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" Really, gang. What part of &amp;quot;I Will Not Play Games With The Debt Ceiling&amp;quot; do you not understand? What part of &amp;quot;You Have No Power To Dictate Terms&amp;quot; do you not understand? What part of &amp;quot;You Clowns Are Less Popular Than Cholera&amp;quot; do you not understand? The first step to fixing this problem is to pass a budget that reduces spending. The House has done so, and will again. The Democratic Senate has not passed a budget in almost four years, which is unfair to hardworking taxpayers who expect more from their representatives. That ends this year. We must pay our bills and responsibly budget for our future. Next week, we will authorize a three month temporary debt limit increase to give the Senate and House time to pass a budget. Furthermore, if the Senate or House fails to pass a budget in that time, Members of Congress will not be paid by the American people for failing to do their job. No budget, no pay.  This is a political ploy straight out of drivetime AM radio. Again. That&amp;#039;s the reason that congressional pay is in there as a cheap aside. (We&amp;#039;ve got &amp;#039;em now, by golly!) Cantor knows he&amp;#039;s got enough sheep in the pen to get anything passed that he wants to get passed. He&amp;#039;s still trying to make the Democrats own the spending cuts that the Republicans want, and he&amp;#039;s floundering around trying to get the political calculus changed so that the country doesn&amp;#039;t blame the Republicans if the entire economy blows up next month. (According to whose calculations is &amp;quot;the first step&amp;quot; in the process passing a budget that reduces spending? And what reductions are we talking about? If we&amp;#039;re talking about the budget the House passed last May, that&amp;#039;s the plutocrat&amp;#039;s wet dream that kept the military budget bloated while cutting food stamps and Medicare, and which every Republican in the country ran away from last fall.) If Cantor were any more transparent, he could swallow a flashlight and you could use him for a Japanese lantern. Come away from colonial Williamsburg, folks. I think your bodkins are too tight. UPDATE: The amazing things about electing cheap suits to Congress is that they fold like, well, cheap suits. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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