Good to know there are still some sensible politicians out there who see the needs of their constituency and do whatever they can to help. After all, that is the most basic function of a politician – to institute laws that would make the lives of the people who voted them into office, better.
Ladies and gentlemen, Governor Steve Beshear. Would you be surprised to learn that he is a Democrat? You expected that, right? I know…
It wasn’t that long ago! As a matter of fact, Boehner said it right after President Obama won re-election in 2012.
Back in November, when Americans went to the poll and overwhelmingly reelected President Obama who ran his entire campaign on his signature law, John Boehner gave an interview to ABC. Host Diane Sawyer asked if there would be any more votes to repeal the law and Boehner answered that “the election changes that.” He then went on to proclaim, “Obamacare is the law of the land.”
That was then. Today, Republicans have attempted to repeal Obamacare over 41 times. Unable to do so, they have now shut down the government hoping the President would somehow take away this life saving healthcare provision from millions of Americans.
Let’s take a short stroll down memory lane.
You can’t make this stuff up!
On Sunday John Boehner basically said that because the president of the United States is not talking to him, or is not “having a conversation” with him, he, John Boehner, is willing to let the nation default on its debt. A move that many economists have said would result in worldwide catastrophe.
Don’t just take my word for it, this is what John Boehner said on Sunday’s show;
“That’s the path we’re on. … I don’t want the United States to default on its debt. But I’m not going to raise the debt limit without a serious conversation about dealing with problems that are driving the debt up.”
“The nation’s credit is at risk because of the administration’s refusal to sit down and have a conversation.”
Republicans are doing everything they can to make sure that the presidency of the first black man in the White House result in failure. There’s no other logical explanation. They cannot say it’s because of his policies why they’re against him, because before he was even sworn and any of his policies took effect, Republicans were already holding meetings trying to figure out how to make the President a failure.
They have said no, and have put up stumbling blocks to every policy the president tried to initiate. Even policies they once supported. And even with all their lies and misinformation about the president, Mr Obama was still able to pass and sign historic legislations into law.
And that brings us to this present government shutdown and the catastrophe of a default. Republicans know that when they force the nation into its first default, their propaganda machine over at Fox News will help them place the blame squarely at the feet of Barack Obama.
In there effort to make this man a failure, Republicans will destroy the full faith and credit of the United States of America. They will destroy the very fabric of this country. They will destroy everything you know and love about this great nation.
Yes al Qaeda. You needed people who were willing to be internal terrorists in the United States? Well you got them and they’re called Congressional Republicans.
Just sit back and watch in amazement as these fools do everything they can to accomplish what you couldn’t on September 11 2001.
On Sunday, Republican John Boehner told ABC’s Stephanopoulos that he didn’t have the votes in the House to pass a clean Continuing Resolution. But members of Boehner’s own party strongly disagree with Boehner’s conclusion.
Rep. Peter King is one of those Republicans. King, in an interview with the New York Times, said that if Boehner brought a clean CR to the floor for a vote, the bill will pass and the government will reopen. King also stated that if a secret vote was held, about 150 Republicans would support it.
“I’m positive that a clean C.R. would pass,” said Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York.
“If it went on the floor tomorrow, I could see anywhere from 50 to 75 Republicans voting for it,” he added. “And if it were a secret ballot, 150.”
House Republican “Leader” John Boehner went on television again on Sunday and told George Stephanopoulos that he would not bring a clean CR to the floor of the House for a vote, because he say, the bill will not pass. But the White House and other Democrats disagree, and they are asking Boehner to prove them wrong.
The White House on Sunday challenged Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to prove his assertion in an ABC News interview that “there are not the votes in the House” to pass a “clean” continuing resolution.
“If he’s right, why not prove it?” White House press secretary Jay Carney asked on Twitter. Dan Pfeiffer, the White House’s senior adviser for communications, tweeted that either Boehner “is all wrong or all his members are lying.”
“That files in the face of all the math and public statements of GOP members,” Pfeiffer said.
Democrats have repeatedly called on Boehner to allow a vote on a so-called “clean” Senate bill that would reopen the government for a short period of time, but not include Republican demands to delay or defund ObamaCare.
A whip count by The Washington Post found that 20 Republican representatives supported a so-called clean continuing resolution (CR), with another four counted as “leaning yes.” If all 200 Democrats voted for the legislation, they would need just 17 Republicans to vote with them.
Boehner made the comment during an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” after host George Stephanopoulos asked him if he was “prepared to schedule a clean bill on government funding.”
When Stephanopoulos pressed Boehner on whether it was true that the votes did not exist, the Speaker said that the American people expected leaders in Washington to “sit down and have a conversation.”
“We’re interested in having a conversation about how we open the government and how we begin to pay our bills,” Boehner said. “But it begins with a simple conversation.”
Other Democrats have also seized on Boehner’s assertion, daring the Speaker to bring the clean CR to a vote.
Americans have learned a lesson. When you allow the spoiled brats to control the house, their immaturity will show. The bills will not be paid and before long, bill collectors will come knocking including the mortgage company who will start the foreclosure process.
At some point, the adults will have to take over to get the house in order. There will be a struggle for power as the brats will put up a fight. But eventually, the adults will prevail, regulating the brats to their rooms or even worse, kicked out completely.
Put them in boarding school!
That’s the apparent message being sent by frustrated Americans who correctly blame the Republicans for the government shutdown. This is based on different polls released Sunday.
A series of polls released Sunday show just how damaging the shutdown has been for the GOP. The liberal-leaning Public Policy Polling compiled two dozen surveys, commissioned and paid for by MoveOn.org Political Action, from House districts around the country, taken from Oct. 2 through Oct. 4. Sample sizes were between 600 and 700 voters in each district.
For Democrats to win a House majority, 17 seats would need to switch to their party’s favor. Results show that would be within reach, as Republican incumbents are behind in 17 of the districts analyzed: CA-31, CO-06, FL-02, FL-10, FL-13, IA-03, IA-04, IL-13, KY-06, MI-01, MI-07, MI-11, NY-19, OH-14, PA-07, PA-08, WI-07. In four districts, the incumbent Republican fell behind after respondents were told their representative supported the government shutdown: CA-10, NY-11, NY-23, VA-02. Three districts saw GOP incumbents maintain their hold over their Democratic challengers, even after hearing their elected officials’ views on the shutdown, including CA-21, NV-03 and OH-06.
Back in 2012, Democrats picked up eight seats in the House, closing the gap of Republican control to 234-201.
Here’s a surprise: the shutdown was planned months ago. So the pleadings and forthright looks we’ve been getting from Ted Cruz and the orange-tinged scoldings from John Boehner and the laments of the lack of compromise by Republicans everywhere have been fakes. Falsehoods. Frauds. Wait for it…Lies.
What the Republican Cadre, because it’s no longer a viable political party, has done is reprehensible. From the beginning, and I mean 2009, they have tried to obstruct President Obama’s agenda and wait out the electoral clock for four, and now eight years while they plot their way back to power. Thank heavens that they don’t, in fact, know how to do that effectively on the national stage. They will continue to win House seats, though a new poll suggests otherwise, but they’ve fallen farther behind when it comes to women and Hispanics, and we know how viable you are when that happens. In the meantime, all they have is obstruction.
Any talk of compromise or negotiation is not to be trusted. They don’t want to delay the health care bill, they want it gone. They also want Dodd-Frank repealed and for the XL pipeline to be built and they want no new taxes in any economic or tax bill they’d support. And who won the 2012 elections?
But, oddly, they seem to love Medicare and are falling over themselves to fund some parts of the federal government if they believe it will help them. Wait long enough, and they’ll CR themselves into opening the whole thing in a week or so.
Just to make things worse, Boehner is now disavowing his comments from last week that suggested some compromise. He and the far right will now take us to default if the president won’t do as he says. The crash is coming, it won’t be pretty and the GOP will take the fall.
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