Senate plots House GOP squeeze

The Hill ^ | October 12, 2013 | Alexander Bolton with Peter Schroeder and Erik Wasson

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Obama meets with Senate Dems on debt, government shutdown "President Obama met for about an hour and 15 minutes with Senate Democratic leaders on Saturday as talks intensify in the Senate to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.

The White House said it would provide no readout of the meeting.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) attended the meeting...................."

[Ann Archy]

Cadre of EVIL and VILENESS.

[BigEdLB]

[Ann Archy]

Cockraoches are not EVIL and VILE like Reid, Durbin, Murray, and Chuck the Schmuck....and the KING of EVIL, Obama.

[spokeshave]

The Collins plan would fund the government at an annual rate of $986 billion for six months; extend the debt limit until Jan. 31, 2014; delay the medical device tax for two years and provide federal agencies greater flexibility to manage spending levels under sequestration.

It would also set up an income verification process to prevent fraud in the healthcare insurance exchanges and convene bicameral budget talks with an end-date of Jan. 15, 2014.

So it will need more financial info from applicants....AND...another set of software programs to do the verification......AND...the "Navigators" get more access to your financial data.

Needs to be rejected.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

More on this mess from Slate:

Quixotic Queries Question Quality! - At healthcare.gov, the plot thickens

......"This points to bad management, lack of accountability, and a broken contractor procurement process.".....

[Truth29]

Once the Marxists have seized power, the will twist and distort everything in their drive for power and control. Republicans are handicapped by the fact that Obama is quite willing to inflict whatever amount of pain and destruction on the citizenry to assure his victory. Once again, the GOP is losing the messaging fight both because the major media is the enemy and because Boehner and McConnell are simply awful in representing conservative ideals. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and energized conservatives are the future of the party if the GOP has any future. The vicious attacks on Cruz are like the attacks on Palin and show just how much the GOP old guard is more aligned with the Democrats that conservatives. The current battle over the budget, debt, immigration and Obamacare will decide if there will be two parties or a Republicrat party which has a Potemkin Village illusion of a two party system.

[Venturer]

Democrats in the Senate hold this position: As soon as we win everything we want we will discuss it with you losers.

Any Republican who believes that is more stupid than Sheila Jackass Lee.

[Ben Ficklin]

So the GOP has gone from defunding ACA to delaying ACA back to defunding ACA by delaying the medical device tax?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I guess so. Clever, huh? :)

[USS Alaska]

So the GOP has gone from defunding ACA to delaying ACA back to defunding ACA by delaying the medical device tax?

The last step is defunding obamacare by pin pricking condoms.

[Gaffer]

“Risk triggering a Federal Default”

Actually, the government (actually the Federal Reserve) has been doing this monthly ever since Obama has been in office. They’re ginning up $85 billion per month out of thin air, and none of this is ‘debt-limited’...it is ether - electronic scrip. They spend half on US Treasury Notes and the other half on the stock market.

They realized they could get away with this because no one from the outside audits the Federal Reserve and because they got away with doling out TRILLIONS to foreign banks during Obama’s Incarnation Ascendency...

One big giant linguistic scam meant to instill fear even though the government has $250 Billion/month rolling in from taxes and FICA OASD and Medicare contributions. What they are worried about are the illegal entitlement payments that have no legitimate budgetary or Constitutional basis.

[11th_VA]

I think analogies of this fight to the ‘war of Northern Aggression’ are appropriate. I just haven’t figured out if this is ‘Fort Sumner’, Gettysburg, or Appomatox.

[arthurus]

That word "compromise" is thrown around a lot but there will be no compromise. The Republicans have already given in about 100% and the Đemocrats are holding out for another 50%. The longer it takes for the Republicans to cave the farther to the other side of the Democrat demands the final agreement will be. The Republicans may well be compromising at 200% of the initial kenyan demands. But, hey, that's how the game of Compromise proceeds with a wholly owned "opposition."

[mosesdapoet]

We must go after the optics (propaganda) apparatus. It’s my feeling that when each of the major outlets contributed their part to the Zimmerman affair. Their part could be singled out for public display in a combined effort so that the public at least would start questioning what they’re getting from them.

We’re paying for the 2012 dumb campaign where these issues such the ACA (Obamacare)should have been brought up but wasn’t. Now the stuff is comming out in dribs and drabs and the media is burying it. Or countering it with outright lies.

[wrencher]

Give the dems an 11th hour 3 month debt limit increase, then return to defunding ACA.

Obama probably wants a default anyway. Force the Senate’s hand and let him reject it for all to see.

[o2bfree]

GOP should defund the TV news networks. Raising taxes on the liberal media companies and outlets, and devolving the FCC so states can regulate propaganda sources would help our democracy.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cincinatus' Wife.

Any emerging deal, however, will leave ObamaCare largely intact, angering conservatives who have demanded defunding or delaying President Obama's signature achievement [sic]. "They are trying to jam us with the Senate and we are not going to roll over and take that," House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters after a Saturday morning conference meeting.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) (Red Dwarf) dismissed a six-month stopgap at House GOP funding levels.

Of course she did.

Maryland "Freak State" PING!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) (Red Dwarf) dismissed a six-month stopgap at House GOP funding levels.

Of course she did.

Maryland "Freak State" PING!