Posted on 10/01/2013 11:15:50 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Republicans say the GOP-controlled House intends to pass legislation to reopen portions of the government, including national parks and processing of claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The House would also allow the government of Washington, D.C. to use its own taxpayer funds to provide services like garbage pickup, as well as keep D.C. employees on the job.
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Just let them pass with a defunded Obamacare, why should he be worried about it?
I have wondered this since he said it's already funded. If so, why worry? Something else is up.
... and McCain, Graham, Cornyn, Chambless, Isakson....
Typical statist issue. It cost didddle to “open” a park. It’s a fricking park. How much does opening a gate cost? I’m sure park goers would happily pack their own trash and bring their own toilet paper and towels.
Both Dems and Repubicans do this “scare tactic” crap. But it’s the low IQ folks out there that buy into it.
They did that in 1995 even though the city of DC has there own budget. But DC is run by libs so they were “in” on the lies.
I’d love to see some A-hole federal bureaucrat try and stop them and get it on camera. Even being “shut down” liberals would do it because they hate freedom.
Unpopularity of prohibition and repeal movementAs early as 1925, journalist H. L. Mencken believed that Prohibition was not working. As the prohibition years continued, more of the country’s populace came to see prohibition as illustrative of class distinctions, a law unfairly biased in its administration favoring social elites. "Prohibition worked best when directed at its primary target: the working-class poor." Historian Lizabeth Cohen writes: “ A rich family could have a cellar-full of liquor, but if a poor family had a bottle of home-brew, there would be trouble.” Working-class people were inflamed by the fact that their employers could dip into a cache of private stock while they, the employees, were denied a similar indulgence.
Indeed, before the date that the Eighteenth Amendment became national law, many of the upper classes stockpiled alcohol for home consumption. They bought out the inventories of warehouses, saloons, club store rooms, they emptied out liquor retailers and wholesalers. American lawmakers themselves followed these practices at the highest levels of government. President Woodrow Wilson moved his own supply of alcoholic beverages to his Washington residence after his term of office ended. His successor, Warren G. Harding relocated his own large supply into the White House after inauguration.
In October 1930, just two weeks before the Congressional midterm elections, bootlegger George Cassiday, "the man in the green hat," came forward and told how he had bootlegged for ten years for Congress. One of the few bootleggers ever to tell his story, he wrote five front page articles in The Washington Post. He estimated that eighty percent of congressmen and senators drank, even though these same people were the ones passing dry laws. This had a significant impact on the midterm election, which saw Congress shift from a dry Republican majority to a wet Democratic majority. The Democrats understood that Prohibition was unpopular and called for its repeal.
Does anybody see any parallels with today's fight over Obamacare? Switch the parties, but history is repeating itself. The politicians are doing for themselves the opposite of what they're mandating for the rest of the country. Waivers from Obamacare for politicians and big business, but not for individuals.
-PJ
The House should have been doing zero-base budgeting all along.
Start with funds for the services they can all agree on—and then work their way down the line.
good, plus get on TV and call out bozo and Reid and the Dems for failing to pass a budget, for not wanting to talk let alone compromise and state how people are out of work and we have bills here but the Dems do not want them to work and would rather see this shut down
EXACTLY
There are many other places to get news today and the silent majority are speaking up more and more.
The intimidation from the left wing loons, hippies, communists, homosexuals, and socialists is not working as much as it used to be.
How are they their parks to close? Aren’t they OUR parks? I understand if the offices have to be closed and the rangers can’t patrol. But how does the government get to prohibit us from using this land that belongs to the American public.
The parks should remain open and the people can assume the risks of having no government employees around.
this is EXACTLY what I suggested from the start
Break it down into pieces and pass each piece at a time.
which pieces to pass first? the ones Obama whines about (ie national parks, VA, ect)
(except Obamacare of course)
Perhaps the House can pass a bill to quit collecting payroll and other taxes since the government by their own declaration:
1) Has thousands of non-essential employees.
2) Is shutdown.
I am SO glad they are going to offer the Senate some limited options.... picking and choosing!!! You are right. The public is going to be furious when it dawns on them that they have been dooped!!!
“OUR” parks? HA....just like we all think we OWN our own homes....but we really rent them from the government.
Look Jack. The folks here are the smartest people I know so i hope i am not condescending in what has become obvious. The Republican leadership has fumbled its way for a touchdown and a humiliating defeat for obama by realizing after they forced the RATS to fund military, that they can fund all the government but obamacare!! It skins the cat a different way!! It is God’s great hand in defeating these communist bastards!! Run House RUN!! We wanted to save your area of government but Reid and obama STOPPED US— IT IS THEIR SHUT DOWN Don’t not stop. cram it down their evil throats!! ( get better Jim)
The Senate dems should vote to keep DC’s trash from being collected, and then people can write, “This stench brought to you by.... “(and list the Rat Senators who voted against paying for trash pick-up).
Why do the votes require a 2/3 majority?
I don’t know. I was surprised they did.
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