Calm Before The Crazy

[Ptarmigan]

Calm Before The Crazy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023731650

BainsBane (17,495 posts)

"CALM BEFORE THE CRAZY"
 GOP Poised To Drop Government Shutdown Fight...
So It Can Hold The Debt Ceiling Hostage Instead

House Republicans Unlikely To Touch Obamacare In Next Government Funding Offer

With the Senate set to dispatch an always-futile effort to pass government funding legislation that defunds the president's health care law, lawmakers in both chambers of Congress are already considering the options before them.

Lawmakers moved hastily to talks on Wednesday -- just hours after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) ended a 21-hour-plus speech meant to encourage lawmakers to support the defunding effort -- with attention focused on two offices.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) hold most of the power in the remaining few days of a government shutdown showdown before the government runs out of money to operate at the end of September. Republican aides in both chambers feel that Boehner's hand has been strengthened by Cruz's inability to move the debate in the Senate. But they caution that Reid could still gum up any House plans by keeping Senate Democrats united.

That's why four separate senior aides from both chambers say they would be very surprised if Boehner turned around and tried to craft another short-term continuing resolution that sought major changes to the president's health care law.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/obamacare-2013_n_3991186.html

PhDD shows up.

chervilant (4,758 posts)
1. Here we are, yet again, watching

these grown men acting like little boys fighting over their favorite toy in the sandbox, stomping their widdle feets whenever they don't get their way. It's pathetic.

trumad (35,522 posts)
2. Mint the coin Mr. President....Mint the coin

Berlum (4,893 posts)
3. "Starve the Beast! Yayyyyyy!" - RepubliKristo BeelzeBubs (R)

Berlum (4,893 posts)
4. "Oh my freakin Gawd" - RepubliCorp, Inc.

Berlum (4,893 posts)
5. "Tee Hee" - Ah Rimans (R)

 

[franksolich]

Oh geezuz.

What does   and the infantile truemud primitive know about politics and government?

[Ballygrl]

Who said this?

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” ……..

[Skul]

Who said this?

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” ……..

I double-dog dare your mole to ask that at the DUmp. 

[Chris_]

Who said this?

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” ……..

That would be a good question for Wiggums' trivia contest.

[Ballygrl]

I double-dog dare your mole to ask that at the DUmp. 

That would be a good question for Wiggums' trivia contest.