You’re probably not going to like Speaker Cantor much, though.
CNN Blog:
See, if you don’t play nice you must remain after school. The rest of us are watching the Rose Bowl.
I am just grateful this Congress isn’t the one in existence when the 13th amendment went up for vote. Because black folks likely would still be in chains.
They’d still be arguing over the right of the government to ‘seize property’ by freeing slaves and whether this would unduly burden southern slaveholders.
You misspelled “small businesses” there.
I don’t get it. The idea that they should vote against this deal because it’s not good enough.
YOU’RE NOT GOING TO GET WHAT YOU WANT.
There are no votes for your “give us everything we want or we keep throwing tantrums” demands, there never were, there are never going to be. Stop fucking living in your Tea Party Fantasy where you get what you want by refusing to compromise, because that’s not the way Government works.
And ultimately, under the present circumstances, if you don’t vote for a compromise, you lose everything.
And sorry Bubba, but I’m not going to blame Obama for higher middle class taxes when you motherfuckers are the ones who refused to vote to keep them lower.
Well, apparently someone in the majority caucus has remembered that they actually have a job to do;
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8:02 p.m. ET — The House will vote Tuesday night on a Senate bill — an up or down vote without amendments — to avert the fiscal cliff, a senior House GOP leadership aide told CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash.
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Vote expected before midnight. We’ll see which GOP congresscritters are still more interested in “stopping Obama” than in helping their constituents.
They got an agreement to an up or down vote with no amendments? Who’d they have to threaten to kill to get that? :eek::eek:
It has to be said:
That is finally democracy, democracy is not what I have seen a lot lately, that is the sorry spectacle of not voting on bills because there were not enough people going to vote on something, filibusters were not even the media bothers to report who was responsible specifically; lately the status quo consists on congrescritters making maneuvers to avoid facing any immediate criticism or pressure from the people to do the right thing.
**It is bad enough that they are being ineffective, but I do think those obfuscations are worse because it does help them continue to be as ineffective as they can. **
ABC News reporting that the bill passed.
Boehner voted for it.
Cantor voted against it.
Interesting times ahead.
Since the majority of Republicans voted against it, and the most vocal were adamantly opposed, I wonder if Boehner will remain speaker. Isn’t that vote up in a few days?
I wonder if Boehner even wants to be speaker any more. I won’t be surprised if he steps down voluntarily.
They’re sworn in tomorrow (Thursday)
Actually, it *has *been, for at least the last 2 years.
Not by the definition of “works” that I use in everyday conversation.
Ah - I must congratulate you on your reference to the rarely used definition of “To Work,” which means, “Does not work at all.”
I meant that the Teabaggers have indeed been successful in achieving much of their goals via the tantrum process, and until now have had a right to expect continued success with it. That’s how the government has operated, if not exactly “worked”.
The question now is if Obama will continue act like a parent at a restaurant with a screaming child, trying placation after placation in the hope she’ll settle down, or if he’ll decide (finally) it can’t work and drag her out to the car, with the whole family abandoning their meals and following them.
If your goal is to not have government, then it has to be said that they’re making progress.
When I was a boy, if it had come to getting dragged out to the car the rest of the family would have remained at the table. Can’t be a witness to what you didn’t actually see, and all that. Which makes me wonder, why hasn’t Obama employed his whuppin stick yet? That’d make for some interesting sessions. As soon as someone starts filibustering or playing whiny cryass, BO gets the stick and stands up, holds open the door, and motions for the offender to step into the hall for just a minute.
And Boehner tells Reid to ‘Go f*** yourself’:
Don’t omit reading the comments. A surprising number support Boehner. Stay classy, guys.