And Yet Another Tale From The Most Ethical Congress Ever

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No need for those outdated rules and procedures for debating and passing a budget. Deem and Pass $1.1Trillion (That's Trillion with a T)

 

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll428.xml

[Nanker]

Well, they've done such a splendid job on the economy.

Unemployment dropped to 9.5 percent — the lowest level since July 2009 — from 9.7 percent. But the reason for the decline was more than 650,000 people gave up on their job searches and left the labor force. People who are no longer looking for work aren't counted as unemployed.

 

Demon Pass

Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that “deemed as passed” a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the “deeming” document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.

Never before -- since the creation of the Congressional budget process -- has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money.

And Western NYers can feel a special sense of accomplishment. Louise Slaughter is the chair of the rules committee that promulgates such bullshite.

[DrFishfinder]

No need for those outdated rules and procedures for debating and passing a budget. Deem and Pass $1.1Trillion (That's Trillion with a T)

 

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll428.xml

Sure.....why the hell not? Just fire up the presses and print it out.

 

Next up: Quadrillion

[OCinBuffalo]

No need for those outdated rules and procedures for debating and passing a budget. Deem and Pass $1.1Trillion (That's Trillion with a T)

 

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll428.xml

You know, I am gonna pee laughing at all the howling Democrats will be doing later, when the Republicans control Congress and start passing bills with 1 vote majorities in the Senate.

 

They are burying themselves for all time with this behavior. This remains a center-right country, and doing this opens the door to the right to use the very same tactics, forever. They are looking at crushing themselves permanently with this approach. And once again, Democrats seem incapable of realizing that they are their own worst enemies politically.

 

Example: they pushed gay marriage in everybody's face, and now, 45 state laws banning the performing of gay marriages later(including friggin NYS, for Pete's sake), things are patently worse for gay people than they were before the Democrats decided to "help out".

 

The 60 vote Senate thing used to be what protected Democrats, and they are pissing it away. Amazing stupidity from people who like to think of themselves as smart.

[IDBillzFan]

Well, they've done such a splendid job on the economy.

Unemployment dropped to 9.5 percent — the lowest level since July 2009 — from 9.7 percent. But the reason for the decline was more than 650,000 people gave up on their job searches and left the labor force. People who are no longer looking for work aren't counted as unemployed.

I believe the new plan at the WH is to get unemployment down to about 5% prior to the midterms by waiting for millions more people to give up on job searches between now and then.

[OCinBuffalo]

I believe the new plan at the WH is to get unemployment down to about 5% prior to the midterms by waiting for millions more people to give up on job searches between now and then.

But don't you remember? This is why we had to elect Democrats "immediately" in 2006 before any more damage was done.

 

Ironically, that is exactly what we needed to do: they are burying themselves, all by themselves, and hopefully, the last vestiges of the ridiculous 60/70s along with them. I suppose a few years of suffering is worth freeing ourselves from Marx, Mao, Trotsky, Lenin, Keynes and, of course, Che, once and for all.

[Nanker]

I believe the new plan at the WH is to get unemployment down to about 5% prior to the midterms by waiting for millions more people to give up on job searches between now and then.

They're about on target. Their next plan is to contract the

to fly around the country passing out "free" money to Obama supporters.

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