“Republicans want to shut down the government because they think there’s nothing more important than keeping women from getting cancer screenings. This is indefensible and everyone should be outraged,” Harry Reid said on the Senate floor, April 8, 2011
Senator Reid is again demonstrating President Obama’s “New Civility” which was instituted in January 2011.
Senator Reid, Republicans want FREEDOM to CHOOSE where to get their cancer screenings and not be reliant upon Washington, DC for cancer screenings. The people of the United States do not need to be ruled and controlled from Washington. We are quite capable of getting along with our lives without power-hungry politicians attempting to control us. We do not want to force our neighbors to pay for our health care while you control the money and thereby control us.
Does a statement like that represent “The New Civility” that we were told in January was required going forward? Or was that only for political purposes at the time?
We do not want women to have to wait months for screenings and surgery when needed like the BBC reported was occurring in their state-controlled system.
Jesse Jackson is correct here. This is an idealogical battle. One between those who want to live at the expense of someone else and those who are being forced to pay for it. It is a battle between the power-hungry politicians in Washington who want to control every person in the country and those who want to be free. It is a battle between the race-baiters who want to use people skin color to divide and those who believe that people are people no matter skin, eye, or hair color. In short it is a battle between the individual and the collective group who wants to control individuals for their own exploitation – the age long battle between freedom and slavery.
“This is the functional equivalent of bombing innocent civilians” Eleanor Holmes Norton, Democrat
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Democrat showing how the “New Civility” in Washington works. The District of Columbia should have more local control, but for 6 months the House, Senate, and White House failed to pass a budget, now when the Republican House actually does so, Jesse Jackson, the Senate, and the White House don’t like it and refuse to go along. Well, as the President said in January 2009, “[They] won.”
They should have passed a budget when they were obligated to do so instead of passing the buck and then complaining when someone comes along who is responsible enough to follow the Constitution.
“If Boehner shuts down the government I am taking my trash to his house”-Facebook event. So, let’s get this straight: if the Democrat controlled House, Senate and President FAILED to pass a budget for 6 months and waited until the Republican House is sworn in, and the President FAILS to sign another continuing resolution, this is the Republicans fault? Never mind the irresponsibility of failing to do so for half a year. Never mind that there are 3 parties involved – the House, Senate and President and yet these idiots choose to pick one to blame.
Then you have Jonah Goodman and Nolan Treadway implementing the “New Civility” by advocating dumping trash at John Boehner’s House in Washington DC. It is nice to see that the “New Civility” only applies to certain groups.
Stop expecting everyone else to pay for your stuff and maybe we wouldn’t be in such a bad place budget-wise. Take responsibility for your own life, help others, and don’t force others to pay for your choices.
Meatloaf’s a good guy, he just went off the handle. … I’m a fan of everything. I can see good in anything I see, even if it’s bad or not too good. I can see a goodness of potential, the truth of what it is I’m viewing.
“At a time when you are struggling to pay your bills and meet your responsibilities, the least we can do to meet our responsibilities is produce a budget. That is not too much to ask for. That is what the American people expect of us, that’s what they deserve. You want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games and realize it is not my way or the highway,” President Obama, April 6, 2011.
Given that the Democratic House and Democratic Senate and President failed to produce a 2011 budget at any time between January 1, 2010 and January 2011 – when the Federal Fiscal Year begins October 1 – the President has a lot of nerve to say “produce a budget.” Where was the President in August 2010? September 2010? October 2010? November 2010? December 2010? Where were the calls then to “produce a budget”? I guess the President, House, and Senate preferred to play political games between July 2010 and January 2011, when the Republicans took control of the House.
Plenty of people have short attention spans, but one would expect the President to remember the facts.
After the President’s statement that “I won” on January 23, 2009, the President states today that they have to “realize it is not my way or the highway.” Yet another about face. Does he expect that to be forgotten too?
Surgeons say patients in some parts of England have spent months waiting in pain because of delayed operations or new restrictions on who qualifies for treatment.
In several areas routine surgery was put on hold for months, while in many others new thresholds for hip and knee replacements have been introduced. The moves are part of the NHS drive to find £20bn efficiency savings by 2015. For the full story from the BBC, click here.
The meme is that if the Republicans don’t do what the Democrats want, they are to blame for the shutdown. Why is that? Why isn’t it that if the Democrats don’t do what the Republicans want, they are to blame for the shutdown? I guess that just doesn’t play as well in the press.
When the entire basis of your electoral success is promoting living at the expense of someone else and your voters expect you to vote them money from someone else’s income, responsibility is pretty much out the window.
“Authorities intercepted a parcel this morning addressed to Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) containing a bloody pig’s foot and a derogatory message…” CBS News.
In March 2011 the Federal Government grossed $194 Billion in tax revenue and paid out $65.898 Billion in tax refunds ($62 Billion to individuals, $3.8 Billion to businesses) and paid out a net 1.05 TRILLION. The politicians will spend your money to buy your votes. The EXTREME SPENDERS in Washington will dig a hole too large to be filled soon, but in order to maintain power the extreme spenders will not care. (source: U.S. Treasury).
“I’m really concerned. I think we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. A lot of us sitting in this room didn’t see this last crisis as it came upon us. But this one is really easy to see. The fiscal path we are on today is simply not sustainable. This debt and these deficits that we are incurring on an annual basis are like a cancer and they are truly going to destroy this country from within unless we have the common sense to do something about it.
I used to say that I got into this thing for my grandchildren. I have eight grandchildren under five years old. I’ll have one more in a week. And my life is wonderful and it is wild. But this problem is going to happen long before my grandchildren grow up. This problem is going to happen, like the former chairman of the Fed said, or the Moody’s said, this is a problem we’re going to have to face up. It may be two years, you know, maybe a little less, maybe a little more. But if our bankers over there in Asia begin to believe that we’re not going to be solid on our debt, that we’re not going to be able to meet our obligations, just stop and think for a minute what happens if they just stop buying our debt.
What happens to interest rates?” And what happens to the U.S. economy? The markets will absolutely devastate us if we don’t step up to this problem. The problem is real, the solutions are painful, and we have to act.”
Erskine Bowles, March 2011, chief of staff to President Bill Clinton