Biden, McCarthy to discuss debt limit in talks on Wednesday

[News Junkie]

Source: Associated Press

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Sunday he is looking forward to discussing with President Joe Biden a “reasonable and responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling ” when the two meet Wednesday for their first sit-down at the White House since McCarthy was elected to the post.

McCarthy, R-Calif., said he wants to address spending cuts along with raising the debt limit, even though the White House has ruled out linking those two issues together as the government tries to avoid a potentially devastating financial default.

The speaker pledged that cuts to Social Security and Medicare would be off the table.

“I know the president said he didn’t want to have any discussion (on cuts), but I think it’s very important that our whole government is designed to find compromise,” McCarthy told CBS' “Face the Nation.” “I want to sit down together, work out an agreement that we can move forward to put us on a path to balance — and at the same time not put any of our debt in jeopardy at the same time.”

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/biden-mccarthy-discuss-debt-limit-170506621.html

[ananda]

1. No compromise.

Do not give in to terrorists.

[thesquanderer]

17. Right. And there's no compromise position between paying your bills and not. n/t

[Walleye]

2. Joe: "Mr.Speaker, go fuck yourself"

Kevin wants to negotiate over the debt ceiling the way Putin wants to negotiate over the end of the Ukrainian war. “Just give me everything I want”

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. What kind of talks are they if not negotiations?

Are they going to discuss what type of paper Kevin will print the clean bill on for Biden to sign?

[cstanleytech]

4. Code for he plans to start shooting the hostages if his demands are not met?

[BOSSHOG]

5. Oh Kev, that's funny

Who instructed you to say “reasonable and responsible?” A Koch lawyer with no integrity? Is there any other kind?

The only reasonable and responsible thing for republicans to do is voluntarily go to jail. If you love America, that’s exactly what you would do.

[EarlG]

6. Bit of a misleading headline from AP

It implies that the President and McCarthy are negotiating over the debt limit. But all the quotes by McCarthy are aspirational — they’re about how he wants to discuss the debt limit with Biden.

Meanwhile the quote from the White House is: "The President will ask Speaker McCarthy if he intends to meet his Constitutional obligation to prevent a national default, as every other House and Senate leader in U.S. history has done … He will underscore that the economic security of all Americans cannot be held hostage to force unpopular cuts on working families.”

[BOSSHOG]

8. HolyCow EarlG

Kev has conservative values so everything will be alright. He represents patriots who only think they know what is best for “them.” Wait a minute. I’m starting to observe the nefariousness of it all. Republicans want to destroy anything for no apparent reason. With a little work they could get that on a bumper sticker.

[elleng]

13. THANKS for info, EarlG.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

15. AP misleads? You don't say!? The we don't negotiate with terrorist stand of the WH is giving

the corporate Press conniptions.

Stand firm, abandon terrorism and we talk! It’s a good stand.

[Skittles]

7. not a disucssion

Biden giving McCarthy the FACTS

[jgmiller]

9. McConnell already hung McCarthy out to dry

He said he doesn't see a need to do anything he'll let McCarthy handle it for now and then he said they will not cut SS or Medicare. Basically he's saying, "You created the mess you've got in the house you deal with it." At some point as long as the dems don't give in there will be some very uncomfortable calls coming from the money people to McCarthy telling him he needs to make a choice; either they pull their donations or he accepts that the crazy crew will go after him after he gives in.

[BOSSHOG]

10. That's totally awesome

So Kev you have two choices. You are either a fucking whore or you are a run of the mill whore. But you can always fall back on the fact that you have conservative values. Conservative Nirvana. Am I a Whore or am I whore? Maybe the title of kevs new tell all about Me The Speaker.

[DallasNE]

11. What Does McCarthy Mean By "Balance"

That implies to me that you need to also look at revenue in order for there to be balance. What revenue would he be putting on the table? I certainly hope not his sick 30% sales tax. Or was he just being loose with the tongue?

[3Hotdogs]

14. Yours is the first post on D.U. that I have read, that mentions revenue.

Dems need to counter less spending with raise taxes on the top 10%

[lastlib]

12. Why, SURE, Kev, there IS a....

"reasonable and responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling"--raise the debt ceiling and PAY THE F--KING BILLS we owe!! And then STFU about it!

Of course, if you really want to cut out government waste, we can cut the Speaker's pay to ZERO--how's that for cutting wasteful spending, Kev?

[Hotler]

16. Is this just for photos? A 15-second phone call to tell Kev to

go pound sand is all it should take.

[Zorro]

18. Congress authorized these expenditures

Congress is obliged to now pay for those items. Case closed.

If McCarthy is concerned about the budget deficit, now that he has a majority in the House he has the opportunity in the next submitted budget to slash all those programs that he deems wasteful and unnecessary.

Let's see him exercise some leadership and get consensus on those cuts. Heh.