Congress Bends Over America and Screws Her

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed legislation designed to keep the government from defaulting on its debts. The measure also sets a course for reducing the federal deficit in the future.

The Senate, where support is stronger, is expected to take up the bill on Tuesday, the deadline for Congress to act before the government loses its ability to pay all its bills.

The 269-161 vote in the House came after Republican leaders spent the day urging recalcitrant conservatives to support the bill.

The AP

Republicans, Democrats, what is really the difference between the two?  They, in a very bipartisan manner, just decided to add another $2 trillion to our already bubbling over $14.5 trillion debt.  This move will not save our economy.  What it will do is put our AAA credit rating in further jeopardy, stack up more IOUs to be reckoned with down the road, and put us another step forward to national insolvency.  These $1 trillion in cuts they promise are spread out over ten years and most don’t even begin until 2013, meaning the vast majority of them will never see the light of day.

Our leaders have not learned the lessons of last year’s elections so apparently they need to be taught it again.  Congressmen who voted for this bill need to be shown the door.

Here is how the vote went down in the House.  The Senate is scheduled to vote on the measure tomorrow and is expected to pass it.

For the plan and eventual bankruptcy

• Renee Ellmers (R-NC-02)
• Virginia Foxx (R-NC-05)
• Howard Coble (R-NC-06)
• Sue Myrick (R-NC-09)
• Patrick McHenry (R-NC-10)
• Heath Shuler (D-NC-11)
• Jim Clyburn (D-SC-06)

Against the plan, a vote for fiscal responsibility:

• G.K. Butterfield (D-NC-01)
• Walter Jones (R-NC-03)
• David Price (D-NC-04)
• Mike McIntyre (D-NC-07)
• Larry Kissell (D-NC-08)
• Mel Watt (D-NC-12)
• Brad Miller (D-NC-13)
• Tim Scott (R-SC-01)
• Joe Wilson (R-SC-02)
• Jeff Duncan (R-SC-03)
• Trey Gowdy (R-SC-04)
• Mick Mulvaney (R-SC-05)

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