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Harry Reid blocks funding for veterans programs, national parks

2013-10-04

[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Senate Democrats blocked four resolutions to fund government programs, including paying the National Guard and opening national parks, as Republicans offered the limited measures in an attempt to win the government shutdown fight by financing popular programs and leaving those they oppose untouched.

"Unbelievably, today Senate Democrats went on record to oppose funding for National Guard and Reserve salaries, veterans' services, lifesaving medicine and cures, and national parks and museums," Senate Republican Conference chairman John Thune, R-S.D., said in a release following the procedural battle.

"Congress unanimously passed a bill to ensure active-duty military personnel are paid during this lapse in government funding, and it's unclear why Senate Democrats wouldn't pass similar measures to fund these important services," Thune said.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., asked for unanimous consent to pass funding for the Veterans Affairs Department and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, requested unanimous consent to pass a bill funding the national parks and monuments. Senate Majority Leader

Harry Reid
... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
, D-Nev., rejected both.

"Senator Reid is countering Republicans' UC request with a request to pass a clean [continuing resolution] that reopens the entire government," Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson tweeted.

Thune offered a measure that would ensure the National Guard and Reserve units do not see their pay interrupted, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., called for the Senate to fund the National Institutes of Health. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., blocked the measures.

Sen. Chuck Schumer
Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower.
, D-N.Y., defended the maneuvers during a press conference Thursday afternoon. "To fund these piecemeal bills would give Ted Cruz a veto power over what is funded and what isn't," Schumer said. "We are not going along with that -- how could we?"

Posted by:Fred

#21 VOICE OF RUSSIA > US SHUTDOWN HAMPERS IMPLEMENTATION OF IRAN, SYRIA SANCTIONS - WHITE HOUSE.

Yokay, but China has NucWeapons while Japan + PHIL + ASEAN do not; + the Bammer + Democrats = US need China to borrow post-shutdown. I DON'T SEE THE US PUTTING ANY SANCTIONS ON CHINA IFF IT OPEN FIRED AGZ JAPAN + PHIL, ETC.

* Also from VOICE OF RUSSIA > US GOVT. SHUTDOWN: OBAMA DOESN'T WANT TO LEAD HIS OWN NATION - INTERVIEW, wid Patrick Young.

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As a reminder ...

* TOPIX > JENSEN: IRAN WILL HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

Its what OWG Global, SSSSSHHH...CCCCCCCC P-A-R,
"C0-Superpowers" do???

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-10-04 23:58

#20 looking at Reid's face I have no clue why he hasn't burst a blood vessel. I know he doesn't possess a heart but... something ought to be breaking.

Posted by: 3dc 2013-10-04 23:40

#19 See also NEW YORK TIMES > BOEHNER TELLS REPUBLICANS HE WON'T LET THE NATION DEFAULT.

* TOPIX > [USA Today] WALL STREET: ODDS OF US DEFAULT CLOSE TO ZERO.

* SAME > [WaPo] YOU PROBABLY THINK THE SHUTDOWN IS ABOUT SPENDING, BUT IT ISN'T.

* RIGHT WING NEWS > IN CASE REPUBLICANS IN D.C. HAVEN'T NOTICED, THEY'RE WINNING THE SHUTDOWN FIGHT.

The Debt + Deficit have both been going down - an Obama victory on the shutdown means he + Dems will raise the debt ceiling which in turn which means the Debt + Deficit will reverse + go back up.

versus

* TOPIX > [Business Week] WHY AMERICA'S ADVERSARIES LOVE THIS SHUTDOWN!?

* SAME > [IBT.com] ANALYSIS: NEXT OBAMA QE TO BOOST ECONOMY, COUNTER SUTDOWN EFFECTS TO ALSO ACCELERATE DEBT. US AT HIGH RISK OF HYPER-INFLATION.

IOW, its NOT the Republican shutdown, but raising the debt ceiling as desired by the Bammer Admin + Democrats, that will worsen US economic woes.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-10-04 23:29

#18 Sgt Mom, doesn't silence imply assent?

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-10-04 20:37

#17 Well, he has never done anything to effectively address the rumors that he is a pedophile, has he?
Frankly, at this point, I don't think there's anything too scummy for the Dem Party leadership to indulge in.

Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2013-10-04 18:00

#16 Maybe the Soddies told him to talk to the Iranians.

Perhaps.

But there's this little thing called "connection to reality" that keeps getting in the way of me believing in conspiracies.

Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-04 16:57

#15 Reid screwed up by not finding a way around Cruz. So now Reid has to deal with the press while Obama golfs.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-10-04 14:41

#14 Maybe the Soddies told him to talk to the Iranians.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-10-04 14:06

#13 I can't help but wonder what Teddy Roosevelt's opinion on this would be.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-10-04 12:57

#12 ValJar is at the other end of Bumbles leash. Who owns her leash is unknown. Iranians and Soros most likely.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-10-04 12:48

#11 Unless he's trying to play the Soddies.

But that's be way outa his league.

on the other hand, he'd be the last one to know.

Posted by: Bobby 2013-10-04 12:00

#10 It's pretty clear after that Syrian business that Obummer is taking orders from the Soddies.

If that were the case, he wouldn't be talking to the Iranians.

Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-04 11:42

#9 It's pretty clear after that Syrian business that Obummer is taking orders from the Soddies. He's not alone, of course, his strange bedfellows McCain and Graham are too.

Reid accused House Speaker John Boehner of being more worried about his job than the country amid a government shutdown.

Unlike Reid, Boehner will have to face his constituents in 2014 and that election is now close enough that his constituents are likely to remember whatever way this situation gets resolved. It could also be that Boehner doesn't have fat cat developers who funnel illegal cash into his campaign coffers.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-10-04 11:32

#8 "Does Obama take orders from Reid?"

Bambi takes order from Soros (and God knows who else; the Arabs, at least). >:-(

Maybe Reid delivers Soros' messages.

Posted by: Barbara 2013-10-04 10:18

#7 Why is Reid doing all the talking? If Obama is running the country shouldn't Obama be in the thick of it? Does Reid run the country? Does Obama take orders from Reid?

Obama is looking even less presidential these days -- a difficult trick to pull off!

Posted by: Iblis 2013-10-04 10:12

#6 I see he's shut down the D-Day cemetery. That didn't take long, the spiteful kaffir bastid.

Posted by: Besoeker 2013-10-04 09:47

#5 Agree, Glenmore. And there isn't a budget on this planet that can't be cut by three percent without harm to the underlying enterprise.

Posted by: Steve White 2013-10-04 08:51

#4 I would prefer all budgets be presented in small bites; 80% of Americans probably agree on 80% of the spending, and in a 'business' world, that would get funded so operations could continue with minimal disruption (and less cost too) while the remaining 20% was debated. But in the political world the 80% is held 'hostage' to the 20%. And we let them do it, and ultimately pay the ransom, so the technique prospers and grows.

Posted by: Glenmore 2013-10-04 08:26

#3 All Reid and Obama are concerned about is the retention and exercise of power, the 'old' country be damned in their view. The brave new world of total centralized power is their want and desire.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-10-04 08:13

#2 that reopens the entire government

Typical Democrap, give me everything I want or you're a meanie.

Posted by: AlanC 2013-10-04 07:54

#1 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused House Speaker John Boehner of being more worried about his job than the country amid a government shutdown.
The Nevada Democrat also talked for the first time Thursday about Boehner reneging on an agreement between the two over a clean spending bill, and admitted he directed his chief of staff to leak embarrassing e-mails that they say indicate Boehner changed his position on Obamacare subsidies for Congress.

Reid also followed up on his controversial comments from Wednesday, when he took issue with the idea that the Senate should vote to fund clinical trials for cancer patients at the National Institutes of Health during the shutdown.

In the interview, Reid criticized Boehner for bowing to a conservative faction of his caucus that insists on attaching anti-Obamacare provisions to a temporary spending bill needed to fund the government.

His job is not as important as our country, Reid said.

Posted by: Au Auric 2013-10-04 00:12

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