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2016 Postmortem

Bigbluebrush

(66 posts)

1. Republicans have confessed

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 11:57 PM

Jan 2013

If the debt ceiling is "ignorable" on a temporary basis then it is a fiction ignorable on a long-term basis. Conservatives are simply conceding the Constitutional prohibition on defaulting on U. S. financial obligations.

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The brilliantly stupid new plan to raise the debt ceiling without raising it [View all] DonViejo Jan 2013 OP

Republicans have confessed Bigbluebrush Jan 2013 #1

A 'few' Wall Street CEOs rang their bells.... Amonester Jan 2013 #2

That's what you do with fools, feed them bullshit so they stay out of the way. nt bemildred Jan 2013 #3

We should just eliminate it period Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2013 #4

Is there not a brain among them??? I guess when you get elected you hand in your brain Filibuster Harry Jan 2013 #5