If this ends up killing my federal/military-related new job, you're going to read about my immediate reaction on the evening news in the near future. Prepare your confused remembrances, if you would.

What are you views on the House not getting this done mr. Jersey Hoya?

now looks like THEY'RE DOING IT

If they pass something before tomorrow it doesn't really matter. Everything was closed today anyway.

jerseyhoya wrote:If they pass something before tomorrow it doesn't really matter. Everything was closed today anyway.

True enough. Actually passing something by then seems less than a foregone conclusion. If they fail, even Senate Republicans will view them as a bad joke. Remember, this whole Senate bill started when the House failed to vote on Plan B and Boehner adjourned the House, suggesting that the Senate and President Obama develop a bill. So, now, due to the HOuse's initial failure, we have a Senate bill (actually they already had a Senate bill which they refused to vote on before the whole Plan B nonsense) at the 12th hour and the House is righteously fiddling around. No, you can't amend the Senate bill. The PResident and Dems aren't going to accept spending cuts in advance of an overall spending agreement that covers sequestration and the debt ceiling. Even the Dems aren't that strategically challenged.

pacino wrote:the markets, THE MARKETS, dear god, NOT THE MARKETS

Too true. The impact on the markets is that some gamblers (banks, hedge funds, crazy people) who bet the wrong way, either with a lot of leverage or with derivatives will get their butts kicked. For normal investors, it will be a few day blip that they'll ride through. If this teaches our financial institutions that their business should be about more than gambling, then that wouldn't necessarily be all that bad an outcome.

What this is likely all really about is Cantor pushing the Dems to come up with enough votes that any House Republican with a less than 99% chance of being re-elected in 2014 is able to vote 'no' and still have the bill pass.

Really hope all these shit house republicans the worst of luck. Just awful. Now we get some garbage kick the can down the road bullshit.

CalvinBall wrote:Really hope all these shit house republicans the worst of luck. Just awful. Now we get some garbage kick the can down the road bullshit.

How is that on the House Republicans?

jerseyhoya wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Really hope all these shit house republicans the worst of luck. Just awful. Now we get some garbage kick the can down the road bullshit.

How is that on the House Republicans?

Bc they are the ones who refused to give in on any tax increases when The president was proposing actual realistic plans to both cut spending and raise revenue.

jerseyhoya wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Really hope all these #$!&@ house republicans the worst of luck. Just awful. Now we get some garbage kick the can down the road #$!&@.

How is that on the House Republicans?

wow

CalvinBall wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Really hope all these shit house republicans the worst of luck. Just awful. Now we get some garbage kick the can down the road bullshit.

How is that on the House Republicans?

Bc they are the ones who refused to give in on any tax increases when The president was proposing actual realistic plans to both cut spending and raise revenue.

The president hasn't proposed actual realistic plans to cut spending

jerseyhoya wrote:The president hasn't proposed actual realistic plans to cut spending

since when is cutting spending something? and since when does a president control congress?

pacino wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:The president hasn't proposed actual realistic plans to cut spending

since when is cutting spending something? and since when does a president control congress?

What the hell are you talking about?

what the fuck are YOU talking about

pacino wrote:what the fuck are YOU talking about

Calvin said it was House Republicans fault a can is being kicked down the road. I asked him how it was their fault. He said they were the reason we didn't pass a comprehensive plan to cut spending and raise taxes. (You posted pictures of a dead horse and the word "wow"). I said that Obama hasn't made a realistic proposal to cut spending. You asked "since when is cutting spending something?" because, I presume, you're not very good at reading since that's what Calvin and I were talking about. I asked what the hell you were talking about since you didn't appear to be aware of the conversation that was occurring. You asked what the fuck I was talking about because you're a rude man.

cut him some slack, jh. i'ts HARD to read all those posts while being whipped

jerseyhoya wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Really hope all these shit house republicans the worst of luck. Just awful. Now we get some garbage kick the can down the road bullshit.

How is that on the House Republicans?

Bc they are the ones who refused to give in on any tax increases when The president was proposing actual realistic plans to both cut spending and raise revenue.

The president hasn't proposed actual realistic plans to cut spending

the President has courteously invited the leaders of the party of responsibility, those most expert about all the programs that should be cut, to be first to unveil their wisdom for all America to see. After all, that's why we Americans have ceded them the power they presume to wield.

That seems fair, and wise. A genuine leader like, say, John Boehner, or Eric Cantor, will recognize that their time has come, that destiny has winked at them, and act accordingly.

Is it just me, or did Boehner and the House Republican caucus basically get its ass kicked--both politically and in terms of policy? I mean, this is as bad as Gingrich and the government shutdown of 1995.

i asked because cutting spending is bullshit. that's all there is to it. i'm tired of thinking it's some 1 for 1 thing. the president started at a centrist position, and just because you say he didnt doesnt make it so. FUCK the reupblicans their bullshit. FUCK that. it's utter bunk.