Posted on 04/07/2011 9:59:53 AM PDT by triumphant values
The White House has vowed to veto the short-term spending bill House Republicans will vote on this afternoon, taking away the safety net that could have given both sides another week to avert an immediate government shutdown.
Without a short-term extension, the options would be narrowed to either a broad successful deal or a shutdown as of midnight Friday.
“If presented with this bill, the president will veto it,” the White House said in an official statement of policy.
The House bill would extend the shutdown deadline by another week, to April 15, while funding defense needs for the rest of this year so that troops’ paychecks would not be endangered by a shutdown.
Meanwhile, negotiations on a broader year-long bill appeared to be foundering.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday morning said it now “looks like it’s headed in that direction” when current funding runs out at midnight Friday.
Mr. Reid, Nevada Democrat, met for 90 minutes late Wednesday with Mr. Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, as they tried to work out a last-minute agreement to avert a shutdown, and Mr. Reid said he was optimistic after that meeting.
But just 11 hours later, he said that optimism had faded as the two sides have deadlocked over legislative add-ons, known as “policy riders,” such as restricting federal funding for Planned Parenthood and halting environmental rules.
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And yet he will blame the TEA Party for the shutdown he ordered.
Gee, Democrats could claim they Shutdown the Government. Cool!
Good! Make him veto it.
Those democrats, so beholden to their ideology, will shut down the government to protect federally funded abortion and EPA tyranny.
What difference will one more week make? Shut it down tomorrow or shut it down a week from tomorrow, it’s still going to get shut down before a deal is struck.
Every media outlet, late-night comic and morning & daytime chat show is going to blame the GOP for the (looming) shut-down, and that will probably be enough to make it stick. Americans are disengaged morons, and they believe what the media tells them, still.
Then the bleats of "Da Wepubwicans Shut It Down" will fall a little flat, even to the ears of the State Run Media.
Shut - it - down !!
SHUT - IT - DOWN !!
SHUT - IT - DOWN !!
Might make a difference to the Red Bull troops shipping out in a few months (my son being one of many). Or for that matter all the others that are there or here since if would impact all of them...
Sounds like Obama is saying, “My way or the highway.”
What’s the point of Reid and Boehner negotiating if Obama’s just going to veto the thing?
That was the plan all along, no?
What part of “We won, you lost” the House does Zero not get?
Because it's time to end the whole continuing resolution nonsense, and it's going to take a shut-down to get one side or the other to blink. This threat to military pay-checks has been known for months and now all of a sudden Congress is concerned with them?
I think the point of it being in there is to provide red meat for military supporters (basically conservatives, republicans and the military). I still believe my point is valid though, it will make a difference to those I listed in my original response.
Then the bleats of "Da Wepubwicans Shut It Down" will fall a little flat, even to the ears of the State Run Media.
You're forgetting your history Laz. The GOP Congress passed two CR budgets extending funding at the previous year's levels - no cuts / no increased - and clinton vetoed both of them; then blamed the GOP for the shutdown and the drive-by media happily parrotted boy clinton's mantra that the republicans shut down the government.
actually this is well played....the media and the dems will have to tell such a big lie about who caused the shutdown that any last shread of respectablilty they had will be torn away...time to see the man behind the curtain ( not for us freepers, for we have known all along, but for mom and pop armchair that get their info from the msm )...
And Gingrich screwed up in a few places.
It is pretty well played, much as I hate to admit it. Obama obviously thinks he can make the case that he expects Congress to produce a budget with no more continuing resolutions, and the lack of paychecks for the troops is the GOPs fault. And without the funding cover for the troops, then any shut-down is going to be short lived. Obviously the Democrats think that they can make the Republicans the bad guys in all this, while the Republicans think they'll be able to hang it on the Democrats. We'll see who is right and which side blinks first.
The GOP kind of got snookered on this. They should have put in the funding for the Pentagon into an earlier resolution. Now they got caught.
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