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On Sunday talk shows, will any host, hostess or other journalist ask Democratic guests to specify their plan to raise debt ceiling?

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From Glenn Reynolds, we learn that Responsibility for debt talks shifts to Congress, away from Obama.   According to the Hill, House Speaker John Boehner . . .

. . . .  told his colleagues that any deal will be a product of congressional leadership – not a compromise struck with the White House, the Republican source said, noting that “strategically not working with the president, but with the Senate could be better for him.”

Boehner was backed up by Democratic leaders Reid and Pelosi, when he said to Obama, “Mr. President, I need to deal with the House and the Senate because we [the White House and Congress] aren’t getting anywhere,” the source said.

Seems to get something done, the Ohio Republican knows he needs to get out of negotiations with the White House.

Given that the House has passed both a budget and a plan to raise the debt limit, we do know the House Speaker’s bargaining position.  But, we still don’t know that of the Democratic leadership.  It’s been 816 days since Harry Reid’s Senate passed a budget and that chamber still hasn’t voted on a plan to raise the debt ceiling.

Do wonder if any members of MSM will ask any Democrats this weekend in various talk shows to spell out their plan to raise the debt limit. And not like Wolf Blitzer did in querying the DNC Chair, offering her various hypotheticals without challenging her to offer specifics, but instead to point to the specific plans they’ve put forward and on which they’re ready to vote.

Seem the GOP already has another debt ceiling plan on tap.

Comments

  1. Why would the press push democrats when they agree with big government and big government spending?We have to get away from caring what the press does or doesn’t do. The press is by large majority democrats.

  2. My Potemkin Budget Plan™ contains plenty of meaty platitudes and rhetoric. I will unveil my written proposal in December of 2012—HONEST!

  4. The Democrats (Alinskyites) have targeted Boehner for hate and blame along with his band of TEA Party thugs. They can not lead without a villain to blame and steer attention away from themselves.

    The Democrats are wedded to the ideology of the cancer cell: growth for the sake of growth and growth until the host has been consumed.

    Nowhere in the Democrat plan is utopia reached and we are all released to enjoy the butterflies in the Elysian fields. They are constantly discovering what Gertrude Stein once discovered: “When you get there, you discover there isn’t any there there.”

    So, we grow the government and tax and borrow and sap the economy and promise happy days ahead and fiddle while small fires burn throughout the economy.

    What is the plan? And, are we there yet?

  6. The Democrats are going to call the Obama Depression the Boehner downturn; it’s all about politics. They are desperate, sick, power hungry fools.

  7. The situation is full of sad ironies. Among them: if Boehner and the House Republicans do manage to bring Washington back to fiscal sanity, the nation’s job creators will heave a sigh of relief and may well start to create jobs – giving Obama an economic recovery, at long last. The Democrats are doing everything they can to fight developments that could be about to save Obama’s presidency.

  8. “On the Sunday talk shows, will any host, hostess or journalist ask democratic guests to specify their plan to raise the debt ceiling?”

    At 9AM EST today Chris Wallace pressed lil Timmy Geithner for the answer.. Well it’s now after 1PM EST here, and the Treasury Secretary has yet to give an answer to what the administration really intends to do.

    .

  9. Yesterday on Fox Neil Cavuto, was interviewing Harold Dutton, a Democrat, who was pushing for a tax increase on the most wealty to pay their fair share. Neil made the comparison between the how much the top 2% pay and the bottom 40% pay nothing. Congressman Dutton´s response was that rich and poor both have to make sacrifices. I was waitng for Neil to ask the hard question, ¨what sacrifices are going to be asked of the bottom 40%?¨

  10. Chris Wallace pummelled Timmy Geithner until the poor guy nearly cried “uncle”.

    It was a great interview for Wallace, devastating for the Treasury Secretary.

    The House Speaker, on the other hand, did amazingly well under Wallace’s tough questioning.

  11. I was struck by Geithner’s desperate response near the end of Chris Wallace’s masterful interview:

    GEITHNER: Chris, let’s do it your way, OK? The Republican plan that passed the House of Representatives and the Republican brought forth in the Senate would, in the estimate of the CBO, require beneficiaries of Medicare to pay $6,500 a year more, $6,500 a year more for Medicare benefits that they do today.

    And why are they doing that? They are doing that because they want to preserve — I don’t think the speaker does say this — but they want to preserve tax cuts that benefit the top 2 percent of Americans that we simply cannot afford.

    And what they did and they demonstrated in their plans — and I give them credit for this — that if you try to balance our budget without revenues, with tax reforms that raises revenues, then you are forced to put in place exceptional harsh cuts not just for Medicare beneficiaries but for Medicaid. And remember this country, this great nation with our great resources today, one in eight Americans are eligible for food stamps today. Forty percent of Americans born today are born to families eligible for Medicaid.

    The idea that you can ask the American people to balance this budget on the backs of the elderly and the most vulnerable with no burden through tax reforms on the most fortunate Americans is fundamentally unacceptable. It’s not going to happen. They knew it. It’s not going to become law.

    And we have made so much progress over the last four months with the Republicans and trying to build consensus for a more balanced approach — and I give the speaker a lot credit for that.

    So, Geithner implodes and reveals for all to hear that wealth transfer is the game and that we are guided by the rule that we must create the greatest good for the greatest number of “vulnerable” people.

    The problem with the greatest good for the greatest number is that neither is static. As you provide ever greater good, the number demanding the good also increases. It is how all cancer works. The Democrats welcome illegal aliens as a source of votes which they pay for thought access to welfare which is to be funded by those who have in a great social justice transfer to those who have not.

    It is well past time to compare our “vulnerable” to what poverty looks like.