Discussion: House GOP Offers 1-Week Stopgap Funding Measure To Avoid Shutdown

Although I don’t trust the GOP as far as I can spit, they at least seem to maybe finally kinda realize they need to walk around the raging Drumpfster Fire, rather than jumping into it…

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ExactLY! SpeaK trUth tO poWer!

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So, not the Canadians after all.

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[quote=“theghostofeustacetilley, post:3, topic:54905”]
The Democrats want to shut government if we don’t bail out Puerto Rico and give billions to their insurance companies for OCare failure. NO!
[/quote]OUR insurance companies?

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Earlier on Wednesday, the White House signaled to Democrats that it would continue paying Obamacare subsidies, which Democrats had demanded be guaranteed in the measure to fund the government through September.

What? A one week CR? What? I was under the impression that the Rethugs controlled the House and the Senate and the WH. I really want the media to explain why are Dems involved at all and what it means.

However, Democrats have raised additional smaller issues that they need addressed before agreeing to a final funding package.

Pelosi realizes Ryan’s nuts are in a vise. I hope she turns the screws accordingly.

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Seriously ? 1 week?
Let me see they control the House, Senate, and Presidency
Incapable of governing,
Period

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Well, there is Trump’s big victory—he will prevent the government from defaulting during his first 100 days. The next 100 days are anybody’s guess.

P.S. What does the sentence “Relationships are good-deal very possible” mean?
Can someone who is not an Alzheimer’s specializing gerontologist explain?

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FroM TrUmps tweet it seems like they’re trying to extrac concessions on PR, which has been on the verge of bankruptcy for a while,and their Medicare subsidies are a fraction of what they should owing to the high cost o the island.

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Watch out, Eustace! Trump’s ignorzheimer’s disease may insert virtual prions into your thought processes if you parse his words too closely. Just nod and think of Grenada.

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Translation: my shit show administration has soured relations with our neighbors to our north and south to the point that if I’m able to negotiate a deal it’s going to be worse than the one currently in place. Also, I am a crappy negotiator.

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If you go to your township or county council meetings you might hear them arguing in factions about whether they need a new snowplow or whether to keep the old one another year. What you won’t hear them arguing about is whether they should pay or not pay the utility bills unless the other faction knuckles under so that everyone sits in the dark and cold to punish the other faction for not conceding. For that you need the national GOP leadership. Idiots.

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Maybe the one (1) week budget stopgap measure will deal with the bigly yuge costs Donnie is incurring?

Trump tweets draw 'tidal wave of threats’
Trump’s security detail can’t stop him from tweeting, but it must deal with the consequences.

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Palin Speak for " I don’t know what the fuck I am talking about so I’ll string words together"

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Democrats need to hammer this message: “The GOP has control of the entire federal government, and are too incompetent to pass a budget for more than a week. The voters gave them control, and they are showing more and more every day that they can’t handle the pressure.”

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Another big challenge in protecting Trump — codenamed “Mogul” to commemorate his billionaire business background — starts with the way he’s been traveling around the country

Codename Mogul? Why not Douche or something more appropriate?

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Repubs: “In Control, but Out of Control!”

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And also this:
Their incompetence is also a distraction from the ongoing investigation of complicit involvement of the Trump campaign with Russian operatives.

Keep your eye on the ball

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Dry Hump? Chancre? Fecal Pod? PedoDaddy? The choices are endless.

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I’ll have a go–he’s recasting his real-world drunken flailings-about over NAFTA into the rally slogans that worked in the past. I think as his situation worsens one of his reflexive responses will be to repeat all that stuff as a magical incantation he believes will repair his world.

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