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.
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Funny! I always thought the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES controlled the purse strings of government...
Your words, not Boehners...
ok.
1. america as we know it is dead. were in the 2nd great depression by all metrics. the tea party and conservatives decide to roll the dice one more time. we all work not stop for two years.
2. the result. you win an election (despite the efforts by the repubican party) by the biggest margin since the 30s (the last great depression under rosevelt).
3. you go into the lame duck showing a powerful hand of cards. the only thing obama can do is play your personality. you fold. he wins.
4. you appoint the good old boys (upton, rogers, etc). you ignore the tea party and conservative wing. in fact, you dis them. obama sees it’s game on as usual.
5. your first three months. you anti. you pass. you pass. you fold.
poker is mathematical (you calculate the odds if your able. i being a math major, calculate the odds). but far more important is to study your opponent(s) at the table. that’s what wins.
You have defined the evolution of a new political party depending on how long the Constitution holds out.
Question: are you purposely advocating policies that ensure our national destruction or are you simply clueless/unaware as to what you're promoting?
In the end, it really doesn't matter. Math, and the inexorable toll of reality, namely the 2nd law, provides a clear path of the future for anyone who cares to look.
I like this on two counts. First, it funds the military for the rest of the year. It is absurd to drag the military funding through this process. We should have passed the defense appropriation a long time ago — if we wanted to cut it, I’m sure the democrats would have gone along.
Second, it’s got more spending cuts, so it’s not like we are going back to the higher spending.
Once the military has secured funding, we will be safer with a shutdown.
If they do shut the government down, Vacationer-in-Chief will just think that means he can take another vacation until it re-opens.
Yep! Old bonerhead really needs leverage.
It's tough, at his age, to get off his knees, slam his butt-cheeks shut, and stop crying after meeting the marxists face-to-face!
We're facing the greatest existential crisis since 1776, (surpassing even 1861), and we've got people ostensibly representing citizens who either (a) don't get it; or (b) more than get it.
More & more, I'm tending towards 'b'. Is Boner trying to tell us something, like wink, wink, nudge, nudge? How else can one explain such actions?
THe democrats want us to shoot our own troops in the back over a partial-year budget that in any normal time would have already been in the books before we got here. It’s ALMOST LIKE they purposely failed to pass a budget, just so they could get us sniping at each other.
What other excuse could there be for them NOT to pass a full-year budget in the lame-duck session? It would have been easy to do, they had their filibuster-proof majority in the senate, and it’s not like those who lost the election were worried about losing a second time.
No, I think they left it so they could do exactly what they are doing now, trying to divide and conquer, to get the tea party to turn against the republicans, and vice versa, and maybe to blame the TP for a shutdown (which if we have attacked the republican leadership enough, they might well decide is their best option).
Yeah...they sure did halt those Bush tax cuts now didn't they...
Oh, and they sure got us out of Iraq and Afganistan like they wanted didn't they...
Oh, and wow...did you see all those seats they won in Congress last election....
And I hear Guantanamo's closed... Yup...they ALWAYS win.
Southack's right...you ARE an idiot.
I don’t want the military to get caught in the crossfire of the budget shutdown. So I’d like them to solve that problem, and it sounds like Boehner has a plan to do that with this 1-week CR.
We are supposedly winning the discussion. The longer this drags on, with the republicans doing things like this to keep government going, and the democrats screaming “shutdown” and complaining and offering nothing, the stronger our position gets.
That is, so long as the tea party doesn’t abandon the fight to “prove a point”.
yes. i understand. how can he be such a fool? (i.e., self mislead). the alternative is he’s just very, very afraid he’ll do something wrong (again “fear is the mind killer”).
what we all know is that if you do something that turns out to be wrong (after your best preparation). the seeds are most often there to rise again. but if you do nothing. if you take no risk. you must lose (i.e., stagnate in the status quo which i think we agree is a “dead” america).
Nonsense.
he past a bill that cut it, but the senate rejected it. Boehner can’t make the senate vote for something.
Not ALMOST...that's EXACTLY why they didn't pass it.
So those unaware of what's going on would attack the GOP leadership just as they do on FR.
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