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Boehner Threatens US Credit Default
Josh Marshall
Speaker says country headed toward credit default if Obama doesn't cave to threat.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/boehner-threatens-us-credit-default
Josh Marshall
Speaker says country headed toward credit default if Obama doesn't cave to threat.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/boehner-threatens-us-credit-default
John Boehner: Worst. Speaker. Ever.
A failure for the ages
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023758956
Republican Congressman Says GOP To Blame For Shutdown
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023794571
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Boehner Threatens US Credit Default (Original Post)
ProSense
Oct 2013
OP
I wish there was a vehicle for impeachment of the House and Senate office holders
gopiscrap
Oct 2013
#4
President Obama should place calls to the investors that will lose big...
BluegrassStateBlues
Oct 2013
#10
Skink
(10,122 posts)1. The one percent can't wait
after they can buy up things on the cheap then pump the markets back up.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)5. Investment banking would have Boner assassinated.
Their holdings would be worthless.
spanone
(135,841 posts)2. proceed mr boehner
ProSense
(116,464 posts)3. Indeed. n/t
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)4. I wish there was a vehicle for impeachment of the House and Senate office holders
ProSense
(116,464 posts)6. I'd settle for Republicans losing big in 2014. n/t
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)7. Boehner can be removed.nt
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)8. LOL.. two days ago he pledged not to let us default..
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.
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.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)9. All it takes is a phone call from the Koch Bros.
BluegrassStateBlues
(881 posts)10. President Obama should place calls to the investors that will lose big...
Tell them to solve this problem by any means necessary and he will order his agencies to look the other way.