Posted on 01/18/2014 2:55:10 AM PST by markomalley
Late Thursday afternoon, the Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending measure that's best described as a fix -- fix, as in an act of Republican perfidy and chicanery.
The process was rigged by Speaker Boehner and Senate Minority Leader McConnell (doubtless with a wink and a nod from Harry Reid) to push through the gargantuan spending measure while giving House and Senate Republicans cover on ObamaCare funding. The bill was an incomprehensible 1,582 pages.
Here's how it worked. House Republicans passed the spending bill with a provision to strip funding from ObamaCare. In the Senate, Harry Reid used rules to see to it that measure wasn't subject to a filibuster, which would required 60 votes to overcome. That meant eight Republicans would have to have joined 52 Democrats to end a filibuster.
Not insurmountable for Reid and his Democrats, siphoning off GOP votes, given the plentiful supply of quislings among the Republicans. But why the headache, and politically, why give Senate conservatives a chance again to shine a harsh spotlight on the very unpopular fledgling ObamaCare health care grab? Why expose Democrats up for reelection this year to that sort of rigorous body-cavity search?
So Reid (this time doubtless with a wink and a nod from McConnell), maneuvered to strip the ObamaCare defunding provision by a majority vote, which split along party lines, 52-45 in favor. This happened quickly without any fanfare.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Republicans Begin Laying Ground Work to Walk Away From Obamacare Opposition
Conservative and Republican affiliated groups have started the 2014 assault against Democrats who support Obamacare. At the very same time, it is increasingly clear Republicans are laying the groundwork to abandon their opposition to Obamacare.
The Business Roundtable, which has a great relationship with Republican Leaders, is now listing Obamacare as an entitlement worth preserving.
(more at the link)
Time for the Repubican Party to be burned to the ground.
And now the “Trip Wire” has been set for the 2014 elections as this CR will only fund the Government up to September and then the rats will pick a budget fight designed to either cheese off the Republican Conservative base, or peel off the low information floaters.
“Time for the Repubican Party to be burned to the ground. “
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This is why I am so pessimistic about the survival of America.
THERE IS NO OPPOSITION TO THE COMMUNIST !
Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell in KY
Anyone who defies the planned destruction will be destroyed as well
It’s simply amazing how cowardly the Republicans are.
If they were true patriots they would have stood their ground and VOTED NOT TO APPROVE THE BILL.
With the government totally unfunded until they could read and debate the bill, the pressure would be on the “Dictator” to cave in.
But no! That will never happen with the “go along to get along crowd.”
What spineless cowards!
“Anyone who defies the planned destruction will be destroyed as well”
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That is the way they work. They do not tolerate enemies of the state.
Not necessarily - the republicans are already taking about not doing the budget process this year.
I’d like 1 reason not to get rid of them. I got nothing.
Note that any Talk Radio wonk or GOP Media wonk that does not call for the defeat of Boehner, McConnell, and other GOP Leadership....SUPPORTS OBAMACARE and this TRILLION DOLLAR SPENDING BILL
Unfortunately, Cain supports the GOPe push for Illegal Alien Amnesty. Cain is part of the problem. Illegal Alien Amnesty will cost us TRILLIONS...
The GOP IS the party of RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE,
gay marriage, open borders, lying to the people,
and absolute deception and theft.
THE GOP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE AMERICA’s DECLINE.
They have assented.
Pretty much what has happened to Herman Cain’s radio show since coming out for Amnesty....it has been nuked..LOL
$1.1 trillion but they just couldn’t bring themselves to borrow that extra 8 billion so as not to screw the veterans. What a crock!
The GOP is the first line of defense for the Commie ‘Rats.
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