Posted on 12/12/2014 4:34:10 AM PST by WhiskeyX
In the 219-206 vote, 67 Republicans rejected the spending bill, largely because it failed to take action to stop Obama's executive immigration order. But that was offset by 57 Democrats who voted in favor.
Shortly after passage, both the House and Senate passed a 48-hour extension to allow the Senate more time to consider the measure. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said it would be debated on Friday.
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Our local radio host David Madeira, who is a great patriot.
Goodbye Freedom, what little is left.
I can’t wait to confront the squishy bastard Cassidy at a town hall meeting. There will NOT be “with all due respect”.
In the dark of the night, two weeks before Christmas, the GOP consummated their betrayal of our trust. We voted them a majority for the next two years, and they thanked us by a backstabbing so heinous, that it moved the seismic needle on the Democratic party
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]
[snip] ...in his 38 years as a member of Congress, first in the U.S. House and now in the Senate, he is "proudest" of his vote in favor of the health-care plan. "It is my proudest vote," Markey said repeatedly in the House, and then again as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2014. The question is relevant in the... [/snip]
Worst part of this is the public is absolutely livid. And the only one putting up any kind of opposition is the Fake White Indian. She will reap the benefits and we’ll all rue the day.
John Boehner (D)stabbed the American voters in the back and the front. The bill will soon to be passed with Mitch McConnell’s (D) help.
Two democrats that the democrat party needs.
This was a major surrender. Either way your congress person voted, they deserve a call. Explain to them how incredulously stupid it is to vote again for Boehner as leader.
Roll call is interesting. As far as I can see, all the GOP amnesty pimps voted yea. That’s quite telling. And a lot of phoney conservatives like Yoho and Crenshaw were outed with their yes votes. We’ve been had.
Steve Berman at Redstate summed it up:
“In the dark of the night, two weeks before Christmas, the GOP consummated their betrayal of our trust. We voted them a majority for the next two years, and they thanked us by a backstabbing so heinous, that it moved the seismic needle on the Democratic party”
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