To Protect the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Yup, sounds about right. If you’ve never recited these words with your right hand raised, swearing an oath, then you couldn’t possibly understand how true this ‘toon is.During this whole budget debacle, who offered various compromises? And who stonewalled any change? Who is doing as instructed by their constituents, and who thumbing their nose at the opposition just because they are the opposition? Republicans have passed 3-4 budgets (lost track now) in the past month, and every one of them was shot down.Let’s take a look at the last CR before the shutdown hit. Delay the individual mandate for a year, and eliminate the subsidies for Congress and their staff. Why is that such a bad thing? Half the country doesn’t know that there even is an individual mandate, and Congress and their staff shouldn’t get subsidies for their insurance. No-one else does. So this is purely a partisan attack by the Democrats to try to play politics by using their mouthpiece (the MSM) to push their agenda that the Republicans are causing this shutdown, when in fact it’s the Democrats in the Senate and our non-leader Obama who are refusing to compromise to get the job done. Tell me I’m wrong, and prove it.
Reid said after the meeting he once against urged Boehner to accept Democrats’ counter-offer for negotiations once Congress passes a short-term funding bill that does not include a delay in implementing the ACA, commonly called Obamacare.
“What the speaker has to accept is ‘yes’ for an answer,” Reid said.
“We’re through playing these little games focused on Obamacare,” he said.
Earlier, Boehner rejected a proposal by Reid to work on tax reform once Congress approves a funding bill.
Reid made the offer Wednesday in a letter to Boehner, The Hill reported.
“I commit to name conferees to a budget conference, as soon as the government reopens,” he wrote. “This conference would be an appropriate place to have those discussions, where participants could raise whatever proposals — such as tax reform, healthcare, agriculture, and certainly discretionary spending like veterans, National Parks and NIH — they felt appropriate.”
“During the course of my presidency I have bent over backwards to work with the Republican Party and have purposely kept my rhetoric down,” he told CNBC. “I think I’m pretty well known for being a calm guy. … Sometimes people think I’m too calm. But am I exasperated? Absolutely I’m exasperated. Because this is entirely unnecessary.”
Obama noted there have been shutdowns in the past but he said the current political reality is “different.”
“When you have a situation in which a faction is willing to potentially default on U.S. government obligations, then we are in trouble,” he said. “And if they’re willing to do it now, they’ll be willing to do it later.”
A Republican plan aimed at averting a government shutdown on October 1 ran into a wall of opposition last week from conservatives in the House, and leaders delayed votes on it until this week.
The plan, derided as a “trick” by some conservatives, would have let them cast an essentially symbolic vote to defund the healthcare law without risking a shutdown, which is feared by party leaders who remember the political damage they suffered when government offices closed their doors in the mid-1990s.
Under the plan, Republican leaders were prepared to extend funding through mid-December at an annualized $988 billion, the same amount as 2013 after reductions went into effect under the across-the-board cuts called sequestration. The White House signaled last week it could live with a short-term extension at that level, even though the president wants to reverse the sequester cuts.
The Obama administration, through the National Park Service, erected barricades in front of an open air, open access memorial. One that has no installed physical barrier to prevent access, so in fact they spent excess funds in the form of man hours and the barricades to do what?There was no valid reason to do what was done, other then pure pettiness, and you call yourselves the progressive party.Speaks volumes . . .
“@eugene57There’s your problem. Obama is a known liar and he’s living up to that. His rhetoric is all over now. Montages of his comments. Proves he’s lying.”by your “reasoning”, your comments prove you a lier.
“….What economic recovery?……”.Think back through your foggy memory of how things were in 2008..Obama does not get testy about it being called ObamaCare. His actual response was that “He kind of liked it. You know, Obama cares.”
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 10 years ago
Actually, he’s on his way to the VA hospital for some government healthcare.
Enoki over 10 years ago
Obama: Run over by history and left in irrelevance.
Wraithkin over 10 years ago
To Protect the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Yup, sounds about right. If you’ve never recited these words with your right hand raised, swearing an oath, then you couldn’t possibly understand how true this ‘toon is.During this whole budget debacle, who offered various compromises? And who stonewalled any change? Who is doing as instructed by their constituents, and who thumbing their nose at the opposition just because they are the opposition? Republicans have passed 3-4 budgets (lost track now) in the past month, and every one of them was shot down.Let’s take a look at the last CR before the shutdown hit. Delay the individual mandate for a year, and eliminate the subsidies for Congress and their staff. Why is that such a bad thing? Half the country doesn’t know that there even is an individual mandate, and Congress and their staff shouldn’t get subsidies for their insurance. No-one else does. So this is purely a partisan attack by the Democrats to try to play politics by using their mouthpiece (the MSM) to push their agenda that the Republicans are causing this shutdown, when in fact it’s the Democrats in the Senate and our non-leader Obama who are refusing to compromise to get the job done. Tell me I’m wrong, and prove it.
eugene57 over 10 years ago
Reid said after the meeting he once against urged Boehner to accept Democrats’ counter-offer for negotiations once Congress passes a short-term funding bill that does not include a delay in implementing the ACA, commonly called Obamacare.
“What the speaker has to accept is ‘yes’ for an answer,” Reid said.
“We’re through playing these little games focused on Obamacare,” he said.
Earlier, Boehner rejected a proposal by Reid to work on tax reform once Congress approves a funding bill.
Reid made the offer Wednesday in a letter to Boehner, The Hill reported.
“I commit to name conferees to a budget conference, as soon as the government reopens,” he wrote. “This conference would be an appropriate place to have those discussions, where participants could raise whatever proposals — such as tax reform, healthcare, agriculture, and certainly discretionary spending like veterans, National Parks and NIH — they felt appropriate.”
A spokesman for Boehner rejected the proposal.
eugene57 over 10 years ago
“During the course of my presidency I have bent over backwards to work with the Republican Party and have purposely kept my rhetoric down,” he told CNBC. “I think I’m pretty well known for being a calm guy. … Sometimes people think I’m too calm. But am I exasperated? Absolutely I’m exasperated. Because this is entirely unnecessary.”
Obama noted there have been shutdowns in the past but he said the current political reality is “different.”
“When you have a situation in which a faction is willing to potentially default on U.S. government obligations, then we are in trouble,” he said. “And if they’re willing to do it now, they’ll be willing to do it later.”
eugene57 over 10 years ago
A Republican plan aimed at averting a government shutdown on October 1 ran into a wall of opposition last week from conservatives in the House, and leaders delayed votes on it until this week.
The plan, derided as a “trick” by some conservatives, would have let them cast an essentially symbolic vote to defund the healthcare law without risking a shutdown, which is feared by party leaders who remember the political damage they suffered when government offices closed their doors in the mid-1990s.
Under the plan, Republican leaders were prepared to extend funding through mid-December at an annualized $988 billion, the same amount as 2013 after reductions went into effect under the across-the-board cuts called sequestration. The White House signaled last week it could live with a short-term extension at that level, even though the president wants to reverse the sequester cuts.
oneoldhat over 10 years ago
bho tried to shut down mount vernon even though it is privatly owned
dpbriley over 10 years ago
The Obama administration, through the National Park Service, erected barricades in front of an open air, open access memorial. One that has no installed physical barrier to prevent access, so in fact they spent excess funds in the form of man hours and the barricades to do what?There was no valid reason to do what was done, other then pure pettiness, and you call yourselves the progressive party.Speaks volumes . . .
Wraithkin over 10 years ago
Thanks. I just need to take an absence from these threads once in a while. My bullsh** filter gets full from time to time.
eugene57 over 10 years ago
“@eugene57There’s your problem. Obama is a known liar and he’s living up to that. His rhetoric is all over now. Montages of his comments. Proves he’s lying.”by your “reasoning”, your comments prove you a lier.
Gypsy8 over 10 years ago
“….What economic recovery?……”.Think back through your foggy memory of how things were in 2008..Obama does not get testy about it being called ObamaCare. His actual response was that “He kind of liked it. You know, Obama cares.”