Brit Hume admits Republicans will CAVE once the President CALLS THEIR BLUFF... :

[Faryn Balyncd]

...and does what he has to do. (that is, direct incoming tax revenues to the highest priority obligations, and, by necessity, deferring the lowest priority (Republican pork barrel) items.





http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x596210










(Who put the truth serum in the water at Faux "News", anyway?)








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ADDENDUM


Maybe we could start a Suggestion List of some of the low priority, Republican budget items that should be high on the list of items to NOT BE PAID, in compliance with the debt ceiling.

Here's one that comes to mind:

1. Stop paying for the electricity used to broadcast Rush Limbaugh in Armed Forces Radio.


Wouldn't it be ironic for the GOP's contrived "debt ceiling" crisis to be the straw that finally starts to wean Rush from the "government tit"?





Any other suggestions out there?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Let's hope he calls their bluff, then...K&R

[Ice Number Nine]

2. Boehner is screwed. This is exactly why Cantor betrayed him last week and left him holding the bag.

[aquart]

3. Would it were true. I would be so proud.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Of course they will

Just like they would have eventually caved on the extension of unemployment benefits in late 2010.

[KansDem]

5. Subsidies to the oil companies would be high on my list

Why are my taxes going to give money to companies earning record profits?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. Fox's ratings have tanked.

People are waking up. =)

[Faryn Balyncd]

7. Add suggestions for pet Republican boondoggles to be first on the list to be UNFUNDED :

....when push comes to shove, and Republican recalcitrance Re: "debt ceiling" forces prioritization.


So far, we've got two suggestions begging for their funding to be "deferred";

- - - 1. the government paid for electricity sending out Rush Limbaugh's rants over Armed Forces Radio.

- - - 2. oil subsidies



What else is begging for (in)action?

[Deep13]

8. I think it's funny that we just assume that Fox knows what the Rs are going to do...

...before they have done it. We take it for granted--correctly I believe--that Fox and the Rs get their marching orders from the same place.

[Raine]

9. I'm waiting for that myself.

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