Posted on 03/20/2013 3:21:29 PM PDT by Jean S
A short-term funding measure that would ensure the government continues operating beyond this month cleared the Senate Wednesday, awaiting only final House passage on Thursday to avert any possibility of a shut-down.
The process of approving the proposal has been unfolding remarkably smoothly for a divided Congress that has gone to the brink repeatedly over spending issues.
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Boehners pubies cave again.
Great! so we can keep funding duck penis and shrimp treadmill studies and allow the Wookie to spend like even Trump can’t!
In other words the Republicans roll over yet again.
Boehner serves the DNC and Obama WHATEVER they want.
The GOP is as useless as a third teat on a bull.
I thought all spending bills were supposed to originate in the house.
Ugh, how do we ditch Boner. I mean Boehner?
New meaning to the term “loyal opposition”.......
In other words the Republicans roll over yet again.
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It’s what Republicans do. It’s what they are.
A 8-9 month CR funding kenyancare and everything else is now “short term”. Our government is broken and into the dust bin of history we go.
It's not only a bad idea, it is fatal to the society that adopts the practice.
Passed 73-26 I see, so plenty of GoP votes to help Obama along. I’d say ‘surprisingly’ but of course, it isn’t surprising at all :)
There is no more Republican party. It is that simple.
AARGH!!! Does anyone have a list of the votes? What is wrong with the Republicans? Why do they continue to do this to us? I’m so disgusted, I could puke.
Emphasis added. Anyone else remember the Republicans insisting any increase in a particular part of the budget be OFFSET somewhere else? (I recall it being about unemployment compensation...) And the Obama cult wouldn't budge? They're budging...but don't expect to hear that very loudly from the media.
Really, guys, let's quit trusting the media...they lie and hide the truth. How often? ALL THE TIME.
About $10 Billion will be transferred to O&M, to be fought amongst the 4 services. It won't be enough to stop the Sequester damage.
Worse, the Sequester lasts 10 years.
The military will still be crippled. Training and operations will still be gutted. The 2011 cut of $487 Billion over 10 years is still in place, and tens upon tens of thousands of soldiers, airmen, marines, and seamen will be tossed out of the ranks.
So all those who wanted massive discretionary cuts to the military, but ZERO cuts to Entitlements (the real cause of our debt and deficits) - you can celebrate now. Good luck with that.
NO! NO! NO! Do not fund this monster anymore. We must start the process of terminating Fedzilla.
No doubt in my mind...Boehner is Obama’s Monica Lewinsky.
yep sure can.
chewbacca can have the house to herself and her family while the people house which the people pay for including toilet roll and the cooks etc are closed to us.
the founders must be turning in their graves to see this country and the hosue closed.
Imagine chewbacca haivng her parties, going on vacation and free range of our house and thinks we the people are not good enough to go into what she thinks her house
The repubilcrats are complicit in removing the sequestration cuts!! The Bas5ards have not only caved but there is REVENUE increases in this POC.I am totally sick to my gut in this SH1T1! We must react harshly NOW!!
I hear and second that frustration, I;m sick of this crap.
chewbacca has that house to herself which we pay for and now her family lives there of which again we pay for, toilet roll, chefs, food, heat etc.
The GOP led by the cowards are useless pieces of crap
“It’s not only a bad idea, it is fatal to the society that adopts the practice.”
Remind me...that’s pretty much the route that the EU and Japan have taken, is it not?
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They’re saving their political capital for a fight over the debt ceiling.
Europe and Japan are two societies that have no money left over for anything after they pay their medical bills ~ if, in fact, they pay them.
And something else I just found out today. Government contractors still get to work their 40 hour work week whereas the federal employees don't! Again, where's the justice in that?
I honestly believe now that at the end of the calendar year thousands of civilian federal employees are going to be RIF'd, and yours truly could very likely be amongst them.
No one in my office thought the furloughs would start. I told them it would. "Oh," they would say "the anti-Obama doomsayer is at it again." Now I get to stay, "I told ya so."
Now that RIF's look like a certainty at the end of the calendar year they will really start bugging out. Will I once again be able to say, "I told ya so?"
We all just got screwed by Congress and the President.
More like a “loyal suppository.”
Amen. We must unite.
Dude, let's face it, the only "harsh reaction" they would understand now is the feeling of being dragged out in the street and thrown to the curb.
Unless you are advocating a complete overthrow of the US Government, nothing else will accomplish what is required to save this nation, short of a genuine Christian revival that is.
The voting block is now primarily made up of the "takers" and there are not enough of the "makers" to vote the Marxists / Communists / Socialists out of office.
We are witnesses to the degeneration and destruction of a nation. This will not be a pleasant experience.
We is saved!
I'd be organizing a lawsuit the purpose of which would be to cut the hours on non-vets first, or let them go ~ whichever.
NAF and FMS employees in the DoD will be able to work too. So, Italy will get their support, and the base social worker will be busy...
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