Posted on 06/02/2012 8:58:03 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
Try and catch up. The contempt citation is the only visible evidence that they have not adjurned. I know it will be ignored, but it is a visible action.
Spending bills according to the Constitution must come from the House, a Constitutional duty that the House seems to have forgotten they have, but I am guessing they could reassert that power, and while they are at it they could defund the EPA and a whole lot of other looney alphabet organizations.
Boehner shut Michelle down she insisted that they defund healthcare by claiming he was bound by some house rule, which is complete B$. The house has let a few hundred Billion be spent to begin the implementation of all this regulatory cr@p, so I am guessing that they are not really opposed to the idea.
The same for SCOTUS, they can not morally justify their delayed decision, unless of course as I have stated they have no intention of overturning it. They may however undo the mandate, but that will be easily passed on to the states in some other fashion, and this nightmare will be impossible to undo.
The complete inaction by the House, and they are not powerless, should wake people up but apparently some choose to believe what ever makes them more comfortable. The truth is pretty scarry.
No Congress can be bound by a preceding congress. I know they cheated, so it is trench warfare, we just don’t seem to have the leadership that is willing to do battle. The biggest lie of all is that the GOPe is not all that opposed to this nonsense and I guarantee you that they are already talking about mend it don’t end it. They can start messing with the Courts, they have a lot of weight they can throw around. They might even grow a pair and look at the 80 or so members of the communist party that currently are in the House, but dang can’t do that it would be racist.
There you go again... change the subject when you can’t deliver a good retort.
I suggest we both have a good day while going on our way.
True. But to become "unbound", the Senate must agree.
Ergo, the rule-of-thumb you cite is simply inoperable.
How many time has this House refused to raise the debt limit? Zero. Increased spending would not happen if the House did not want it to. They are either complicit or rotten to the core cowards, you pick.
The GOP starts every negotiation by promising they won't cause a government shutdown.
It's hard to win a negotiation by demonstrating at the outset you won't use your most effective weapon.
I agree the House has botched the debt limit negotiations. But it's important to recognize that's the only effective tool they've been left with to control spending.
A tool is not a tool unless it is used, sort of like an unloaded gun, once the enemy figures out you don't have any bullets in it.
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