6/13/2011 5:26:10 PM

What a joke of a Speaker he turned out to be....

7/29/2011 9:01:49 PM

Couldn't help but see this while reading this article:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/17/politics/congress-spending-plan/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Quote :

"But House Speaker John Boehner said Friday that any attempt for a short-term extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits would get altered in the House, in particular by adding a controversial provision to speed government approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada."

Not to get into the politics of unemployment benefits or the payroll tax cut, but why the fuck is the Keystone L oil pipeline even needed to be added to the bill? What fucking relevance does it have to the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits? Wasn't it like 2 to 3 years ago these same people who are pushing for some unrelated provision to a bill criticized the bailout for adding unrelated provisions that should have been debated on separately in another bill?

What a bunch of fucking hypocrites. I can't understand how people continue to support these people...

12/17/2011 11:50:37 AM

^and yet a democrat run senate just passed it.

how does that spit feel running down your face from your own cronies?

12/17/2011 1:35:58 PM

The dem's point of view is that even if the president approves it the State department will hold it up.

Their quote was "we gave republicans the sleeves off a vest"

12/18/2011 3:53:38 AM

^^ My own cronies? I'm not a Democrat or Republican. Both party's hypocrisy is sickening. But I'm glad to see that you're willing to take a Boehner up the ass to support your party of idiots.


^ $5 faggot. Pay Frosh his money.

12/18/2011 11:38:33 AM

Quote :

"US House to vote on Churchill statue for capitol (AFP) – 7 hours ago WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives was set to vote Monday on installing a bust or statue of Winston Churchill in the US Capitol to mark 70 years since his World War II address to lawmakers there. The resolution, offered by Republican House Speaker John Boehner, states that the US Capitol "does not currently appropriately recognize the contributions of Sir Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom.""

http://bit.ly/vU9X2M

YES, BECAUSE THIS IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE!

12/19/2011 6:17:01 PM

I'd rather have Congress pass laws that have no impact on my life, as opposed to laws that remove my rights for the sake of "security" or "well being."

12/19/2011 6:44:20 PM

Boehner can't keep his people in line. Pelosi was a better leader.



[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 1:45 AM. Reason : ...]

12/20/2011 1:45:07 AM

People shouldn't have to stay "in line"

Pelosi was a joke.

12/20/2011 1:49:29 AM

Sweet.... the house of representatives just finished up business for the day and left for break without resolving the payroll tax cut extension

12/20/2011 8:11:16 PM

So basically they're allowing it to expire. Cool.

[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 9:02 PM. Reason : and by "cool" i of course mean "fuck those motherfuckers"]

12/20/2011 9:01:57 PM

who knows...

apparently, they left and said they will meet over the holidays "as necessary"

12/20/2011 9:12:52 PM

Quote :

"Speaker Cuts Off C-SPAN Cameras When Dems Attempt To Bring Vote On Payroll Tax Cut"

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/21/393990/speaker-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-when-dems-attempts-to-bring-vote-on-payroll-tax-cut/

12/22/2011 1:53:14 AM

Just so everyone knows... the Senate bill was passed with 89 votes. It did not contain any riders such as the XL Keystone pipeline or weakening the healthcare reform bill among other things. It is being held up in the House because a minority of Tea Party Republicans will not allow it to come for a vote. Because of them, Congress is failing to pass a bill that has broad bi-partisan support.

The United States has literally been taken hostage by a minority of House Republicans, the Tea Partiers. They are the reason for the debt ceiling being raised last minute, the reason the government was within a week of coming to a complete halt, and now are responsible for a massive tax hike to the middle class. The worst part is, it will get passed. They are just literally shooting themselves in the foot because they are playing political Russian Roulette with the United States as the stakes.

12/22/2011 2:54:34 AM

^
I was under the impression that the Senate passed the Keystone amendment.

12/22/2011 3:14:51 AM

You're right, my fault. It left the decision to Obama to decide in 60 days. Either way, it's really a minor issue in the face of a payroll tax increase.

12/22/2011 3:58:43 AM

12/22/2011 1:27:36 PM

Sounds like the Republicans saw the economy improving, panicked and are now trying to find ways to sabotage it in order to make the president look bad. That has been, after all, their stated objective from day one.

12/22/2011 2:55:07 PM

^Basically this. 160 million Americans seeing a smaller paycheck won't help any of those "economic optimism" indicators, which is exactly what the GOP wants. Plus its also a progressive tax cut, and the GOP doesn't like any low/middle class tax cuts that don't also include a massive tax cut for the rich.

12/22/2011 3:15:54 PM

House, Senate strike deal to end payroll tax impasse
http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/22/9636593-boehner-announces-deal-with-reid-on-end-to-payroll-tax-impasse

12/22/2011 6:49:06 PM

There are a lot of things in life to be optimistic about. The U.S. economy is not one of them. Nothing has changed. Every structural problem is still there, just bigger.

There probably is a political component to all of this. Make no mistake, though. We are not on the road to recovery. The Democratic party will not bring us out of recession. Neither will the GOP. Only structural reforms and the liquidation of debt will bring us prosperity, and only after a really shitty transition period. You don't want to hear it, I know.

It will require a reform administration to end this debacle. Obama isn't it. This bullshit dog and pony show, alleged gridlock, is intentional. It's window dressing, that's it.

12/22/2011 7:22:43 PM

FICA is not a tax, its just gutting the funding for social security.

12/22/2011 8:34:57 PM

Gasoline taxes are not taxes, they just get the funding to build roads.

12/22/2011 8:36:46 PM

-1 for kicking the can down the road

12/22/2011 9:39:01 PM

Quote :

"The United States has literally been taken hostage by a minority of House Republicans, the Tea Partiers. They are the reason for the debt ceiling being raised last minute, the reason the government was within a week of coming to a complete halt, and now are responsible for a massive tax hike to the middle class. The worst part is, it will get passed. They are just literally shooting themselves in the foot because they are playing political Russian Roulette with the United States as the stakes."

Well, why don't you cry about it?!



Obama and the Dems have enabled this behavior by giving in repeatedly. If they had any balls, they would've nipped this in the bud back in 2010 during the fight over the Bush tax cuts. Instead, they folded like a house of cards, and the Tea Party had their playbook for getting what they wanted.

[Edited on December 22, 2011 at 10:09 PM. Reason : 2]

12/22/2011 10:09:04 PM

You're absolutely right.

12/23/2011 3:07:23 AM

12/23/2011 11:14:27 AM

I'm ready for the coming war.

12/23/2011 11:58:21 AM

Quote :

"People shouldn't have to stay "in line" Pelosi was a joke."

You're right. People shouldn't stay "in line", but it's the Speaker's job to know how many votes you have for a bill before saying shit that you end up retracting a few hours later.

Pelosi knew what she was doing and has bigger balls than Johnny "Soggy Eyes" Boehener.

Boehner is the joke.

12/24/2011 9:33:32 AM

A government is not a household, despite such a simplification probably seeming very appealing to a simple-minded person who wants to understand it without putting in much learning effort.

1/3/2012 10:37:33 AM

Households can print their own money now, didn'tcha know?

1/3/2012 10:43:59 AM

Quote :

"A government is not a household, despite such a simplification probably seeming very appealing to a simple-minded person who wants to understand it without putting in much learning effort. "

There are many differences between a government budget and a household budget. The purpose of the comparison I posted was to reveal the true scale of the debt, the deficit, and "cuts". Without a doubt, you'd have the government print us back to a subsistence farming era if you could. Luckily, your ideology, having been proven dead wrong time and time again, is becoming irrelevant.

1/3/2012 11:40:56 AM

Lol "the true scale of the debt" = "remove some zeroes and pretend it's a household"

1/3/2012 12:13:31 PM

No one is pretending it's a household. We're acknowledging that the deficit (and the national debt) are out of control. These are issues that need to be addressed before bondholders get scared and we enter an era of draconian austerity with no time for preparation.

1/3/2012 12:20:43 PM

Quote :

"No one is pretending it's a household."

That's what the pic actually says to do.

1/3/2012 12:34:45 PM

Quote :

"GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa is one of the leading spokespeople for the Tea Party wing of the House GOP. With the national press continually asking King whether he’ll be making an endorsement in the Iowa caucuses, he has been built up into something of an important GOP figure. So it’s good to see that King is candidly admitting that the House Tea Party wing has been employing the threat of a government shutdown as nothing more than a deliberate hostage strategy designed to wring maximum concessions from Democrats. King made the concession in an interview with Laura Ingraham. Dems are highlighting the interview because King bashes House Speaker John Boehner for his weak leadership, but the bolded portion below is the real news here: KING: We have not lead in a clear way. American people don’t know what House Republicans believe in, and they surely don’t know what we’re willing to fight for. And I am as disappointed as the public is... It’s clear to me that Speaker Boehner made a decision, either before, but I am convinced it was at least shortly after the election last November, a year ago last November, that we would not be in a position where we would be blamed for shutting down the government ... that’s the only place where you bring the leverage to this Congress, to take on Harry Reid and Barack Obama, is you have to be willing to face a shutdown and you have to have the debate among the American people. INGRAHAM: You think that would have helped the Republican Party and you guys would be in a better position today if the government had been shut down? KING: The shutdown isn’t the point so much as, I don’t want the shutdown either. But if you are afraid of the shutdown you can’t have the confrontation and you lose every negotiation along the way. And there you have it! During each impasse — the first government shutdown fight; the debt ceiling debacle; the payroll tax cut showdown — we keep being told that Tea Partyers really are crazy enough to allow the worst to happen. During the government shutdown fight, we were even told that Tea Partyers viewed that outcome as a positive. Their willingness to take us over a cliff is why Dems simply must make the concessions they’re demanding. But now a top Tea Party leaders has given away the game, admitting that not even Tea Partyers want a shutdown. Creating the impression that they’re willing to let it happen is only about winning maximum concessions in negotiations. Let’s hope Dems keep this in mind the next dozen times this happens."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/top-tea-party-republican-admits-it-weve-been-employing-hostage-strategy/2012/01/03/gIQA1fXKYP_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

1/3/2012 12:37:05 PM

Quote :

"No one is pretending it's a household. "

The entire point of the image is to pretend it's a household.

I also like how it blames the nebulous "some politicians"

Where do you find this second rate populist propaganda, anyway?



[Edited on January 3, 2012 at 2:42 PM. Reason : .]

1/3/2012 2:41:23 PM

http://black.house.gov/press-release/black-introduces-resolution-disapproving-obama%E2%80%99s-recent-presidential-appointments

Quote :

"“It’s astounding to me that the president is claiming these are recess appointments and within his authority, when Congress was not in fact in recess,” said Black. “These appointments are an affront to the Constitution. No matter how you look at this, it doesn’t pass the smell test. I hope the House considers my resolution as soon as we return to Washington so we can send a message to President Obama.”"

You know, I'm used to cognitive dissonance from the GOP, but usually not within the same paragraph.

1/11/2012 12:44:42 PM

says the party that did the exact same thing they are bitching about the GOP doing now. wait, you did mention congnitive dissonance, right?

1/11/2012 1:35:11 PM

I don't think Democrats claimed it was unconstitutional though. Just that it was a dick move. But all presidents do that. It's nothing new.

1/11/2012 11:08:13 PM

doesn't matter. the dems did this same "not recessing" bullshit 4 or 5 years ago to dubya and thought there was nothing wrong with it. now that the shoe is on the other foot, it's just those evil republicans being evil.

1/12/2012 12:36:27 PM

bump

5/16/2012 4:04:29 PM

House Approves $310 Billion in Cuts, but Passage in the Senate Is Very Unlikely
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/us/house-approves-310-billion-in-cuts.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper

Quote :

"The House approved sweeping legislation on Thursday to cut $310 billion from the deficit over the next decade — much of it from programs for the poor — and shift some of that savings to the Pentagon to stave off automatic military spending cuts scheduled for next year."

5/16/2012 4:06:19 PM

Census data shows minorities now a majority of U.S. births
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-17/minority-births-census/55029100/1

GOP's days are numbered as long as they stay their current course.

5/17/2012 12:07:49 AM

Obama budget defeated 99-0 in Senate - Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com
President Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat on Wednesday when senators voted 99-0 to reject it.

5/17/2012 12:11:29 AM

Your "link" sucks.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/may/16/obama-budget-defeated-99-0-senate/

Oh look a blog. Wait, when did Obama or any democrat submit his budget to the Senate?

Quote :

"Republicans forced the vote by offering the president's plan on the Senate floor. Democrats disputed that it was actually the president's plan, arguing that the slim amendment didn't actually match Mr. Obama's budget document, which ran thousands of pages. But Republicans said they used all of the president's numbers in the proposal, so it faithfully represented his plan. "

5/17/2012 8:57:18 AM

maybe they submitted a piece of paper that said "OBAMA'S BUDGET" on it and underneath it just had "End government hand outs to the poor"

5/17/2012 9:04:34 AM

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/17/dont_ask_dont_tell_2_0/

Two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act:

Quote :

"One amendment, offered by Mississippi Republican Steven Palazzo, would prohibit the use of military property to “officiate, solemnize, or perform a marriage or marriage-like ceremony, involving anything other than the union of one man with one woman,” even on bases in states in which same-sex marriage is legal. Rep. Todd Akin’s, R-Mo., amendment would require the military to “accommodate the conscience and sincerely held moral principles and religious beliefs of the members of the Armed Forces concerning the appropriate and inappropriate expression of human sexuality” and would prohibit “adverse personnel actions” against them. [...] It’s a fight, in Akin’s words, against “[t]his liberal agenda” that “has infiltrated our military, where service members and chaplains are facing recrimination for their sincerely held moral and religious beliefs.” Akin claimed that raising “moral or religious concerns” about same sex marriage or the DADT repeal “have become potentially career-ending” for some chaplains and charged that Obama’s support for same-sex marriage “will only add fuel to this fire.”"

5/17/2012 10:57:40 PM

this post will be unread

5/19/2012 12:09:52 AM