Obama just gave a press statement.
Says the leaders of both parties in both chambers have reached an agreement “that will reduce the deficit and avoid default.”
Deal is $1 trillion in spending cuts, but not “so abruptly that a drag on our economy.”
Second part of agreement will have further reductions based on bipartison...
Thanks to Katie for helping out this afternoon with updates, as I was traveling.
I’ve heard bits and pieces, and posted last night the tentative deal. Apparently there will not be any vote tonight, which is a good thing to me because we should get to see what’s in the bill before...
The Senate’s cloture vote on Harry Reid’s debt bill just failed 50-49.
What now? McConnell says an agreement with President Obama is on the horizon:
McConnell said he is “very very close to being able . . . to recommend to my members...
We don’t know all the details of the negotiations between Mitch McConnell and the White House which apparently are closing in on an agreement, but one thing is clear, Harry Reid has become a sideshow.
The master of the Senate was left to denouncing Mitch McConnell as, basically, a liar for saying...
Thanks to reader Jeff for forwarding this link in response to the Drug Addict video I posted yesterday.
I remember this video when it first surfaced, but it seems particularly timely to play it again:
Things seem, maybe, possibly heading towards some sort of debt
ceiling deal negotiated by Mitch McConnell directly with the White
House. Harry Reid just took to the floor of the Senate to
announce that the vote on cloture on his bill will be postponed
from 1 a.m. until noon 1...
This is the latest in a serieson the use of the race card for political gain:
Democrats in South Carolina are angry (h/t Instapundit) that Gov. Nikki Haley checked the box “white” on a voter registration card a decade ago:
The South Carolina Democratic Party tried Thursday to make Haley out as a...
Forty three Republican Senators have signed a letter telling Harry Reid not to bother with his bill (do not click on link until you consider bonus question below):
Forty-three GOP senators on Saturday signed a letter addressed to Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) express...
Maybe he should stop issuing demands. That would help.
How about he gives us his plan today? Via Politico:
A frequent commenter quoted this post by Erick Erickson at RedState:
A week ago, the United States House of Representatives sent a bipartisan measure to the United States Senate where it fell five votes short of a majority.
Today, John Boehner sent over legislation that couldn’t even get all the Republicans to support...
I saw this ad on a Frank Luntz focus group segment last night on Hannity.
The lines for both Democrats and Republicans went through the roof.
Senate just voted to table the Boehner bill. No surprise, but the vote was 59-41, which means some Republicans voted to table it. (Added, the Republican votes to table were DeMint, Hatch, Lee, Graham, Vitter, Paul,)
Claire McCaskill is complaining the Mitch McConnell told Harry Reid that he will not negotiate...
