{"id":5512,"date":"2011-08-02T01:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2011-08-02T01:30:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:30:18","slug":"deal-an-exercise-in-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/deal-an-exercise-in-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal: An Exercise in Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I said I needed time to study and see the CPC analysis of the deal that will pass the Senate today.  Subsequently I called my Representative and Senators requesting that they should vote no.  There is no chance that the Senate will say no, because the House Republicans have adjourned, and the Representatives have gone home until September, abandoning America in a time of need.  There is only one good thing about the deal.  It was a defeat for the Teabaggers, because their plan to destroy the government through default was derailed.  Otherwise it was a complete cave-in.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"bipartisan_b2284\"The House of Representatives on Monday approved a last-gasp deal<\/a> to raise the U.S. borrowing limit in a daecisive step toward averting a catastrophic debt default by the world’s largest economy.<\/p>\n

A day before the deadline to lift the debt ceiling, the passage by the Republican-controlled House of the $2.1 trillion deficit-cutting plan hammered out over the weekend cleared the way for the Senate to approve it.<\/p>\n

The Democratic-controlled Senate was due to vote on the bill at noon (1600 GMT) on Tuesday and was widely expected to pass it. This would send it to the desk of President Barack Obama, who has said he is anxious to sign the bill.<\/p>\n

The House vote of approval had been considered the biggest obstacle to a solution of the crisis\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In October, 2010, I sat in the audience and cheered Obama, as he promised not to extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich.  In January, Republicans held America\u2019s suffering unemployed hostage.  I called it terrorism then, and said that, if Obama gave into terrorist demands, it would only inspire more Republican terrorism.  Every time Obama caves-in, it makes Republicans more intransigent, because they are more confident that their criminal schemes will work.<\/font><\/p>\n

Lawrence O\u2019Donnell railed against the deal.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Chris Hayes interviewed Eugene Robinson and described the Republican strategy.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Keith Olbermann properly expresses the outrage we should all be feeling on Countdown<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n