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To: madprof98

It is an important detail that both the House and the Senate have complete control over how they do their business.

Importantly, no previous House or Senate can constrain the current one in how it functions.

So if the House wants to, it can change the budgetary process.

Right now, almost all budget bills are “omnibus” bills providing funding for a vast number of evils. But they do not have to be this way.

What the House should do is to start separating the most repulsive of these agencies and activities into their own bills. And only send Obama “must pass” bills that are clean and stripped of anything extraneous.

And then do what Harry Reid did with the funding bills, which is to refuse to consider them, but just for the obnoxious and unconstitutional bills. Once they are separated out, they don’t even get voted on, and no opportunity for Obama to veto them.

With zero funding, they are over and done for. And there is nothing Obama can do about it. He cannot give those agencies a continuing resolution. Without money, they do not function, and their staff does not get paid.


49 posted on 11/21/2014 5:58:26 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

There are a few holes in your idea:

1) Obama has shown the willingness to veto partial budget bills, and the Ministry of Propaganda (NBC/CBS/ABC/CNN/WP/LAT/NYT) cheerfully blames “Republicans who are shutting the budget down”.

2) If Obama gets any money at all, he will spend it on things that the money is not earmarked for. Clinton did it, you KNOW this Muslim gay cracksmoker will.


51 posted on 11/21/2014 6:04:09 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Good description but you are assuming Obama won’t order money to be taken from one account and deposited into another. He has just demonstrated that laws mean nothing.


56 posted on 11/21/2014 6:10:40 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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