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    Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir View Post
    Lemur offering suggestions during meetings hardly constitutes a plan.
    Making detailed offers in private meetings sounds like something you do when you're serious about reaching an agreement. Passing a bill that nobody but the Tea Party will support, on the other hand, is un-serious. Let's say President 44 wrote up all of the offers he has made to Boehner and put them out on the web in a PDF. Do you think that would change anything? Bring us any closer to a deal? Didn't think so. The republicans are fully aware of what compromises 44 is willing to make.

    Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir View Post
    He is the one who stormed out of these meetings* and neither he nor his mouthpieces have put forward a concrete budget proposal.
    Re: storming, do you really want to go there? Do you really want to get into who has been more rude and impossible? 'Cause there's plenty of that to go around.

    Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir View Post
    Instead he is trying to scare old people by stating that we won't be able to pay social security
    A sudden and unplanned 44% reduction in federal budget means many will have to do without. Debt service must be paid. Soldiers must be paid. So I don't know how unrealistic it is to eye Social Security and say, "You're going to have to wait a bit while this gets sorted out."
    Last edited by Lemur; 07-29-2011 at 18:52.

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