Posted on 06/08/2016 9:14:39 AM PDT by HomerBohn
No balls RINO’s....every single one of them.
“And then there's a third kind of vote. Votes on must-pass legislation. In an era when one side, the Democratic Party, is adamantly committed to continuing down this path that is causing so many millions of Americans to hurt, must-pass votes are the only votes that have real consequence in this chamber. They typically fall into one of three categories – either continuing resolution, or an omnibus appropriation bill, or a debt ceiling increase. Each of those three are deemed must-pass votes, and if you actually want to change law, those are the only hopes of doing so. But I mentioned before you have got one side that has preemptively surrendered. Republican leadership has said: ‘We will never, ever, ever shut down the government.’ And suddenly, President Obama understands the easy key to winning every battle. He simply has to utter the word ‘shutdown,’ and Republican leadership runs to the hills.
“So President Obama demands of Congress ‘fund every bit of Obamacare, 100 percent of it, and do nothing, zero, for the millions of Americans who are hurting, millions of Americans who have lost their jobs, who have lost their health care, who have lost their doctors, who have been forced into part-time work, millions of young people who have seen their premiums skyrocket.’ President Obama says ‘you can do nothing for the people that are hurting.’ Senate Democrats say: ‘We don't care about the people who are hurting. We'll do nothing for them.’ And here's the kicker. President Obama promises ‘if you try to do anything on Obamacare, I, Barack Obama, will veto funding for the entire federal government and shut it down,’ and Republican leadership compliantly says, ‘Okay, fine, we'll fund Obamacare.’ -Ted Cruz from the floor of the Senate
The man is a disgrace.
O.K. so don’t pass the bill. Shut down the government. Why are Republicans bending over backward to ensure that the Federal Government keeps spending more and more money?
"McConnell drops effort to defunds Obamacare"
You're welcome.
You offer a more than charitable description of Mealy-mouth Mitch.
McConnell and Ryan are doubling down in their efforts to get Hillary elected - traitors in the true sense of the word.
We shut it down before and it cost us dearly. NOTHING was accomplished and it was one big mess. Why repeat a disaster.
“He makes Ryan look like an amateur.”
They are simply two turds floating in the sam bowl!
People of Wisconsin REALLY need to work hard to get RYAN out!!! Wisconsin as a huge Pubbie organization there somehow I get the feeling they are ALL GOPe !!!! LYIN RYAN has totally betrayed them Trump DID WIN his district we can hope Nehlen wins this!!!
Are the people in Kentucky that ignorant to reelect McConnell over and over? (Rhetorical question with no logical answer).
Mitch is trying to help Hillary win and lose control of tbe Senate. Imagine Hillary and Obama shutting down the US government to fund Obamacare. Was too powerful of a tool for the Republicans. So the Oligarchy took it off the table.
Overall, the elections resulted in the largest Republican majority in the entire country in nearly a century, with 54 seats in the Senate, 247 (56.78%) in the House, 31 governorships (62%), and 68 state legislative chambers. Moreover, Republicans gained their largest majority in the House since 1928, the largest majority in Congress overall since 1928, and the largest majority of state legislatures since 1928.
If you are referring to that time, can you please detail the ways in which the shutdown hurt us?
The senate NEVER took it up....MAKE the DiC veto it time and time again.....that’s what they are supposed to do
McConnell never made any such effort. He never had it in hand to drop.
MITCH is why Trump has support. People are tired of Republicans being the same as Democrats.
Mitch is Harry Reid’s brother. Ryan is his son.
We’re long past time to dissolve this corrupt mess and start over.
They don’t even try to hide their corruption now.
Just to be contrarian here... maybe Mitch really sees that the attention span of America is about an inch long. And that if the GOP did succeed here, America isn’t going to tolerate the hiccup to its convenience that will occur as Obama digs in and fights to the bitter end, blaming the Republicans all the while.
Ping!
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