House Passes Stopgap Spending Bill (Enough "stopgap" bills and start real defunding)

wall street journal ^ | 3/15/2011 | ap

[tobyhill]

The House passed a measure Tuesday blending $6 billion in budget cuts with enough money to keep the government running for an additional three weeks.

The measure buys additional time for talks between Capitol Hill Republicans and the Obama administration on a bill to fund the day-to-day operations of the government through the end of September.

Those negotiations haven't gotten far yet, and House Republican leaders haven't shown much flexibility.

[jagusafr]

“House Republican leaders haven’t shown much flexibility.”

They’re being TOO damn flexible by passing continuing resolutions! Shut it down, fix it, drive on.

Colonel, USAFR

[Rapscallion]

Fair warning. Cut the spending. Repeal Obamacare. If not I will stay home on election day and I urge you to do the same.

[tobyhill]

Tell crybaby Boehner. I did.

(513) 779-5400 tel

[tobyhill]

This is his Washington number

(202) 225-6205

[GeronL]

emergency funding for... Planned Parenthood?? is this an integral government agency now?

[org.whodat]

They have not cut one thin penny yet, all they have done is maintain the democaps spending agenda. Third party time!!!

[Cheetahcat]

Time for Bonehead to be recalled!

[mulligan]

Another joke passed by incompetent un-American political leadership.

[tobyhill]

I spoke to Bonehead's office and was advised that they tried to defund the programs but the Senate voted it down so we should give them an “A” for effort and not allowing a Government shutdown. I told the idiot answering the phone that we would rather have a Government shutdown than for the GOP to keep bamboozling us.

[politicket]

I'm afraid that there are too many people who don't understand.

Our entire monetary system is based on debt. I'm not talking just currency - I'm talking money.

If the Republicans were to pass a 'balanced budget' bill tomorrow, and President Obama were to sign it, then we would very quickly see the ugly face of a severe deflationary depression - the Greater Depression.

The $1.6 trillion dollars of deficit spending each year is the only thing masking the depression that we're in. We're piling up the future labor that debt entails onto the backs of our children, grandchildren, etc.

This fiscal year we will see at least $2 trillion in deficit spending.

We desparately need to slash spending - but everyone needs to understand the hardship going in that our nation will suffer for many, many years. Our politicians are too scared of the repurcussions.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The plan all along was to fund Obamacare through continuing-resolutions.

Way to be bipartisan, RINOs.

[Paul Ross]

They’re being TOO damn flexible by passing continuing resolutions! Shut it down, fix it, drive on.

Bump!

[Paul Ross]

We are actually in a huge ECONOMIC DEPRESSION now with massive government-spewed lies trying to buffalo the Public...and KoolAid Drinking MSMers... about the rate of unemployment, and inflation.

The drop in unemployment without the inflated debt spending woud only be temporary, after the adjustment, and is frankly not going to be that severe, as we are already "there". The Misery Index, when corrected by using M-6 or even by using Gallup's unemployment ratings, and even with the lowest interest rates for decades, means that the index is now at the highest recorded levels for the last 60 years.