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crazyewok
Thanks America!
Your goverments stupidity has doomed us all!
The UK should have done more to keep its damed colonies as you obvioulsy done a usless job at self rule!
sealing
Wait.. who is losing their mind ?
You can post this thread with a straight face,
as Ted Cruz runs around Congress in his Darth Vadar helmut?
beezzer
*sorry*
Would you accept an apology if we threw in a nice fruit basket? (You know, the kind with those strawberries carved up to look like flowers?)
xuenchen
ask your uncle Rothschild to just buy back the U.S.A.
crazyewok
Thanks America!
Your goverments stupidity has doomed us all!
The UK should have done more to keep its damed colonies as you obvioulsy done a usless job at self rule!
Obama not reconsidering ways to sidestep Congress on debt ceiling
By Domenico Montanaro, Deputy Political Editor, NBC News
The White House says despite watching Congress careen toward a government shutdown, it isn't making President Barack Obama reconsider ways to sidestep Congress on the debt ceiling.
"Only Congress can raise the debt limit. Period," a White House official told First Read. "We have said coin and 14th Amendment aren't workable."
The last time the country was up against its debt limit earlier this year, far-flung alternatives to having Congress raise the debt ceiling were floated by liberal Democrats, like minting a $1 trillion coin and invoking the 14th Amendment to bypass Congress.
Section 4 of the 14th Amendment states: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payments of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion shall not be questioned."
Shutdown nears as House passes funding bill that delays Obamacare
House Speaker John Boehner arrives for a closed-door meeting of the House Republican caucus Saturday.
By Michael O'Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News
A government shutdown is more likely after House Republicans voted late Saturday to fund the government and delay "Obamacare" for a year, upping the ante in their fiscal showdown with President Barack Obama.
In spite of a veto threat from Obama, Republicans led by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, doubled down on their strategy of using the specter of a government shutdown to extract concessions from the president on the Affordable Care Act, the president's signature domestic achievement.
The House voted largely on party lines to fund the government through Dec. 15, but attached to that measure were amendments to delay Obamacare for a year and repeal a politically unpopular tax on medical devices. Specifically, the House voted 231 to 192 on a measure to continue government funding and to delay the health care law for a year.
“The House has again passed a plan that reflects the American people’s desire to keep government running and stop the president’s health care law," Boehner said in a statement. "Now that the House has again acted, it’s up to the Senate to pass this bill without delay to stop a government shutdown. Let’s get this done.”
Glass
I don't see anything wrong with the metaphor that Mr. Pfeiffer used. I think it's an accurate comparison. The Republicans are basically saying "if you don't give us everything we want, we're taking you down with us", which is the same thing a deranged man with a bomb strapped to his chest would say.
It would be perfectly okay for Republicans to play the hurt-feelings card on this IF the country's entire economy was not at stake.
marg6043
Well this interesting the President just went live on TV and call himself the only American in the government, anybody else opposing his crap are terrorist I guess
What a joke of a government we have.
crazyewok
marg6043
Well this interesting the President just went live on TV and call himself the only American in the government, anybody else opposing his crap are terrorist I guess
What a joke of a government we have.
They are terroists!!!!
If the repulicans dont grow a pair and man up they will bring down the worlds econemy!
Yeah obama care is crap! But dont destroy the economy because of it!
MORONS!
The United States federal government shutdown of 1995 and 1996 was the result of conflicts between Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress over funding for Medicare, education, the environment, and public health in the 1996 federal budget. The government shut down after Clinton vetoed the spending bill the Republican Party-controlled Congress sent him. The federal government of the United States put non-essential government workers on furlough and suspended non-essential services from November 14 through November 19, 1995 and from December 16, 1995 to January 6, 1996, for a total of 28 days. The major players were President Clinton and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich.
"What we're not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest," Pfeiffer said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper Thursday afternoon. "We're not going to do that."
"Republicans are not asking for a negotiation," he told CNN's Tapper. "It's a negotiation if I'm trying to sell you my house, and we are debating the price of it. It's not a negotiation if I show up at your house and say, 'Give me everything inside or I'm going to burn it down.'7
"Republicans have provided a laundry list of essentially ransom demands of things that were essentially the Romney agenda that voters rejected."
with a repeal of the medical device tax, which will probably bankrupt many seniors and others that have the need for those devices.
House Republicans voted early Sunday morning in favor of a temporary spending bill that includes a one-year delay for ObamaCare, a move that increases the chance of a government shutdown with Senate Democrats and the White House vowing to reject the measure ahead of a Monday night deadline.
The Republican-led House passed the proposal 231-192 in one of two amendments attached to a Senate spending bill passed Friday night.
The lower chamber also passed an amendment 248-174 to repeal the health-care law’s medical-device tax and voted 423-0 to approve a bill to pay the military on time should a temporary shutdown occur, in a series of votes that started shortly before midnight. The final tallies came in after midnight, and the House adjourned until 10 a.m. Monday shortly after.