Posted on 12/11/2014 3:22:19 PM PST by cotton1706
Why the right and left have teamed up to sink a bill, which is supported by the White House and the GOP leadership, that would keep the government open until next fall.
With a government shutdown looming, Nancy Pelosi and Michele Bachmann are on the same side. And the other team includes Barack Obama and John Boehner. So how did such strange alliances get formed?
The “cromnibus”, the budget bill that would avoid a shutdown and keep the government open until next October, has become bogged in controversy as conservative Republicans and many Democrats have joined together in opposition. But, unsurprisingly, they have very different issues with the bill.
Democrats are up in arms about several policy riders attached to the cromnibus. In particular, a provision that would amend the Dodd-Frank financial reform act by weakening on restrictions on big banks trading derivatives. The result has led influential Democrats like Elizabeth Warren to go to the barricades in opposition to the bill and helped push Pelosi and other members of the House Democratic caucus to try and sink the legislation, which was developed in bipartisan negotiations between House Republicans and Senate Democrats.
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In their opinion, this would allow conservatives to lay a marker down on immigration while avoiding a shutdown for the time being. Instead, it would set the stage for a massive showdown in February, when Republicans would control both the House and the Senate. Then, conservatives hope that they can finally defund the President’s executive order on immigration."
Best plan!
To be honest, I don’t know what the official difference is between the two. Either way, it’s a directive from the Chief Executive.
LoL.
BTW, there is a difference between republicans and repugnicans.
“Ok C1706 but neither have the weight of law.”
Oh, absolutely. I didn’t mean to imply that they did. But this business of whether it was an order or not an order is just ridiculous. They like to use these different terms to confuse people, but it still boils down to the fact that the Chief Executive is directing agencies to do things which he is not empowered to do.
Strange bedfellows to be sure. Symptomatic of a system so far broken and corrupted that it is at it’s breaking point.
It does seem to be the best plan, which means that it is the least likely to prevail. I, for one, thing that the fear of a government shutdown destroying the Republicans is a straw dog. Certainly, the media will try to play it that way, but they are quickly going the way of Lena Dunham and the Rolling Stone Magazine.
fock the cronybus
Dogs playing with cats, chickens running with foxes, Libtards joining with Conservatives, what the hell is wrong with this place!!?
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
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