Republicans do NOT WANT there to be any progress made by the country.-So, by that criterion, Boehner is a perfect Republican leader. He can content himself with handing out lobbyist’s checks on the House floor, interrupted by the occasional repeal of Obamacare.
The nation as a whole would have benefited had Boehnor, Pelosi, Reid, and McConnall ALL stepped down from their leadership positions to let younger and more open minds to lead the parties out of the pit in which our Congress has fallen. Of the four, only Boehnor showed any willingness to work with the President, but that faded as soon as he talked to his hard right conservatives in the House. As I look at the improvements in the stock market, the housing market, the job market, and in other places, I can only wonder where our nation would be if the parties had actually worked together to help our nation and to give the President’s plan a chance to work. Dems were arrogant and Reps were obstructionist and the President failed to push either party until just recently, but the scandals have shut down that effort. I miss the illusion that we are an united people. There was always bad things going on, but it seemed as if we were working our way out of it. But the reverse is true. Too many of our people have become mean spirited, rude, and hateful in words and even in deeds. People kill over words with which they disagree. So many threats to our nation and our world, and all we can do is be mean to each other.Why?Dispiritedly,C.
“Oh I don’t know, they have what passed many bills and budgets on time.”
True. They have passed budgets with tax cuts for the “job creators” and no changes to defense, while clear-cutting social programs. They themselves know there is no chance of passage, even if the Senate were reasonable, so basically they are posturing, not getting anything done.
Other “accomplishments”: a bill allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built, with amendments about pollution control, and requiring the companies who benefit to contribute to a clean-up fund for the inevitable spill defeated. Another example of Republican leadership: voting to prioritize our assets, preparing for default.
If the idea of taking more time to plan for default than to plan to avoid it doesn’t make your blood boil, their priorities are foreign investors. An amendment to change priority to FDIC and veteran’s benefits was voted down by the Republicans. So, China and Iran, yes. Your money in the bank: should’a put it under the mattress. And we support the troops, unless you want benefits.
I am not aware of Mr. Buffet’s trains. I am aware that Exxon-Mobil is not paying a penny for clean-up of the spilled tar-sands oil in Arkansas. By the bye, has any of our commie-pinko-tree-hugger press told us what has been happening with that oil, or about its cleanup?
There WILL be a spill from Keystone. A large part of the route is above an aquifer. This is the aquifer that provides water to midwest farms during drought. If that water spoils, the crops die. Remember you cannot eat money.
You are correct that the Democratic “leadership” in the Senate has not allowed anything to move forward. It is no worse, although no better, than the Republicans demanding that every single issue require 60 votes to pass. Between both obstructionist strategies, nothing gets done, except that the House can pass all kinds of worthless bills and not be responsible, since they’ll never become law.
I will respectfully disagres with your statement that “that is not how that works”. Every Republican budget proposal I have seen consists of tax breaks for the top earners and investors, with no break for the wage-earner, no end to pork and make-work projects, no end to unnecessary and unwanted Pentagon projects, and savings derived from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Newer details include Mr. Ryan’s plan to make Medicare so unattractive and worthless that seniors will “be allowed” to go to private insurance, of which I am sure we will disagree about the result.
Bottom line: the “leadership” of both houses, and therefore the soldiers underneath them, are do-nothings who pose and wax eloquently about our problems and then pretend it’s the other side’s fault. Respectful Troll is quite correct, and that is quite sad.
@Harleyquinn: I told you we would disagree with the results. Ryan’s plan will “save” Medicare only in the respect that it won’t go broke. It won’t go broke because no one will want to use it, because it will provide less and less care for more and more cost.
Ryan’s plan calls for the repeal of Obamacare. This will bring back exclusions for pre-existing conditions. How many seniors do you know without pre-existing conditions? Thought so.
Even today, private health insurance for those 65 and older costs way more than the $6K per year that Mr. Ryan proposes to subsidize private insurance with. That’s for healthy people. For those in the majority, with not-insignificant pre-existing conditions, it will either be too expensive, or the insurance industry will just not be willing to make insurance be available.
Either way, all the people that Medicare now covers will end up in Emergency rooms looking for unfunded care. This will cost taxpayers and insured people far more than what Medicare now costs. If you think this is a better answer than our current Medicare system, I would very much like to hear your reasoning.
“Play One—how clever leading in with Obama’s favorite and most used phrase, i.e., “I am not aware…”
Very good observation. A couple of differences:
1. I’m telling the truth. I truly am not aware, so I cannot comment. I apologize for my ignorance of that aspect of the subject.
2. I am not paid to know everything, and I do not have a crack staff of people who do know a whole lot more than I do for me to depend on.
I only know what I am allowed to know from news sources which each seem to have their own agenda, which means I am willing to admit that I don’t and probably never will know the details. But I do promise to not hold anyone to a higher standard than my own.
“The nation as a whole would have benefited had Boehnor, Pelosi, Reid, and McConnall ALL stepped down from their leadership positions to let younger and more open minds to lead the parties out of the pit in which our Congress has fallen. "
Hmm… Ryan, who hates birth control? Broun, who lives on a 9000-year-old Earth? Todd Akin, who believes rape provides the best birth control? Sensebrenner, who believes climate change theory is a “massive international [fascist] scientific fraud”? Or Rohrabacher, who blames dinosaur farting for historic warming patterns…?
Uncle Joe Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Boehner is too busy golfing. (Boehner has time for 100 rounds a year, versus Obama’s rather feeble 100 rounds per term).
ConserveGov almost 11 years ago
More credible then the clown in the White House.
braindead Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Republicans do NOT WANT there to be any progress made by the country.-So, by that criterion, Boehner is a perfect Republican leader. He can content himself with handing out lobbyist’s checks on the House floor, interrupted by the occasional repeal of Obamacare.
chazandru almost 11 years ago
The nation as a whole would have benefited had Boehnor, Pelosi, Reid, and McConnall ALL stepped down from their leadership positions to let younger and more open minds to lead the parties out of the pit in which our Congress has fallen. Of the four, only Boehnor showed any willingness to work with the President, but that faded as soon as he talked to his hard right conservatives in the House. As I look at the improvements in the stock market, the housing market, the job market, and in other places, I can only wonder where our nation would be if the parties had actually worked together to help our nation and to give the President’s plan a chance to work. Dems were arrogant and Reps were obstructionist and the President failed to push either party until just recently, but the scandals have shut down that effort. I miss the illusion that we are an united people. There was always bad things going on, but it seemed as if we were working our way out of it. But the reverse is true. Too many of our people have become mean spirited, rude, and hateful in words and even in deeds. People kill over words with which they disagree. So many threats to our nation and our world, and all we can do is be mean to each other.Why?Dispiritedly,C.
moderateisntleft almost 11 years ago
good one!
I Play One On TV almost 11 years ago
“Oh I don’t know, they have what passed many bills and budgets on time.”
True. They have passed budgets with tax cuts for the “job creators” and no changes to defense, while clear-cutting social programs. They themselves know there is no chance of passage, even if the Senate were reasonable, so basically they are posturing, not getting anything done.
Other “accomplishments”: a bill allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built, with amendments about pollution control, and requiring the companies who benefit to contribute to a clean-up fund for the inevitable spill defeated. Another example of Republican leadership: voting to prioritize our assets, preparing for default.
If the idea of taking more time to plan for default than to plan to avoid it doesn’t make your blood boil, their priorities are foreign investors. An amendment to change priority to FDIC and veteran’s benefits was voted down by the Republicans. So, China and Iran, yes. Your money in the bank: should’a put it under the mattress. And we support the troops, unless you want benefits.
That kind of “leadership” we can do without.
d_legendary1 almost 11 years ago
I thought this was their logo:
rockngolfer almost 11 years ago
The teapot is from the Michael Graves Collection at JC Penny, and is sold out.
I Play One On TV almost 11 years ago
I am not aware of Mr. Buffet’s trains. I am aware that Exxon-Mobil is not paying a penny for clean-up of the spilled tar-sands oil in Arkansas. By the bye, has any of our commie-pinko-tree-hugger press told us what has been happening with that oil, or about its cleanup?
There WILL be a spill from Keystone. A large part of the route is above an aquifer. This is the aquifer that provides water to midwest farms during drought. If that water spoils, the crops die. Remember you cannot eat money.
You are correct that the Democratic “leadership” in the Senate has not allowed anything to move forward. It is no worse, although no better, than the Republicans demanding that every single issue require 60 votes to pass. Between both obstructionist strategies, nothing gets done, except that the House can pass all kinds of worthless bills and not be responsible, since they’ll never become law.
I will respectfully disagres with your statement that “that is not how that works”. Every Republican budget proposal I have seen consists of tax breaks for the top earners and investors, with no break for the wage-earner, no end to pork and make-work projects, no end to unnecessary and unwanted Pentagon projects, and savings derived from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Newer details include Mr. Ryan’s plan to make Medicare so unattractive and worthless that seniors will “be allowed” to go to private insurance, of which I am sure we will disagree about the result.
Bottom line: the “leadership” of both houses, and therefore the soldiers underneath them, are do-nothings who pose and wax eloquently about our problems and then pretend it’s the other side’s fault. Respectful Troll is quite correct, and that is quite sad.
Uncle Joe Premium Member almost 11 years ago
BTW, I’m pretty sure the donkey in red with the beads is supposed to be Pelosi. (Bottom center of ’toon)
I Play One On TV almost 11 years ago
@Harleyquinn: I told you we would disagree with the results. Ryan’s plan will “save” Medicare only in the respect that it won’t go broke. It won’t go broke because no one will want to use it, because it will provide less and less care for more and more cost.
Ryan’s plan calls for the repeal of Obamacare. This will bring back exclusions for pre-existing conditions. How many seniors do you know without pre-existing conditions? Thought so.
Even today, private health insurance for those 65 and older costs way more than the $6K per year that Mr. Ryan proposes to subsidize private insurance with. That’s for healthy people. For those in the majority, with not-insignificant pre-existing conditions, it will either be too expensive, or the insurance industry will just not be willing to make insurance be available.
Either way, all the people that Medicare now covers will end up in Emergency rooms looking for unfunded care. This will cost taxpayers and insured people far more than what Medicare now costs. If you think this is a better answer than our current Medicare system, I would very much like to hear your reasoning.
I Play One On TV almost 11 years ago
“Play One—how clever leading in with Obama’s favorite and most used phrase, i.e., “I am not aware…”
Very good observation. A couple of differences:
1. I’m telling the truth. I truly am not aware, so I cannot comment. I apologize for my ignorance of that aspect of the subject.
2. I am not paid to know everything, and I do not have a crack staff of people who do know a whole lot more than I do for me to depend on.
I only know what I am allowed to know from news sources which each seem to have their own agenda, which means I am willing to admit that I don’t and probably never will know the details. But I do promise to not hold anyone to a higher standard than my own.
bloatedcoder almost 11 years ago
“The nation as a whole would have benefited had Boehnor, Pelosi, Reid, and McConnall ALL stepped down from their leadership positions to let younger and more open minds to lead the parties out of the pit in which our Congress has fallen. "
Hmm… Ryan, who hates birth control? Broun, who lives on a 9000-year-old Earth? Todd Akin, who believes rape provides the best birth control? Sensebrenner, who believes climate change theory is a “massive international [fascist] scientific fraud”? Or Rohrabacher, who blames dinosaur farting for historic warming patterns…?