Why don't House Rs send over an item by item budget?

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from Covertibility:

Obama wins again will soon be the headlines!

In your little world of unicorns and rainbows, perhaps.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from Ricter:

They've probably considered that. But occasionally parents have to be unpopular with the kids.

Does that apply when the kids hire the parents, and can fire them without losing an ounce of sleep?

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Can we get Putin to help out with this?

 

[jem]

exactly... he makes obama look like a mental midget with no back bone.

and obama makes these establishment republicans... look like losers who back down and sell out.


the same sons of bitches who made leftist democrats back off single player... must turn these republicans into sell out fairies.

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Can we get Putin to help out with this?

 

[PiggyBank]

Quote from Ricter:

I think the tea partiers might be running out of ammo. Five more to jump ship and the votes will be there to pass a clean CR.

i don't doubt the reps will cave, that wasn't even an claim i made. I said this is the right thing to do and they shouldn't puss out.

 

[PiggyBank]

Quote from Ricter:

They've probably considered that. But occasionally parents have to be unpopular with the kids.

You mean like by saying no to the commies who feel they are entitled to health insurance, homes, jobs, phones, tax credits etc.?

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from PiggyBank:

You mean like by saying no to the commies who feel they are entitled to health insurance, homes, jobs, phones, tax credits etc.?

Exactly. That's a better comparison of parents and children. It's the little kids who want everything "gimme gimme gimme" and can't have it.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

If what you say is true, then those reps will be slaughtered in the next elections. The opinion polls don't mean shit. Those reps were put there from conservative districts that don't follow national opinion polls. They need to remember that.

The Cost of the GOP’s Redistricting Wins
By Robert Schlesinger
July 1, 2013

"Sometimes in politics you can lose by winning. Witness the problems the Republican Party is experiencing trying to govern with a majority that is widely believed to be unshakeable in the near future thanks to the redistricting job GOP state legislators did after the 2010 census.

"Politico's Alex Isenstadt has a report today suggesting that the party's success has trapped Republicans in a conservative box, "narrowing the party's appeal at a time when some GOP leaders say its future rests on the opposite happening."

"This isn't necessarily a new thought. As I wrote back in early March:

" In a sense the GOP's success in the last round of redistricting – creating what the Cook Political Report sees as over 200 safe GOP districts – is proving Pyrrhic. If you're a Republican member of Congress your greatest existential threat comes from primary challenges, so that's what shapes your agenda, even if it comes at the cost of national political viability."

"I was writing then about the GOP's doubling down on the same policy agenda that voters rejected last November. That hasn't changed in the intervening months. In fact, if you watched most House Republicans (and more than a few senators and other elected officials) you would not know that the party lost last year on multiple fronts:"

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[jem]

more bullshit from the leftist big govt media trying to act like the majority of the country wants more spending and obamacare.

its not exteme to want a balanced budget and lower taxes... it is american.

there is an odd pressure on republicans to vote... how the majority of the country wants them to vote. The fact that we are seeing this pressure real time may be what has changed.

the distortion is pressure on republican and democrat politicians to cave to crony pacs who want big govt money and big regulations and taxes to prevent future competitors.

Quote from Ricter:

The Cost of the GOP’s Redistricting Wins
By Robert Schlesinger
July 1, 2013

"Sometimes in politics you can lose by winning. Witness the problems the Republican Party is experiencing trying to govern with a majority that is widely believed to be unshakeable in the near future thanks to the redistricting job GOP state legislators did after the 2010 census.

"Politico's Alex Isenstadt has a report today suggesting that the party's success has trapped Republicans in a conservative box, "narrowing the party's appeal at a time when some GOP leaders say its future rests on the opposite happening."

"This isn't necessarily a new thought. As I wrote back in early March:

" In a sense the GOP's success in the last round of redistricting – creating what the Cook Political Report sees as over 200 safe GOP districts – is proving Pyrrhic. If you're a Republican member of Congress your greatest existential threat comes from primary challenges, so that's what shapes your agenda, even if it comes at the cost of national political viability."

"I was writing then about the GOP's doubling down on the same policy agenda that voters rejected last November. That hasn't changed in the intervening months. In fact, if you watched most House Republicans (and more than a few senators and other elected officials) you would not know that the party lost last year on multiple fronts:"

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[Ricter]

Quote from jem:

more bullshit from the leftist big govt media trying to act like the majority of the country wants more spending and obamacare.

its not exteme to want a balanced budget and lower taxes... it is american.

there is an odd pressure on republicans to vote... who the country wants them to vote. The fact that we are seeing this pressure real time may be what has changed.

the distortion is pressure on republican and democrat politicians to cave to crony pacs who want big govt money and big regulations and taxes to prevent future competitors.

I knew you wouldn't like it, I don't particularly like seeing the opposition hamstring itself, since power does corrupt and I don't think my team should have all of it. Anyway, the public overwhelmingly does not want the government shutdown, or the debt ceiling unraised, in order to defund Obamacare.