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Congress Approves Bill To End Airport Delays

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ap friday:

Congress easily approved legislation Friday ending furloughs of air traffic controllers that have delayed hundreds of flights daily, infuriating travelers and causing political headaches for lawmakers.

The House approved the measure on a 361-41 vote, a day after the Senate swiftly agreed to the bill. The vote came as lawmakers prepared to leave town for a weeklong spring recess, a break that would have been less pleasant if they were confronted by constituents upset over travel delays.

Republicans accused the Obama administration of purposely furloughing controllers to pressure Congress to lift $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts - known as the sequester - that took effect last month at government agencies.

"The administration has played shameful politics with the sequester at the cost of hard-working American families," said Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa.

The White House and Democrats have argued that by law, the administration has little room to decide where the cuts fall. The White House and Democrats want Congress to work on legislation lifting all of the cuts, which lawmakers noted have also caused reductions in Head Start preschool programs, benefits for the long-term unemployed and medical research.

Congress Approves Bill to End Airport Delays | AP

they had the money all along

he was bluffing all along

all the end-of-the-world angst

all the chicken little clucks

he wants the public to pay

he wants to punish the taxpayer

he promotes pain

all for purple political purposes

it's really perverse

he's exposed

he got called out in congress on thursday

knuckle draggers discovered a HALF BILLION in his furloughed faa for SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMS

BY FRIDAY dem party leadership succumbed

it was that fast

spank

all to push his puny little point

HE NEEDS MORE MONEY

!!!

well, who doesn't, wilfred?

find a way, phil

manage, mrs mccaskill

you are going to see dozens of headlines before unlucky 2013 is over describing how the obama white house is putting the pinch on THE MIDDLE CLASS

call it A WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS

"tax the rich" is today too thin

it's cuz he already did that, january 1

and there's nowhere near enough money there

the professional leftists at politico parse it perfectly: "there’s simply not enough revenue to pull from top earners to truly tackle the nation’s deficit"

“there’s only so much money you can get out of the upper-income brackets, the big money comes from the rank-and-file taxpayers”

Taxes: President Obama's budget would hit middle class - Steven Sloan - POLITICO.com

you really need to concern yourself with these things

if you want to appear remotely responsible, y'know

when's the last time you heard him utter the word, "invest?"

did you hear about fisker this week?

WH knew electric car maker Fisker was faltering: AP - CBS News

this behavior is at bottom criminal

it's at least, fiscally speaking, ultra wasteful

another HALF BIL---pfft

while his raison d'etre, his reason for arising, is: HE NEEDS MORE MONEY

do you really hear all this as spin?

if so, it's you, you've got yourself dizzy

sit down and put your head between your knees

according to the nyt yesterday, front page above the fold, barack obama's political appointees at doj and usda overrode career staffers in the depts to push the distribution of 90,000 cash settlements of $50,000 each, at least half of which, it appears, were blatantly fraudulent

indeed, according to the nyt yesterday, page one, 6 weeks before the election, with 460M dollars of damages to distribute and not enough takers, "the agriculture dept instructed processors to call about 16,000 people to remind them that time was running out"

the dept was outright "recruiting claims against itself"

in pine bluff, arkansas, a policeman who admitted to filing a fraudulent claim against usda for discriminating against him in refusing him a loan, such that he was awarded 50K cold cash courtesy of eric holder and tony west, was NOT prosecuted because "singling out one individual raised questions of selective prosecution"

“the defendant could go to the jury and say, ‘everybody else did this, why am I standing here?’" wrote us attorney paula casey

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/u...&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&pagewanted=all&_r=1&

this is graft of the grossest degree

the white house yesterday was not pleased that congress had found a way to manage a budget shortfall, y'know, with minimal pain

it took a bi-partisan parliamentary revolt to get this done

we're seeing it, bigtime, over obamacare, as well

Obamacare 2.0: Shaky like 1.0 - David Nather - POLITICO.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/u...f-concerns-about-health-care-law-rollout.html

Baucus warns of 'huge train wreck' enacting ObamaCare provisions - The Hill

'Obamacare' creator Sen. Jay Rockefeller now says law 'beyond comprehension' - Washington Times

now, why would obamacare author max baucus and the grey lady at the ny times say such things?

is it spin or is it you?

anyone who ever voted for this man owes his friends and neighbors an apology

ie, it's only gonna get worse, you better get out now
 
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Cutting spending: great in theory, not so much in practice.

Congress must be listening to its constituents, the kind that has lots of money and whines a lot if it suffers any hardship.
 
ap friday:



Congress Approves Bill to End Airport Delays | AP

they had the money all along

he was bluffing all along

all the end-of-the-world angst

all the chicken little clucks

he wants the public to pay

he wants to punish the taxpayer

he promotes pain

all for purple political purposes

it's really perverse

he's exposed

he got called out in congress on thursday

knuckle draggers discovered a HALF BILLION in his furloughed faa for SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMS

BY FRIDAY dem party leadership succumbed

it was that fast

spank

all to push his puny little point

HE NEEDS MORE MONEY

!!!

well, who doesn't, wilfred?

find a way, phil

manage, mrs mccaskill

you are going to see dozens of headlines before unlucky 2013 is over describing how the obama white house is putting the pinch on THE MIDDLE CLASS

call it A WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS

"tax the rich" is today too thin

it's cuz he already did that, january 1

and there's nowhere near enough money there

the professional leftists at politico parse it perfectly: "there’s simply not enough revenue to pull from top earners to truly tackle the nation’s deficit"

“there’s only so much money you can get out of the upper-income brackets, the big money comes from the rank-and-file taxpayers”

Taxes: President Obama's budget would hit middle class - Steven Sloan - POLITICO.com

you really need to concern yourself with these things

if you want to appear remotely responsible, y'know

when's the last time you heard him utter the word, "invest?"

did you hear about fisker this week?

WH knew electric car maker Fisker was faltering: AP - CBS News

this behavior is at bottom criminal

it's at least, fiscally speaking, ultra wasteful

another HALF BIL---pfft

while his raison d'etre, his reason for arising, is: HE NEEDS MORE MONEY

do you really hear all this as spin?

if so, it's you, you've got yourself dizzy

sit down and put your head between your knees

according to the nyt yesterday, front page above the fold, barack obama's political appointees at doj and usda overrode career staffers in the depts to push the distribution of 90,000 cash settlements of $50,000 each, at least half of which, it appears, were blatantly fraudulent

indeed, according to the nyt yesterday, page one, 6 weeks before the election, with 460M dollars of damages to distribute and not enough takers, "the agriculture dept instructed processors to call about 16,000 people to remind them that time was running out"

the dept was outright "recruiting claims against itself"

in pine bluff, arkansas, a policeman who admitted to filing a fraudulent claim against usda for discriminating against him in refusing him a loan, such that he was awarded 50K cold cash courtesy of eric holder and tony west, was NOT prosecuted because "singling out one individual raised questions of selective prosecution"

“the defendant could go to the jury and say, ‘everybody else did this, why am I standing here?’" wrote us attorney paula casey

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/u...&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&pagewanted=all&_r=1&

this is graft of the grossest degree

the white house yesterday was not pleased that congress had found a way to manage a budget shortfall, y'know, with minimal pain

it took a bi-partisan parliamentary revolt to get this done

we're seeing it, bigtime, over obamacare, as well

Obamacare 2.0: Shaky like 1.0 - David Nather - POLITICO.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/u...f-concerns-about-health-care-law-rollout.html

Baucus warns of 'huge train wreck' enacting ObamaCare provisions - The Hill

'Obamacare' creator Sen. Jay Rockefeller now says law 'beyond comprehension' - Washington Times

now, why would obamacare author max baucus and the grey lady at the ny times say such things?

is it spin or is it you?

anyone who ever voted for this man owes his friends and neighbors an apology

ie, it's only gonna get worse, you better get out now


So where was the sainted GOP House with all those bills to stop the sequester. I mean, they must have passed hundreds of them, right?

This, btw, is a long time legal strategy:

in pine bluff, arkansas, a policeman who admitted to filing a fraudulent claim against usda for discriminating against him in refusing him a loan, such that he was awarded 50K cold cash courtesy of eric holder and tony west, was NOT prosecuted because "singling out one individual raised questions of selective prosecution"

It's called settlement.
 
april 18:

There are two very different President Obamas.

There’s the confident, uncompromising Obama who sought to shame and bully Republicans into submitting to his agenda of tax increases and sweeping gun reform. This version of Obama was dominant until one month ago.

Then there’s the calmer, more compromising Obama — the one who has courted Republicans and taken on his own party with a call for (modest) reductions in entitlement spending. This version of Obama took command last month.

Both are flailing.

Behind the Curtain: Obama, boxed in - POLITICO.com

he spent a month talking guns

Toomey-Manchin Gun Control Amendment Fails in Senate Due to Bipartisan Opposition | The Weekly Standard

he spent a season bitching sequester

Democrats blink first on aviation cuts - Kathryn A. Wolfe and Burgess Everett - POLITICO.com

he can't go green

U.S. government, Fisker grilled over loans to green carmaker | Reuters

he can't touch immigration

He stands a decent chance of getting an immigration deal. But as one influential Democratic adviser told us, that’s only because the president has largely stayed on the sidelines.

Behind the Curtain: Obama, boxed in - POLITICO.com

he can't talk gay marriage cuz that crowd wants more and he's done

what's left---universal preschool and cigarette taxes?

and you're NOT embarrassed?

he certainly doesn't want to talk about terrorism

and j****

in syria they crossed the red line, he says

except they didn't

White House: Obama's "red line" on Syria chemical weapons not crossed - CBS News

it's a pink line

there's not much left for him to embrace---except taxes

HE needs more money

why did president obama's usda make 16,000 phone calls (according to the nyt) to encourage americans to make false claims of discrimination against ag?

why are there 16 zip codes in arkansas, alabama, mississippi and north carolina in which "the number of successful claimants against ag exceeded the total number of farms operated by people of any race?"

nyt above
 
just in time as they return home to their districts/states.
 
I hope you aren't referring to The Prof. I enjoy most of his posts -- this one included.

A little hard to read, I'll admit, but I'm willing to pay that small price. ;)

Some people enjoy Ayn Rand but it's still a work of psychotic fiction.
 
The right can't decide if we're spending money we don't have or if "we had the money all along" :lamo:
 
The far right and left thinking are a a sign of mental disorders.
 
It's called settlement

yup, we can't have "selective prosecution"

as in, "everybody else did this"

according to the us atty in arkansas

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/u...s&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&pagewanted=all&_r=0

A 2010 settlement with Native Americans was contentious for its own reasons. Justice Department lawyers argued that the $760 million agreement far outstripped the potential cost of a defeat in court. Agriculture officials said not that many farmers would file claims.

That prediction proved prophetic. Only $300 million in claims were filed, leaving nearly $400 million in the control of plaintiffs’ lawyers to be distributed among a handful of nonprofit organizations serving Native American farmers. Two and a half years later, the groups have yet to be chosen. It is unclear how many even exist.

more

Judge Robertson had refused to certify either group [women and Hispanics] as a class. The United States Court of Appeals had upheld him, stating in 2006 that the Hispanic plaintiffs had been denied loans “for a variety of reasons, including inadequate farm plans and lack of funds.” Nor had female farmers proved a pattern of bias, the court found.

The Justice Department’s lawyers had definitively ruled out any group-style settlement. “Some of these folks have never made a loan payment in their entire history with U.S.D.A.,” Lisa A. Olson, the lead government litigator against the 81 Hispanic plaintiffs, told Judge Robertson in August 2009. “There may even be folks who are under criminal investigation.”

Michael Sitcov, assistant director of the Justice Department’s federal program branch, told the judge that senior department officials agreed with career litigators that the cases should be fought one by one.

But members of the Congressional Hispanic caucus and a group of eight Democratic senators, led by Mr. Menendez, were lobbying the White House to move in the opposite direction. They grew increasingly agitated as the plaintiffs’ cases appeared to falter.

The issue came to a head after the Supreme Court refused to reopen the issue of class certification. The next month, on Feb. 11, 2010, Daniel J. Meltzer, principal deputy White House counsel, held the first of three meetings at which resolution of the case was discussed, records and interviews show. Among the attendees were senior Justice and Agriculture Department officials, including Mr. West, Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, and Krysta Harden, then the assistant agriculture secretary for Congressional relations.

Settlement negotiations began the next week. Judge Robertson expressed surprise at the news, “given the history of the case.”

why did "nearly everyone in two adjoining apartment buildings" in columbus, ohio, receive checks from usda for $50,000 each?
 
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"its very design encouraged people to lie:" nyt, front page, above the fold, yesterday, concerning doj's settlement with class action plaintiffs who charged discrimination against usda

"the bar for a successful claim was so low it was almost impossible to show fraud"

"the template of the deal... proved a magnet to fraud"

this eager INVITATION (ag actively made 16,000 phone calls, you recall) to engage in fraud is NOT confined to barack obama's doj and usda

as you know

99.5% of illegal immigrants get approval for legal status - Washington Times

why did us attorney paula casey say, "everybody else did it"

if you ever voted for this man you owe your neighbors an apology

it's gonna get worse---ask max baucus
 
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"It's called settlement."

No, it's called BS...and don't forget, the sequester was Obama's idea...remember?
 
"its very design encouraged people to lie:" nyt, front page, above the fold, yesterday, concerning doj's settlement with class action plaintiffs who charged discrimination against usda

"the bar for a successful claim was so low it was almost impossible to show fraud"

"the template of the deal... proved a magnet to fraud"

this eager INVITATION (ag actively made 16,000 phone calls, you recall) to engage in fraud is NOT confined to barack obama's doj and usda

as you know

99.5% of illegal immigrants get approval for legal status - Washington Times

why did us attorney paula casey say, "everybody else did it"

if you ever voted for this man you owe your neighbors an apology

it's gonna get worse---ask max baucus

Yeah, they found out the FAA was running 22% over capacity. Then discovered that the Post Sequester Cut Budget is higher than the Funding that Obama was going to give them for his budget. The Democrats and Obama are taking the Hit for it.


White House in Full Retreat as FAA Sequester Stunt Backfires.....

http://www.debatepolitics.com/government-spending-and-debt/158849-sequester-fraud-one-picture.html
 
Originally posted by cpwill on the political cartoons thread:


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Who is the government kidding about cutbacks and the results of cutbacks?

The results of the sequester are just so much hogwash. Nothing is really being cut back. Government is still growing. Can't afford the Blue Angels? Can't afford white house tours?

All because of a small decrease in the rate of growth?

Really, I mean, really? Are people t hat easily fooled?
 
no, he's not happy, he doesn't like it

it's irresponsible

159 of pelosi's democrats voted with john boehner

so what's responsible, mr president?

what's leadership?

taxing the internet?

excising cigarettes to provide universal preschool?

giving more money to fisker?

ap saturday:

President Barack Obama says the congressional fix for widespread flight delays is an irresponsible way to govern, but he's prepared to sign the legislation that lawmakers fast-tracked.

He says the bipartisan bill to end furloughs of air traffic controllers is a "Band-Aid" solution rather than a lasting answer to this year's $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester.

The cuts have affected all federal agencies, and flight delays last week left thousands of travelers frustrated and furious and Congress feeling pressured to respond.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced Saturday that it had suspended all employee furloughs and that air traffic facilities would begin returning to regular staffing levels over the next 24 hours. The FAA's statement said the air traffic system would resume normal operations by Sunday evening.

"Republicans claimed victory when the sequester first took effect, and now they've decided it was a bad idea all along," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, aired Saturday. He singled out the GOP even though the bill passed with overwhelming Democratic support in both the House and Senate.

The president scolded lawmakers for helping the Federal Aviation Administration while doing nothing to replace other cuts that he said harm federal employees, unemployed workers and preschoolers in Head Start. "Maybe because they fly home each weekend, the members of Congress who insisted these cuts take hold finally realized that they actually apply to them, too," Obama said.

Rushed through Congress with remarkable speed, the bill marked a shift for Democrats who had hoped the impact of the cuts would increase pressure on Republicans to reverse the broad cuts. The bill signed by Obama would let the FAA use up to $253 million from an airport improvement program and other accounts to halt the furloughs through the Sept. 30 end of the government's fiscal year.

Faced with the prospect that emboldened Republicans will push to selectively undo other painful effects of the cuts, the White House said Friday that a piecemeal approach would be impractical, but wouldn't definitely rule out signing other fixes.

Obama: Flight delay fix a 'Band-Aid'

responsible leadership, president obama has made plain and clear, means to him---punishing the public until they agree to fork over more revenue

and exactly what does he need all this money for?

why did "nearly every resident in two adjoining apt buidlings" in columbus ohio (according to nyt) each cash a check from tom vilsack for $50,000?

why was vilsack's usda tasked to recruit 16,000 "claims against itself?"

if you ever voted for this man you owe yourself an apology

get out before it gets worse
 
The only reason for this Bill is because all Congressmen fly, most frequently. They don't like being inconvenienced, sequester or not!
 
Cutting spending: great in theory, not so much in practice.

Congress must be listening to its constituents, the kind that has lots of money and whines a lot if it suffers any hardship.

The bill did not increase spending in any way.
 
Did O REALLY think the public was stupid enough to fall for this stunt?
 
Yeah, they found out the FAA was running 22% over capacity. Then discovered that the Post Sequester Cut Budget is higher than the Funding that Obama was going to give them for his budget. The Democrats and Obama are taking the Hit for it.


White House in Full Retreat as FAA Sequester Stunt Backfires.....

http://www.debatepolitics.com/government-spending-and-debt/158849-sequester-fraud-one-picture.html

Air Traffic Control was absolutely, positively, not running 22% over capacity.
 
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