Still looks sketchy...with sketchy details...how about releasing the details?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/graham-criticizes-defense-spending-debt-ceiling-deal-biggest-winner-biden-defense-budgetLove how UniParty tools in Pubbies ranks are only half right at best...and what they are wrong about is so totally wrong...
Communist China does pose a clear and existential danger to the Pacific Rim nations...and it is not just their increased Naval power, its their seizure of other nations territory, the military bases it creates using artificial islands if necessary, its expanded air force and strategic nuclear arsenal...its all of that...
But this - "End the war on favorable terms in Ukraine, you’ll make China less likely to invade Taiwan." - is total bullsh*t. The Chi-Com's will do whatever they want regardless of what happens in the Ukraine sh*tshow. And the US would be in a better moral position leaving Ukraine to the Euro's to solve and leading in the Pacific Rim...but as always the imbeciles have it backwards and are making immoral links to the Ukraine sh*tshow.
As for the debt kabuki...
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hard-pass-heres-whats-debt-ceiling-deal-republicans-are-about-nukeHow do we not know we got stabbed in the back again?
And apparently the concept of only imbeciles can call lower growth a cut is alive and well in Pubbieland...
I mean who cannot love unenforceable appropriation targets and only about a 20% rollback of the DemoCommie 87k armed IRS thug provision from the corrupt 117th Congress treachery?
DemComs calling the concessions "modest"?
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/there-are-99-pages-details-debt-ceiling-deal-and-big-trap-republicansThe speeding up of eco-nut reviews looks totally crap to me...those provisions should be stripped! How about limits on Fed review instead, jackasses?!
And the open border insanity and strain on economy & surging crime rages on untouched!
Total sh*t deal to me!
Bet gutless scum goes for it...
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/there-are-99-pages-details-debt-ceiling-deal-and-big-trap-republicansLink above includes a link to full
Y'all feel like "winners"?
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H/T's-ZH
Appears some are as PO'd as most of We The People...
The Freedom Caucus has left open the possibility of filing a motion to vacate McCarthy's chair if he pushes the deal through.
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McCarthy's team thinks they can avoid disaster at today's House Rules Committee at 3pm ET today, however Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX), Ralph Norman (R-SC), and Thomas Massie (R-KY) - three conservatives who serve on the panel - may not vote for the rule which allows the Fiscal Responsibility Act to come to the floor, Punchbowl News reports.
All three have expressed reservations about the bill - however Massie may still back the rule, making him the 'key figure in today's drama,' according to Punchbowl. Of note, there are nine Republicans and four Democrats on the panel - so if Roy and Norman vote 'no' then Massie needs to vote 'yes' for the bill to survive.
Keep in mind this fascinating exchange Massie had with reporters four months ago. Our friend Erik Wasson of Bloomberg asked the Kentucky Republican if he would be “a firewall” on the Rules Committee to make sure a clean debt-limit increase never made it onto the floor. Here’s Massie:
“Over the past 10 years, I’ve been an advocate of regular order and trying to make things work, try to make this place work right. And I would be reluctant to try to use the Rules Committee to achieve a legislative outcome, particularly if it doesn’t represent a large majority of our caucus.
“So I don’t ever intend to use my position on there to hold somebody hostage or hold legislation hostage.” -Punchbowl
Meanwhile, House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry (R-PA) is holding a press conference today too.
Here's the schedule of events.
12:00ET - The conservative hard-liners in the House Freedom Caucus will hold a news conference outside the Capitol to rally opposition to the deal
15:00ET - The House Rules Committee will meet to prepare the bill for floor action.
18:30ET - The House will hold votes on unrelated bills, giving whips in both parties their first chance to count votes in person.
19:30ET - House Republican leaders will host a closed-door conference meeting, where they will discuss the debt deal. GOP leadership feels that the preliminary CBO score - $2.1 trillion in savings over the six-year life of the included caps - is something they can get behind. That said, after two years, the remaining four years of caps can be waived.
TOMORROW • 09:00ET - House Democrats will meet in a closed-door caucus meeting where they will hear from White House officials.
McCarthy's plan will be to argue that no other bill can save the federal government as much money as the current package, and that Biden never wanted to negotiate in the first place.
Assuming the legislation makes it to the floor, "it's all about the math," reports Fox News' Chad Pergram, who one GOP source said things are "not that great right now."
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Pergram was told that there are quite a few undecided votes, but that Republicans should be able to score well over a majority of their majority. That said, fewer Republicans 'yes' votes of course means that Democrats will need to make up the difference - which is a big if.https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-great-right-now-mccarthy-debt-deal-votes-question-desantis-slams-totally-inadequateMcCarthy might force it through with Massie's Rules Committee help and the help of DemoCommies...but it may end his reign as Speaker...
