COS unsure Reid has the votes

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley thinks that John Boehner’s deficit plan will die in the House, but he also says there’s no guarantee that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s administration-backed effort will fare any better.

“In today's time, everything's uncertain. I think it will pass,” he told Bloomberg’s Al Hunt in a Tuesday interview.

“It will grow in its bipartisan support, because it's the only plan that truly has a large number of real savings and has a path also with a committee that's real that could bring additional savings, because all of these numbers, we need much larger savings and a balance of additional revenue ... I wouldn't say that as it is today that that would get a large number of Republican support," he said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0711/daley_dose_669edb20-a7ff-417c-9437-0d0611b6c7fe.html

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The tradition of Papal elections comes from a time when, fed up with the dithering of the College of Cardinals, the Roman population locked them up together in a tower until they came to an agreement (or starved). Sometimes the simple approaches work best....

[valerief]

1. Well, as long as the Koch brothers can give their instructions to the teabaggers,

the show will go on. Gag the Kochs.

[sharp_stick]

2. I like the idea of locking these pricks up together

as an additional revenue generator we could set up a kind of cage match where someone has to climb a ladder to pull votes out of a hat or something and everyone else tries to stop them. We could have battle aids, a'la Thunderdome, scattered around the chamber so Nancy Pelosi could find a chainsaw and take Cantor out at the ankles with it.

[neoralme]

3. I'm for that.

[Demeter]

4. A Plague on ALL Their Houses

This is another Wall Street Con Game, and we must refuse to play.