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I was gonna say, isn't that basically his job description?
Maybe he took his work home with him.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
02/14/2014 7:25 Comments ||
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I have a feeling we are going to find out one day, that this era has been the era of the greatest looting and theft of all mankind. Talk about legacies.
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it's a wymyn: [Christa Ann] McClure, 51, pleaded not guilty Feb. 6 in federal District Court in Montana to eight counts of theft and fraud from a nonprofit housing agency in Billings
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/14/2014 9:46 Comments ||
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[SPECTATOR.ORG] The latest budget battle in Washington has Democrats and Republicans once again at loggerheads. Democrats think Republicans should get nothing in return for another debt ceiling increase. Republicans think they should get less than nothing.
The House GOP leadership has longed to stop the gory budget showdowns of the past few years. That means giving up on further cuts and passing a clean debt ceiling increase; a cringeworthy proposal, but one that should have attained enough Democrat and establishment Republican support to pass the House. Instead, the GOP found a creative way to make it worse. Republicans attached a provision to the debt ceiling increase that would cancel $6 billion worth of savings from military pension reforms in the Ryan-Murray budget. This would be offset by an extension of sequestration on Medicare spending 10 years from now.
Senate Democrats initially balked, and introduced another bill that would have stricken the pension reforms without any offsets whatsoever. But as another snowstorm bore down on Washington, the Senate caved yesterday and approved the original House legislation.
Politics watchers cheered. "This is how Washington works," wrote Molly Ball at the Atlantic. Washington working apparently means Democrats refusing to compromise, Republicans compromising and throwing in additional needless concessions, Democrats demanding further concessions on the needless concessions, and Democrats finally agreeing to the first round of concessions so they can leave the office before Washington gets hit by the sort of snowstorm that makes New Englanders briefly contemplate switching to four-wheel drive. This must be what centrists mean when they talk about "making tough decisions for our children."
Posted by: Fred ||
02/14/2014 00:00 ||
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#1
In my lifetime the Democrats have compromised a total of three times only.
Republican NAFTA, signed by Bill Clinton.
Republican welfare reform signed by Bill Clinton.
Republican sorta kinda balanced budget signed by Bill Clinton.
Every other compromise has consisted of the Republicans moving 95%-100% to the Democrat position. And the Democrats and their toadies in the MSM howling like scalded cats if it was 95%.
Democrats NEVER compromise.
Posted by: no mo uro ||
02/14/2014 5:56 Comments ||
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#2
Spend more! Tax more! Borrow more! Print more!.... Until there is no MORE.
#3
Wasn't the 2010 election about slowing trying to get some control and stop the out-of-control spending? The donk spin is different of course. It was for the children, grandma in a wheelchair, and the poor--sob.
#4
I'm beginning to believe the donks really have attained some kind of back room leverage on John Boehner. As compromised as he is, he should step down voluntarily.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/14/2014 10:54 Comments ||
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I know he won't. But he should.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/14/2014 10:55 Comments ||
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#6
Well, there is certainly something going on in the Pub ranks. Boehner, McConnell, and the Pub old guard's contempt and disdain for the young Tea Party up and comers betrays them. If ever there was a time to set petty differences aside and unite it is now.
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