Posted on 10/15/2013 6:01:26 PM PDT by markomalley
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Tuesday he would vote for a “clean CR” to end the government shutdown.
“I’ll vote for a clean CR," Issa told CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
“Republicans in the House have always been for a clean CR increase if it meant we began the serious negotiations on the kinds of reforms that need to happen…entitlements as a shortcut for it. That's what the deal is about right now.” Democrats have pressed Republicans to bring a continuing resolutio to the floor that funds the government and does nothing else for weeks.
GOP leaders have argued the clean CR would not have the votes to pass the House, something Democrats say is not true.
House GOP leaders are now trying to get their members to approve a new measure that would fund the government through Dec. 15 and raise the debt ceiling through Feb. 7, but it is unclear if it has the votes to pass.
The bill would also prohibit lawmakers and their staffs from getting employer contributions to their ObamaCare insurance, and would prevent the Treasury Department from using "extraordinary measures" to prevent the nation from exceeding the new debt limit.
Democrats object to those measures.
Issa had previously voted for measures to fund the government as long as Obamacare is defunded or some of the law’s other provisions are delayed.
Issa reminds me of those Afghan trainees the turn on our men and try to kill them. No better
LOL...exactly what I was thinking! All hat and no effective cattle.
After watching several investigations conducted by Issa, I could not shake the feeling there is something wrong with this guy, on the one hand he would start with a powerful opening statement, on the other hand it was all down hill from there.
Who is their right mind would think that zero and dirty Harry would ever negotiate in good faith without a gun to their heads when they won’t do it in the face of default (supposedly) and shut down?
Darrell Issa: “I’ll vote for ObamaCare”
No wonder nothing happens with Benghazi investigation....Issa just another stooge
He is a traitor.
‘I’ll vote for a clean CR’ and then I’ll have an investigation!
No such thing. You will end up voting for a CR that raises spending across the board by 5% as well as eliminates all of the non-defense sequester cuts. And you will vote to continue funding of Obamacare.
If any body thought that they wouldn’t cave you must be delusional. This was all a ploy to make everyone think that they tried real hard to not fund obumbler care. Also, if you think that the main characters in the house and senate want that bill repealed also need their heads checked.
To think that either party would not like to have the ultimate power over the people then we don’t understand politics. The E-pubs like the fact the healthcare passed and that they would not be blamed for it. The Rats did the job for them. You see, we are the pawns in this game and the sooner people stop watching this sitcom and react to your freedoms being wiped out the better chance we have to surviving this game as free men.
So we find that Issa is just another go along to get along male reproductive organ. Explains why fast & furious went nowhere.
There, fixed it for you. By the time this is over, the Republicans will surrender the sequestration cuts, approve a 5% across the board spending increase, fully fund ObamaCare, repeal the medical device tax, repeal the Cadillac plan penalty on unions, and tack on a new Democrat wish list disguised as yet another 'jobs' bill.
Issa will head up a committee to investigate why the GOP-e stinks up the joint.
Conclusion: Pogo was right.
Ok....another repub tossed under bus by this board. So if I get this straight there’s 3 left. Cruz, Palin and Lee. BTW Lee’s poll numbers are catering in Utah and he very well me primaried out by a moderate. ...and this shutdown was a good idea....why?
Nice. A clean CR is Washingtonese for a blank check. Great.
Because the CONSTITUTION and LIBERTY MATTERS you IDIOT.
“Clean CR”
What, a CR funding certain programs and not others is somehow sullied?
CR’s are themselves “unclean” - it is not the normal budget process. There hasn’t been a budget since the clown show seized power.
Don’t let the Dems control the language.
Another dump on conservatives and run post? Or are you prepared to defend your assine comments?
I think we are about to get screwed again.
Never impressed by him, his “investigations” are a joke.
Primary him.
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