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Another edited video to make it seem as funny as possible.
I wonder how many said they are both the same thing but was left out.
I wonder how many said they are both the same thing but was left out.
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They tried blackmailing the President by threatening a government shutdown while trying to dismantle the Affordable Healthcare Act.... and looks like they failed. The republicans backed themselves into a corner and will look like idiots no matter what.
Same token, It's such a great plan that the democrats have given waivers to 1500 of their biggest contributing corporations, and unions.... And of course themselves. Because it's such a great plan that it will only apply to the rest of us, but not congress and their friends.
Anyone who doesn't think both sides carry the blame needs to have head checked. Its really pretty sad that this is the group of childish, selfish individuals we've voted for to run the country.
17% approval rating for the GOP and 37% approval rating for Democrats.
I think Chris Matthews said it best on Meet the Press this past Sunday. He said something like, you know that phrase throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Well congressional republicans are asking Obama to throw out the baby directly. It's not going to happen.
It's his only legislative accomplishment and it's something that Democrats have been trying to do for generations and they're acting like he's supposed to just trash it in the name of compromise when they don't even have a plan to replace it. Nobody will blame him for that in the real world. They're asking too much.
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Fact is the Senate chose to shut it down
Congress handed them Bills Twice
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I wonder how the guys on the ISS feel, knowing that NASA is shut down due to a lapse in funding?
https://notice.usa.gov/
https://notice.usa.gov/
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Good point! Sometimes I forget the universe isn't ruled by the USA. :wink2:
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A little ingenuous Papa. Congress handed them a bill they knew WOULD never pass. The previous Congress had passed the bill and it was made into law. Now that congress has changed they are trying to kill the Law any way they can.
If the shoe was on the other foot the Republican's would be screaming murder in the streets because the Dems shut down congress. Bottom line is that BOTH PARTIES HAVE BEHAVED BADLY.
And still called a democratic Country?.
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US spy chief: Shutdown 'damaging'
Senior US intelligence officials have warned the shutdown of the US government "seriously damages" spy agencies' ability to protect the US.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate panel that an estimated 70% of intelligence employees had been furloughed. Mr Clapper said staff morale across the spy agencies had been devastated.
The US government closed non-essential operations on Tuesday after Congress failed to reach a new budget deal.
Mr Clapper appeared before a Senate judiciary committee hearing on Wednesday, warning lawmakers the damage to US intelligence capabilities caused by a shutdown would be "insidious. This is not just a Beltway issue," he said, referring to the Washington DC area. "This affects our global capability to support the military, to support diplomacy, and to support our policymakers."
Mr Clapper also warned that foregoing paying employees during the shutdown could cause them financial hardship, making them inviting targets for foreign spies. "This is a dreamland for foreign intelligence services," he said.
Gen Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, said the agency had placed thousands of mathematicians and computer scientists on unpaid leave. "Our nation needs people like this," he said. "And the way we treat them is to tell them, 'you need to go home because we can't afford to pay you, we can't make a deal here.'"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24373300
Senior US intelligence officials have warned the shutdown of the US government "seriously damages" spy agencies' ability to protect the US.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate panel that an estimated 70% of intelligence employees had been furloughed. Mr Clapper said staff morale across the spy agencies had been devastated.
The US government closed non-essential operations on Tuesday after Congress failed to reach a new budget deal.
Mr Clapper appeared before a Senate judiciary committee hearing on Wednesday, warning lawmakers the damage to US intelligence capabilities caused by a shutdown would be "insidious. This is not just a Beltway issue," he said, referring to the Washington DC area. "This affects our global capability to support the military, to support diplomacy, and to support our policymakers."
Mr Clapper also warned that foregoing paying employees during the shutdown could cause them financial hardship, making them inviting targets for foreign spies. "This is a dreamland for foreign intelligence services," he said.
Gen Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, said the agency had placed thousands of mathematicians and computer scientists on unpaid leave. "Our nation needs people like this," he said. "And the way we treat them is to tell them, 'you need to go home because we can't afford to pay you, we can't make a deal here.'"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24373300
There is good news on the way.
[h=1]Game Over: Jesse Ventura wants Howard Stern as running mate for 2016 presidential run[/h]
https://dailycaller.com/2013/09/30/...rn-as-running-mate-for-2016-presidential-run/
[h=1]Game Over: Jesse Ventura wants Howard Stern as running mate for 2016 presidential run[/h]
https://dailycaller.com/2013/09/30/...rn-as-running-mate-for-2016-presidential-run/
The following excerpt from the Washington Post discusses an American politician and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives - Rep. Tip O'Neill who was an outspoken liberal Democrat and influential member of the House of Representatives, serving for 34 years and representing two congressional districts in Massachusetts. He served as Speaker of the House from 1977 until his retirement in 1987.
"The government shut down seven times when O'Neill was speaker and Reagan was president. And they were real shutdowns, too, given that they occurred after Jimmy Carter's attorney general, Benjamin Civiletti, issued opinions in 1980 and 1981 saying that funding gaps had to lead to at least partial shutdowns of government functions. Five quasi-shutdowns happened before those opinions under O'Neill's watch, with Carter as president. And one more shutdown happened under Reagan and O'Neill's successor as speaker, Jim Wright.
If your metric for quality governance is "ability to avoid shutdowns," then Reagan is absolutely the worst president of the modern era. The government shut down eight times under his watch, more than any other president, representing nearly half of all shutdowns that have occurred under the modern budget process. And O'Neill is an even worse speaker, if that's our criterion. He presided over 12 funding gaps or shutdowns, or almost 71 percent of all shutdowns to date."
washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/26/sorry-chris-matthews-tip-oneill-and-ronald-reagan-were-terrible-at-averting-shutdowns/
Putting aside all the political rhetoric from both sides today, reality is the following facts;
1) the House originates all spending bills per the US Constitution.
2) the House is an equal and separate elected branch of government.
3) the framers of the US Constitution purposely gave the House the power of the purse string to originate all spending bills for funding of government branches, agencies and programs so as to be able to exert the people's will if need be.
Representatives are closest to the people and can best carry-out the wishes of the people on a year-to-year basis. Also at that time, the Senate was the "States" body of appointed representatives who did not represent the people, rather, the interests of the States.
The House, known as the People's House, was designed by the founders to do exactly what this and many other Congresses have done when the people became unhappy with their government's actions. Government shut downs have been used as leverage to change seemingly simple things like regulations regarding the trucking industry.
Historically when there is a disagreement between any of the three separate and equal branches of government, a conference is held to negotiate an agreement and the Act then goes on to become law.
Today we have a Congress seeking to alter an unpopular law in response to their constituent’s wishes. Yet it is the political party who has used government shutdowns the most in America’s history crying foul and refusing to enter into any Conference to negotiate a settlement that would keep the people’s government operating; something which our Democracy demands.
Whether you like ObamaCare or not, any American should be appalled that two branches of their government are attempting to usurp the powers of the third branch and in the process denying the People their constitutional protected voice.
Examination of Democratic Rep. Tip O’Neill’s history with government shutdowns goes to show that the extremist far-left in America is nothing but hypocritical by screaming hostage when their political opposition uses the same tactics they have used over-and-over to bring about negotiations. If Democrats wanted to really overt a government shutdown, they would have at least showed up for a Conference; as has happened countless times throughout America’s legislative history. Yet they won’t even talk. This is not how Democracy works in America.
"The government shut down seven times when O'Neill was speaker and Reagan was president. And they were real shutdowns, too, given that they occurred after Jimmy Carter's attorney general, Benjamin Civiletti, issued opinions in 1980 and 1981 saying that funding gaps had to lead to at least partial shutdowns of government functions. Five quasi-shutdowns happened before those opinions under O'Neill's watch, with Carter as president. And one more shutdown happened under Reagan and O'Neill's successor as speaker, Jim Wright.
If your metric for quality governance is "ability to avoid shutdowns," then Reagan is absolutely the worst president of the modern era. The government shut down eight times under his watch, more than any other president, representing nearly half of all shutdowns that have occurred under the modern budget process. And O'Neill is an even worse speaker, if that's our criterion. He presided over 12 funding gaps or shutdowns, or almost 71 percent of all shutdowns to date."
washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/26/sorry-chris-matthews-tip-oneill-and-ronald-reagan-were-terrible-at-averting-shutdowns/
Putting aside all the political rhetoric from both sides today, reality is the following facts;
1) the House originates all spending bills per the US Constitution.
2) the House is an equal and separate elected branch of government.
3) the framers of the US Constitution purposely gave the House the power of the purse string to originate all spending bills for funding of government branches, agencies and programs so as to be able to exert the people's will if need be.
Representatives are closest to the people and can best carry-out the wishes of the people on a year-to-year basis. Also at that time, the Senate was the "States" body of appointed representatives who did not represent the people, rather, the interests of the States.
The House, known as the People's House, was designed by the founders to do exactly what this and many other Congresses have done when the people became unhappy with their government's actions. Government shut downs have been used as leverage to change seemingly simple things like regulations regarding the trucking industry.
Historically when there is a disagreement between any of the three separate and equal branches of government, a conference is held to negotiate an agreement and the Act then goes on to become law.
Today we have a Congress seeking to alter an unpopular law in response to their constituent’s wishes. Yet it is the political party who has used government shutdowns the most in America’s history crying foul and refusing to enter into any Conference to negotiate a settlement that would keep the people’s government operating; something which our Democracy demands.
Whether you like ObamaCare or not, any American should be appalled that two branches of their government are attempting to usurp the powers of the third branch and in the process denying the People their constitutional protected voice.
Examination of Democratic Rep. Tip O’Neill’s history with government shutdowns goes to show that the extremist far-left in America is nothing but hypocritical by screaming hostage when their political opposition uses the same tactics they have used over-and-over to bring about negotiations. If Democrats wanted to really overt a government shutdown, they would have at least showed up for a Conference; as has happened countless times throughout America’s legislative history. Yet they won’t even talk. This is not how Democracy works in America.
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I wonder how insecure Americans are feeling as they become aware of the details regarding how many crucial services are now shut down.
Government shutdown leaves airlines in charge of the skies
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/flying-without-a-safety-net--212833456.html
Government shutdown leaves airlines in charge of the skies
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/flying-without-a-safety-net--212833456.html
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still way too much Government open
I would close to of the 3 major brances and fora few years to reduce the deficit
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Wouldn't it be something if you found out that the country could run perfectly well with one third of what exists now?
What would all those government employees do for work?
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