Posted on 09/23/2011 5:23:18 AM PDT by Libloather
House of Representatives passes spending bill
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Last Updated: 5:45 AM, September 23, 2011
WASHINGTON -- The US House of Representatives early Friday morning passed a temporary spending bill -- with lawmakers reversing their opposition to the short-term funding measure rejected about 30 hours earlier.
On Wednesday, 48 House Republicans had joined Democrats in opposing the GOP-crafted temporary spending bill to keep the government funded through Nov. 18.
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"The bill the House will vote on tonight is not an honest effort at compromise," Reid said in a statement before the vote.
"It will be rejected by the Senate. ... The Senate is ready to stay in Washington next week to do the work the American people expect us to do, and I hope the House Republican leadership will do the same."
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That's no way to compromise.
Now, THAT’S funny. The Senate democraps will be responsible for shutting down government. Hussein better get his slaves in line.
Prediction: Obama, (the original ‘votes present’ President) will not veto.
Nope, it will be Boehner's fault because he didn't just pass the measure that the Senate sent over without amendment(s). That will be the story. The Republicans "poisoned" the bill with spending offsets, and that last minute poke (pinprick) at Obama and his "green energy grants."
freeangel wrote:
Now, THAT’S funny. The Senate democraps will be responsible for shutting down government. Hussein better get his slaves in line.
It's all the Republican's fault when the government shuts down.
I'm also very disappointed at the way this was passed. I found out about 8:30 (EST) last night what they were planning. The amendment was posted on the Rules Committee website at 8:09pm. They voted at 00:50 this morning (yeah, ten minutes to 1 O'clock in the morning).
I tried to call my Congress Critter about it. First time, I was transferred to some staffer's voicemail box which said he was out of the office today (thursday at the tim) and Friday. Then I called the House Switchboard and was told everyone went home. There would be no votes last night. That's what the operator told me.
Also, at first I thought that failed vote earlier this week could have been a double-cross from the Dems. Now, I'm wondering if Boehner, Cantor and the leadership did it intentionally to make the TEA Partiers look bad.
If we wanted secret bills passed after midnight, we could have left the Democrats in charge.
Also, 24 of the 48 who were trying to hold spending down by ~ $3.23 billion over the 7 weeks this CR will fund the government were bought off by a $0.1 billion politically motivated poke at Obama's clean energy grants. That's pathetic. Those twenty-four aren't just political whores. They are cheap whores to boot.
Can we please, please get serious primary challengers in OH-5 (Boehner's district), VA-7 (Cantor's district), CA-22 (Kevin McCarthy's district), and TX-5 (Hensarling's district)?
The TEA Party needs to clean house, starting at the leadership.
“The Senate is ready to stay in Washington next week to do the work the American people expect us to do”
Look, senator Reid, just because we EXPECT you to be a partisan jerk an spendaholic, doesnt mean you HAVE to live up to it.
“Also, at first I thought that failed vote earlier this week could have been a double-cross from the Dems.”
It was.
Conservatives are balking at too much spending, and Democrats will not pass anything that seriously cuts spending.
So, yeah, we get a shutdown unless one side backs down.
the Republicans insisted on payingfor disaster relief with spending cuts. Reasonable. But they neededthe votes for it, and Dems pulled out.
Dems in Senate are now saying “our way or no way”.
Boehner is in a corner. They’ve played the shutdown card already (picking the wrong fight,the debt limit, to do it) and got burned.
“Also, 24 of the 48 who were trying to hold spending down by ~ $3.23 billion over the 7 weeks this CR will fund the government were bought off by a $0.1 billion politically motivated poke at Obama’s clean energy grants. That’s pathetic. Those twenty-four aren’t just political whores. They are cheap whores to boot.”
Your name-calling is unnecessary and wrong.
They werent bought off, they just recognized that something had to be passed, and this is the best bill they can do.
The fact is the House - had it cut $5b $10b or ANYTHING - would be pissing in the wind. So far we repealed obamacare, passed cut, cap and balance and passed the ryan roadmap - doesnt matter. The Senate passed a different bill. It spends more.
We have 2 options - shutdown or compromise. Oh, and we do a shutdown, we get a big political hit and THEN we compromise, etc.
IF YOU WANT A BETTER BILL, FORGET CALLING THE HOUSE, CALL THE SENATE. THEY ARE THE BOTTLENECK.
If it doesn’t pass the House, it can’t be spent. The Republicans have the power to limit spending; they are just, as usual, not interested in exercising it.
If they won’t man up and take their lumps from the media, things will never get better until after a currency collapse.
More specifically, the House leaders are not interested in causing a govt meltdown to try to get Reid and Obama to do what they manifestly will NOT do, which is to agree to more belt-tightening.
Perhaps they should be, perhaps they should shut the govt down, which is the only way to force the issue, but such things are always easier said than done, and not a single time have I gotten an answer from Boehner’s critics to answer the question of ‘how will you get whatever you want past the Senate AND White House?’
If the govt shuts down, its a big mess and the Dems get a huge media-adied PR boost, blame GOP for economy, and in the end peel a few RINO/mod folks off in swing districts to pass the Dem agenda anyway. Win/win all around for the Democrats. And conservative ‘no’ votes actually give the Dems more leverage in the House, by forcing Boehner to beg them to get votes or risk getting nothing. And the biggest blowhard end up being the least helpful as real workhorses.
In recent events, the House did actually do it RIGHT. They passed their bill, forced the Senate to do something and ‘magic’ happened, FEMA decided it didnt need the extra 2011 money after all this week, and we are back to FY2012 resolution only. So by insisting that FEMA funding be paid for by cuts elsewhere the administration said “never mind”.
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