Congress: Making the sale

“House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) began selling his conference on the deal struck late Sunday during a call and slideshow presentation, assuring them ‘there's nothing in this framework that violates our principles,’” The Hill writes.

Roll Call’s anti-CW: “Speaker John Boehner’s right flank might not be the conservative albatross that moderates and Democrats have made it out to be, if last spring’s continuing resolution vote and this summer’s debt fight are any indication.”

The Hill has this take: “The debt-limit deal has put Nancy Pelosi in an awkward, and politically powerful position.”

The AP profiles the Senate’s Tea Party standard-bearer, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC): “The man behind the revolutionizing is a 59-year-old grandfather who used to play drums in a band called Salt and Pepper but now sticks to the guitar. His mother once ran a school of dance and decorum out of his boyhood home in Greenville, S.C. He has little use, however, for many Washington rituals — backslapping, small talk, Sunday shows or fancy dinners with other political players.” 

“Senate Republican conservatives say they do not plan to delay a bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling, giving Congress a chance to make the Aug. 2 deadline set by President Obama,” The Hill reports.

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It's a bad deal but it will pass.

    Reply#1 - Mon Aug 1, 2011 9:16 AM EDT

    As a pundit stated last night "the Age of Austerity has begun. It is only the beginning" The poor and the working class already know this. But is everyone else ready for this new Age?

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    Reply#2 - Mon Aug 1, 2011 9:16 AM EDT
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    We have to hope the actual cuts don't take effect until midway through 2012 at least. That way, the economy can get up a head of steam before the government begins siphoning money and jobs out of an already fragile economy.

    I'm disappointed in the President who meekly suggested in his remarks last night that he will 'try' to persuade Congress that greater revenues are needed.

    If Defense spending is cut in meaningful ways, then I'll feel better about this bad deal.

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    Reply#3 - Mon Aug 1, 2011 9:19 AM EDT

    Enjoy your progressive "Satan Sandwich"!

    Fancy That fancies that the Government creates private sector jobs. You have it backwards. Government cuts, if they are real, will only help the private sector get out from under strangulation by government tax and regulation...

    Where are the usual moonbat commenters here? They must be huddled up in a secret George Soros Conference, getting their lame talking points straight.

    "tax the rich" "evil corporations" "corporate jets" blah blah blah

      #3.1 - Mon Aug 1, 2011 10:45 AM EDT
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      Enjoy your "Satan Sandwich", moonbats ! Would you like to eat a little crow with it?

        Reply#4 - Mon Aug 1, 2011 10:40 AM EDT
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