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On 8/16/2023 at 10:57 AM, B-Man said:

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/schumer-house-and-senate-will-pass-short-term-funding-bill-september-avoid

 

Schumer: Congress will pass short-term funding bill in September to avoid shutdown

Just the News ^ | 8/15/23 | Nicholas Ballasy

 

 

McCarthy floats stopgap funding to prevent a government shutdown at the end of next month (same old stupid game)
Associated Press ^ | 8/16/23 | STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO

 

 

 

This has been the game since 2007.

 

1. Dither/do nothing/pass no bills until September 30th

2. Yell and scream about the government shutting down

3. Pass a "stopgap" bill taking government spending to November

4. Pretend to still be arguing in November, pass a "stopgap" bill taking spending to mid-December

5. Use pressure of Christmas recess to get another "stopgap" bill to the following March.

6. And the process starts all over again

 

The Senate could have been passing bills so conference committees could battle out the differences. But the Senate intentionally DOESN'T pass any bills so the above process can happen year after year.

 

And both McConnell and Schumer want it that way. They don't want the House to control spending levels (as is their Constitutional power). And the Republican Speakers (Boehner, Ryan and McCarthy) go along with it EVERY time.

 

 

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And here we go. . . . . . .

 

Tell us you don't really know what your constituents want without telling us you don't really know what your constituents want.

 

John, dude.  C'mon.

 

 

Nice ratio Senator. Maybe you should listen for once.

People are fed up. Not just with government,

but with incumbent representatives who helped create the problem through passage of massive spending packages.

Members of Congress who are beholden to defense contractors, endless wars and Big Pharma rather than their actual constituents.

Members of Congress who enable a corrupt regime and do nothing as they witness the erosion of our Judicial System

and unrelenting attacks on our Constitution.

Our National Debt is a ticking time bomb.

Interest payments are now the federal government's fastest growing "federal program."

The federal deficit is about to double in size. Double.

And what do we have to show for this out of control spending?

Our major cities are unrecognizable hellholes.

Inflation is a cancer, eroding the quality of life for lower and middle class segments of our country.

Yet virtually no one in Washington is calling for a smaller federal government or material budget cuts.

Nor is there any accountability for the incredible amounts of waste.

The federal government should be a small fraction of its current size.

You know this - but for personal reasons you vote for the opposite.

If the federal government was a corporation, you all would have been fired long ago.

Instead, you're protected by incumbency.

Insulated from those you claim to represent.

Our federal government is the wasteful, corrupt, bureaucratic monstrosity our Founders sought to protect against.

And everyone in DC is part of the problem. Parasites all.

You don't work for us. So why should we work for you?

 

https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1698776695187325322?

 

 

https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/09/05/john-cornyn-gets-a-rude-awakening-whining-about-the-gov-shutting-down-n2386862

 

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6 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

And here we go. . . . . . .

 

Tell us you don't really know what your constituents want without telling us you don't really know what your constituents want.

 

John, dude.  C'mon.

 

 

Nice ratio Senator. Maybe you should listen for once.

People are fed up. Not just with government,

but with incumbent representatives who helped create the problem through passage of massive spending packages.

Members of Congress who are beholden to defense contractors, endless wars and Big Pharma rather than their actual constituents.

Members of Congress who enable a corrupt regime and do nothing as they witness the erosion of our Judicial System

and unrelenting attacks on our Constitution.

Our National Debt is a ticking time bomb.

Interest payments are now the federal government's fastest growing "federal program."

The federal deficit is about to double in size. Double.

And what do we have to show for this out of control spending?

Our major cities are unrecognizable hellholes.

Inflation is a cancer, eroding the quality of life for lower and middle class segments of our country.

Yet virtually no one in Washington is calling for a smaller federal government or material budget cuts.

Nor is there any accountability for the incredible amounts of waste.

The federal government should be a small fraction of its current size.

You know this - but for personal reasons you vote for the opposite.

If the federal government was a corporation, you all would have been fired long ago.

Instead, you're protected by incumbency.

Insulated from those you claim to represent.

Our federal government is the wasteful, corrupt, bureaucratic monstrosity our Founders sought to protect against.

And everyone in DC is part of the problem. Parasites all.

You don't work for us. So why should we work for you?

 

https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1698776695187325322?

 

 

https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/09/05/john-cornyn-gets-a-rude-awakening-whining-about-the-gov-shutting-down-n2386862

 

because shutting down the gov't will fix all these problems....

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4 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

 

 

Not what the post said.

 

(but you knew that)

 

I suppose that I could point out that passing another extension won't "fix these problems"

 

(but that is too much for you in one post)

 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, B-Man said:

Not what the post said.

 

(but you knew that)

 

I suppose that I could point out that passing another extension won't "fix these problems"

 

(but that is too much for you in one post)

 

Not only not fix them but make them worse.  But lather, rinse, repeat...

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11 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

Who was I comparing the pervert too?  He’s unique in an evil way. I was responding to being called a pink hat wearing woman. “Whatabout” who?  

 

Your response was to a @B-Man article about #metoo and how Democrats didn't believe Tara Reade.

 

You responded with "who grabbed em by the pu$$y?".

 

You didn't say anything about #metoo, Tara Reads etc but went straight to the grab em by the pub

$$y routine.

 

Please explain to me how that's not whataboutism?

 

The pink hat was in response to your grab 'em by the pu$$y post.

 

Try to keep up.

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