Obama vows to veto short-term bill

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/7/senate-leader-reid-government-headed-shutdown/ ^

[kcvl]

Eric Cantor: We Will Not Leave Town Until We Cut Spending & Get Our Fiscal House In Order

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4M63xaswWA

[Buckeye McFrog]

in ‘95 it was Clinton who vetoed a short-term extension and triggered the shutdown, everyone still blamed Republicans

[Truth is a Weapon]

The GOP Chairman needs to come out with the following quote: “The President is more interested in the taxpayers’ continuing to pay for the killing of babies than he is in continuing the essential tasks of government.”

[paulycy]

in ‘95 it was Clinton who vetoed a short-term extension and triggered the shutdown, everyone still blamed Republicans

In 95 there weren't polls showing that the American people would rather shut the govt down than raise the debt ceiling again.

[FrankR]

[kcvl]

Funding Our Troops Is A Distraction?

It’s alarming that a bill that funds our troops and could likely pass both the House and the Senate has been termed as a “distraction” by the White House. No one wants to see the government shut down, but Republicans are committed to ensuring that our men and women in uniform serving in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the world will be paid if that happens. The White House is directly jeopardizing that.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503

April 7, 2011
(House)
STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY
H.R. 1363 – Department of Defense and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011
(Rep. Rogers, R-Kentucky)

The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 1363, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes. As the President stated on April 5, 2011, if negotiations are making significant progress, the Administration would support a short-term, clean Continuing Resolution to allow for enactment of a final bill.

For the past several weeks, the Administration has worked diligently and in good faith to find common ground on the shared goal of cutting spending. After giving the Congress more time by signing short-term extensions into law, the President believes that we need to put politics aside and work out our differences for a bill that covers the rest of the fiscal year. This bill is a distraction from the real work that would bring us closer to a reasonable compromise for funding the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011 and avert a disruptive Federal Government shutdown that would put the Nation’s economic recovery in jeopardy. The Administration will continue to work with the Congress to arrive at a compromise that will fund the Government for the remainder of the fiscal year in a way that does not undermine future growth and job creation and that averts a costly Government shutdown. It is critical that the Congress send a final bill to the President’s desk that provides certainty to our men and women in military uniform, their families, small businesses, homeowners, taxpayers, and all Americans. H.R. 1363 simply delays that critical final outcome.

If presented with this bill, the President will veto it.

http://majorityleader.house.gov/blog/2011/04/funding-our-troops-is-a-distraction.html

[gruffwolf]

One of the comments I read (I think it was on Yahoo) said that a Presidental veto means that Zero is choosing to let people in DC murder babies rather than keep the government running.

Can’t wait to see that bumper sticker.

[Antoninus]

Good. Do it, Barry. Then the resulting shut-down is your fault.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[LZ_Bayonet]

"In 95 there weren't polls showing that the American people would rather shut the govt down than raise the debt ceiling again."

AND, in '95 the Republicans didn't have a Speaker who was going to cry huge, public, tears when the President signed the veto. Headline: "Big Bully Obama Brings Speaker to Tears."

[kcvl]

In 1995, Republicans controlled the House and the Senate, as opposed to the divided Congress of today. The GOP has only a third of the decision-making power in this scenario, making it much harder to pin the blame on them.

The personalities are different, too. Just as Obama lacks the political skills of Bill Clinton when it comes to making his case to the electorate, Boehner is a more sympathetic figure than Gingrich. Gingrich famously took a pounding for telling reporters that his decision to take the battle to the brink was partly due to Clinton forcing the speaker to ride in the back of Air Force One. Low-key Boehner would make a less-effective foil for Democrats.

There’s also the media environment. In many ways, 1995 was the last year of the old media world. It was the year before the launch of FOX News and the year before the Internet exploded into American life. The three broadcast television networks and the major newspapers still had a stranglehold on political news in 1995. Shaping the public narrative would be much harder for Democrats in today’s more diffuse and more balanced media world.

http://tinyurl.com/3gn4z8q