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Post by jdredd on Sept 17, 2013 0:40:45 GMT -5
www.newrepublic.com/article/114728/boehner-and-obama-cant-avoid-government-shutdown"Even so, if this were the only obstacle to an agreement, we might still avoid a government shutdown. After all, we’ve been in situations before where the null-set logic looked ironclad, only to have one side or the other back down at the last minute. Back in 2011, Republicans agreed to a debt-ceiling increase in exchange for Obama’s embrace of the sequester, which averted a debt default that looked imminent. At the end of last year, Republicans allowed taxes to rise on the highest income earners to avoid going over the dreaded fiscal cliff. What makes this time is different is that, in addition to having carved out hardline positions, neither side has an incentive to back down. In 2011, Obama was willing to give on his demand that revenue increases accompany spending cuts because he understood the apocalyptic consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling. In late 2012, Republicans knew that the alternative to a small tax increase was for taxes to rise automatically by a much larger amount. This time, on the other hand, every party to the negotiation has reason to welcome the government shutdown that would result if they can’t reach a deal." I guess this is inevitable when you have one party full of people who hate their own government. I hope they remember this: In one form or another, we WILL have some form of government, and they might like the next one even less.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 18, 2013 16:58:19 GMT -5
www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/house-republicans-plan-friday-vote-on-defunding-obamacare/2013/09/18/bbcc9d66-206e-11e3-b7d1-7153ad47b549_story.html?hpid=z1"House Republican leaders announced Wednesday morning that they would take a risky double-barreled attack on President Obama’s health-care law, making it the cornerstone fight over government funding due to expire Sept. 30 and the effort to lift the Treasury’s borrowing authority. Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), flanked by his leadership team, told reporters that the stopgap government funding bill that they will advance Friday would yield to conservative demands of including a rider to block funding for the law commonly known as Obamacare. In addition, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) laid out his party’s legislative grab bag of requests that will be attached to a bill that would lift the debt ceiling, including a delay of the health law, an overhaul of the tax code and approval of an energy pipeline running from Canada to the gulf coast." So what exactly are the GOP afraid of in Obamacare? That people might like it too much? Like Obama has any intention of giving up his one domestic policy achievement. He will go down with THAT ship. So who will Americans blame for a dysfunctional government in 2014? The suspicion just might be on those people who have never have anything good to say about our Federal government, don't you think? But I've been surprised before.
That noise you hear is the Chinese laughing.
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Post by Tired in CV on Sept 19, 2013 5:42:48 GMT -5
Congress has exempted not only themselves, but more critically, they exempted all of their aides, administrative staff, etc. (all others who work for Congressmen) because of the hardship Obamacare would cause them. What is special for those workers? It will be just as hard on the workers (and businesses) outside of Congress. Congress has just admitted to the people that Obamacare is NOT ready (if ever) to be presented to the people. It puts to much hardship on businesses and people and gives the government to much power!
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Post by jdredd on Oct 2, 2013 15:06:30 GMT -5
It remains to be seen if American voters want to put those people who hate their own government in charge of it.
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Post by Tired in CV on Oct 3, 2013 4:25:41 GMT -5
It remains to be seen if American voters want to put those people who hate their own government in charge of it. They have already done that with Obama and his administration, a good portion of the Democrats as well. I will admit that there seems to be a handful of Republicans but they are eclipsed by the other party.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 5, 2013 15:10:07 GMT -5
After the GOP defeat in 2012, there was a lot of talk of how the GOP needed to "rebrand" itself to get more younger, racially diverse voters. Well, I'm not so sure any of that is happening, all I'm seeing is a bunch of cranky old white people in the "Tea Party" shutting down our government. Am I wrong? Is the Libertarian hokum selling for young people? I don't know.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 6, 2013 0:14:23 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/nyregion/christie-seeks-to-block-marriage-ruling.html?src=recg&_r=0"Gov. Chris Christie moved on Monday to block same-sex marriages that would otherwise be allowed in late October after a judge’s ruling last week that the New Jersey Constitution requires the state to allow them. In a letter, Mr. Christie’s appointed interim attorney general, John Jay Hoffman, told the State Supreme Court that the administration would seek a stay to prevent such marriages from happening." Yep,this will help the GOP get younger, more diverse voters. NOT. Even the Libertarian ones should be turned off by this.
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Post by Tired in CV on Oct 10, 2013 5:48:01 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/nyregion/christie-seeks-to-block-marriage-ruling.html?src=recg&_r=0"Gov. Chris Christie moved on Monday to block same-sex marriages that would otherwise be allowed in late October after a judge’s ruling last week that the New Jersey Constitution requires the state to allow them. In a letter, Mr. Christie’s appointed interim attorney general, John Jay Hoffman, told the State Supreme Court that the administration would seek a stay to prevent such marriages from happening." Yep,this will help the GOP get younger, more diverse voters. NOT. Even the Libertarian ones should be turned off by this. Most voters, nationally, don't consider Mr. Christie as a GOP member since he did his campaigning for Obama! He is a heavy (to the left) leaning RINO at best. His actions do not reflect the Tea Party in the slightest. In fact, the Tea Party as a whole is more likely to embrace the gay community than the GOP is and Mr. Christie is not liked very well by the Tea Party.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 16, 2013 4:03:04 GMT -5
I think it should be obvious by now that Boehner is the worst Speaker of the House in American history.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2013 16:30:23 GMT -5
Thats why The Repukes shot themselves in the foot so many times they have no more toes, The Repukes gave the Commie Demopukes a 2014 easy win Repukes may hold the house just barely, and Commie liberal pukes will capture the WH again in 2016, No thanks to the Repukes! If they got rid of weeper of the house in last election and put a real American conservative as speaker of the house then the repukes could have win 2014 & 2016!
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Post by jdredd on Oct 18, 2013 16:09:54 GMT -5
I don't know about other lefties, but I'm not particularly thrilled by the defeat of the GOP shutdown ploy. Not losing is better than losing, of course, but it's not like Ted Cruz and his neo-anarchist ilk were killed on the battlefield. They live to throw a monkey wrench into our government another day, and are doing whatever they can to ensure that Obamacare fails.
The war never ends.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 9, 2013 5:11:46 GMT -5
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a majority of people hate Obamacare and Obama's approval rating has gone way down. The question is, will all this personal uber-demonization of Obama translate into hatred of Democrats as a whole in 2014? Obama himself has had his last campaign, so will running against Obama be a winner for the GOP?
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Post by Tired in CV on Dec 9, 2013 5:19:47 GMT -5
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a majority of people hate Obamacare and Obama's approval rating has gone way down. The question is, will all this personal uber-demonization of Obama translate into hatred of Democrats as a whole in 2014? Obama himself has had his last campaign, so will running against Obama be a winner for the GOP? Any Democrat who has supported Obama's policies could feel the heat. Particularly if they were part of those who passed Obamacare! That will be poison for them. The Republicans are already revealing their counter offer of a better healthcare plan. www.westernjournalism.com/obamas-liberal-media-big-surprise/#!
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Post by jdredd on Mar 23, 2014 4:48:15 GMT -5
I predicted the GOP would make a comeback (not all that difficult, the pendulum always swings back and forth), but after their drubbing in 2012, I didn't expect the Reps would come back quite so quickly. But I guess that's what happens when the other party makes such a botched attempt at health care reform.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 28, 2014 10:52:46 GMT -5
Possibly the most amusing things of 2014-2015 will be watching the Dumbocrats getting their head handed to them on a platter in November (Wasn't it just November 2012 when we were wondering if the Reps would ever win again unless they changed their ways?), and then watching the GOP trying, or even pretending to try, to unravel Obamacare. Not that the insurance companies will let them repeal their license to print money that OC has given them. And then will the pendulum swing back to the Dems? Not that it makes any difference to the World Plutocracy whether the Dems or Reps are in charge in America.
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