Posted on 12/08/2014 8:47:15 AM PST by cotton1706
House Speaker John Boehner is releasing the huge, $1 trillion 2015 government budget on Monday, only three days before the vote on Wednesday, Dec. 11.
That delay jams GOP legislators, who won’t be able to identify or oppose many of the unpopular spending programs that are likely buried deep inside the complex budget, which was drafted by GOP and Democratic members of the appropriations committees.
“There’s no way this huge bill can be addressed effectively,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking GOP member of the Senate’e budget committee, said on Sunday. “There are going to be thousands of pages.”
Boehner has held the budget bill secret until the last days before much of the federal government shuts down for lack of cash on Dec. 12.
Boehner declined to describe or release the proposed budget last week, which would have allowed legislators — plus GOP voters and advocacy groups — time to identify and rally against spending programs that are opposed by their constituents and supporters.
Those spending allotments could fund new energy regulations, enforcement of rules requiring employers to fund abortions, and President Barack Obama’s award of work-permits to foreigners living illegally in the United States.
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I think Boehner and his cronies are still pissed that his top lieutenant, Eric Cantor, was taken out by the people. And they are going to STICK IT TO US in revenge!
Speaker Crybaby!
” I think Boehner and his cronies are still pissed that his top lieutenant, Eric Cantor, was taken out by the people. And they are going to STICK IT TO US in revenge! “
No doubt.
Boner, and his ilk, need to be strung-up; and I don’t mean figuratively.
Face it folks, to paraphrase Monty Python:
The GOP is no more! It has ceased to be! Its expired and gone to meet its maker! Its stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! Its metabolic processes are now ‘istory! Its off the twig! Its kicked the bucket, its shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARTY!!
All humor aside, this is the sad truth.
There is no one to protect us until we start protecting ourselves.
By any means possible.
The only options are:
NO!
BOHICA!
If I were elected my natural response would be to just vote no....on everything until I was shown a very good reason to vote yes.
These people all do just the opposite.
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
I think Boehner and his cronies are still pissed that his top lieutenant, Eric Cantor, was taken out by the people.
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Boehner is Obama’s top lieutenant.
Now ask me what I think of him.
won’t be able to identify or oppose many of the unpopular spending programs that are likely buried deep inside the complex budget,
Like the Financial Institution Bankruptcy Act which makes TAXPAYERS responsible for Wall Street Losses.
Then all reason--both common sense & more philosophically abstract--demands it be opposed. No ethical man or woman entrusted with the public well being--can buy a "pig in a poke" simply to not rock the boat.
‘Pissed’ but also ‘frightened’ IMO.
The short notice is to prevent the electorate from contacting their reps about the bill so the rep doesn’t have to openly defy their voters.
Boehner’s budget is right up there with Obamacare in transparency.....
” Then all reason—both common sense & more philosophically abstract—demands it be opposed. No ethical man or woman entrusted with the public well being—can buy a “pig in a poke” simply to not rock the boat. “
What is the difference between this, and what Pelosi & Co did with Obamacare? I see no difference at all.
Another Republican “read my lips” flip flop
No, there is no difference. It is the same failure to adhere to their clear duty.
Bastard.
Article V convention NOW!
First order of business, congressional term limits.
“Article V convention NOW!”
It really has become the only recourse left to us.
Actually, there is a way to oppose - just vote no.
I think the Washington GOP Establishment is proving they have now crossed well over that line and their true intentions are clear...
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