Rick
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/23/house-gop-leader-cantor-pulls-out-budget-talks/
....because the leftwingers refuse to making significant spending cuts in return for a higher debt ceiling.
Republicans have been down a similar path with the leftwing before. In the late 1980s, Reagan reluctantly agreed to a tax increase in return for a promise by the democrat congress of $2 spending cuts in return for each $1 in increased taxes. Of course, the spending cuts never happened.
"Fool me once - shame on you, fool me twice - shame on me."
....because the leftwingers refuse to making significant spending cuts in return for a higher debt ceiling.
Republicans have been down a similar path with the leftwing before. In the late 1980s, Reagan reluctantly agreed to a tax increase in return for a promise by the democrat congress of $2 spending cuts in return for each $1 in increased taxes. Of course, the spending cuts never happened.
"Fool me once - shame on you, fool me twice - shame on me."