Those dipshits are going to force a gov’t shutdown and cost the US economy billions of dollars. What a frackin’ mess.
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Given Speaker Boehner’s past success rate, along with the increased partisanship, and obstruction of the Tea Party members of his caucus, I’m not going to bet against a shut down as of yet. These far-right anarchists are LOOKING to make themselves known. The process of good government will NEVER be one of their goals!
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Add to that a Dem game plan for the possible attempt by some GOP House members to out Boehner as Speaker.
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The article said that there 30 tea baggers who would vote against funding the government. But since there are 247 Republicans in the House, they already have enough votes in their caucus to pass a clean CR without the Dems. This is just another phony shutdown to let the TP have its tantrum.
Taxpayer lose/lose: Defunding PP will cost taxpayers 130 Billion with a “B” over the next 10 years and impact 630,000 people whereas the last shutdown cost taxpayers 25 Billion with a “B”.
I just dont understand how anyone could vote for a party that continuously costs its constituents more of their hard earned $$$…
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If we are gong to avoid a shutdown
Typo.
What’s the best way to bring these to the attention of the TPM editors? I’ve been sending occasional notes to talk@talkingpointsmemo.com , but I’m not sure those are going to the right place.
If people “learned lessons” from political non-participation, we would have had a functioning government long ago.
He looked like he was going to cry like a 5 year old sitting next to the pope this morning. He could barely even look at the pope.
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Further proof that President Truman was right 70 years ago, that “the only ‘good Republicans’ are pushing up daisies.”
um…I don’t think it’s going to work. I mean, you ARE dealing with THESE guys.
Acorn wasn’t Acorn, either, to my mind, Acorn did good, and that’s why conservatives wanted the back of it. But this time we have their number!
They fear being primaried.
The republicans sold their souls to the Tea Party and the even more extreme minorities in their party, so they could win elections. Now they are seeing the obvious consequences of that deal. If the GOP was a person, that person could learn from this lesson. But, they are what they sold their souls for - an evil mix of the worst of humanity, with a few honest, but stupid people mixed in. It is going to take time for this to be fixed.
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Sad but true. All that the rest of America can do is support massive voter registration drives, particularly in the Hispanic, Black, Asian, and female populations and then support a massive get out the vote drive.
America is a a crossroads, and global warming is now coming on so fast that it is likely there will be no second chance to get it right. Time to stand up and do your part.
Of course, Acorn did the Lord’s work, but wasn’t nearly as widely known or respected as PP, and it served and operated almost solely in poor communities and inner cities (ie people of color). Most Americans hadn’t heard of Acorn and that’s why it was easy to vilify. That’s not the case with PP.
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Every year the GOP is reminded how stupid they were as a party to allow the Birchers…ooops…Tea-Party…ooops…right wing, evangelicals formally into their party. When you are so desperate for votes that you sell your soul you give up any credibility as a legit political party. Its budget time 2015…same movie…same ending.
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I know exactly how to avoid a shutdown, if that’s what Republican leaders had ever wanted. There are 12 appropriations bills. So if they worked at the grueling pace of 3 weeks on each bill, that would leave 4 weeks for August vacation, 2 weeks for Christmas, 1 week each for Thanksgiving, Easter, Veterans’, Memorial, Independence and Labor Days, and 4 weeks left over for miscellaneous nonsense like the name of Mount Denali.
Instead, Republicans have only held votes on six bills. I reserve judgement on whether they’re flaming liars or blistering incompetents but my tentative answer is, “both.”
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The ACORN Rule is ‘Don’t give in to blackmail’ ever.