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Boehner Threatens US Credit Default (Original Post) ProSense Oct 2013 OP
The one percent can't wait Skink Oct 2013 #1
Investment banking would have Boner assassinated. Ikonoklast Oct 2013 #5
proceed mr boehner spanone Oct 2013 #2
Indeed. n/t ProSense Oct 2013 #3
I wish there was a vehicle for impeachment of the House and Senate office holders gopiscrap Oct 2013 #4
I'd settle for Republicans losing big in 2014. n/t ProSense Oct 2013 #6
Boehner can be removed.nt Barack_America Oct 2013 #7
LOL.. two days ago he pledged not to let us default.. SomethingFishy Oct 2013 #8
All it takes is a phone call from the Koch Bros. Barack_America Oct 2013 #9
President Obama should place calls to the investors that will lose big... BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 #10

SomethingFishy

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8. LOL.. two days ago he pledged not to let us default..
Sun Oct 6, 2013, 03:36 PM
Oct 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/us/politics/debt-limit-impasse.html?_r=0

WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner has privately told Republican lawmakers anxious about fallout from the government shutdown that he would not allow a potentially more crippling federal default as the atmosphere on Capitol Hill turned increasingly tense on Thursday.

The guy is a fucking bag of jello. Wiggling around trying to figure out which position is going to hurt him the least.
 
10. President Obama should place calls to the investors that will lose big...
Sun Oct 6, 2013, 03:45 PM
Oct 2013

Tell them to solve this problem by any means necessary and he will order his agencies to look the other way.

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