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I post this not just because of the story, but how this event is going to be covered. Have no doubt that even now, The DNCMedia are licking their lips and getting ready to pop corks. They will of course treat any shutdown as the fault of the Republicans, and rather than being actually PROUD of this accomplishment, like Trump is trying to tell them, the GOPe will make for the tall grass and take their media beating like the sniveling cowards they are.

Meanwhile, Joe and Jane Public will see the tears, the wails, and the gnashing of teeth on all the media's TV, social media, social video sites and in the printed page because of those mean old Republicans who want Grandma Minorities, hapless LQBTQRST and poor people to die.

1 posted on 09/21/2023 3:06:20 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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crap

all my neighbors will be home all day

we dont get along very well


2 posted on 09/21/2023 3:10:26 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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What is amazing, federal government use to shut down april through sept until the 1920s. Big stone buildings without air conditioning were of no use to anyone. Being a federal employee was like teaching school, shitty pay but a long summer break.


3 posted on 09/21/2023 3:11:06 PM PDT by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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Now they went on vacation for a week. I’m sure voters are impressed. One job they have every year is to pass a budget. Most of the budget is mandatory spending. They can’t even get the 15 percent they control done. Losers!


4 posted on 09/21/2023 3:11:10 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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Who are the five? Have to love how the Dems make 97+% of those voting no and zero % voting yes, and it is the Pubs getting the credit.


5 posted on 09/21/2023 3:11:34 PM PDT by Hieronymus
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Uh, the Republicans are blocking the RINO/CorruptOcrat spending bill. Big diff.

Oh, forgot, it’s Reuters. Should be Roto-Reuters. Scoop up that excrement, oh vaunted “journalists”.


6 posted on 09/21/2023 3:13:31 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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STOP SPENDING MONEY ON UKRAINE
7 posted on 09/21/2023 3:13:57 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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I remember 2013.

Rino GOPe squealed how it would mean electoral disaster for 2014.

But what happened?

“Republicans won a net gain of nine Senate seats, the largest Senate gain for either party since the 1980 United States elections. In the House, Republicans won a net gain of thirteen seats, giving them their largest majority since the 1928 elections.”

Obama shut down Mt. Rushmore and the Mall.

Images of WWII veterans being turned away from the Memorials.


8 posted on 09/21/2023 3:18:07 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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I suspect a nation that make “Richmen north of Richmond” a number one hit, despite being made by complete unknow making music videos in the yard by his trailer, are not going to be bothered too much by DC being shut down.


9 posted on 09/21/2023 3:25:47 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Biden Regime delenda est)
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It has already started, but since the news has come out that the USA Debt has reached $33 TRILLION DOLLARS (about $250Gs for every man, woman and child in America) we are fed up. SHUT IT DOWN!


10 posted on 09/21/2023 3:26:12 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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“with five hardline conservative Republicans joining Democrats to oppose the measure.”

Five scumbags voting with their Dem buddies.


19 posted on 09/21/2023 3:51:04 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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When the Feral Government is shut-down they do less damage.


21 posted on 09/21/2023 3:54:49 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Sun Tzu: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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I post this not just because of the story, but how this event is going to be covered

It’s pretty ridiculous. There are only five Republicans that expect the promises made by McCarthy to become Speaker should be kept. The most important promise was to do appropriations using regular order. That requires all appropriations bills to be summed so the total spend is known and spending can be adjusted to meet goals. But McCarthy and his pussy RINO, assistant Democrats want a CR and an omnibus that continues the programs and spending of Biden and Pelosi. These pussies don’t even attempt to make an argument.

Has anyone in Congress been talking about the Defense appropriations bill beyond wasting money on a corrupt Ukraine? How about a discussion on a corrupt and woke Pentagon that loses endless wars while killing and maiming our sons?

We have 47 four star generals and admirals for approximately 1.5 service members. At the height of WWII we had 11+ million troops and only seven four star generals/admirals. We won that war.

There are hundreds of woke generals and admirals under the 47 four stars. Each has his own budget for his pet projects and all of that waste is uncoordinated. We have a military full of faggots, gender deniers and drag queen freaks. Recruiting and retention is at an all time low.

We have over 300 bases around the world, but do we ever talk about actually defending our homeland? We train and fight for the wrong things. We pay to protect the world but don’t protect ourselves. Why aren’t there spending priorities in the defense budget for actual American defense?

We have operated on a lie ever since WWII. That lie is we need to fight “them” there so we don’t fight “them” here. How did that turn out with Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and dozens of other places? Christ, the Biden Administration was just over in Vietnam begging the commies for trade. Eventually we’ll be begging every nation that has defeated us.

Maybe, just maybe if we focused on America first, defended America first, and left the rest of the world take care of their own, then we would actually have a strong military at half the price and have true security at home. That would also mean saving trillions.

Back to regular order for appropriations bills … actually having a discussion on national defense and that leading to changes in the defense bill requires changes to other appropriations bills. Likewise, changes in other appropriations bills will necessitate changes in defense appropriations. Defense policy does not live in its own self-contained black box. Changes in foreign policy, homeland security policy and even domestic policies all affect one another. They do not independently exist in their own vacuums. But McCarthy doesn’t want a discussion on any of these. He wants to continue Biden and Pelosi’s incoherent policies that are destroying America and making us weak. Just pass the CR and just pass the omnibus in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve. Yes, that’s real leadership./s

24 posted on 09/21/2023 4:00:01 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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Shut it down!


25 posted on 09/21/2023 4:03:04 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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It is their fault. They have had months to at least get spending bills out of the house. They would be DOA in the senate but at least they passed them from the house.


26 posted on 09/21/2023 4:15:28 PM PDT by pas
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McCarthy promised no more CRs and no more Omnibus bills.

What happened to that?

L


27 posted on 09/21/2023 4:17:37 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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Shut it down.


28 posted on 09/21/2023 4:40:42 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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House Republicans again block own spending bill

THe spendoing bill is owned by the Uniparty who won the RINOs who are trying to push this forward. It is not the MAGA spending bill, which would cut funding to a long list of things ...

31 posted on 09/21/2023 6:37:36 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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“The unpredictability is sad for the country,” said Representative Rosa DeLauro, top Democrat on the House appropriations panel.
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Lady, the “predictability” of Continuing Resolutions that make it possible for crooked politicians to HIDE money going to their favorite bribery person (who then passes the dollars on to the politician) has DESTROYED the country by enabling accumulation of a plus 30 Trillion dollar debt.

Millions of Americans believe 2/3 of 535 people in our Congress are crooks and on the take.


33 posted on 09/21/2023 7:16:54 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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1 Timothy 5:8
King James Version

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.


37 posted on 09/21/2023 7:44:24 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . . . I have no proof, but they're true !)
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The DNCMedia are licking their lips and getting ready to pop corks.

They should be. This is an epic screw up by the MAGA house idiots. Yes I said it.

We finally got all the various house spending bills broken up, starting with defense separate, after all the years of the bloated consolidated Omnibuses bills being signed into law, including by Trump every single time.

Yet for some idiotic reason, now they are going to fall right on their sword and block the first separate bill, so say hello to the bloated consolidated Omnibus bills all over once again.

Looks to me like it's probably all scripted after this, as if there was ever much doubt.

38 posted on 09/21/2023 7:56:43 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Jesus 2024)
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