Yesterday:
Now, we are hearing reports that the House Leadership might actually vote on a Continuing Resolution (CR) that funds the government, but stops funding Obamacare. If they actually pull through - this could be huge - and again it is all thanks to yoru hard work. But, we must not let up right now. We must keep the pressure on.
Today:
John Boehner and his “Republican” cronies in the House are trying to use a procedural trick that will end up funding Obamacare at 100% while allowing them to still claim to be in favor of stopping it.
Speaker Boehner is trying to commit political fraud. He believes people like you and me are too dumb to understand what he is up to. He believes he can slip this funding bill through right under our noses!They go on to urge patriots to call Boehner and give him the business. Whenever I try to contact somebody in government they weed me right out. I cannot proceed beyond the first page that demands, "And who are you, exactly?" If the zip code doesn't match then piss off. Must I lie and enter the wrong zip code? Should I lie all the way through misrepresenting myself as their direct constituent, when actually I'm just a regular guy from another place trying to boss them around?
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The really disturbing thing is that, once again, neither the administration nor the Congress is pursuing a formal budget. Merely another CR, like the last 4. We no longer actually have a budget process....CR's mean much less oversight and much more malfeasance.
Which, is exactly what the administration wants, and Congress has decided it is good for them too.
Wait! There's more.
Patriots,
We will be hosting an emergency tele town hall tonight at 5pm EDT to discuss the latest update on the Continuing Resolution and the efforts to defund Obamacare. Congressman Tom Graves and Congressman Mark Meadows will be joining us on the call and we are working to secure others who have been leading the effort to defund Obamacare as well.
What we learned this morning is that the House GOP will allow for a vote on a Continuing Resolution that funds the government at the current levels (that includes sequestration levels) while fully defunding Obamacare. The thing we need to watch out for is to make sure that once this passes the Leadership in the House doesn't decide to roll over and immediately negotiate out of it. We need them to stand firm if this is the avenue that they are going to take.
We will discuss all of that tonight on the call. Please join us if you can and encourage others to sign up here.
The last time I did a conference call set up by somebody else I ended up with $60.00 tacked onto my phone bill. And the only thing they said was what I already told them the third party said. The exact same thing. All it did was confirm.
Chip, you should treat your elected officials with all the honesty they show towards you.
"A republic, if you can keep it."
Everybody knows that one but not everybody knows the question was put to Franklin on his way to the outhouse.
I told you Boehner was a cowardly piece of shit. What the fuck is the point of having political parties anymore if they all do the same thing to fuck up the citizens and the country they live in.
Progressives have damned good reason to hate the Tea Party, like a teenager hates her parents for not giving her a credit card. "They just don't love me!"
So I already stopped giving dough to the state and national GOP.
Now it looks like I can forego voting entirely.
We are not allowed to boss anyone around. They lord over US. The vote rig fix is in. we are screwed.
If they can de-fund Obamacare, I will be shocked and pleased. It would be a step in the right direction to a smaller fed govt. Plus it would embarrass the hell out of Choom.
And I do agree we need to go back to where we actually have a formal BUDGET.
Keep Obamacare fudning separated from the rest of it, and they might have success.
Force Senate democrats to re-vote for Obamacare and see what happens to them in 2014.
Life sucks?
Hey, whatever.
I've got a new avatar, Jimmy Crack Corn, and it's all good.
Less lipstick Mitchell.
According to HotAir, the assumption is any defund measure will die in the Senate, anyway.
But, yeah, with only 30% support, defunding ChoomCare should be a no-brainer.
So primary the bastards.
PS On the subject of Whigs, Lindsey Gramnesty will support Choom bombing Iran.
Another pinprick in place of a sharply-worded letter to the Times?
Here we go.
Aridog said...
CR's mean much less oversight and much more malfeasance.
Maybe, but they limit the rate of total spending growth.
Your slightest wish is my command.
What the hell just happened?
Such a handsome devil!
AJ Lynch said...
If they can de-fund Obamacare, I will be shocked and pleased. It would be a step in the right direction to a smaller fed govt. Plus it would embarrass the hell out of Choom.
And I do agree we need to go back to where we actually have a formal BUDGET
Urkel will just veto it. He and his fellow traitors known as the Democrat Party will never sign a bill to defund their own abortion of law on the American citizen.
AJ Lynch said...
If they can de-fund Obamacare, I will be shocked and pleased. It would be a step in the right direction to a smaller fed govt. Plus it would embarrass the hell out of Choom.
And I do agree we need to go back to where we actually have a formal BUDGET
Urkel will just veto it. He and his fellow traitors known as the Democrat Party will never sign a bill to defund their own abortion of law on the American citizen.
Let's not frighten the children any more than we have to.
Methadras- I agree - I am as skeptical as you as to how they could get Choom to shitcan his own masterpiece.
The American people sure do eat a lot of shit sandwiches just so The President doesn't look bad or have to admit a mistake. How is that gonna taste years from now when he's not even around anymore, but we are still eating this same menu?
According to HotAir, the assumption is any defund measure will die in the Senate, anyway.
And.....so? Does this mean that they shouldn't at least try? Isn't this what they, the GOP in the House were sent to Washington to do.
Up here in our little corner of Hell, California. Some of the Counties are making resolutions that we should withdraw from the State and start a separate State. Do we really think it likely that it will happen or that one or two counties can make it happen. Fuck no!. But....we have to at least try and to send the message to Sacramento that we hate everything they are doing. Even though we are 99% likely to NOT get a separate State, we HAVE to at least try.
The RINOs in the House and the Double Dipped RINO's in the Senate make me sick. You were elected to do a job. DO IT even if you think you might be outvoted by the rest of the weasels.
RINOs take their advice from A*thouse, advising the Underpants Gnome approach to governing:
Step 1. RINOs vote Dem on social and economic issues, get elected.
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Profit!
I predict Boehner goes chicken.
"CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Clinic has told workers they will be laying off an unspecified number of employees as part of an overall, sweeping cost-reduction plan.
Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove discussed the looming cuts and changes in a Wednesday morning all-employee meeting.
Clinic spokeswoman Eileen Sheil denied circulating rumors that employees were told there would be 3,000 jobs cut.
She said any layoffs will be part of a multi-year plan to cut $330 million from the Clinic's budget.
She attributed most of the budget reductions to looming changes accompanying the start of the Affordable Health Care Act.
Sheil said the Clinic had not made overall layoffs in the past 11 years.
She added that any layoffs would be across the board, including doctors."
One way to shrink the costs of health care is not to have any available.
It's free, but there ain't any.
Don't blink.
It borders on farce, hoping the GOP will hang tough on defunding Obamacare or on anything else for that matter. Yes, enough pressure will produce a gesture but never a definitive action. If the TEA Party can't wrest control of the GOP then the GOP must be abandoned, go the way of the Whigs, DIE. At that point, perhaps, full unfettered communism will implode the economy and the country and something like a refounding might happen. But to hang onto the hope that Boehner/McConnell & Co. will ever take back lost ground? Puhleeze.
I've got a new avatar, Jimmy Crack Corn, and it's all good.
Don't fuck with the avatar, Mitchell! My daughter loves seeing that bat picture - "Look, that bat's silly!" ("Silly" is a good thing amongst the three year-old set.)
A defund measure can't just die in the Senate. If the House won't fund the law, that's it. The Senate might insist on shutting down the rest of the government too, but they can't just FUND the thing if the House says "NO!"
GOP hearts the ACA. Who'da thunk it? I suspect that all along it was their idea. Clue, Heritage Foundation, RomneyCare, right wing think tanks. It was a great farce, conservatives, it's over now and the truth is finally out.
The Republicans don't wanna go on record as being in accord with 2/3rds of the American people because they'll miss out on all those invites to the bestest beltway parties.
Think I'm joking? That's a lot closer to the truth than the convoluted punditry that explains away their cowardice. They wanna be loved by THE PEOPLE WHO COUNT and screw the peasantry. Simple as that
Dust Bunny Queen said...
According to HotAir, the assumption is any defund measure will die in the Senate, anyway.
And.....so? Does this mean that they shouldn't at least try? Isn't this what they, the GOP in the House were sent to Washington to do.
Up here in our little corner of Hell, California. Some of the Counties are making resolutions that we should withdraw from the State and start a separate State. Do we really think it likely that it will happen or that one or two counties can make it happen. Fuck no!. But....we have to at least try and to send the message to Sacramento that we hate everything they are doing. Even though we are 99% likely to NOT get a separate State, we HAVE to at least try.
The RINOs in the House and the Double Dipped RINO's in the Senate make me sick. You were elected to do a job. DO IT even if you think you might be outvoted by the rest of the weasels.
DBQ, even after the 2010 elections, Urkel still got this rammed through congress and the Senate with back room deals and selling out the American people only to have it re-affirmed as a giant fuck you by CJ John Roberts when he had it dead to rights in his sights to kill once and for all. This shit sandwich will be here to stay and there is really nothing at this point we can do about it. Holding it hostage in lieu of a government shutdown will do nothing and will only play to Urkels hands in showing that Republicans want to kill babies and drink their blood, but only the white and Syrian babies because killing and drinking the blood of inferior minorities is racist, GOP'er and teapartiers just want to rape old ladies and throw the indigent over a cliff and any other sundry horror that the democrat party has been able to propagandize against conservatives and republics just so they can hide what a hideous ideology they cling to all so they can spend trillions of dollars, steal trillions more from those that make it to those that don't all in the name of PC, diversity, wealth redistribution, and control of an the whole economy.
It's a scam, we've been sold out and this is the endgame of this legislation. Republicans have shown themselves to be feckless and cowards letting themselves be attacked daily without uttering a single word in retaliation. There should have been daily republican responses to the utter lies promoted by the Urkel administration on TV and radio and instead all we got was double talk. America is finished and it's clearly obvious that republicans have been basically in lockstep with democrats minus the handholding. It's disgusting.
In other news, the FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD downgrades outlook for the economy, stocks soar!
I feel bad for youse guys. It's been a rough day, huh?
Two hospitals closed in Brooklyn. Long Island College Hospital on Atlantic Ave in Cobble Hill and Interfaith also on Atlantic Ave in Bed Stuy.
These are two hospitals that cared mostly for poor people. Or Middle Class people. The pressure put on health cared destroyed them as the big corporations run by the state closed them down in favor of hospital in better neighborhoods.
More and more of this will happen because of Obama care. The rich will be able to get treatment by paying out of pocket. The poor will not. Everything they say about it is a lie. It will lead to rationing of healthcare. It will be the destruction of the very people it purports to help.
Most of us who post here are old white guys. We will survive. We always do. We are the ones that built this country. We lost control when we did stupid stuff by letting other people have a voice.
It is the poor people that will suffer even more as care is rationed. Old white guys will just pay for our own healthcare.
Derbyshire remarked recently that they have a crew following Boehner around with a mop and sponge.
rhhardin said...
Derbyshire remarked recently that they have a crew following Boehner around with a mop and sponge.
Why? To clean up the snail trail he leaves behind from his giant gaping asshole that has been reamed by democrats since he became speaker? or it could be from his weeping vagina.
@Inga
Are you reading some other blog?
It's been a bad 6 years for the USA, I'll grant you that.
But a bad day for those posting here? WTH are you talking about?
If you're also hearing voices, don't try to buy a shotgun, please.
Old white guys? Speak for yourself. I'm in my second childhood!
Weeping Vaginas, rock on outta heah!
Pogo,
So, it's a good thing that Boehner is going to stab y'all in the back? Ok, no problem, carry on.
He's stabbing the USA in the back, which I thought included you.
So the 'bad day' is nationwide, and began in 2008.
I get a kick out the "old white guys" meme assigned to the GOP...take a look at Obama's crew in the situation room. Mostly what? Old. White. Guys.
BWahahahaha.
Pogo said...
So I already stopped giving dough to the state and national GOP.
Well you should, just as I have, other than local politicians that I KNOW. The last official GOP questionnaire I received asking questions, plainly gave me a forced choice as either "Tea Party" or "Conservative" Republican, NOT BOTH, no way Jose. They only wanted between $25 and $1000 this time, they got zero. I threw that solicitation in the trash.
I even prefer Democrats to RINO's, because as sluts they at least kiss you before they fuck you ... RINO's are like whores, they just fuck you, take your money, and expect you to say thanks.
My town, long known for fiscal conservatism and high ratio of services to low taxes, is heading astray (spending money on stupid shit) and I'm voting for conservative Arabs as fast as they appear on ballots.
As Pogo pointed out, the Cleveland Clinic is planning layoffs. So, too, Vanderbilt Medical Center:
Vanderbilt University Medical Center was expected to cut several hundred more jobs this week as part of a plan to eliminate more than 1,000 positions by the end of the year.
It's industry wide, and coming to a hospital near you, too.
Aridog said...
and I'm voting for conservative Arabs as fast as they appear on ballots.
Christian arabs or Sharia arabs? Very different.
Sounds to me like Obama has declared an accountability war on the"medical-industrial complex."
Pogo, Never respond directly to the psychotic, widow Nurse. If something requires a comment, always be indirect. Do not engage. Take a swipe and then move on. Of course, you can tell me to go shit in my hat. But, read the thread. The comments from her were pleading for engagement. You know, like a child who has no talent and therefore just seeks out negative attention. Everyone has done a good job in not engaging. But again, this strategy is just my opinion, I could be wrong.
You guys have to watch the new Fox series "Sleepy Hollow" about the return of the Headless Horseman to the modern day.
It has some tips on how not to summon the demon. Just sayn'
Mark Meadows is my Congressman.
(Not sure why the little o appointed him to be a delegate to some meeting at the UN recently, but Mark [I have spoken with him when he was campaigning] is for normal people.)
It may not amount to much, but we need to start making noise.
Interesting -- here in NC we have a bunch of people jockeying for the Republican primary to oust Sen. Kay Hagan (D). A new dude has thrown his hat in -- big cheese conservative Baptist, but his campaign is being run by a dyed in the wool RINO (Ripon guys = Rockefeller Repubs., H.W. Bush, Dole, opposed Goldwater, opposed Reagan...) Instead of focusing on Hagan they are trying to divide the voters and pull them away from supporting Greg Brannon, a solid conservative, small government Tea Party favored guy who is a physican.
The Republican party is doing itself and the voters no good. With all that is going on voters are not going to go away. And they are plucking the chickens.
JAL said...
Mark Meadows is my Congressman.
(Not sure why the little o appointed him to be a delegate to some meeting at the UN recently, but Mark [I have spoken with him when he was campaigning] is for normal people.)
He is either going to be fouled by the machine and if it doesn't get to him, he will leave in utter disgust and failure.
Spinelli, what is wrong with you? Seriously. Someone who says he would kill himself when Meade kept deleting his comments on Althouse, talks about odd behavior and attention seeking, funny if it were not so pathetic.
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Spinelli, I suggest you review the licensing requirements for the PI license you hold. I find your continuous reference to myself as a widow pretty despicable and harrassing.
And I suggest you take your own advice and ignore me, henceforth.
lets shut er down.
Hear that, nd?
She'll report you to the NSA.
Inga your opinions aren't working, as the Scott Walker recall election proves.
You are hurting your cause by your attitude, and if you are gonna keep alienating Wisconsin voters to the point the state goes full Red then do not complain that you were not warned.
My advice is to be more open-minded, thoughtful, and decent.
@ndspinelli
Understood.
Pogo, Thanks for understanding, but I think the whacky rants said it all, now didn't it!
Yeah, that was, whaddyacalllit, some crazy ass shit.
I just finished a good memoir by Richard Russo. Empire Falls is the best seller written by Russo. The memoir, On Helwig Street, is about growing up in Gloverville, NY w/ his single mom. Russo's dad is also in the memoir, you'll recognize him as Sully, in the flick, Nobody's Fool. However, the main character in this honest memoir is Russo's mother, Jean. With great insight and honesty Russo lets us see just how insane his mother was and what an enabler he was. There's a summer when Russo was in college where he returns home from Tuscon[U. of Arizona] to work construction w/ his old man. During a caual conversation his dad says about his ex wife and Russo's mom, "She's crazy, you know." It was startling to the 19 year old young man because mom was his sun and moon. Over the next 50 decades you get to see just how crazy. It is sad but worth reading if you're a fan of Russo. Or, if you have an interest in OCD, it is a case study documented by a good writer.
edutcher, Unfortunately, no one has to report someone to the NSA. They got everything on everybody!
Titus, was that a Dark City reference?
Troop, how did that wench get conjured up?
Ted Cruz needs to learn that chickens are easily startled...
Pogo said...
"CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Clinic has told workers they will be laying off an unspecified number of employees as part of an overall, sweeping cost-reduction plan.
Inga said...
I feel bad for youse guys. It's been a rough day, huh?
Revealing that when people are laid off the left cheers because it's a bad day for the GOP and conservatives. Nice priorities. But even further doesn't it prove they know their 'Republicans are onyl for the rich mantra' is bullshit? According to their worldview Republicans shouldn't care.
The premise of "Sleepy Hollow" is the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse are gathering to destroy us. Two covens of witches are battling it out. The good witches and the bad witches. There is a chief demon who is summoning evil and he seems to be involved with the woods and gardening or something. The funny thing is he can reach through mirrors to destroy people. I think he is uses the Amazon portal. Just sayin'
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