Sunday, July 31, 2011

GOP Threatening To Derail Debt Deal Over Military Cuts, Even Though Many Conservatives Have Called For Them

GOP Threatening To Derail Debt Deal Over Military Cuts, Even Though Many Conservatives Have Called For Them: "While a tentative deal has been reached to raise the debt ceiling, a number of Republican lawmakers are threatening to blow up the compromise over a provision that would trigger modest cuts to the military if the bipartisan deficit reduction committee the bill creates cannot reach an agreement. Republicans are threatening a “sizable GOP defection [...]"

What a bunch of hypocrites.

2 comments:

MotivatedinOhio said...

Well if they do, maybe we can use the 14th amendment, and just raise the debt ceiling, without making the cuts that will hurt the country.

Underground Politics said...

That would be nice. I guess Pelosi said last night that she wasn't sure if she could support it. And there were some other dems that weren't sure if they could support it either.