[skinkinthegrass]

YAY! Make 'Em all Squeal.

[Shadow44]

God forbid a shutdown!

They either shut down and get nothing done, or stay and GET NOTHING DONE ANYWAY!

[Baynative]

"Now Democrats hope a better website, more enrollees, some bipartisan fixes and a second affirmative Supreme Court decision can save the [healthcare] law before Hillary Clinton or another Democratic nominee has to finesse a position on it two years from now."

When is someone going to latch on to the fact that less than 12% of the nation that actually contributes to their premiums have actually signed up for the scam and IT'S THE LAW!!!

The fact that 90% of productive Americans are willing to violate the law should be getting mush more attention, in my opinion.

[nitzy]

I hate the Republican’ts

[Obstinate]

These GOP yahoos need to realize something: come next year when they assume power I will be watching closely. If they continue in their spineless ways they will lose me forever.

So I suggest they put their bog boy pants on now and practice a bit.

As if they care what I think...

[JudyinCanada]

For pity sake.

Start answering back sternly. With regard to any shutdown, take the CREDIT, not the blame.

[pierrem15]

They simply don't know how to act as winners for some reason.

Limbaugh is wrong here: they know how to act like winners, it's just that winning to them means the same as it does to the Dems-- the power to loot the Treasury for their own benefit and that of their political contributors.

The only permanent solution would be to hang the Dems, the Republican "leadership" and their media lackeys on the Capitol steps and restore the limits on Federal power and spending envisaged in the Constitution.

[NYer]

Ping!

[Paladin2]

Gangster Banksters, too big to fail, are not an integral part of Capitalism.

[SpeakerToAnimals]

If there is a government shutdown, the Republicans are gonna get blamed for it. It's the same old thing. Whatever happens on anything, the Republicans are gonna get blamed.

The reason the congresscritters are so afraid of a government shutdown? If the People saw that the shutdown made no difference in their lives, selling the People on more government would never work again.

We could eliminate all the three letter alphabet soup agencies and the country would be better, not worse. That is what the politicians fear.

[Amendment10]

Regarding the constitutionally indefensible Dodd-Frank law, not only did Thomas Jefferson officially note that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate either banking or intrastate commerce, but the Supreme Court has also historically clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce.

• “For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State, (that is to say of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively [emphases added] with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.” –Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.

• “A proposition was made to them to authorize Congress to open canals, and an amendatory one to empower them to incorporate. But the whole was rejected, and one of the reasons for rejection urged in debate was, that then they would have a power to erect a bank, which would render the great cities, where there were prejudices and jealousies on the subject, adverse to the reception of the Constitution [emphasis added].” —Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.

• ”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

So if Elizabeth Warren really wants to protect the Dodd-Frank law then she needs to do the following. She needs to rally Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution to the states which would grant Congress the speciifc powers to regulate both intrastate banking and intrastate commerce. And if the states choose to ratify Ms Warren’s amendment then Congress will have the power to regulate such issus and Ms Warren will be a hero.

[Chgogal]

So people have some idea of what it is Warren/Durbin are talking about:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/wall-street-seeks-to-tuck-dodd-frank-changes-in-budget-bill/?_r=0

Here is a rundown of the main Dodd-Frank issues that may be in play over the next day or so. The list is based on information learned from people briefed on the legislative negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

¶ The bill that Citigroup helped draft: This bill would repeal one of the more contentious provisions in Dodd Frank, a requirement that banks “push out” some derivatives trading into separate units that are not backed by the government’s deposit insurance fund. The proponents of the push-out rule argued that it would isolate risky trading from parts of a bank eligible for a government bailout.

The provision exempted many derivatives from the push-out requirement, but some Republicans have long proposed eliminating the provision altogether.

In late 2011, Citigroup floated a compromise. The bank’s lobbyists sent around a proposal that simply exempted a wider array of derivatives from the push-out plan.

As The New York Times reported last year, lawmakers adopted nearly every word of Citigroup’s plan in drafting a bill. The bank’s recommendations are reflected in more than 70 of the 85 lines of that bill.

Remember Citi is in the pockets of liberals a la Rubin and Lew:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/01/09/us-citigroup-rubin-idUSN0930738020090109

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/jack-lew-rubin-citigroup_n_2458142.html