Posted on 07/26/2011 5:00:49 PM PDT by RummyChick
May I be the first to offer my sincerest condolences.
Oh, and don't forget to decontaminate before you leave DC. LOL
In 2012 we can call him Majority leader De Mint
LOL! I had better get that bedbug spray before I go!
I wonder if it works on congresscritters and childish POTUS’s.
Yeah. Were that it was that easy.
So that little dog-and-pony show Boehner and Obama put on last night was all for OUR little benefit?
DC is a freakin’ cesspool. I am so tired of these RinoCrat clowns peeing all over Americans and telling them its raining out!!
bttt
We need CCB since it cuts enough to avoid a credit downgrade.
I have been pretty happy with Boehner and then he pulls this.
I would have been okay with a smaller plan in the short-term as long as it was tied to a longer-term plan that cuts the NEEDED 4 trillion dollars.
But, this plan doesn’t do that and is TOO small and pathetic. Disappointing, Mr. Boehner.
I know...i heard her this morning and i’m thinking...WTF!
I really do like Laura, but she has moments were she really sounds like she has “establishment” tendencies. Maybe living too close to DC...maybe spending too much tome around Ted Baxter.
She’s completely wrong on this.
I worked for a major education Corp. About once a year when the higher ups thought earnings weren’t gonna be where they wanted them to be they would tell us...not one dime, you can’t spend a penny. No advertising, etc. We couldn’t even order office supplies lol. We were calling branches all over the state and country if we had to to get something as simple as printer paper and envelopes.
But our rich govt can’t really cut one thin dime. Disgusting.
Breaking: wednesday vote on Boehner plan postponed.
The Tea Party would have essentially put them on notice.
“Seemed” and “sounded” are words that generally describe anyone without a backbone.
Boehner is a pussy who deserves a punch in the frigging mouth.
You got THAT right! bttt
Rich Galen - Wednesday July 27, 2011
http://www.mullings.com/
....Speaker John Boehner (R-Oh) had a bill ready to go to the floor for a vote that was supposed to cut $1.2 trillion. But when the Congressional Budget Office “scored” it - which means they came up with the official amount of the budget cuts involved - it fell short of the goal with only $850 million. ....
....So the Speaker had to put 100 budget monkeys in a room with computers that can handle really, really large numbers and have them be re-crunched. A vote is now tentatively scheduled for Thursday.
According to the Clerk of the House there are 240 Republicans; 193 Democrats; and 2 vacancies. That means it will take 217 votes (if everyone is in attendance) to guarantee passage of the Boehner plan.
There are also, by the NY Times’ count, 85 Republican freshmen - the vast majority of whom believe they were elected to cut spending and generally rein in government.
If none of them vote for the Boehner program that leaves only 155 votes on the GOP side of the aisle. Boehner would need 62 Democrats to vote with him and that is, to use a highly technical term, unlikely.
Say Boehner gets 20 Democrats to come along. That gets him to 175 and he would still need 42 of the 85 freshmen, about half of them, to come on board.
It is no small deal to refuse to back the Speaker of the House when he or she is of your own party. There are committee assignments you will never get. Redistricting help you will never see. Paris Air Shows you will never attend. And fundraisers which will be thinly attended if the Speaker’s people put out the word they are keeping track of who is helping whom.
The timing of all this is unfortunate as the August recess is scheduled to begin on Monday August 8. That means, because there won’t be votes on Friday the 5th, the Members will head for what they hope will be the friendly confines of their home Districts as soon as the House quits on Thursday.
As we have discussed before, the seeds of the Great Political Tsunami of 2010 were sown during the August recess of 2009 when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Barack Obama sent Democrats home to sell an unformed, yet still unpopular, health care proposal.
Republican freshmen do not want to have footage of them being shouted off the stage at town hall events; of being picketed in front of their district offices; or, being chased from the American Legion Auxiliary French fry stand at the county fair.
To help them better understand what may be at stake, it was reported yesterday that representatives of Standard & Poors will be on Capitol Hill Thursday to brief freshmen members on the dangers of a drop in America’s sovereign credit rating.
It seems to me that bringing S&P in to talk about credit ratings is a little like asking Kim Jong Il to send some folks to Iowa to explain the benefits of centralized planning for agriculture.
My guess? Boehner’s folks will come up with a new plan that meets (or exceeds) the $1.2 trillion target, it will go to the floor on Thursday and to the horror of every single studio host on every single cable news network, it will pass.
Then it becomes Harry Reid’s problem in the U.S. Senate. ......”
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