Comments on: Hot rhetoric on debt-limit vote

By: NRCC launches debt-limit calls against Garamendi | Political Blotter

NRCC launches debt-limit calls against Garamendi | Political Blotter — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:54:58 +0000

[...] a dozen nationwide in which it’s launching constituent calls related to Tuesday’s kabukiesque House vote on raising the national debt limit. Here’s the script: Hello, I’m calling from the National Republican Congressional Committee [...]

By: Jay Banks

Jay Banks — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:28:55 +0000

If they really were serious about reducing the debt, they would try to find their budget cut solutions by reducing the military budget. Why does the US have to maintain so many foreign sites? It should let those other countries solve their own problems.

By: politically frustrated

politically frustrated — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:49:59 +0000

This is a great example of pure political posturing. Teeing up a vote that is meant to fail in order to look “tough on debt.” The time could have been spent negotiating actual terms that will have to be ironed out in order for the debt ceiling to be raised. And we all know it will be.