Fri Dec 21, 2012, 04:44 PM

Javaman (40,665 posts)

President Obama to make statement on Fiscal Cliff at 5PM EST

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15 replies	Author	Time	Post
President Obama to make statement on Fiscal Cliff at 5PM EST (Original post)	Javaman	Dec 2012	OP
hope he says SS & Medicare are off the table forever.	rurallib	Dec 2012	#1
Spam deleted by hunter (MIR Team)	Bukherst	Dec 2012	#2
Whats he saying?	peacebird	Dec 2012	#3
They don't have anything on yet	cal04	Dec 2012	#5
NBC news link	cal04	Dec 2012	#4
Here is the WH video without a minute of ads	high density	Dec 2012	#6
thank you for the link	cal04	Dec 2012	#7
CSPAN link!	alp227	Dec 2012	#9
Thanks alp227	cal04	Dec 2012	#12
Well he should....	DearAbby	Dec 2012	#8
Spam deleted by petronius (MIR Team)	Neatlyp	Dec 2012	#10
I think the president will speak as soon as Pelosi finishes.	alp227	Dec 2012	#11
"The validity of the public debt of the United States shall not be questioned."	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#13
the plan is to careen from one crisis deadline to the next, looks like.	dixiegrrrrl	Dec 2012	#14
That's been the politics ever since we lost the House.	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#15

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 04:51 PM

rurallib (31,155 posts)

1. hope he says SS & Medicare are off the table forever.

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 04:56 PM

Bukherst (4 posts)

2. Spam deleted by hunter (MIR Team)

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:03 PM

peacebird (7,509 posts)

3. Whats he saying?

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:05 PM

cal04 (36,988 posts)

5. They don't have anything on yet

I guess they're waiting for him

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:04 PM

cal04 (36,988 posts)

4. NBC news link

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nbcnews.com/50273666/#50273666

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:05 PM

high density (13,383 posts)

6. Here is the WH video without a minute of ads

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/president-obama-makes-statement-fiscal-cliff

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Response to high density (Reply #6)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:08 PM

cal04 (36,988 posts)

7. thank you for the link

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:21 PM

alp227 (20,510 posts)

9. CSPAN link!

To watch in widescreen click "turn on closed captioning" then to get rid of the captions click the "CC" icon once the screen switches to 16

. That's weird.

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:35 PM

cal04 (36,988 posts)

12. Thanks alp227

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:13 PM

DearAbby (12,180 posts)

8. Well he should....

We were just shown last night....WE DON'T HAVE A FUNCTIONING GOVERNMENT.

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:25 PM

Neatlyp (4 posts)

10. Spam deleted by petronius (MIR Team)

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:30 PM

alp227 (20,510 posts)

11. I think the president will speak as soon as Pelosi finishes.

I'm watching CSPAN right now, and the House Minority Leader is having her conference. (Oddly to watch CSPAN in widescreen rather than cropped 4:3 you need to click "turn on closed captioning" then you can use the CC icon button to toggle the CC.)

NYT reports:

President Obama is considering a “Plan B” of his own to avert a fiscal crisis in the New Year, a bill to extend expiring Bush-era tax rates on incomes below $250,000, with a measure to temporarily suspend automatic, across-the-board spending cuts and an extension of unemployment insurance benefits, Democratic officials said Friday.

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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:36 PM

joshcryer (39,764 posts)

13. "The validity of the public debt of the United States shall not be questioned."

If he does not invoke this then we are lost.

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Response to joshcryer (Reply #13)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 08:09 PM

dixiegrrrrl (30,880 posts)

14. the plan is to careen from one crisis deadline to the next, looks like.

"The plan would do nothing to cut spending or put into motion changes to entitlement programs like Medicare,

nor would it head off showdowns early next year on raising the nation’s statutory borrowing limit

or keeping the government running when a stopgap spending law runs out in March.

But it would prevent a fiscal jolt in less than two weeks."

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/politics/debt-reckoning.html#sha=d1bc2cc67

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Response to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #14)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 10:50 PM

joshcryer (39,764 posts)

15. That's been the politics ever since we lost the House.

Nothing accomplished, constant threats to the nation. Republicans are terrorists.

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