Posted on 04/04/2011 8:17:40 PM PDT by hatfieldmccoy
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is set to introduce a bill Monday night to fund the military through September and fund government operations for one more week, Republican sources tell The Hill.
Boehner's move is intended to prevent a government shutdown that would start after Friday without another measure to fund the government.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said the GOP was trying to prevent a government shutdown "at all costs."
“We’re serious about trying to prevent a government shutdown. We’re also serious about cutting spending," he told reporters after a meeting of the GOP conference on Monday evening.
Boehner told GOP lawmakers attending a closed-door conference meeting that he needed “leverage” going into a meeting with President Obama and Senate Democratic leaders at the White House on Tuesday morning, a lawmaker told The Hill.
“He said he needs this (the as-of-yet-introduced bill) and the support of the conference going into that meeting at the White House, because he feels it gives him more leverage,” the source explained to The Hill.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Bingo! Let's give Bohner time and space to set the table for the real battle.
It doesn’t mean we “win.” It means we say Not... One... More... Diiiime (ala Charlton Heston). It means we stand up and CLAIM the Title, Party of NO. THAT is the one power we have. Bohner (in-in-a-box) said we can’t dictate our will on the admin & senate. I say... Yes... We... CAAAAANNNN!
On the other hand, I still have that sick premonition of congress never passing a budget again, and running on continuing resolutions for the next 20 years.
rwfromkansas wrote:
I sometimes wonder what some Freepers are thinking.
Because the man doesn’t want to shut down the government he is a wuss?
The last time we let the government shut down, we got Clinton again.
No way in heck should we try that again. They still are demanding steep cuts.
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Geez, this is NOT 1995, people! We’re living in a MUCH different world now where the federal government is spending so recklessly out of control that we’re dangerously on the brink of collapsing our economy and bankrupting future generations.
The American people are so ANGRY with our federal government right now that I have an extremely hard time believing that a government shutdown will suddenly make everyone fall in love with the Democrats again! Let’s get some proper perspective on things here!
Oh, and let’s not forget that a recent Rasmussen survey reveals that 57% of respondents indicated that they would approve a government shutdown if it means obtaining deeper spending cuts. The GOP has got to STOP this business of governing in fear of their opposition who lost HUGE last November!
Boehner making Denny Hastert look like William Buckley.
Dems are trying to make it later...
I think some freepers are too enamored with the idea of "shutting government down". Most conservatives do not believe government should cease to exist. We just want it much smaller, paid for, and focused on it's constitutional duties.
If the government shuts down, that is a failure of leadership. We elect people to RUN the government responsibly, not to fail to do so and force it to close up. .
all this is rather unusual to me...supporting women in power ...it's not something I think of generally in my half century of dealing with gals
Another judge in VA ruled it unconstitutional also. But how many people even know that? Why haven’t the Republicans made a bigger deal of Vinson’s excellent ruling/total legal smack down? If a federal judge had ruled so decisively against a major and extremely unpopular Republican law, the Dems would make neverending hay out of it. I haven’t seen or heard anything from the Republicans.
Why don’t they hold hearings featuring people whose finances and healhcare coverage have been destroyed by Obamacare? Why not publicize how devastating this legislation has been? They could have hundreds (thousands, if it were feasible) of witnesses to testify that Obamacare has been a disaster. Why not do it?
Where is the sense of urgency? The longer they allow the Dems to go full steam ahead with Obamacare implementation, the harder it will be to stop it. Before the election, Rush et al said the Republicans should propose bills to defund Obamacare on a weekly basis, and force the Dems to override them. All that talk is gone now. In DC it’s business as usual, and many conservatives seem fine with that. Well okay. It’s not what I want from elected representatives, but if others are satisfied, fine.
explain to me how you would do things. They have less than a veto proof majority in the House, they have 47 in the Senate(and a few are fairly moderate), they don’t have the WH.
So, given all that, how do we cut all this spending that people want to cut?
I’m not 100% satisfied with what’s going on, but my point was that until we have the WH and Senate(and even then it will be otugh because we likely won’t have 60+ conservatives), it’s tough to really make major cuts.
Look what happened when we had W and 55 in the Senate and a GOP House, they still spent plenty of money.
I’m just saying I’ll take the spending cuts I can get now, pocket them and continue to work for more. I don’t see how standing on purity and winding up in a shutdown or with no cuts helps the situation.
Cut what you can now then run in 2012 by saying “It’s a very clear choice, if you elect us, we will cut this amount and if you vote for the dems the spending will continue”. I have faith in the American people.
The Republicans should have spent 2010 condemning the Dems for passing unlimited quantities of unpopular legislation while not even proposing a budget. With their usual MO, the Republicans uttered not a peep about the Dems’ gaping, glaring, criminal dereliction of duty. Now they’re panicking because they know the shut-down will be blamed on them. If they would be more pro-active, and play hardball once in a blue moon, they wouldn’t be routinely backed into these corners.
How about a line in the sand of just 20% of the deficit? Given the mandate the American people provided don’t you think Boehner, Cantor and Ryan could have said “If we don’t get a reduction in the deficit of 20% then we are shutting it down”. 20% or nothing?
but no, the GOP used their historic mandate from an historic election and went after a 2% reduction(and funded obamacare,increased other spending etc). The GOP is committed to big government by any measure you can use.
“Mr. Boohoo has all of us crying after seeing his feckless leadership in action. He should resign his post and let a real conservative, like Michelle Bachmann, be Speaker.”
No disrespect to the current Speaker, but what a difference THAT would make. Can anyone or any group make it happen?
These guys took the job knowing full well why they were elected and what they’re up against.
You’re an idiot. Go play alone somewhere else.
You must be young. Because it appears that I’ve seen more of these than you have. I’ll start with the 1995 one:
“That shutdown lasted 21 days, sending more than 284,000 government employees home on unpaid furloughs and forcing 475,000 essential employees to work without pay for weeks.
Although all were eventually paid when the budget was passed in April 1996, the shutdown rippled across the economy.”
http://www.macon.com/2011/03/02/1470618/federal-shutdown-reprieve-likely.html
So spend a bit less time listening to the union bosses and more time in independent thought.
Brilliant move by Boehner.
He cuts $12 billion in ONE WEEK and funds Defense until Sept. This gives us quite a bit more of what we want for another 1 week negotiating time.
This is why Pelosi, Obama and the Dems are screaming its not acceptable. The Dems are the ones who want a crisis here, and some conservatives want to play into their hands with a shutdown crisis.
Boehner has smartly avoided that error and put it in the Dems lap. We have a 2011 budget at $61b in cuts, and if the Dems dont like that there is stopgap plan B. If the Dems dont like either ... then what is THEIR plan. If there is a shutdown, its the Democrats fault, not the republicans.
Nonsense, they passed HR1 ... the House uder Boehner is the only branch which IS doing anything.
“The 2012 budget is being announced TOMORROW by the GOP complete with $4 trillion in CUTS. Many hearings lie ahead and the reason the Dems are limping ahead with demands for these CR’s is that they don’t want hearings to start on the 2012 budget.”
The Dems want a crisis NOW in order to feed and create more chaos.
There are some simplistic conservative gripers who arent seeing the bigger picture here. We win on 2011, then we move on to 2012 and the Ryan roadmap and BIG enchilada, that is our game plan.
Do nothing and foment a crisis to prevent any discussion of the big items is the Dem game plan....
“(CNSNews.com) - The fiscal 2012 budget proposal unveiled today by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) offers sweeping reforms in federal spending, including defunding and repealing the health-care law signed last year by President Barack Obama and converting the federal share of the Medicaid program into block grants to state governments.
The Republican proposal says one of its aims is “making sure that not a penny goes toward implementing the new [health care] law” enacted last year.
This includes repealing about $800 billion in new taxes that were built into the law.”
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