Bonehead should turn the gavel over to Pelosi. She is running the show
in the house anyway. Bonehead is simply a tool for the K-Street Money
Changers.
I think they only need 26 Republicans to pass this. Have at it!
HL Mencken, I think you can kinda see where he was coming from when he said back in the day: “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
I think they only need 26 Republicans to pass this. Have at it!
HL Mencken, I think you can kinda see where he was coming from when he said back in the day: “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
Tax increases now for future spending cuts. Are they REALLY that stupid?
Perhaps Boehner should look into amendments - at least enough that the bill looks like something a patriotic American would support and not the usual socialist class-warfare drivel.
The only thing that could possible save this country is if a huge majority of people would accept that both parties are as phony as a bunch of three dollar bills. They go to cash in. Even most of the so called Tea Party congress people. They cower to the elite as soon as they get there. Why? Because they want to be re-elected and keep getting the perks.
The proof is that every Tea Partier in congress should have been screaming to high heaven about West getting screwed. But they left him to the wolves.
A brand new party is the only answer. And it’s probably too late. But I really don’t know why I care. I’m too old to give a damn anymore.
The House will pass it without amendment
Of course the bill will pass with help from the marxists.
They vote in lockstep. The republicans are all over the map. If they could all work together, they could control the government from the house chambers.
Just as I predicted when plan B was killed, but I didnt expect the crappy replacement to extend all that spending. This bill is crap.
Told ya.
Pitiful.
I don’t know what anybody expected. After Boehner couldn’t get the republicans to vote for ANY of their own bills, and he couldn’t even get a majority to amend the Senate bill with spending cuts, what other choice does he have?
It is clear there are enough republicans who will support this plan, and since the conservatives have proven they will provide no support for anything that can pass, this is essentially what the conservatives have worked to achieve.
Certainly we are all smart enough to know this. If you wanted to push for purity, this was exactly what we were pushing for. A horrible bill, but it doesn’t have conservative support.
It remains to be seen if this is better than participating in the process.
The stone simple fact is that NOTHING is going to pass that includes any cuts in social security, medicaid, medicare or Obamacare.
Not now, not in 25 years.
At 51 I know of not a single person who will settle for one inflation adjusted cent less than the people 10, 20 pr 30 years older are receiving or have received. Anyone belonging to any party other than the Democratic had best come to terms with that fact or go through being the Bad Guys every single year when we go through this crap.
I’m not making a value judgement, I’m merely stating a fact. There will be nothing resembling an ‘entitlement’ cut, not now, not in the future, because the Democrats and the moderate Republicans will face sheer hell from their constituents, tea party or no tea party.
This is the new reality. No one my age, that is near but under retirement age is going to support anything that even vaguely resembles a reduction. At least not enough of them to make the slightest difference in the electoral makeup of the federal government.
I’m sure there are a few people who will just say some blather like “Just give me what I paid into it and let me go on my way”. Not going to happen. This is the political reality.
Very few in my generation have been able to, or really even tried, to provide for a retirement that doesn’t take into account Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and related programs. Whatever else the government is “supposed” to do it has no choice about doing this.
Just a cranky, Gen X’er who has pretty much gotten used to the Republicans looking like extras in a three stooges movie when the pies start flying.
Flame away; I got flamed aplenty when I said the polls showed The One was going to win, laughed all the way to Vegas.