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green73
10-15-2013, 10:52 PM
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are finalizing a deal to avert a debt default and reopen the government, capping a frantic day that had Washington bracing for an economic crisis of its own making.

The deal is essentially done, sources say, as aides for the two leaders finished drafting the legislative language Tuesday night. The Senate adjourned at about 10 p.m. with no official word on a deal and will reconvene at noon Wednesday.

Reid and McConnell are expected to brief their respective caucuses Wednesday, hours before the country could fail to pay its bills for the first time in history. Cooperation will be needed from members of both parties in order to avoid default as well as to end the first government shutdown in 17 years. And a Senate plan will need to clear the House, which has struggled to pass any bill to raise the national debt limit.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/senate-update-debt-ceiling-government-shutdown-98368.html

GregSarnowski
10-15-2013, 11:00 PM
How exciting. Will it be a complete capitulation to Obama or a complete and total capitulation to Obama? Inquiring minds want to know!

bolil
10-16-2013, 01:44 AM
" Also, it is necessary to use sometimes one, sometimes the other on the same group, the Nazis knew very well how to alternate Jong silences, mystery, the secret revealed, the waiting period that raises anxiety levels, and then, suddenly, the explosive decision, the tempest, the Sturm that seems all the more violent because it breaks into the silence." -Jacques Ellul.

Mini-Me
10-16-2013, 02:15 AM
" Also, it is necessary to use sometimes one, sometimes the other on the same group, the Nazis knew very well how to alternate Jong silences, mystery, the secret revealed, the waiting period that raises anxiety levels, and then, suddenly, the explosive decision, the tempest, the Sturm that seems all the more violent because it breaks into the silence." -Jacques Ellul.

Indeed. "Our guys" like Rand and Amash never had the clout to slam on the brakes themselves, and if Boehner and McConnell fear anyone at all, they fear their constituents far more than their colleagues. There are a few doing their best to demand actual concessions, but this whole thing has always been political theater with a predetermined outcome from the perspective of the party leaders. It's been "enjoyable" enough, in the sense that there's always the thrill of, "What if we're wrong, and something comes of this?" but it was always a fool's hope from the start.

NorthCarolinaLiberty
10-16-2013, 02:19 AM
Whew, that was close! Desperate panic almost made me shit myself.

kcchiefs6465
10-16-2013, 02:34 AM
If government workers start working and no one is around to hear it...

CPUd
10-16-2013, 02:52 AM
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LOL Randolph and Mortimer

Keith and stuff
10-16-2013, 04:18 AM
How exciting. Will it be a complete capitulation to Obama or a complete and total capitulation to Obama? Inquiring minds want to know!

According to the article, the only thing the GOP gets out of it is means testing for ObamaCareLess. Something already included in the law. Obama can sign this and then continue to not enforce the law, if he wants. I don't see this passing as the GOP gets nothing from this. Oh well, the government shutdown may end up costing the economy billions and hurting the GOP and the country as a whole.

shane77m
10-16-2013, 06:27 AM
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LOL Randolph and Mortimer

I wonder if they made a bet for $1?

Scrapmo
10-16-2013, 06:30 AM
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