I guess some calls can be made during “executive time”.
“I understand my friend and colleague from Kentucky does not join the President in supporting the bill, and it’s his right, of course, to vote against the bill, but I would argue that it’s time to vote,” McConnell said.
It’s nice to see McConnell slowly getting over his reluctance to allow things to come to a vote.
Paging Dr. Boucher.
Dr. Boucher to the Senate please…
“I ran for office because I was very critical of President Obama’s trillion-dollar deficits. Now we have Republicans hand-in-hand with Democrats offering us trillion-dollar deficits,” Paul said. “I can’t in all good honesty and all good faith just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits.”
Silly boy. Deficits only matter when a Democrat is President. Everyone knows that. It was explained to us long ago by Richard “big dick” Cheney.
He, and all the Reagan worshippers missed what Ronald Reagan did to the National Deficit after campaigning on a Balanced Budget Amendment and wanting a Line Item Veto.
The fucking NERVE of this sonofabitch.
And only 14 hours until the Opening Bell.
#TheTrumpDump
Yeah, Mr. “I can’t in all good honesty and all good faith just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits.”, that ship sailed over the horizon long ago. Two wars and counting on the credit card, not to mention a massive tax cut. No choice but to gut SS/Medicare/Medicaid, eh? Got to be responsible, dontyaknow.
Does he have a copy of Green Eggs and Ham with him?
Père d’Ira, oh wise one - Why is dropping from 26,000 - 25,000 news, and dropping from 25,000 to 24,000
not ?
shhh. you’ll spook the market!
I think we are getting our political creeps mixed up. They can be difficult to tell apart.
The Swamp rules! And The Swamp has become a hot tub!
I ran for office because I was very critical of President Obama’s trillion-dollar deficits…I can’t in all good honesty and all good faith just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits
Rand “publicity stunt” Paul is at it again. He does this so regularly I am surprised Mitch doesn’t lock him in a closet. He will cave once he feels enough attention has been paid.
Rand only believes in massive deficits brought about by massive giveaways to the rich and corporations. He does some things right and some things very wrong, but he always does everything he does for the wrong reason.
Closets are for other people.
McC has no moral standing on this point.
It was time to vote two years ago on President Obama’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
But McC refused then to do the right thing. Instead he stole a seat on the Supreme Court for the GOP.
Krugman exposes the evil of GOP economics:
"And I don’t think it’s unfair to suggest that there was an element of deliberate economic sabotage. After all, Republicans weren’t just vehemently opposed to fiscal stimulus; they were also vehemently opposed to monetary stimulus. Basically, they were against anything that might help the economy on President Obama’s watch.
Now Obama is gone, and suddenly deficits don’t matter.
But let me not just bash Republicans. Let me also bash their enablers — all those who were duped into believing their claims to be deficit hawks, or pretended to believe them in order to appear balanced and bipartisan. Such people did America a great disservice.
And they will continue to do a great disservice if they obscure what’s happening now. Please, let’s not talk about the wrongheadedness of fiscal policy — about imposing austerity in a depressed economy, then running up the deficit when we’re already near full employment — as a problem of “political dysfunction,” or assert that both parties are to blame. Democrats didn’t block stimulus when the economy needed it, or push a tax cut that will worsen inequality and explode the national debt.
No, this is all about Republican bad faith. Everything they said about budgets, every step of the way, was fraudulent. And nobody should believe anything they say now."
It’s fairly simple, Randy: If you cut taxes (revenue), the deficit is going to go up. If you didn’t want the deficit to go up then you shouldn’t have voted to cut taxes.
About the only thing I remember from my college economics course is a simple maxim: “If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall.”
The other thing I remember about college economics is that it was the one course where it didn’t do any good to have last year’s exam. They always kept the same questions and just changed the answers.