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It's difficult for me to understand this in a historical context, trying to search online and weeding through what seems 99% partisan for either party. Is this sort of thing normal? I mean, the House not allowing a budget unless a part of govt is defunded. If it's a legitimate act (as the Republican congressmen I watch on CSPAN say) why doesn't it happen every year for things that the House disagrees with the Senate and/or President on?
There is no House bill to defund any part of government.
There is no bill asking to defund the ACA /threadfail
I've heard that the teabagger house has passed something like 40 bills to overturn the ACA.
I find it amusing that the house Pubs, who granted big tax breaks to billionaires while dumping $4 trillion down the toilets in Iraq and Afghanistan, are now so "concerned" about spending. Not all spending, of course. Just the parts that benefit taxpayers. And their silly rhetoric just makes them look all the more ridiculous; calling benefits that taxpayers have contributed to for decades as "entitlements" like it's money for nothing. Their dittohead followers parrot those words on this forum.
The GOP agreed to fund everything except for Obamacare--Dems rejected. GOP comes back with proposals after the shutdown to fund many of the closed government functions--again, the Dems rejected.
While the GOP is refusing to fund Obamacare, the Democrats refuse to fund everything else until Obamacare is funded.
I've heard that the teabagger house has passed something like 40 bills to overturn the ACA.
I find it amusing that the house Pubs, who granted big tax breaks to billionaires while dumping $4 trillion down the toilets in Iraq and Afghanistan, are now so "concerned" about spending. Not all spending, of course. Just the parts that benefit taxpayers. And their silly rhetoric just makes them look all the more ridiculous; calling benefits that taxpayers have contributed to for decades as "entitlements" like it's money for nothing. Their dittohead followers parrot those words on this forum.
Because they were asleep for 8 years, discovered there was an election, put out their best men and women, Romoney-Palin-McCain-Ryan, threw Koch $$$$ in to try to buy it, redistricted areas solidly democrat and made those republican, and still couldn't pull it off. Spending, raising the debt ceiling was nooooo problem back then, and then we have this:
People who blindly follow the democrat or republican party are the reason we have so many problems in this country because they think their side has all the answers. A law that has already been passed is causing this shutdown because some people don't like it. The majority of elected officials are looking out for their own personal interest and could care less about you regardless of the political ideology you follow. When it is all said and done the 90% of people who think Congress is doing a bad job will reelect the same people then be shocked when nothing changes, regardless of which party is in power.
Agreed.
We need people to run against these incumbents in the primaries. The Congress is full of people who get into Washington and never leave. They build their own little fiefdoms in the Beltway Bubble and they are completely disconnected to the needs, wants and desires of the people. This is why the congress is not trying to improve the government to promote job creation, and why they actually allow new regulations to be passed that actually increase costs and create disincentives to job creation and economic growth.
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