Less than two hours before shutting down the government, House Republicans created a special rule to prevent Democrats from reopening the government. The House’s normal rules provide that “[w]hen the stage of disagreement has been reached on a bill or resolution with House or Senate amendments, a motion to dispose of any amendment shall be privileged” — a provision that House Democrats believe would have enabled any member of the House to force a vote on a bill to fund the government that had already passed the Senate. Yet, as Dylan Scott reports, the Republican caucus thwarted the maneuver by enacting a special rule preventing this vote from taking place.
Under this special rule, such an attempt to fund the government “may be offered only by the majority Leader or his designee.” Thus, with a shutdown looming, the power to allow a vote that would likely have prevented the government from closing was left in Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) hands. Cantor, of course, chose not to exercise that power.
You know just when you thought you had reached a baseline for your disgust with the Republican party.
And you know the ironic thing is that if the House Democrats HAD managed to stop this they would have rescued the Republicans from themselves, and they might NOT be facing their lowest poll numbers in the history of Gallup.
Eric Cantor and his keystone Kops have damaged the integrity of our country, virtually destroyed their reputation among voters, and are in the process of possibly handing the House over to the Democrats in 2014.
Great job.
Check any reliable dictionary.
ReplyDeleteThere will be a photo of Eric--next to a photo of a dick.
No descriptive words needed.
Why Republicans are losing the shutdown blame game
ReplyDeleteThe new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll not only contains a slew of bad news for the Republican Party but also an explanation for why the GOP is losing the blame game over the government shutdown.
The answer is simple: The American public views the Republican party’s motives in the shutdown as overwhelmingly political. And looking political is the absolute worst thing that can happen to a political party.
A single question in the NBC-WSJ poll captures that sentiment. Seven in 10 people agreed with the statement that Republicans are “putting their own political agenda ahead of what is good for the country” while just 27 percent said that the GOP is “demonstrating strong leadership and standing up for what they believe in.”
...To be clear: There are politics — and political calculation — in everything. The trick, however, is to make the other side look like they are on a political mission while you are acting out of some combination of principle and pragmatism. Republicans have lost that fight and, in so doing, are watching their brand take a major hit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/10/11/why-republicans-are-losing-the-shutdown-blame-game/?tid=pm_politics_pop
Am I the only one who sees both a physical resemblance & resemblance of cadence between Ted Cruz and Joe McCarthy?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/25/1196782/-Reporter-asks-Calgary-Cruz-if-he-admires-Joe-McCarthy-Cruz-refuses-to-answer
I have thought so for a long time.
DeleteNo, you are not the only one. I see it in his face, his demeanor, his words. America, beware. He aims to be POTUS.
Deletecantor has always been one of the biggest douches in washington. i cant fathom how people vote for this guy.
ReplyDeleteCantor has dead eyes...creepy lookin' fellow!!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was going to say that he looks like the alien who has taken the body of a human, in a bad '50s sci-fi movie. Or, one of the Pod People from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".
DeleteGryphen, the tortured logic in this article is beyond ridiculous. Here's one such comment that says it all:
ReplyDelete'Dear Lord, what an amazing lack of self-awareness this guy has. Not only a profound misunderstanding of the word "racism" but a clear and disturbing lack of any realization that he is expressing and promoting racism in the very article in which he proclaims he isn't racist. What a disgusting human being.'
and here's the article he's promoting written by a black right winger who calls Sarah Palin a 'luminary':
Kevin Jackson is a highly sought national speaker, and he has graced the stage with luminaries as Sarah Palin, Neal Boortz, Herman Cain, Judge Napolitano, and Andrew Breitbart.
And here's the garbage that Kevin wrote that Joe the Plumber is promoting. Won't be surprised if it shows up on Sarah's FB page since he's singing ol'; Ronnie's praises. Poor deluded fool...both of them. All of them.
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America Needs a White Republican President
Admit it. You want a white Republican president again.
Now before you start feeling like you’re a racist, understand you are not.
Wanting a white Republican president doesn’t make you racist, it just makes you American.
In the pre-black president era, criticizing the president was simply the American thing to do. An exercise of one’s First Amendment right. Criticism had nothing to do with color, because there had never been a black president, or at least one whom people recognized as black.
So to criticize the president meant that you didn’t like his policies.
The election of a recognized black president was not supposed to change anything. In fact, it was supposed to (1) ease any perceived racial tensions, and (2) allow the government to focus on legislating without race. So America would be more free than ever to discuss the issues.
Not the case. And that is why having a white Republican president is best for the country.
http://joeforamerica.com/2013/10/america-needs-white-republican-president/
However the comments at the core article are another story all together...they're eating this racist shit right up
http://theblacksphere.net/2013/10/america-needs-white-republican-president/
WTF! Sarah Palin = Luminary? I think you misspelled ... the term is Looney, Airy.
DeleteRepublican congressman: The tea party has lost the shutdown battle
ReplyDeleteNew York Republican Rep. Peter King told Bloomberg News Friday that the tea party caucus has lost the shutdown battle and its fight against President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. In an appearance on “Political Capital with Al Hunt” that will air on Saturday, King predicted that the House will raise the debt ceiling and overwhelmingly pass a potential spending resolution with no changes to current government policy.
Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) has “the leverage he needs, and I think it’s going to come to the House floor, no matter what.”
King opposed the shutdown from the start and has been a vocal and vituperative critic of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the nominal leader of the drive to shut down the federal government over Obamacare.
King told Hunt that if Boehner doesn’t bring a clean resolution to the floor to fund the government, then King himself will support a discharge petition, in which a majority in the House can order the chamber to vote on an item.
“If we have to do a discharge petition, ultimately, we will, but this is going to come,” said King.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/11/republican-congressman-the-tea-party-has-lost-the-shutdown-battle/
First of all, why is there a picture of Egon from Ghostbusters with this article? Second, am I the only person whose skin crawls when Cantor opens his mouth and that mealy mouthed voice starts talking? This needs to get pushed hard to the people, so the next time one of the Rethuglicans says that the shutdown is the President's fault, the first question should be if they have asked Cantor to do away with this change in the rules. If they haven't, they need to shut the hell up.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine repugs putting up a representative or senator for prez in 2016? Yeah me neither, not with this reputation. So I guess they will HAVE to go with a governor then.
ReplyDeleteThis was Boehner's "plan b", the idea being it's one decision that can't be pegged on him, and it takes a little more to make Cantor cry like a baby.
ReplyDeleteHas Boehner seen recent polls? The GOP has lost it's backbone and it's mind.
I have a feeling Nancy Pelosi's going to have a gavel in her hand in the near future.
I hope and pray you are right. Nancy always made me proud.
Deletehttp://www.newsmagazinenetwork.com/2013100940991/thomas-sowell-who-shut-down-the-government/
ReplyDeleteCantor is waiting in the wings ready to pounce when the time is right. Boner is a fool to trust him. Et Tu, Brute?
ReplyDeleteEric Cantor is pure evil despite that fact that he claims to be a religious man. I am Jewish and his values (ignore the poor and worship the rich power brokers) are certainly not what I was taught in Hebrew school. All he really is is a craven opportunist with a smarmy southern accent. At least Boehner does not pretend to be anything he is not: a high-living, wine-loving man about town who cares not a damn for the plight of the struggling middle class and the poor. If Cantor does manage to wrest the Speakership from Boehner (cannot imagine the the house GOP would go for a Jew) things will become even worse than they are now. Boehner is weak and cold while Cantor is mean and dangerously ambitious.
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ReplyDeleteCantor is also into being an "Insider trader". During the last debt ceiling fiasco, he made a bundle by betting for the stock market dive. Now that the STOCK act has been quietly repealed (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-04-24/news/bs-ed-congress-inside-trading-20130424_1_congressional-knowledge-the-stock-act-insider) he can do it again. The congress is so corrupt it is dangerous to us.
ReplyDelete2 weeks ago just before the shutdown, Boehner held a press conference and Eric was standing behind and to the left of him. I swear he had the most hateful look on his face toward Boehner's back. I had to feel sorry for the Speaker. His days are numbered and the end will not be pretty.
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