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BREAKING: GOP Counters WH Offer on Fiscal Cliff, Embraces Bowles-Simpson Variant

lois01 Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 5:27 PM
so you're not really serious about reducing our debt; good to know. Every little bit helps!!
wdwrkr Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 10:09 PM
Let's stop gov't money to Planned Parenthood, PBS, Solyndra, ObamaCare, etc......every little bit helps
americathebeautiful Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 5:46 PM
Alas MacQ, you are making far too much sense and making sense is NOT what lois can deal with.
MacQ - Texas Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 5:34 PM
Lois: If your kid was running wild with your credit card, you'd ask him to rein in the spending before you gave him more money, no?

Well, this move by Speaker Boehner doesn't exactly follow my Simpson-Bowles playbook to a tee -- but Erskine Bowles does make an appearance, and Republicans are going on (realistic, reasonable) offense.  In a new letter addressed to the president, House Republican leaders firmly reject the president's non-starter "proposal," pointedly decline to counter with an equally unrealistic wish list, and offer an alternative bipartisan solution:

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