you’re taking in, you need to spend less of it.”<\/p>\n

Obama and the Democrats should just accept the massive spending cut package pushed by the GOP, Boehner said \u2014 but Obama, he charged, “wants a blank check today.”<\/p>\n

Obama’s 15-minute nationally televised address capped a day when Senate Democrats’ and House Republicans’ positions hardened, as each unveiled deficit-cutting plans Monday that showed the two sides remain sharply divided…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I found it ironic that Agent Orange claimed that Obama wants a blank check, when what Obama wants to do is pay for what Congress already spent, mostly during the Bush Regime.\u00a0 Raising the debt limit is completely unrelated to future spending, and the liar knows it.\u00a0 That was not Boehner’s only lie.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ed Schultz covers Obama’s speech and Boehner’s lies. Then he interviews Bernie Sanders and Steve Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Bernie is right: <\/span>“The Democrats have compromised, compromises and compromised”<\/span><\/p>\n

Boehner, on the other hand had to kiss the holy ring of Republican Party head, Rush Limbaugh, before he could even present his plan to his own caucus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why aren\u2019t Republicans jumping on the Reid plan, when it has everything the said they wanted?\u00a0 There are two reasons.\u00a0 First, saving the country by any means other that a complete cave-in to cut, cap and amend, leaves Obama looking conciliatory and Republicans looking like the criminals they are.\u00a0 The second reason is more important.\u00a0 In the Ryan plan, Republicans threw granny under the bus and got caught red handed.\u00a0 They tried to take away her medical security, hand her a coupon, and cut her loose to fend for herself in the midst of a vicious insurance company feeding frenzy.\u00a0 America reacted so strongly that the only way Republicans can escape the stain of their greed is to force Democrats to harm Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama asked America to let Congress know how they feel.\u00a0 America\u2019s response overwhelmed the servers and crashed Congress\u2019 web site.\u00a0 Keep calling!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hostage crisis in which Republicans refuse to budge from their \u201cour way or we kill the country\u201d stance continues unabated.\u00a0 My first reaction to the Read Plan was to tentatively oppose it, but now that I know what it contains, I still consider it a cave in, because it contains no revenue enhancements, but […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}