Posted on 01/14/2014 9:39:43 AM PST by maggief
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday defended the House leadership’s decision to call a vote on a 1,582-page omnibus spending bill less than two full days after unveiling it.
“I would like to have more time,” Boehner said at a press conference following a House GOP conference meeting. “But we’re in a situation where the government is in fact going to run out of money.”
Current funding expires on Wednesday, and the House plans to pass a three-day extension on Tuesday to allow time for both chambers to vote on the omnibus and send it to President Obama for his signature.
The House would then vote on the full omnibus on Wednesday and send it to the Senate.
The $1.012 trillion bill was posted online and emailed to members on Monday evening, meaning GOP leaders will adhere to the letter of their rule to allow legislation to be publicly available on parts of three calendar days before a vote.
But the reality is that most if not all lawmakers will vote on legislation affecting the entire federal government without fully reading it, undermining a Republican campaign pledge from 2010 in which the party denounced Democrats for pushing through large bills without allowing members and the public adequate time to review them.
“We’re going to move a short-term [continuing resolution], but we want to get this government funding in place as soon as possible,” Boehner said. “And I think under the circumstances, what we’re doing is appropriate.”
House Republicans plan to move a rule through the Rules Committee on Tuesday that will prevent members from offering amendments to the bill on the floor. Dan Holler, a spokesman for the conservative Heritage Action, criticized the rush.
“Multiple members have said they want to move the omnibus as rapidly as possible to avoid prolonged scrutiny. One unnamed member even used the term ‘blitzkrieg,’ " he said. "That sentiment flies in the face of the 2010 Pledge to America, which also criticized [former Speaker Nancy] Pelosi for ‘forbidding amendments on spending bills.' ”
Time to start defeating the GOPe. Otherwise, it is simply “over.”
It is an omnipork spending bill.
Dear Congresscritter Boner, if you’re in danger of running out of money, how about wasting a little less for a change?
I hate these people.
What a putz.
The government will never "run out" of money - the printing presses are running full time.
Whether it will be worth a damn is another thing...
Yah ... so ?
WHY do people even LISTEN to those old and tired, hackneyed words ?
Republicans acting like Democrats and then wondering why the base is hostile to them.
I am confused, did the Ryan bill do this already?
Worse things have happened. In fact, this is a common occurrence to real people.
In a system where the Central Government, i.e., the State, collects all the money from those with ability, and redistributes the money to the community, each according to their need, comes damn close to what Karl Marx decreed for his Commune-Style Utopia, to wit:
“FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILTY, TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEED.”
Currently that system of redistribution creates all of the US Federal Budget Defecit every year: 40 % of all Federal spending is spent on Welfare, and 40 % of Federal Spending is borrowed.
America was founded on FREEDOM OF CHOICE, which our Founders called LIBERTY.
During our Civil War, we as a Society, chose to confuse the difference between Freedom and Liberty, and that confusion exists to this day.
Freedom leads to Anarchy if accountability is not imposed. Liberty includes accountability for ones actions or inactions.
Obamacare is a mandatory edict from the Central Government that restricts all of our medical insurance choices, and thus restricts our Liberty.
We choose who we want to represent us, and they choose what freedoms of choice they want to deny us, and thus how much Liberty they choose for us to lose.
Total Freedom of Choice leads to anarchy, whereas Liberty contains the discipline of accountability for ones actions or inactions.
For example, in a system based on total Freedom, I may choose to trip you as I walk past you, knowing that I will not be held accountable for my actions or for any harm that comes to you.
In a system based on Liberty, I know that if I trip you that I will be obligated to apologize, pay for any damages to you, and provide a significant extra compensation to you as an example to others as to why they should not consider harming others.
Each Regulation that our Representatives place on us reduces our Freedom of Choice, and thus our Liberty.
As a Society fails, fewer and fewer people are held accountable for their actions, or lack of actions.
This in turn causes the well-meaning Representatives to pass more and more Regulations that decrease more and more of our Freedom of Choices and thus our Liberty.
In time, the Regulations become more relied upon than Laws, as the sense of accountability all but disappears, as is true today, IMHO.
At some point Anarchy becomes dominant, Regulations cease to maintain order, and the Central Government assumes all control.
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In summary, in the continuum from total Freedom to Dictatorial Slavery, there is one small sweet spot of civilized behavior, one set of Checks and Balances that was devised by our Founding Fathers. It is unique and precious to all who love Liberty.
That set of Checks and Balances has not been used in this Century by the Representatives that we have elected.
Thus, it is incumbent on we, the people, to hold our dysfunctional Representatives accountable for their lack of action for not using the Checks and balances that we play them to use.
Hence, it has been very easy to take over the Federal Government by a few men and women who oppose Freedom of Choice, acceptability and Liberty, because they knew that the Congressional Republicans would not use their Constitutional Checks and Balances.
“Evil trumps cowardice every time.”
That is the general outline of our fallen US Federal Government today, where one political party was able to impose a mandatory tax over the objection of 85 % of the population, and do it without effective objection in just 11 months.
Apply whatever political system names to what I have described, as they are all degrees of Slavery that History shows will not end well.
For your reading pleasure:
http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20140113/CPRT-113-HPRT-RU00-h3547-hamdt2samdt_xml.pdf
All Ryan did was set the limits. Appropriators had to allocate the money.
Which means he needs RAT votes to pass it.
Boehner, you are a complete tool. There is no excuse for these omnibus bills, other than to obfuscate and prevent debate.
The stinking GOP has got to go ;/
LOL. And why don't they have more time? Congress knew this deadline was coming months ago. Again, it is the old ruse used by Dems and Reps alike to create these phony deadlines and sense of urgency to prevent people from looking at the bill. It is the old Pelosi story, you must pass the bill before you can find out what is in it.
The leader just gets dumber and dumber.
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