So the GOP can appease the fundie extremists who don’t believe women should have a say in their own healthcare, so the GOP can allow the corporations that fund them to pour poison into the air we breath and the water we drink without consequence to increase their profits, and, perhaps most importantly, so right-wingnuts can “prove” that government doesn’t work/we don’t need government.
Did I miss anything?
And to anyone dumb enough to believe that the House bill to extend the budget for a week, and the military’s budget to the end of the fiscal year, is a serious one I have a few questions for you; Do you honestly believe that a one-week extension that changes nothing WOULDN’T pass? Why is the one-week offer contingent on taking cuts to the military’s budget off the table? Why is the GOP insisting that a one-week extension come at the price of defunding planned parenthood and the EPA without negotiation? And finally, why were some in the GOP chanting “Shut it down! Shut it down!” inside and outside congress, and cheering when their teabagger leaders were saying on the floor that they’d rather shut it down than compromise, at all?
The Democrats have compromised enough. At this point, the only option is to let the GOP shut it down until the teabagger faction concedes defeat on the riders. I would suggest that social security checks to the seniors, who voted teabagger in large numbers, be stopped until the government is open and functioning normally again.
Tags: christo-fascist zombie brigade, congress, Economy, GOP Hypocrisy, Greed, Teabaggers
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I called and told all my congressmen to shut it down. I told them to go to their corners, take their time-outs with grace and humility, think about what they have done. Then I demanded a more mature attitude, ending their juvenile behaviors and antics when they reconvened, to end their partisan attitude. I reminded them that they were not put in DC for a political agenda that is not set by the people in kansas, that the people in Kansas put them there to decide on issues that were best for Kansas and THE PEOPLE.
I called for an end to partisanship. Demanded that they start meeting in the middle, like all negotiation processes are supposed to have.
Told them I hate the Republicans. I dislike the Democrats.I told them that there is some one, some questionable group of people desires this country to be divided. That the division cannot be tolerated. A house that divides cannot stand.
I also said.”Let Obama run the country. He will do a better job without the Congress.” LOL. Oh that got them!!
I told them that Bush was handed a surplus. I demanded to know what happened to that surplus.
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I want to know why “our” elected representatives believe they only represent the people who voted for them, not their entire district.
Do you get what I mean by that? I think it’s important.
“Our” elected representatives shouldn’t be telling large portions of their constituencies to fuck off and die. Even if it’s only 49% of their constituency.
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BTW, more proof that it’s the GOP’s intransigence on trying to insert social issues in a budget bill that’s the problem:
[T]he House Democrats tried three times to pass a measure that would ensure the troops received pay. The Republicans overwhelmingly opposed every single “troop-funding” opportunity.
What’s more, the Obama administration announced today that it “would support a short-term, clean Continuing Resolution” like the alternative Democrats offered. Thus, by voting against these measures, House Republicans are flatly refusing to support any “troop funding bill” unless their anti-abortion and anti-environmental riders get passed. Incidentally, Republicans have ensured that, unlike the troops, Members of Congress will still get paid.
Republicans, at least the Republicans in the House of Representatives, are scum.
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What is really interesting is that the Troops mostly support GOP agenda. Until the last decade anyway.
Been thinking martial law is not at all scary since no one is re-enlisting, that troops levels are lower than ever, with suicide rates at an all-time high in the military. And now, like Russia prior to their fall, they cannot pay our soldiers.
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I want to know why “our” elected representatives believe they only represent the people who voted for them, not their entire district.
You seemed to be confused, yes we voted for them but their masters are the ones that supply them with $$$$$ and that’s not you or me. This isn’t about what is best for Amerika and the people but what’s for corp. amerika. I have complete faith 0 will sell us out little at a time until he wins in 2012 then watch this nation become even more 3rd than we are already.
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Yes, that is the reality, that the money is why they vote as they do. But I have one Congressmen who is not all that partisan. He is pretty decent. Jerry Moran.
But the money-getting is not really how it should be. Let’s get back to how it should be.
I used to date a lobbiest for Getty Oil, then Texaco. My sister in DC set us up. He really was not that crooked a guy.
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Yes I agree there are few but it’s dam few. The lobbiest is just doing his job and I would like to stop all that. Since seems to be Congresscritter then become a lobbiest were the real money is at and of course it’s nothing personel against the Amerikan people it just business as usual.
Have a great weekend
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I was telling people I work with that they’d pass a one week extension with no riders. I may have posted it somewhere, too, but I don’t recall where.
As I type this a one week extension with no riders is being passed.
Since I can’t prove this, I’ll make another prediction. The final budget will pass on Thursday, covering the rest of the fiscal year (i.e. through the end of September). Said budget will piss off people on both sides of the aisle. (Lawrence O’Donnell just read a tweet that Bo(eh)ner sold out the teabaggers so they’re going to primary him.) The baggers will be pissed because they think they OWN this country, and didn’t get 100% of what they wanted on the first pass. “The left” will be pissed off because too much was given away in the first round.
Next, the debt ceiling will come up. If it’s not raised the entire world will likely be plunged into a depression, or at least a severe long-lasting recession. The US media will let the TeaOP get away with holding the entire world hostage, barely mentioning it, as the TeaOP demands more and more for the rich and less and less for the poor and middle class. Expect to see social issues once again in the “debate”. There will be at least one highly publicized “debate” where the GOP is attacking health care, especially a woman’s right to choose a life-saving operation, and the Democrats “defending” said right to decent health care. Said “defense” will come at the cost of further cuts to other items in the Obama budget that “the left” would like left alone.
After that, another round of attacks on the poor and the middle class will come when the 2012 budget comes up. We’ll see the same distractions (so-called “social issues”, AKA fundie nutbag issues, and the same “defense” of our so-called “rights” by Democrats who will sell out the poor and the middle class to “defend” some right such as, but not limited to, the right to breath clean air, drink poison-free water, or see a doctor when you’re sick without going to the ER and running up an even bigger bill than if we just put “single payer” (socialized medicine) in place and limited what the greedy health care industry can charge, and cut the even greedier insurance industry out completely.
My final prediction is that most of the SUCCESSFUL attacks on the poor and middle class will come in the 2012 budget “debate”, because we won’t feel the devastating effects of those class-warfare based attacks ON YOU AND ME until after the elections. The TeaOP knows their agenda isn’t popular. They hide it every chance they get.
As long as I’m typing, I can solve the “deficit ‘crisis’” in a matter of minutes:
1) End all federal dollars to churches (so-called “faith based funding”).
2) Bring our troops home. Not just from Afghanistan and Iraq. Hell, leave ‘em in Afghanistan a while longer, if it will do any good. But bring them home from Japan, Germany, Korea, and the Phillipines, too. Don’t replace them when they retire.
3) Cut the military hardware budget by 3/4, and the military fuel budget by 1/2.
4) Raise taxes on PERSONAL income over $1 million by 3%, on dividends/investments/non-productive money by 20%, and on estates worth over $5 million by 50% on the amount above $5 million. Regarding the last, we’re Americans. We don’t believe in inherited monarchies.
Businesses hire people because demand for their products increases, not because their after-tax profits increase. Put money back into the hands of the poor and middle class and demand increases. Put it in the hands of the already wealthy and they invest it, generating more “non-productive” income.
All of this is just common sense. Which reminds me of something I learned in a psych class, years ago. Seems a sane man went to live on a nut ward, as part of an experiment. The patients quickly approached him and asked “you’re not crazy, are you?” The staff treated him like any other patient.
I’m tired of being the staff, and I don’t want to be a patient. But I live in a nut ward, so I don’t really know how to approach these problems, from an “organizing” or “practical” POV, any more.
I guess all I can do is continue to call out the crazy, and hope that someone will listen. If “we” GOTV “we” will win. The patients aren’t the majority, they just think they are because they mobilize voters. “We” need to do the same and take over the nut ward.
I think I’m going to have to watch/read “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” again.
Fair warning; if someone is approaching you with an ice pick or electrical paddles, RUN AWAY. And turn off “the news” now to give yourself a fighting chance to recognize it.
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I posted “I would suggest that social security checks to the seniors, who voted teabagger in large numbers, be stopped” and I stand by it, but I could have chosen a number of other examples. My point is not that I want to see seniors suffer.
Let me point out that the initiation of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were accompanied by a tax CUT. Further, the ongoing casualties in those wars, as well as their cost in dollars, isn’t even reported on, any more.
The pain of those wars isn’t shared equally. Military families feel it. The rest of us, not so much.
If the government were to shut down, the pain would be felt most acutely by Federal workers. Everyone from the janitors in Federal agencies to public servants to soldiers in the field. The rest of America, not so much. (Someone subscribed me to “The Patriot Post” years ago. Today I received an email from them lauding a shut down because the IRS wouldn’t do as many audits. I have no idea if that’s true, or not, but it speaks to the mindset of those who hate their own government so much they’re unwilling to fund it. “Patriots”, indeed.)
I concede that cutting SS checks to seniors is easily rebutted by calling me “mean-spirited”, so I want to clarify what I mean by it; the pain of a government shutdown should be felt equally across all Americans, regardless of class.
I’m sick and tired of people getting away with demonizing their own government, then going on to speak about American exceptionalism (except when “their” state is even MORE “exceptional”). This is OUR government. If it’s “broken” it’s OUR fault.
And if you sit on the sidelines you have no right to bitch about it.
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