Discussion: House Passes Three-Week Spending Bill To End Government Shutdown

What is the point of a three week spending bill?

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Ok now is the time to hit our Republican members of Congress on how much will it cost to deport 700,000 undocumented immigrants. How much will it cost to care for any US citizen children of those who get deported. This is the time to find out who is really a fiscal conservative and who who just hates the browns. Also there are something like 20K to 40K undocumented Irish here. How does throwing them out maintain our Western European culture?

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Ever play ‘kick the can’ as a kid?

Kick the can and run like hell to your hiding place. It’s a kids’ game. Being played by very dangerous kids.

This will all be repeated in week 2.5.

And I’m not sure what anyone got out of it, quite yet.

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Ari Melber is just killing Trump and his so-called promises about Dreamers.

Ending with Lindsey Graham, who says, “Mr. President, when you tell them to go home, the only home they know is America.”

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This gets us three weeks closer to the Blue Tsunami and Mueller-fest. Patience, grasshoppers…

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Absolutely. This keeps the trains running. We can hold their feet to the fire on DACA. And we will. But the Mueller machine chugs on.

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“…passed swiftly through the House…”

Like the proverbial goose, many things “pass swiftly through” under Ryan’s watch.

Much to the same effect.

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Seems more like a dog pooping peach pits.

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Like republican House member’s paying women off for sexual advances…

Yes, we have Conyers and that guy from NV.

Should we keep score?

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How about that Lyin Ryan? Does il feel like you didn’t do a fucking thing? I have some news for you. I don’t think you’re going to like it.

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House Passes Three-Week Spending Bill To End Government Shutdown

Three weeks.

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This grasshopper’s patience is running thin. :slight_smile:

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I don’t think I can like this. Calvin was an extremely smart eternal 6-year-old, while Trump is an egregiously dumb (apparently) eternal 6-year-old. This is very disrespectful to Calvin.

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You needs be speak more from personal experience …

Mine was that I swallowed a quarter once as a kid …
It was not too bad —

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I made this particular one, but there are many and I didn’t come up with the idea. I see your point, (Calvin and Hobbs holds a special place in my heart) but petulant 6 year old plays very well into the Trump narrative. I enjoy re-reading the old comics and finding just the right one to fit the news of the day. It’s a purely cathartic exercise.

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Hobbes tried to keep Calvin on the straight and narrow. Didn’t always work.

Pat Meehan from the soon to be redistricted PA 7th!

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Soon as in before November?

I like to do similar things, though not as industriously as you do. I often dredge up old quotes from satirical fiction (one of my favorites for politics is “Yes, Minister”) that fits with the modern day.

Something about history and rhyming and all that.

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