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Kilpatrick, who was elected mayor in 2001 at age 31 and is the son of a former senior member of Congress.
Sir Isaac Newton, gravity, and the apple not falling far from the tree?
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He will be 71 years old when he gets out of prison, unless he gets time off credit for "good behavior". I wonder if his wife Carlita Kilpatrick will be waiting at the gates of the prison when he gets out ?
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#2
Anybody know who likes to play at the course? I mean, who had enough pull to keep it open?
Not that he had to say anything; everyone from the top down to the greens keeper understood it had to remain open. It's not open to the rest of the world, anyway. No benefit to closing it.
Posted by: Bobby ||
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ACA will not be struck down, it is a tax after all, I can not think of any tax that has been eliminated by Congress, only morphed into some other tax in the last 100 years.
#4
As people eventually discover the premiums and annual deductibles [which are now hidden due to 'SW glitches], it will clearly be seen for what it is, a "tax".
A government that can globally monitor and store tellie conversations and e-mail, but cannot build a successful web-site after 3+ years and over $300 Billion dollars spent ?
#5
The SCT tax ruling had to do with the individual mandate -- which in a way was struck down. Majority held that Congress had no authority to make people buy anything. This is significant in its own way -- from 1937 to 1994 not one law was held unconstitutional for lack of Congressional authority.
Roberts said Congress could tax you which left the penalty in place. So they can't make you buy, but they can punish you for not buying -- and what is a tax if not a punishment?
Other parts of ObamaCare will almost certainly be struck down -- I'm thinking of provisions which limit religious freedom. Will the SCT throw out the entire law on that basis (and lack of severability)? Hard to say, but I would love to see it.
In the meantime, my personal favorite legislative attack is to permanently reduce the "tax" portion -- the penalty -- to $1. That makes it optional, which makes it a dead letter. All the House GOP need say is that they are cutting taxes.
[An Nahar] U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... said Republicans would vote to extend the government's ability to borrow money for six weeks, averting a default for now -- but only if President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... first agrees to fresh negotiations on spending cuts. Under the Republican plan, the separate partial government shutdown would continue.
White House front man Jay Carney said Obama "would likely sign" a bill with no conditions attached increasing the debt cap. He said the president also wants Republicans to reopen the government. But he did not rule out Obama agreeing to the debt ceiling proposal if the government remains closed.
Boehner produced the proposal as the partial shutdown entered its 10th day. Separately and more ominously, the administration has warned that unless the federal debt ceiling is raised, the government will deplete its ability to borrow money by next Thursday, an event officials have warned could trigger an unprecedented U.S. financial default that could wound the world economy as well as America's.
"I would hope the president would look at this as an opportunity and a good faith effort on our part to move halfway, halfway to what he's demanded, in order to have these conversations begin," Boehner told news hounds after presenting the plan to rank-and-file Republican politicians.
Carney said the White House has yet to see a specific proposal from House Republicans. Boehner and other members of his caucus are scheduled to meet with the president at the White House Thursday afternoon.
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So the Pubs blinked first, and Champ is further emboldened.
So why can't our leaders appreciate how others see the US when we "blink first"?
Posted by: Bobby ||
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Is it blinking first or offereing up deals that they know Obama won't take and that will make Obama look worse.
The more the GOP can position themselves as the ones willing to negotiate against Obama's "won't talk" attitude the better. Also the longer it drags out the worse the Obamacare implementation looks and the more reasonable the one year delay the GOP proposed seems to the average person.
I think the Republicans have the better hand in the long run.
#4
I'm thinking this was a clever move. Champ wants to cloud the issue by talking debt cap. House takes debt cap off the table. ObamaCare is a winner. Default is a loser (even if it's not in question, the Dems are making that the issue). So we stay on message on ObamaCare. Works for me.
Believe me, I'm the first to suspect that the House GOP Leadership is even now crafting clever new ways to roll over. I just don't think this is their move.
#11
Ever think of incorporating the proviso that no one under 18 is obligated to pay any portion of any further extended debt and that servicing of that extended debt will be removed from allocations for Social Security. You'll suddenly get a lot of attention.
#12
Don't be silly, P2K, Obama will eventually tax the rich into utopia, as soon as those evil Pubs wake up and smell the coffee, realizing they are doomed. Things'd be swell if it weren't for those greedy fat cats trying to starve the poor folks into actually working for a living.
You don't have to be a genius to spout it!
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Maybe it's because I majored in math rather than economics or political science, but I don't understand why we even bother to have a debt limit. Every year during the Obama administration, the US had run up TRILLION dollar deficits. No matter what we set the debt limit to, we will, by definition, bump into it unless we raise income or reduce spending or both.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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"It is not pronounced BONER" - I sezzes it like I seez it.
Boehner is getting criticized all over FREEREPUBLIC + other Rightist-Conservative Blogs this AM, to the point where it is claimed his job as House Speaker is now at risk???
OTOH many Perts on the MSM-Net claim that the US is collecting more than enough revenue to pay its obligations, thus there is no need for the Bammer + Dems to raise the Debt Limit save to directly or indirectly INTENTIONALLY RAISE/EXPAND THE DEBT BURDEN JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN.
IOW, THE FED INTENDS TO EXPAND ITS INCREASE ITS OBLIGATIONS, NOT REDUCE, CONSOLIDATE, OR KEEP SAME TO A MINIMUM BECAUSE OF FUNDAMENTAL "SCARCE TAXPAYER DOLLARS".
#1
Well, it has been raining in the WDC area for the last few days, but this is one of two "local area" golf courses the president & et. al. play golf at (the other one is Fort Belvior, Virginia).
No one expects the president "to be without" now do they ?
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