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A few minutes after 1:00PM here (4:00 PM Eastern), some CNN newsbabe came on, to breathlessly announce that the House of Representatives had adjourned for the day.
"So, since the House members have decided to go home, this means they will not vote on the Fiscal Cliff deal we've been hearing about", she remonstrated.
Almost in the same breath, she then continued on, to say, "This is in part due to a minor procedural matter: There is nothing to vote on."
My wife wondered why I was laughing at the TV (she's the one who had CNN on). I repeated what the newsreader had said, and asked my wife why the absence of anything to vote on was considered a "minor procedural matter", and not the entire cause of months of problems that it actually was.
The House had, of course, passed legislation to avert the "Fiscal Cliff" months ago, in August to be exact. It's the Senate that has passed nothing, and has failed to even vote on anything passed by the House. And that failure goes on, up to the present time, a few minutes after 4:00 Eastern... and THAT is why the House will not be voting on any Fiscal Cliff legislation. (a) They already did, and (b) The Senate, which has done nothing and produced nothing, has not produced anything (such as a compromise to the already-passed House bill) that can be voted on.
But this CNN newsbabe could barely wait to announce how it's all the House's fault that nothing will be passed today.
....Memo to CNN newsbabe: This isn't even news. The tax cut expiration was extended till now, TWO YEARS AGO. Ditto for the automatic spending "cuts" (actually reductions in the rates of increase) in spending, that are also scheduled to take place tomorrow. This was set up, also TWO YEARS AGO. And not a thing has been done since. Why are you acting like it's a sudden crisis when it could have been fixed any time in the last two years?
The newsbabe's anouncement was repeated at least once that I heard. But I haven't heard it much since. Perhaps even CNN realized how stupid it sounded?
Sounds like CNN NewsBabe has as much knowledge as the libby posters here. None.
It doesn't take a very high IQ to understand. I honestly can't imagine what it must be like to be that unable to see what's right in front of your face.
I think you meant to say the House passed a joke bill in August that had no chance of surviving a filibuster proof Senate and they knew it when they created. Much like the joke Boner has been throughout this fiscal cliff.
Beats the crap out of me why some people every time a news organization screws up has to post it here.
If it was once in a blue moon I could understand it, but media screw ups occur on an almost daily basis.
It might not be worth noticing if it was a genuine mistake every time, or even most of the time.
But I can't help noticing that every time the MSM "goofs" like this, it's always in a way that makes Republicans or conservatives look bad in ways they don't deserve to.
I think you meant to say the House passed a joke bill in August that had no chance of surviving a filibuster proof Senate and they knew it when they created. Much like the joke Boner has been throughout this fiscal cliff.
It is the Senates responsibility to pass a budget dude....
I guess Harry Reids inability to pass a budget the last 3 years (let alone anything else other than HC) isn't news worthy
That's why Minority Leader Mitch McConnell skipped over Dirty Harry and negotiated directly with Biden.
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