Compare and contrast: GOP vs. Dems’ plans to keep government in business
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This is the Senate Republicans’ one-page joint resolution to keep the government funded through February 2011 (via GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell):
This is the Senate Democrats’ nearly 2,000-page omnibus spending spree:
Take your pick.
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Yes, finally. A GOP threat about to be fulfilled:
Republicans will paralyze the Senate floor for 50 hours by forcing clerks to read every single paragraph of the 1,924-page, $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill.
Senate clerks are expected to read the massive bill in rotating shifts around the clock — taking breaks to drink water and pop throat lozenges — to keep legislative business on track, according to a Democratic leadership aide.
The bill is so long that it took the Government Printing Office two days to print it.
The Senate is currently debating the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty. It is expected to take up the omnibus spending bill on a separate and parallel track later Thursday.
If Republicans follow through on their threat, legislative business couldn’t resume until late Saturday in order to give the staff enough time to read the bill aloud, according to a Democratic leadership estimate.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), the Senate Republican Steering Committee chairman, vowed not to back down.
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Do I have the option of choosing what’s behind Door #3?
We don’t need to keep the government in business. Let it shut down for about 24 months.
Excellent! Extend for two months and then the GOP House can start cutting non-essentials. Start with the FCC and the EPA.
Michelle has it right…
The ballot box is the ultimate sanitizer. After all you can’t reform corruptocrats, but you can vote them out.
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Just linking to the monstrosity shuts down my computer…
Well, let’s see them really fight for it the,.
That’s intended. They have to pass it before they know what’s in it.
I’ve heard that somewhere before…
Where are my Rum subsidies?
Not completely, in COngress, at least until: (1) Jerrymandered districts are redrawn for fairness and sensibility and not to protect a certain party’s imcumbant for re-election, or the party’s hand picked replacement when the incumbant can no longer warm the seat, (2) Absolute requirement of valid ID to be presented to vote, and (3)prosecuting will full force voter fraud.
In the People’s Republic of Mexifornia, I can say neither 2 nor 3 will ever likely be addressed, unless for some weird reason, the GOP starts getting landslide victories throughout the state.
Let this be a warning to those of you that live in what are now considered red states.
The corruptocrats still don’t get it.
They remind me of a teenage boy, who, having his girlfriend take off her friendship ring and throw it at him, vow to have her brother beat him up if he comes over to her house, and changes all her classes so that she doesn’t want to be near him, still invites her to the prom.
With everything on their plate, do senators actually have the time to read McConnell’s continuing resolution?
…bill that gets read!
DeMint also said he wanted the START treaty read aloud as well. He backed down on that.
that’s disappointing, he was the one guy i thought might have a spine.
Excellent article by Victor Davis Hanson on the two states of California:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/255320/two-californias-victor-davis-hanson
While congress fiddles, California burns. They want to tell me what light bulbs to use, but the Progressives look the other way while the rat infested sh!tholes known as immigrant communities get away with environmental murder.
I’m rapidly approaching the point of pulling up stakes and moving out.
sdillard: Continue with Departments of Edge-u-mocashon, Energy and the Infernal Revenue Service. Then let’s go after the NEA (Not Even Artworthy), NPR (No Public opinion allowed if it Runs counter to ours).
I’m just getting warmed up! Don’t stop me now!
I wish Demint was my Senator, instead I have Levin and Lil’ Debbie Blowchow….
King Richard:
A spine, a spine! My kingdom for a Spine!
Catesby:
Withdraw, my lord; I’ll help you to a spine.
King Richard:
Slave! I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
The argument from HATCH of UTAH that it is easier to extend the TAX ISSUE, and accept the BS added by the DEMS then to start from scratch in January is BUNK!!! Let the whole works go into the CRAPPER!!! Let the taxes increase for ALL TAXPAYERS come January… When the so-called MIDDLE CLASS sees it’s rates increase, some by as much as 50%, see how fast we can get tax relief, and from SCRATCH!!! Give no quarter, and accept no compromises form the LIB LEFT!!!
The Republicans in the Senate have already said that to govern you have to compromise. That means this will pass. Doesn’t it only take about 6 Republicans to vote for it? With Snowe, Collins, Brown et al, that should be easy to do.
The Dems in the house will all vote for it. That’s why they were thrown out on their ear. They didn’t get the message or they believe it when Pelois tells them it was just the bad economy created by GW Bush that caused them to lose their jobs.
Of course I know it was Pelosi and her extreme public policy position that caused it. They don’t. She plays them like a fiddle. Hello start treaty, Hello omnibus bill, Hello tax increases on all Americans, Hello gay military.
The Rs in general have no spine or balls.
Yes, the bill gets read … By the Senate Clerks who don’t care and don’t vote.
DeMint is not reliable to stand by his words.
Obama and his media will vilify the Rs for the bill reading as the party of delay and the party of no.
Besides Jindal, is there any R that can kick @ss while standing in front of a microphone? Boener ain’t it.
I am sooooo peeved, I actually sent my hard earned money to that massachussetts fraud Brown. Just another northeast politician with their finger in the air of their state while lying to the public. With Barney Frank I know exactly which side of any issue he will be on. This sleazoid Brown will tell you he is on one side, right up until he votes the other way.
Why the he## would he do that??? They should read EVERY bill before passing. Every doggone one!! Why would he change his mind? Whenever I see him on TV, he sounds so determined. We must keep congress tied up until the end of lame duck! Everything the regressives want to pass is bad for the country!
And, cheapseat, I too gave money to Scott Brown. Then, he didn’t say one word of thanks to the Tea Party or all the donors from across the country. I knew right then he was going to screw us.
Unbelievable! Fire them all. They just can’t do this job or any other. Anyone working like this in the private sector would have failed or been fired. They continue to be poor managers of our money.
Only a federal government entity could take two days to print 1924 pages. What are they using? dot matrix printers?
Don’t the modern Xerox Docutech printers put out about 1000pages an hour?
Don’t blame DeMint too much. Last night on FOX he explained why he did what he did. Apparently the threat was a strategic maneuver to win some kind of concession from the Dems, which seems to have worked.
I didn’t hear it all because of various distractions that conveniently started up just when I really wanted to hear everything, but he may not be so weak-spined as it seems. I hope not, anyway.
Thats the problem with compromise. You can’t change a whole States political leanings instantly. The people in Massachussets got their political ideaology over many years of being under the thumb of the Kennedys. They don’t know any other way.
You have to moderate your position to get elected there. Then in the Senate, you have Senators from States with extreme left ideology, some moderates and some conservatives. Who gets their way? Liberals? Moderates? Conservatives?
If everyone stuck to their States political ideology, very little public policy would be achieved. Too many diverse opinions. They compromise to get something done. I kinda like the get nothing done thing. Government should only be there to protect our liberty, not be everything to all people. When they help one, they harm another. Why do they get to decide who is helped and who is harmed? That power leads to corruption which we have seen over and over.
Yeah, but when the Dems are using their copies of the bill as T.P. they need more than one to hand out.
Maybe the printing office printed copies for everybody except for us taxpayers?
Can’t they just download it to their kindles?
What about the environment? Government prints, trees die.
Or I guess it takes a lot of energy usage to make a kindle and that usage warms the planet which kills more trees so … Darn how that economic activity is killing us all. Gore gave us 10 years so the end is near.
Here is what I found on it:
It doesn’t really say why he changed his mind, but I do not see how any compormise could have helped. It would have been far better to demand that the START treaty, as well as every bill so as to tie up the session all the way out till Jan 5th!
It’s kindling no matter what media it’s on.
Soon they may be downloading it to their Jindals.
Lock it down, close it down or whatever it takes to stop these people. If a really big snow storm were to close that whorehouse for the next few weeks all the world would be the better for it.
Why every bill these clowns propose has to be the size of a Russian novel I don’t know; if they can’t read it they should not have proposed it.
This New START arms-reduction treaty is a bad idea just as Putin is consolidating his power and looking over the pickings of Europe. No Bambi-playing nice will not help.
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Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
Resistance is mandatory
Think about all the copies they had to make…for every one in Congress who won’t be reading it. Maybe they could roll their joints in it.
That explains DeMint’s answer as to why he backed down. But his reasoning is totally flawed!! That explanation only solidifies WHY HE SHOULD HAVE STUCK TO HIS GUNS!! Was he really intimidated by the left saying he had reached a “new low”?? REALLY?? If that is all it took to get him to back off, we are lost.
I think the Dems promised DeMint the equivalent 15 hours of delay in lieu of the START treaty reading. I don’t know for sure what that means. Delay putting it up for a vote? The bill wasn’t submitted for discussion until this morning so maybe he got that delay.
If they get the same deal over the omnibus, they could demand a much bigger equivalent and that would mean no omnibus bill this year. Won’t happen.
This is what we get when we elect spineless, immature, pencil-necked geeks into positions of power. Does anyone really believe that there would not be payback for all the years of bullying they endured in high school?
One of the qualifications of Democrat Party leadership is you have to act like one of The Lost Boys…take your pick, the ones from Never Never Land, or the vampires from the Keifer Sutherland movie. They both work.
How? In the Disney version the boys never grow up, and in the Sutherland version they are vampires who suck out the life’s blood of the living.
We really need a new party, the two-headed beast (R & D) is killing this country. Same destination, desolation.
Yes and like the Hydra, each time you cut one head off two more grow in it’s place…
And I believe it would be in order for the legislation to be translated and read in every language that election ballots are printed in…
Maybe that would get Congress to designate English as the official language of the United States.
Part of the START treaty is actually in Russian. Hope we don’t rely on the translator the State Department used when they had the “Reset” button done for Hillary!
Senator Doofus from State57 says reading isn’t enough. There should be two minute of comment/debate per member for every page and/or provision of any bill on the floor. 5 minutes per line per member for earmarks. Any member who doesn’t use their allotted time can have that time claimed by other Senators for their use. If more than one claimant comes up, there will be a lottery for who gets the time…