Dingy Harry: My Bill Is “The Only Game In Town” — Update: House Votes Down Reid Plan, 246–173…
Hence all of Obama’s accolades for the Democrats’ willingness to “compromise.”
(ABC News) — Moments before being summoned to the White House this afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., declared that his bill is still “the only game in town,” even as it was being voted down by the House of Representatives.
“We have until midnight tonight,” Reid said. “If my Republican colleagues, acting in good faith, come to me with a proposal that is what we will do.”
Reid dismissed a letter Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, and 43 Senate Republicans sent him today declaring their opposition to his bill.
In it they state that Reid’s plan “completely fails to address our current fiscal imbalance and lacks any serious effort to ensure that any subsequent spending cuts are enacted.”
“Most of the proposal’s alleged savings are based on a false claim of credit for reductions in war-related spending that were already scheduled to occur,” the letter says. “These savings are the sort of widely ridiculed accounting gimmick that breeds cynicism about our ability to tackle our fiscal challenges.”
Reid noted that “a number” of those people who signed the letter of opposition have been in contact with him, indicating they’d be open to compromise.
“I don’t know what the 43 letter was meant to be, whether to stall things, I really don’t understand,” Reid said brushing off the Republican’s letter. “The fact is we have 43 people on this letter, Republicans, who a number of them have already agreed to work with us. Whether it bears fruit we will see.”
Surrounded by a group of what he called the “real Americans” that will be affected by Congress’ action (or inaction) to raise the debt ceiling along with the majority of his Democratic caucus, Reid expressed his frustration over Republicans refusing to compromise.
Asked why he and McConnell cannot sit down when they’re working under the same roof, Reid quipped back, “I have a little trouble understanding that myself.”
“We can’t do this alone; we need Republicans to join us,” he said.
Update:
(Washington Examiner) — On Saturday, the House of Representatives rejected Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s proposal to hike the debt limit, 246 to 173, with 11 Democrats voting against it.
The vote was expected, and was held to demonstrate that Reid’s plan can’t pass the House, just as last night the Democratic-controlled Senate rejected House Speaker John Boehner’s plan to hike the debt limit last night to show it can’t pass the Senate.
At 1 am, Reid’s bill will face a cloture vote in the Senate, where it is expected to fail to reach the 60 vote threshold, because 43 Senate Republicans have already signed a letter opposing it.
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Harry, it’s time for the Depends and the rocking chair.
Your last brain cell has left the building.
Nevada: You reelected this guy and own him Bend over and take the credit for him delaying this deal until we pass the point of no return. Elections have consequences…..
In the meantime, I just have to say I will not be visiting your state with all the megawatts being burned to attract tourists because I choose where my tourist dollars are spent. I’ll see you when you elect a conservative to his old seat. In the meantime, pound sand.
It’s a sad state of affairs when Reid and his fellow socialists start understanding their own doubletalk.
“If my Republican colleagues, acting in good faith, come to me with a proposal…”
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Got that? It’s our job to make Harry happy.
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“We either save this country or we do not”
Compromise is not coming to your side. compromise it coming to the side that passed a budget, and a plan to cut some of the deficit. 800 days you did not do your job so shut the ef up.
He really doesn’t understand what the letter was about. Well, Harry, I think they were trying to tell you that your bill is a dumbshit bill. Dumbshit.
The bill that can’t pass either house? Only game in town? Mmmmkay, Harry.
I wouldn’t make a very good congress person or senator, I wouldn’t be able to keep from punching most of these assholes in their mouths, for all the lies and games played at the expense of we tax payers.
I have a proposal for him.
It involves Dick(sucker) Durbin, Chucky-fucky Schumer, and a famliy-size tube of KY.
I see the mental patient is channeling Schmucky Schumer again!
Time to bend over:
“Our country is not going to default for the first time in history,” McConnell said as he posed with Boehner in the Speaker’s Capitol Hill office on the 2nd floor. “That is not going to happen. We now have a level of seriousness with the right people at the table that we needed. We’re going to get a result.”
Boehner concurred: “Despite our differences, we are dealing with reasonable, responsible people who want this crisis to end as quickly as possible and I think we will.”
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he’s a weak ass punch-drunk bitch. Take him high and he’s down
Told ya…..Harry waited to vote on his bill, with the intent that it would the last bill in play…..so he could claim the Dems made a last ditch effort to stave off default….
Now, he claims that the Republicans should come to him..regarding compromise with his bill….when he never went to them regarding any compromise over their bills (three of them). Matter of fact, he didn’t even allow debate regarding those Republican bills….they were never even considered.
But, I believe Harry has a surprise coming to him; I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure the Republicans in the House still hold a winning hand. And more importantly, I think this time around, they know it.
…giving his infamous, “go to the back of the bus” gesture.
Dead on arrival.
No budget from the dims in over 2 years and he wants to hold the US hostage. Someone needs to smack this little asswipe up the side of the head. The GOP needs to be on every show explaining the facts to the masses,but air time and run ads.
F__K you very much, Hairy…..
The optics for the Dems are looking very bad. Reid is just recalcitrant, out of touch, refuses to acknowledge his back is to the wall. Obama is tweeting, for cripes sake. Meanwhile, Boehner and McConnell look cheery and optimistic and are daring Obama not to do anything. I think the Repubs for once are using the PR machine pretty well.
Time to put this imperious bag of garbage to the curb.
Harry Reid (D-Nzl), the genius leader of the Senate Dims. Can’t figure out that 43 Senators will not support his “existing” bill, but are willing to work w/ him to make changes towards something they could support.
IQ approx Milwaukee temp in early spring.
What’s amazing is that our founders told us this crap (liberalism/ socialism) would happen… they gave us the map and the documents to choose our path… instead of fighting for what right (then and now) we chose to compromise since the days of FDR … so here we are THE day of reckoning
This whole mess is about one thing…and the Democrats know it as plain as the ugly noses’ on their faces. Their whole power base, their electability is based upon this one thing…
Their ability to throw billions & billions at all the leeches they have created through entitlement programs & plain old hand outs.
Any kind of cut, cap & balance would utterly dismantle their welfare kingdom and flush their party down the drain. They are desperate beyond desperate because the Conservative Republicans are gunnin’ for the main reactor of the donkey death star.
BLOW ME, HARRY…….JUST BLOW ME.
I’m damn surprised the guy has an opposable thumb.
“Our country is not going to default for the first time in history,” McConnell said as he posed with Boehner in the Speaker’s Capitol Hill office on the 2nd floor. “That is not going to happen.”
This is not a debt ceiling crisis, oh they’ll pass something, of that I have no doubt, but this is a debt crisis, this whole debate is just slowing the growth of govt spending in a very very small amt, its still full speed ahead. next dec, the debt will be 18+ trillion.
this is why this debt ceiling debate is important, no 1 check, this has to be spilt into 2 ceiling votes, because at about 20+ trillion in debt, the amount this country pays in interest on that debt is higher than America’s GDP.
just think about that… absolutley freaking scary!
and most likely we will be downgraded when any debt ceiling bill passes this week, next week,
we don’t default, but we will be downgraded, and perhaps that will be the wake up call, the lunatic dems will keep crying racists, terrorists, etc… the independent ones, whose who are still asleep, will have this right smack in front of their faces.
is anyone watching Huckabee? sounds like he;s complaining a bit about the tea party, he has said it explicitly, but he’s opening with
“there’s one way to campaign, and then there;s a way to govern”.
hmmm, very interesting.
but he’s ripping into president turd as well.
Obama blew up the debt ceiling talks because he’s a Community agitator. Remember when he failed in the tarp talks also. Now he has been absent in the talks –Poor leadership. Failure.!
Maggie says:
July 30, 2011 at 7:51 pm
I’m damn surprised the guy has an opposable thumb.
LMMFAO…I just spit water all over my keyboard….the best comment of the day.
Kudos to you Maggie
Reid expressed his frustration over Republicans refusing to compromise.
Reid and Dems had refused to come up with and develop a budget for the past 2.5 years. Republicans put forth 2 budget proposals that Reid refused to even consider.
“My bill is the only game in town.” Sure it is. You never had one of your own, waiting for others to come into town and save your ass, and here it is. You waited until someone else presented one so you could see what was in it and then present your own after the other one was vetoed down. Ok, you have yours. Last I heard, you were refusing to have it reviewed. What happened? Not up to your expectations?
There you have it.. the Cloward-Piven Democratic Socialists are tougher than the weak kneed RINOs..
I am telling ALL OF YOU OUT THERE READING THIS…
and you BETTER FUCKING LISTEN!!!!!
Take ALL of you IRA’s, stocks, bonds, 401K’s…..whatever you can get your hands on…..
and BUY PRECIOUS METALS AND AMMUNITION!!!!
You are going to need BOTH in the very near future!!!!!!!!
“We can’t do this alone; we need Republicans to join us,” he said.
The hell with that this repub wouldn’t ever side w/a dem. It would
be like siding with Germany during WWII
Harry must be thinking of the bill they are racking up at the local Hooters restaurant. Last I heard he can’t get enough of his people to support it.
…yeah, and buy plenty of canned goods and water on the way back from Cabela’s and the Coin Store.
MUZMANIA, five’ll get you ten, Zip readers are laughing at us.
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Watchful waiting.
Hey sb:
I agree to a point, just Schumer has his hand up reeds ass. Uses him like a vintrioquost’s
dummy, even though reed has the dummy part
down to a T
Can’t this piece of crap be impeached? According to the Constitution, all spending bills must originate in the House. How can a senator have his own bill?
By the way, I hereby apologize to crap.
Ever notice when Dingy Harry is speaking ,he stops and gets this shit-eating grin on his face, It must be those “Little Voices” he hears?
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National Inflation Association says that even if they cut spending by half (ya I know, as if), the dollar would still have lost 90% of its value by 2019, and gold would be at $16,000 per ounce. Now that is the BEST case scenario, and it’s not going to happen.
So buy beans bullets and bullion, you’re going to need them.
@ Titan Uranus -
you’re probably right…………………..
National Inflation Association–
Raising the debt ceiling continually constitutes that we are already in default. Gold at $1631/ounce means the market indicates default through inflation is coming. Hyperinflation predicted by as soon as 2013.
GDP will decline agan in late 2011 = double dip recession. US in early stages of hyperinflationary depression. By the end of 2011, QE 3 under a new name will be implemented, FED will force banks to lend excess reserves. Even if US cut spending by 50% by end of decade gold would be over $16,000 per ounce and the US dollar will lose 90% of its purchasing power this decade.
A legend in his own mind taking down the entire country between his and the Unicorn King’s ego.
the only truth is no more debt we need to get rid of these spounges that are killing our great country we need to do the penney plan a few congressman have put out there cut (1cent) OF EVERY DOLLER THE GOVT SPENDS AND THE DEBT COULD BE ALL DONE IN (6)YEARS.IMAGINE HOW MUCH MONEY WE COULD SAVE WITH THAT PLAN BOY/PRESIDENT/REID/DINGDONG THE WITCH IS GONE PELOSI/REP HOUSE SPEAKER ECT COULD NOT COME UP WITH A PLAN LIKE THAT SO SAD
Unicorn King Ineligible Usurper was installed to crash the US dollar:
Steve Cooper, The Conservative Monster, writes:
“The Republicans lack the balls to explain to the American idiots that this is not Progressivism or Liberalism; it is Marxism. The International Marxists and Muslims conspired to bankrupt us via terrorism. Al Qaeda is their proxy. The American LEFT are working for the enemy. Plain and simple. – Steve Cooper “
Hey Hairy…according to Perry Como, Solitaire is the only game in town. And you`d even cheat at that wouldn`t you – ye olde bastard ye.
Dang, Harry! YES, you have the only bill in town. IT ONLY TOOK YOU 820 DAYS TO COME UP WITH IT!!! aren’t you so proud?? Looks like somebody shoved your ass far enough into the future to try and make you do your job. Damn, I wish I could make your amount of money without doing my JOB.
So it was a bipartisan effort in the house that shot down Harry Weed.Lets see how the obamanation reacts to this news.
I’d like to see Obama try to summon someone like Rubio or West.
Harry voted for his bill, before he voted against it.
If I’m not mistaken the only bill that received ‘bi-partisan’ support was CCB.
Either bring that up again in the Senate, modify it in the House and repass it.
If the Dems don’t act on it, hold a press conference tell America that the House has passed 2 (or 3) Bills, the Senate rejected 2 and won’t even hold an up and down vote on the third.
Then Boehener should go play golf at Coldstream Country Club.
Reid should add the repeal of Obamacare to his bill.
The dhimmicrats won’t give up more spending and higher taxes – that’s their plan and that’s why it isn’t public because we the people are wise to their crap!
If I were McConnell and Boehner, I just skip town. Weepubicans offered numerous REAL (not perfect) solutions and Hairy and his boys rejected them out of hand, WITHOUT offering anything other than the same old song and dance that got us to this point in the first place.
Same shit/different day won’t cut it any longer, Hairy. The day of reckoning is here. Time to pay the piper. You and Obummer can’t do it by yourselves (legally) and it looks like the TP caucus is driving this bus. Sit down and shut up!
Muslimania…you are correct in your assessment.
People do not understand the things that are coming.
A good book to get your head in the game for thinking ahead is One Second After by William Forstchen. He gets a little preachy and sing song’ish in places but the story will most definitely provide food for thought.
Most libraries should have it.