Posted on 01/28/2015 4:54:30 PM PST by alexmark1917
When Paul Martin was paying down our debt & creating surpluses in Canada, Bush was giving the US a war debt. #CdnPolipic.twitter.com/BvA5JrrDus
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) January 19, 2015
Mo Brooks: Republicans Back NSA Spying, Only Voted Against It To Avoid Campaign Attacks
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) told constituents on Tuesday that many Republicans in fact supported the National Security Agency's domestic spying programs, and had only recently opposed a measure to scale back the agency's broad data surveillance in order to avoid attracting primary challengers and attacks.
Speaking at a town hall in Morgan County, Brooks -- who last month voted against a failed amendment meant to halt the NSA's bulk collection of phone record data -- brushed off the measure's final vote count. The bill received strong bipartisan support in the House and fell just a few votes short of passage. A total of 94 Republicansbacked the the measure, sponsored by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), but Brooks claimed the vote wasn't indicative of his GOP colleagues' actual stance on the issue.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/mo-brooks-republicans-nsa_n_3720896.html
Senate Democrats support White House NSA proposal
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/senate-democrats-white-house-nsa-proposal-105012.html
Change: Democrats Suddenly Pro-War, For Some Strange Reason
Katie's already previewed the president's big week ahead, as a Congressional vote on intervening in Syria looms. According to NBC's whip count, things are looking dicey on Capitol Hill: As of this writing, 27 Senators are solid/lean "no" votes, 23 are committed or lean in favor of intervention, and 49 are undecided. In the House, the picture is bleaker for the administration. Fully 235 members are strong or likely "no's" at the moment, well past the requisite threshold (217) to defeat the resolution. Twenty-six House members support the resolution, or lean that way, with 172 undecided. The president aims to shift the momentum with a speech tomorrow night at 9pm ET. In the interim, however, the White House isbotching politics 101, spurning and ignoring potential allies from across the aisle:
“I don’t even know who my White House liaison is,” a frustrated Representative Adam Kinzinger, who supports military action in Syria, said on This Week this morning. The Illinois Republican told George Stephanopoulos that his office reached out to the White House to help “round up support” for authorization last week. “I haven’t heard back from the White House yet — I haven’t heard back from anyone,” he said. Kinzinger praised President Obama’s assessment of this situation in Syria, but said the “trust deficit” with Congress will prevent it from passing.
Republicans Are Trying To Trick The American People Into Supporting Another Iraq War
House passes $1.1 trillion spending bill after week of drama
In a big win for House Republicans and President Barack Obama, the House passed a $1 trillion-plus funding bill Thursday night that will keep the government open into next year.
The final vote, which came after a high drama day of behind the scenes arm twisting and vote counting, was 219 to 206.
The Senate passed a two-day funding bill following the House vote, avoiding a government shutdown starting at midnight Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), however, warned that the “cromnibus,” as the massive spending package has come to be called on Capitol Hill, may not pass the Senate until Monday. Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/2015-gop-budget-back-up-plan-113498.html#ixzz3PpcwkqEb
House GOP testing support for debt plans
Obama Gets Debt Ceiling Support From Harry Reid, Senate Democrats
Democrat and Republican politicians love to pretend to argue while working together to support the NSA, War, Spending, and Debt.
— John Yowan (@Yowan) January 22, 2015
Fun fact: the US owes $125 billion in interest alone on the debt it carries for the War in Afghanistan.
— Christopher Moraff (@cmoraff) January 17, 2015
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As George Wallace said, "There ain't a dimes worth of difference between 'em."
Time for a third party folks unless you want business as usual until we are destroyed as a nation.
Trying to separate the Bush Derangement Syndrome from the rest of anything else in this isn’t worth a cup of warm spit.
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