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GOP To Raise the Debt Ceiling Wednesday

deprogramming services Wrote: Jan 22, 2013 11:47 AM
Obama will steal every penny he can from us and our children and their children, and he will do as much damage as he can to the Constitution and freedom embodied in it. He proved this in his first term (as well as during his short term in the Senate), and he showed very conclusively that the main force of his attack was being reserved for his second and more flexible term, as he told the Russian diplomat. The only checks on Obama's power now are a High Court that still barely has a kind of majority of kind of patriots, and one house of Congress with a majority of politicians who claim to be fiscally responsible and somewhat loyal to the Constitution. Time will tell how responsible and how loyal the House Republicans are.

Despite talking for months about using the debt ceiling as leverage to get Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to pass a budget, spending cuts and entitlement reform, House Republicans are expected to vote on a temporary debt ceiling increase tomorrow.

House leaders on Monday unveiled legislation to permit the government to continue borrowing money through May 18 in order to stave off a first-ever default on U.S. obligations. It is slated for a vote on Wednesday.  

Although President Obama is getting a temporary break from the debt ceiling fight as a result of this...

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