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Lawmakers strike deal on $1T funding bill to avoid shutdown

NIMBY said:
Republicans put up these last-minute poison pill policy riders without negotiation.
Hard to negotiate on something yer not told about until the last minute.
And stay focused on this cromnibus, not past history .
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Sucks, don't it.
 
NIMBY said:
DEMs are poor messengers.
I wish they had the Koch machine .
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aka. #23 and #24 on this list, combined totaling about 5% of the top two Democrat donors.

Must be Jedi mind tricks.
 
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NIMBY said:
TEApartiers used to be against bailing out Wall Street.
Why do they now support the end to regulations in Dodd-Frank that would bail out large banks ?
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Why do you falsely infer that they now Support the bill?


Sixteeen Republicans–Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Michele Bachmann (Minn.), Dave Brat (Va.), Mo Brooks (Ala.), Paul Broun (Ga.), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Tim Huelskamp (Kan.), Walter Jones (N.C.), Jim Jordan (Ohio), Steve King (Iowa), Raúl Labrador (Idaho), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Bill Posey (Fla.), Matt Salmon (Ariz.) and Steve Stockman (Texas)–all voted against advancing the bill......snip~

The Better Question is.....why is Maxine Waters and those that supported Dodd Frank. Now telling others to not support the bill?
 
NIMBY said:
You mean that Congress started it by not passing their own Immigration Reform before going on vacation July 31st until after the election.
Since they wouldn't take up Rubio's Dream Act.
Obama's mistake was not issuing the EO before the election .
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He never issued an EO on immigration.
 
humbolt said:
It seems not. It is a good question that I doubt any Obama acolytes will care to answer.
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I also read somewhere that things were reversed this time and thier was almost a shutdown even though the dems got everything they wanted, all the dems voted against something or another that could have shut everything down. yet the media was silent.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
I also read somewhere that things were reversed this time and thier was almost a shutdown even though the dems got everything they wanted, all the dems voted against something or another that could have shut everything down. yet the media was silent.
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There's a developing rift on the left. It has been present for a very long time, but the recent election outcome, Obama's lame duck status, and 2016 looming seem to have combined to open that rift a little more. It should be interesting to watch. Another massive spending bill cobbled together behind closed doors is what we have now, and it seems not too many are all that anxious to put their signature to it. Can't say that I blame them, regardless of the manufactured reasons they may claim. Pelosi claims it's blackmail. That's too funny.
 
Fortunately, there's now a path for the next Republican president to do and undo anything he wants without any involvement from Congress whatsoever.

Thanks, Obama.
 
NIMBY said:
Boehner continues to be impotent, not being able to get 218 votes from his own caucus.

Obviously that's Reid's fault .
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Your correct it is Reid's fault.:mrgreen:
 
NIMBY said:
Stop putting in policy riders by Rep. Hensarling that gives away Main Street to Wall Street .
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Stop putting in riders period. Both sides play insert rider game.
 
So, in this bill, we will order 4 more F-35 fighter planes that the Pentagon didn't ask for and don't actually function. Don't worry, we will help pay for it by cutting $93 million from WIC, a program aimed at helping mothers and children get proper nutrition.

And, for some reason, in this budget bill we will expand the cap of direct political contributions by a factor of ten.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
I also read somewhere that things were reversed this time and thier was almost a shutdown even though the dems got everything they wanted, all the dems voted against something or another that could have shut everything down. yet the media was silent.
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I read somewhere John Boehner demanded that the bill include ritual sacrifice of the first born sons.
 
humbolt said:
There's a developing rift on the left. It has been present for a very long time, but the recent election outcome, Obama's lame duck status, and 2016 looming seem to have combined to open that rift a little more. It should be interesting to watch. Another massive spending bill cobbled together behind closed doors is what we have now, and it seems not too many are all that anxious to put their signature to it. Can't say that I blame them, regardless of the manufactured reasons they may claim. Pelosi claims it's blackmail. That's too funny.
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Perhaps this is an opportunity for the Democrats to purge themselves of the far left, the group who took a once proud American party and made it what it is today. But the odds are long.
 
Grant said:
Perhaps this is an opportunity for the Democrats to purge themselves of the far left, the group who took a once proud American party and made it what it is today. But the odds are long.
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Very long, that's for sure.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Yup it wasnt the guy who sat up there and read green eggs and ham because he didnt get his way over the ACA, it wasnt the people, or the party who wanted to defund the ACA and held the federal government hostage for it. Yup it was that DAMN OBAMA!!!
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I don't get t that we want to ridicule our representatives for "shutting down the government." Our government was designed to make it hard to pass laws. If there are representatives who disagree with legislation and that disagreement results in under funding or no funding until an agreement is reached, so be it. If a representative and his/her constituents disagree on an issue then they have a right and I would argue, duty, to vote against the issue until or unless they agree. Otherwise there would be no need to have representatives.
 
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