Posted on 09/04/2014 1:30:17 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Speaker John A. Boehner outlined the September legislative agenda in a Wednesday afternoon conference call with House Republican lawmakers, describing a scheduled 12-day session that will be “brief, but busy.”
The most pressing item on the agenda is a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown on Sept. 30, but Boehner also spoke strongly and at length, according to a read-out from a source on the call, in favor of using the remaining legislative days before the November elections to draw “a very stark contrast between ourselves and the Democrats who run Washington.”
The Republican-led House, Boehner said, “is going to spend September focused on American solutions to help get people back to work, lower costs at home and restore opportunity for all Americans.”
House Republicans’ “closing argument” before they depart for the campaign trail ahead of Election Day, Boehner said, will be moving legislation designed to have tangible results for the American people, while the “do-nothing Senate plans to spend the final legislative days before November talking about the Koch brothers.”
Boehner’s comments mirrored an early August memo from Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., alerting members that leadership would be taking dozens of jobs and energy bills that have already been passed individually by the House and bundling them together in packages to send over to the Senate again — a move intended to put more pressure on the chamber’s Democratic leadership.
With the GOP almost certain to retain control of the House in the 114th Congress, the chamber’s Republicans now appear to be rallying to help tilt the balance of power in the Senate.
I hate it when the GOP-e accepts the enemy’s premise right off the bat by saying we need to “get people back to work”.
For the smart debater, it automatically begs the question of just what caused so many people to be out of work in the first place. But since the GOP-e are liberals, they aren’t going to bring that up.
When someone has a seared conscience, shame is impossible.
Harry Reid, B. Hussein Obama, Eric The Red Holder, Plugs Biden, Nazi Pelozi all fit into that category.
"....“What most Democrats know is that Orman would be better than Pat Roberts, and we want Roberts out. We wanted to win, this is the year to win, and Chad Taylor couldn’t be that candidate,” Reeves told The Hill.
He added: “Orman may not be with us on everything, and he may not be with us on a lot of things, but you take what you can get.”
Roberts’s best shot, some speculated, would have been if Taylor and Orman split the anti-Roberts vote and he eked out a win.
That becomes tougher in a head-to-head matchup with the independent, with the libertarian expected to draw a small sum of the vote. Roberts’s team plans to paint Orman as a Democrat and tie him to the national Democratic Party, noting his tens of thousands of dollars in contributions to Democratic candidates and the fact he previously considered running for Senate as a Democrat....."
<><> (1) Republicans hold a four-point lead (43/39) on the generic Congressional ballot, a measure that traditionally favors Democrats. Including leaners, the margin is unchanged (46/42). Republicans have a strong edge on this question among independent (+15) and middle class voters (+11). And then there’s this, with all the obvious caveats about the reliability of small sub-samples firmly in place:
“In states with a competitive US Senate race, Republicans hold a sixteen point advantage (52%-36%) on this generic ballot.” I suspect 16 percentage points is outside even the most ardent skeptic’s margin of error.
<><> (2) President Obama is a drag on his party. A majority of likely 2014 voters disapprove of his job performance (44/51), with strong disapproval outpacing strong approval by 18 points (27/45).
<><> (3) The public’s overall mood is quite sour. Just 21 percent of respondents say the country is on the right track, with fully 70 percent saying America is on the wrong track. Other polling on this question is similarly grim.
<><> (4) When the two parties go head-to-head, Republicans hold clear advantages on several of the issues that are most likely to drive the 2014 campaign: Economy: GOP +7, Federal budget/spending: GOP +13, Taxes: GOP +6, Foreign policy: GOP +10, Immigration +7
<><> (5) Finally, a word on voter enthusiasm and intensity, again via the pollsters: The vote intensity of Republican voters is strong – a net twelve-points more than their Democratic counterparts (Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com
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OMG---those figures mean Dummycrats' voter fraud machine will go into overdrive. Watch out for flying tacos.
Valerie's on the phone w/ Mexican cartels and drug lords as we type......speeding up deliveries of taco boxes full of “eight balls” of cocaine baggies delivered by latino mules..... used as bribes to get Dummycrat votes.
The cartels are rounding up latino "politiqueras" to work for desperate Democrat candidates:
<><> to encourage people to vote Democrat,
<><> to bring latino Democrats to the polls,
<><> to ensure that ignorant latinos voters select the Democrat candidate,
<><> to pay-off illiterate latino voters for voting Democrat.
Vote-crazed Dummycrats need assurances that swarms of latino campaign workers will distribute cocaine in baggies to campaign workers, and $10 bills in exchange for the "ignoramusitos" to vote Democrat.
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(Sniffle) I'm just worried sick this will take time from Dummycrats' favorite occupation---wire-transferring tax dollars to numbered accounts offshore (sob).
What the GOPe says may demonstrate a slight (stark) contrast, but what they do shows no contrast at all.
Blah, blah, blah...
American solutions to help get people back to work, lower costs at home and restore opportunity for all Americans.”
Gobblety Gook. Doesn’t really say anything.
This is an utter waste of time and effort.
Demonic-rats have no shame.
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