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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Angry with Obama, GOP threatens political war next year"
Angry with Obama, GOP threatens political war next yearBy Tom Cohen, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/11/politics/fiscal-cliff/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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Conservative Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, promised the newly re-elected Obama "one hell of a fight" next year if the president forces through his plan for high-income earners to pay more taxes without agreeing to substantive steps to reduce the nation's chronic federal deficits and debt.
"But there will come a time in February and March where we have to raise the debt ceiling," Graham said Tuesday on "Piers Morgan Tonight" on CNN.
"I will not raise the debt ceiling ever again until we get significant entitlement reforms, because if we don't reform entitlements, we're going to become Greece," adding that the situation presented a chance for Obama to lead. "But if he doesn't lead, there's going to be one hell of a fight over raising the debt ceiling."
Survey: 70% want compromise
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell concurred on Tuesday, telling reporters that "we are going to insist that we have another discussion about the future of our country in connection with his request of us to raise the debt ceiling."
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"Angry with Obama, GOP threatens political war next year" (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2012
OP
Next year? They've been at war with him since the night of his inauguration.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Dec 2012
#2
Will we at least have a brief intermission of the current political war before we start the next one
Horse with no Name
Dec 2012
#3
muntrv
(14,505 posts)1. Bring it on, motherfuckers!!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)2. Next year? They've been at war with him since the night of his inauguration.
The only difference now is that until election day they thought they'd won, or were about to win. ANd they got their asses handed to them, and they're whining. But their "war" never ended.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)3. Will we at least have a brief intermission of the current political war before we start the next one
unblock
(52,331 posts)4. wow, anger and beligerence from republicans. whooda thunk?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)5. Yawn. Bring it on asshole
You did your best in the last four years and lost. Do your best for the next four years. You may make progress slow but it will still be progress.
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)6. His self-loathing is becoming irritating. nt
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)7. terrorists .......... one and all
Raine
(30,540 posts)8. Go ahead, bring it on ... we won, you lost
"GET OVER IT" that's what you told us in 2000!
eShirl
(18,504 posts)9. aka business as usual
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)10. Good. Now form a circle and give it all you've got, dumfux.
Idiots
Rex
(65,616 posts)11. Yawn. Once against GOPukes declare victory
for their side, right after suffering a crushing defeat! How do these blundering blowhards keep a job? That's my question.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)12. Hey Lindsey, how about we lay siege on you and your confederates?
Few thousand, displaying their right to keep and bear arms posted up at your gated communities might be good for you.
I think these fuckers need some visceral reminders of how precarious their position actually is.