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Re: Obama
Posted by **Winston OBoogie** on Oct 5, 2013 at 5:54:36 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Obama posted by **fishamaphone** on Oct 5, 2013 at 1:25:42 PM:
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****Washington (CNN) – A conversation between two Republican senators caught on an open microphone Wednesday provided a candid look into their thoughts about the politics surrounding the government shutdown.
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****Talking about the Democrats' stance of refusing to negotiate a compromise to the shutdown stalemate, Senator Rand Paul told fellow Senator Mitch McConnell:
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****"It's awful for them to say that," Sen. Rand Paul told fellow Senator Mitch McConnell, in regards to the Democrats' stance of refusing to negotiate a compromise to end the shutdown stalemate.
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****"I don't think they poll tested 'we won't negotiate,'" Paul said.
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****Paul was coming off an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett, and he told McConnell, who's microphone was switched on for an interview with CNBC, that he has been saying over and over again that "we're willing to compromise, we're willing to negotiate."
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****Earlier, speaking to Burnett on her show "Out Front," Paul said "I would think you have to negotiate, which to me means discussing your differences and trying to get in the middle between the two. So we've been offering some compromises. I think that's what the American people want."
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****He told Burnett that the original Republican position was that they didn't want any Obamacare. "That is what we truly believe," said Paul, "we think it's bad for the country." Paul argued for a compromise to end the stalemate. "The president wants all of it, a 100 percent," he told CNN.
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****Yesterday senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer said, "what we're not for is negotiating with people who have a bomb strapped to their chest." And both of the Republicans from Kentucky agreed that that kind of Democratic stance will be bad for the Democrats.
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****In the candid moment caught on tape, McConnell told Paul that "after a two hour meeting" with Congressional Democrats, he found that the left side of the aisle is espousing "basically the same view privately as it was publicly."
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****"I know we don't want to be here," Paul told his fellow Republican from Kentucky, but "we're gonna win this I think."
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****It becomes a bit clearer who really wants to work to end this shutdown crap. Maybe it's time for Obama to stop acting the part of a dictator and refusing to bend some in order to end this stalemate. This whole thing is about ready to turn on him.
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****A woman killed for trying to run the White House gate and now a man burns himself up in protest on the National Mall? what's next?
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***I'll note here:
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***When Obama came up with a solution to too much spending, it was "let's cut every program equally." He cut programs he liked. He cut programs he depended on. Everything got cut.
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***When Republicans came up with a solution to too much spending, for some reason it was only Democratic initiatives that saw the axe.
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***Weird, huh?
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**Speaking of weird..maybe you're not aware that nearly every single bill that has been fronted by the Republicans in the last 6 years was killed the minute it reached the Senate floor even before they even read it. Among them were 6 job creation bills.
**What we have is a congress who refuses to work for the people.
**They are so engulfed in their party politics they are forgetting who they work for. The Republicans want to sit down and talk it out while the Democrats just want to get up and leave and go home refusing to even listen to reason.
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**It's going to backfire on them soon. And people are going to see it's the Democrats who are willing to put us into default and keep all those workers off the clock just for the sake of their party selfishness. Obama's steadfast refusal to talk about it is going to blow up in his face soon.
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**If it were up to me, I would fire the whole lot.
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*Nice dodge. No information about what was in the bills, whether they were sustainable, whether they were actually designed to create jobs or simply labeled as job creation bills, and no information about the Democratic job creation bills that Republicans have blocked shouting cries of austerity in contradiction to every economist breathing, and many not.
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*But sure, make stuff up so you can feel better about voting for people who guy your way of life. No skin off my back.
Here's just a few examples of Republican sponsored bills that were automatically killed in the Senate without so much as a vote. In essence they went into the shitcan.
Empower small business owners and reduce regulatory burdens:
H.R. 872, the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act
• Introduced by Rep. Bob Gibbs (OH) on March 2, 2011
• Passed the House by a vote of 292-130 on March 31, 2011
• Senate has taken no action to date
H.R. 910, the Energy Tax Prevention Act
• Introduced by Rep. Fred Upton (MI) on March 3, 2011
• Passed the House by a vote of 255-172 on April 7, 2011
• Senate has taken no action to date
H.R. 37, a Resolution of disapproval regarding the FCC's regulation of the Internet and broadband industry practices
• Introduced by Rep. Greg Walden (OR) on February 16, 2011
• Passed the House by a vote of 240 to 179 on April 8, 2011
• Senate has taken no action to date
H.R. 72, a Resolution to direct committees to inventory and review existing, pending, and proposed regulations and order from agencies of the federal government, particularly with respect to their effect on jobs and economic growth
• Introduced by Rep. Pete Sessions (TX) on February 8, 2011
• Passed the House by a vote of 391 to 28 on February 11, 2011
• The Senate has not directed their committees to take such action
Fix the tax code to help job creators:
H.R. 4, the Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act
• Introduced by Rep. Dan Lungren (CA) on January 12, 2011
• Passed the House by a vote of 314 to 112 on March 3, 2011
• Passed the Senate by a vote of 87 to 12 on March 31, 2011
• Signed into law by the President on April 14, 2011
Maximize domestic energy production to ensure an energy policy for the twenty-first century:
H.R. 1230, Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act
• Introduced by Rep. Doc Hastings (WA) on March 29, 2011
• Passed the House by a vote of 266-149 on May 5, 2011
• Senate has taken no action to date
H.R. 1229, Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act
• Introduced by Rep. Doc Hastings (WA) on March 29, 2011
• Passed the House by a vote of 243-179 on May 12, 2011
• Senate has taken no action to date
Pay down America's unsustainable debt burden and start living within our means:
H.Con.Res. 34, a Resolution establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2012 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2013 through 2021
• Introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (WI) on April 11, 2011
• Passed the House by a vote of 235-193 on April 15, 2011
• Senate has not yet considered a budget of their own
But it's the Republicans who are being obstructionist and stubborn.
It becomes obvious that the Republicans still want to hash things out and the Democrats don't. It's a matter of time before one or the other holds up a white flag.. who do you think it will be? I'm guessing the Democrats in the end will come out looking like assholes the longer this shutdown goes.
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