Fearing shutdown, GOP considering deal with Dems to fund government for two more weeks

Hotair ^ | Feb 21 ,2011 | Allahpundit

[Domandred]

Shut it down! Shut it down!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I heard that checks would stop going out, also. I was under the impression that such checks simply continued, while other services shut down, so I don’t know how true that actually is.

However, w/respect to your husband and family, I DO hope the government shuts down, so that we can show what greedy, America-destroying scoundrels the Democrats are willing to be.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

“Everyone knows that, no matter what the truth, we would be blamed [for a government shutdown], so it would be a dumb political move,” one House Republican leadership aide told CNN…

P-U-S-S-Y...

[ClearCase_guy]

Old advice from a Roman emperor to his son -- "First: pay the soldiers."

The government may cut back in many places, and may decide not to buy some fancy new military hardware, but the government would have to be crazy to send the message to the soldiers that their active duty pay, or retirement pay, is an iffy thing. It won't happen.

[hosepipe]

FUND the government 2 weeks at a time, FOR A PRICE...
Way to go boys..(and girls).. bleed the bastards DRY..
Give em' a fix a few hours at a time..

[Qbert]

We need to elect better ACTUAL Republicans Real Conservatives

[remaxagnt]

sorry but elections have consequences.

[EternalVigilance]

The ship is going down, yet even a sum as paltry as $60 billion in cuts is somehow so unimaginable that we need a two-week patch on the budget to give us extra time to weigh whether we should do it. We’re truly doomed.

Pretty much sums it up.

[ImpBill]

"We need to elect better ACTUAL Republicans Constitutional Conservatives!"

Republican and Conservative have not been "one and the same" for many, many years now!

[ImpBill]

"The Repubs need to toughen up."

Actually the voters need to toughen up and let the Repubs know it at the ballot box!

[Nickname]

Seriously.

What is it that results from a government shutdown that I’m supposed to be afraid of?

[Nickname]

Okay. I answered my own question. Nothing.

Looming Government Shutdown Anarchy?

http://biggovernment.com/jmsimpson/2011/02/19/looming-government-shutdown-anarchy/

Essential Services and Personnel

A 1980 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memorandum defines “essential” government services and “essential” employees as those:

1. providing for the national security, including the conduct of foreign relations essential to the national security or the safety of life and property;

2. providing for benefit payments and the performance of contract obligations under no-year or multi-year or other funds remaining available for those purposes;

3. conducting essential activities to the extent that they protect life and property, including:

* medical care of inpatients and emergency outpatient care;
* activities essential to ensure continued public health and safety, including safe use of food, drugs, and hazardous materials;
* continuance of air traffic control and other transportation safety functions and the protection of transport property;
* border and coastal protection and surveillance;
* protection of federal lands, buildings, waterways, equipment and other property owned by the United States;
* care of prisoners and other persons in the custody of the United States;
* law enforcement and criminal investigations;
* emergency and disaster assistance;
* activities that ensure production of power and maintenance of the power distribution system;
* activities essential to the preservation of the essential elements of the money and banking system of the United States, including borrowing and tax collection activities of the Treasury; and
* activities necessary to maintain protection of research property.

[dynachrome]

"We need to elect better ACTUAL Republicans Constitutional Conservatives!"

You are correct!