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

thom112 Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 7:13 PM
Well said my friend. The time is getting close.
puravida_gringo Wrote: Dec 03, 2012 7:20 PM
You got it. It's getting weird in this country now....a bunch of children running it and control freaks to boot. Oh, I bought snap caps for my 9mm, great decision. I'm already seeing improvement on the target. The bulls eye is not liking me!
SW makes a nice AR-15 type rifle in 22LR. It seems like a good idea to get one since the ammo is so cheap, stable and readily available.
Thank God I live in SE Virginia! We are fairly conservative here and people believe in being armed.

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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