Congressman Luis Gutierrez said Democrats shouldn’t be negotiating with Trump the day after he rescinded protections for 800,000 young undocumented immigrants.
It may be smart politics for a Senator from Kentucky to drone on about spending cuts while thousands of Americans are counting on relief funding, but it’s not what compassionate human beings do.
Trump ignored the recommendations of his own White House and Republican leaders in Congress by quickly agreeing to Democratic demands on the debt ceiling.
While the president complains that members of Congress are turning the debt ceiling debate into “a mess,” it is his irresponsible tweets that are turning the simple vote into a political game.
2016 Republican candidate Ben Carson, who political journalists keep telling you is so brilliant, he doesn’t know what the debt ceiling is or how it works. Thus it was pretty easy for him to vow never to raise it.
Jack Lew, Secretary of the Treasury, penned an editorial in USA Today this morning, urging Congress to do its job as the Treasury runs out of borrowing authority on November 3, in just 8 days.
President Obama is gearing up for a huge showdown with Congressional Republicans promising to veto any bill that raises the debt limit, but contains spending cuts.
Speaker of the House John Boehner has lost to President Obama on every major crisis, so it isn’t surprising that Boehner is planning one final cave on the raising the debt ceiling before he leaves office.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is demanding Social Security and Medicare cuts in exchange for his vote to raise the debt ceiling.
The recent revelation of a House Freedom Caucus ‘questionnaire for prospective candidates for the Speakers’ position clears up why Republicans are terrified of being Speaker, and why there is no good outcome as long as Cruz’s House Freedom Caucus is allowed to exist.
The CBO put the deficit for the just ended fiscal year at 2.4% of GDP, below 50-year average.
The two leading candidates for House speaker are mirror images and both will dutifully follow the Ted Cruz shut-down-the-government agenda
Peter King said Boehner’s resignation is “like throwing raw meat to some of these people…they’re just going to look for more.”
Republicans not only have no intent in fulfilling their oath of office, they may have no idea what they are swearing to support and defend.
By forcing Senate Republicans like Mitch McConnell to vote in favor of advancing the debt limit bill, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) helped Democrats, while sabotaging McConnell’s reelection campaign.
It is getting absurd to have Republicans serving in Congress when they have no intention of doing the work the people sent them to Washington to do.
A Republican John Boehner ally tries to justify why the Speaker can’t do his job by saying that even Jesus couldn’t lead this House of Republicans.
A day after John Boehner told them to pass a clean debt ceiling increase, House Republicans ignored him and can’t agree on a bill to avoid economic disaster.
In a private meeting, John Boehner explained to his fellow Republicans why they should cave on the debt ceiling. Boehner warned House Republicans if they didn’t pass a clean debt ceiling increase something they didn’t like could happen like an extension of unemployment benefits.
Democrats allowed Republicans to behave badly and Ryan just said they will behave very badly and hold the debt limit hostage until his Path to Prosperity ransom is paid.
Ted Cruz wants to default because it will bring about Economic Armageddon and he thinks the President will get blamed for it.
Renee Ellmers, was one of the 144 House Republicans who voted to make the economy scream while keeping her paycheck because she “needed it.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders is warning that Sen. Ted Cruz has already harmed the country. Sanders said, ‘The right wing extremists like Cruz have already done this country irreparable harm.’
President Obama isn’t budging an inch on the ACA, as the White House has threatened to veto any House Republican debt ceiling bill that contains the Vitter Amendment.
It is being reported that House Republicans are considering ignoring the Senate debt ceiling deal, passing their own unpopular debt ceiling legislation, then leaving town.
A new ABC News/Washington Post is putting more pressure on Republicans to surrender. The poll found that disapproval of the Republican handing of the crisis has reached a record high of 74%.
Even though Senate Republicans blocked the bill, Harry Reid set the bar high today with the vote to extend the debt ceiling through 2014.
The Republican argument for not raising the debt ceiling is so weak that President Obama destroyed it in 10 sentences during his press conference today.
It is a sad commentary indeed that a group of anti-government terrorists have, in two years brought shame on a global leader like America because they cannot accept the results of an election.
A senior House Republican has let it leak that Republicans are so desperate to get out of the government shutdown/debt ceiling standoff that they are debating whether to cave to Obama now or later.
Republicans exposed themselves as the traitors they are because about 70% of the 86,000 civilians employed at 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have been furloughed.
Senate Democrats believe that they can use their leverage in the government shutdown to force House Republicans to solve the shutdown and the debt ceiling together.
The idea of a president having to negotiate with Congress before they do their Constitutional duty of paying the debt they incurred is Republicans reacting to Americans’ choice of a Black man as President.
The GOP’s debt ceiling demands are a composite Ryan budget, Koch policy meeting demands,”and ALEC social policy reform package all rolled into one ransom note, and the people are the big losers.
Rich people should talk more openly, more often. It would make a progressive agenda a whole lot more achievable.
Over half of Republican voters and Koch-patriots are clamoring for a government shutdown if Republicans fail to kill the ACA.
The depth of Republican madness was revealed when Sen. Ted Cruz suggested shutting down the military if President Obama and Democrats fail to acquiesce and kill the ACA.
It is safe to say most Americans expect Islamic extremists to launch terror attacks against innocent American citizens, but it is likely few expect a devastating attack from members of Congress.
Instead of killing jobs, employers expect to increase the number of full-time employees by nearly 2% over the next year as key parts of the ACA go into effect.
John Boehner and Paul Ryan have cooked up a debt ceiling plan that is so unpopular that it hands the Democrats the 2014 election. It is truly one of the most transparently stupid strategies ever.
John Boehner is nothing more than a dummy mouthing the message of his corporate ventriloquist.
Eric Cantor is trying to fool the American people by dressing up another demand for spending cuts as an offer to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for the House and Senate agreeing on a budget.
President Reagan raised the debt ceiling the more times than any other President since 1960. He raised it 18 times. In contrast, President Obama has raised the debt ceiling just 6 times.
President Obama delivered a strong message to House Republicans today. Obama said, ‘Republicans will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing our economy.’
John Boehner has revealed his strategy for winning the next round of fiscal negotiations, and it involves liberals caving and forcing Obama into a bad deal on spending cuts.
By using the fiscal cliff as the first stage of his political strategy, President Obama is already two steps ahead of Republicans on the debt ceiling.
With fiscal cliff in sight, Republicans will not accept anything less than austerity measures that guarantee to kill 2 million jobs in 2013.
Paul Ryan, John Boehner, and Willard Romney have almost reached their coveted goal of having the highest child poverty rate in the world. Presently, America is number two.
It is glaringly obvious Republicans are intent on cementing their reputation as enemies of the American people, but especially the poor, women, minorities, and the elderly.