Discussion for article #226732
$arah Palin…
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Jeb Hensarling is a smarmy little weasel with the intellectual acumen of your average roadkill.
And he’s part of the House GOP brain trust.
Oy vey!
What a schmuck.
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Hensarling is an idiot. Says all you need to know about the modern GOP
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But does Hensarling smoke? Ryan has his prioritys.
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You are giving me heartburn…
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…a prerequisite for GOTPism.
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John Boehner was simply a drunken annoying orange. Today’s conservatives need someone who is as blood red and smart as Dick Bush.
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Does Hensarling smoke?
You know – I don’t believe there is any requirement that the Speaker of the House be a member of Congress, so that’s probably not as far-fetched as it might sound at first hearing.
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Oh, you beat me to it!
Lest there be any doubt to vote out the extreme obstructionist!
Obstructionists met to shut down our new president just because his skin wasn’t white like theirs!
Feb 2010 - increase the nation’s debt ceiling for the 40th time
Sep 30th 2010 - continuing resolution until Dec. 3, 2010
Nov. 2010 - House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) walked away from so-called grand bargains.
Dec 2010 - Congress enacts four different continuing resolutions to keep the government running until March 4.
appropriations cut the Congressional Budget Office’s discretionary spending from 2013 through 2022 by more than $400 billion.
Jan 2011 - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) promises to use the debt ceiling as leverage to achieve spending cuts.
Mar 2011 - Congress passes a short-term resolution extending operations to March 18. Spending is cut by $4 billion.
Mar 2011 - Congress approves yet another continuing resolution extending federal operations through April 8. Spending is cut by $6 billion.
Apr 2011 - Boehner announced that he has agreed to support a seventh short-term extension.
Aug 2011 - Congress passes the Budget Control Act, The measure cuts $2.4 trillion over 10 years.
Aug 2011 - Standard & Poor’s issues the first downgrade of the nation’s credit rating, costing the country a million jobs and $19 billion.
Oct 2011 - Congress enacted $2.4 trillion in deficit reduction fiscal year 2011 — 72 percent Budget savings through spending cuts.
House Republicans cut the Administration’s request for Embassy Security funding by $128 million in fiscal 2011 and an additional cut of $331 million in fiscal 2012…
Ryan, Issa and other House Republicans voted for an amendment in 2009 to cut $1.2 billion from State operations, including funds for 300 more diplomatic Security positions. Under Ryan’s budget, non-defense discretionary spending, which includes State Department funding, would be slashed nearly 20 percent in 2014, which would translate to more than $400 million in additional cuts to Embassy Security.
Sep 2012 - Congress passes a continuing resolution through March of 2013.
Nov 2012 - conservative activists develop a “blueprint to defunding Obamacare, in a take-no-prisoners strategy that cut off financing for the government.”
Mar 2013 - sequester begins to take effect, while Republican congressional leadership stated that deficit reduction must come solely from cuts.
Mar 2013 - Congress approved an appropriations bill to fund the government further reduced by $85 billion in cuts from the sequester.
Jul 2013 - Sens. Mike Lee (UT), Ted Cruz (TX), Rand Paul, Sens. John Cornyn (TX), John Thune (SD), and Marco Rubio (FL) warn they will not approve any spending measure to keep the government operating “if it devotes a penny” to Obamacare.
Steady anti-Obama strategy persists.
For fiscal 2013, the GOP-controlled House proposed spending $1.934 billion for the State Department’s Worldwide Security Protection program — well below the $2.15 billion requested by the Obama administration.
Those cuts are largely the result of the draconian and unrealistically low budget caps placed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) on all discretionary spending, falling particularly hard on the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee with responsibility for Embassy Security.
Just appoint Rush Limbaugh and be done with it. Nothing beats the original mud valve.
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It’s pretty obvious that Hensarling passed on challenging McCarthy for the ML job because he was planning on running against Boehner for the Speaker gig. Ryan appears to be signaling he would be on board.
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no more talking boehner ? At least give him an A for novelty.
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But, you repeat yourself.
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Only when he tries to think.
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Just an FYI?
So it’s a 50/50 call. Basically you pick one and hedge on the other and claim victory in the end.
The reality is, Boener sucks and that suction will be high water compared to the next two smokers.
Nancy Pelosi
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