and you are a hack to.
The House has had no problem passing bills. Historically the problem is getting them through the Senate.
bull . How many significant bills has the Repug House passed or even gotten to a vote since 2010? naming post offices isn't "significant".
The House has had no problem passing bills. Historically the problem is getting them through the Senate.
How many times has the House voted to repeal ACA? 60?
here ya are. CosmicParasite, pro-business, anti-compe ive Repugs ing over Human-Americans, "over and over and over"
Public Knowledge Rejects Senate Appropriations Funding Bill Stalling FCC’s Set-Top Box Proposal
Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee marked up its fiscal year (FY) 2017 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill. The bill includes appropriations for the Federal Communications Commission of approximately $341 million, below the President’s requested amount, and also
requires the FCC to complete an impact study of its set-top box proposal before voting to increase video device compe ion for consumers.
The following can be attributed to Kate Forscey, Government Affairs Associate Counsel at Public Knowledge:
“We are disappointed by the Appropriations Committee targeting the FCC for working to protect consumers, as Congress directed.
This attack is a rider which attempts to stymie the Commission’s ongoing proceeding to ‘Unlock the Box’.
The rider hitched onto this bill would further forestall a truly compe ive video marketplace, for which consumers and creators yearn and which the FCC now stands poised to deliver.
“From a policy standpoint, this industry giveaway is another attempt at a transparent delay strategy, designed to perpetuate in bent cable’s current stranglehold on consumers, and which flies in the face of Congress’ clear directive that the FCC act to ensure compe ion in consumer video navigation.
If Congress delays this proceeding, consumers will be caught in procedural purgatory, while innovators and content creators are left wanting for a chance to speak and create. Congress empowered the FCC to work out the policy concerns that some members have raised, and it should be trusted to do so.
https://www.publicknowledge.org/pres...p-box-proposal
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Maddow is no more a messenger than Hannity. Jesus ing Christ.
Maddow slaps all y'all's Repug every ing night. Man up, quit whimpering.
Dream on sheep.
This week, House Speaker Paul Ryan made the case that President Obama's legacy discredits progressivism.
New data on poverty, incomes, and insurance coverage makes Paul Ryan's argument look pretty silly.
Poverty goes down, coverage goes up, and America gets a raise
Just a couple of days ago, the Washington Examiner published a curious op-ed from House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who’s convinced that President Obama will be remembered as a leader done in by an ineffective ideology. Obama’s “ultimate legacy,” the far-right Speaker complained, “will be showing the country that progressivism in practice just doesn’t work.”
Ryan added, “For all the tax hikes and reckless spending and red tape, America is not better off.”
It’s hard to overstate how profoundly wrong the Speaker is: by practically every imaginable metric, the country is vastly better off. Take today’s news from the Census Bureau, for example.
Americans finally got a raise last year after eight years of stagnating incomes.
The typical U.S. household’s income rose 5.2 percent in 2015 to $56,516, the Census Bureau said Tuesday…. The government’s annual report on incomes and poverty portrays an economy that is finally starting to benefit a wider range of Americans, roughly six years after the recovery began.
It’s been quite a while since Americans saw a report this good on incomes and poverty. Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said on Twitter this afternoon, “I usually try to be restrained, but this is unambiguously the best Income, Poverty & Health Insurance report ever.”
That probably sounds hyperbolic. It’s not. Furman fleshed out the details from the Census Bureau’s do ent and highlighted several key findings,
including the fact that income growth last year was the fastest on record (this report dates back roughly a half-century);
the income growth was widespread across every income group and racial/ethnic demographic, with Americans at the bottom seeing the largest percentage increase;
poverty rates saw their largest one-year drop since 1968;
and the number of Americans without health insurance dropped to the lowest point ever recorded in the United States.
Even the pay gap between men and women has improved to its lowest level ever.
It’s not often we see economic news this encouraging.
New York’s Jon Chait’s take on today’s data rings true.
It is almost impossible to overstate how thoroughly this data nullifies the central charges made against the administration’s policies.
The left-wing version of the economic stagnation claim charges that Obama’s program has failed at the root level, allowing the rich to hoover up all the gains and doing almost nothing for the suffering masses.
The more popular right-wing version argues that, whatever social benefits Obama has purchased – 20 million more insured, strict new regulations on Wall Street, lower greenhouse gas emissions – they have come at a terrible and unacceptable price.
Obama’s big-government agenda has snuffed out the entrepreneurial genius of American capitalism, dooming its people to endless stagnation, unless and until Paul Ryan can liberate them from stifling taxes and regulation.
These sweeping philosophical arguments hinged in large measure on a now-moot statistical artifact. […]
[F]or the vast majority of Americans who don’t resist Obama’s policies philosophically – and the Republican primaries have revealed just how few committed economic libertarians the Grand Old Party truly has – the practical outcomes are growing harder and harder to gainsay.
Paul Ryan probably should’ve held onto that op-ed for a couple of additional days before sending it in for publication.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/poverty-goes-down-coverage-goes-and-america-gets-raise?cid=sm_fb_maddow
Lyin Ryan lyin in the ing Moon Times
Trash is lyin to ya
Repugs is lyin to ya
BigCorp is lyin to ya
BigCorp pays scientists to lie to ya
The Kock tools / tea baggers / super-patriots monsters are back!
Impeachment Fever! House Hardliners Find A New Way To Buck GOP Leadership
Debt limit crises are so 2013. House Republican hardliners have found a new outlet to express their frustration with President Obama’s tyrannical rule -- and with the GOP leadership's foot-dragging -- in the form an impeachment vote against a mid-level figure in the administration.
The move, deemed unprecedented by some congressional scholars, comes as Republicans had sought to keep their members in line ahead of what has been an already treacherous election for the GOP.
Caught in the crosshairs is IRS Commissioner John Koskinen (pictured), the bureaucrat who was brought in to clean up a controversy at the tax agency and who now faces an impeachment vote this week.
GOP leaders gave their rank-and-file plenty of venues to vent about what they have deemed a botched investigation into allegations that the IRS was targeting conservative groups.
Their efforts to tamp down the rebellion were rebuffed by procedural moves led by House Freedom Caucus members Tuesday.
Led by Rep. John Fleming (R-LA)
the hardliners have filed what is known as “privileged resolution,” which in effect, will force some sort of House vote in the next two days on whether to impeach Koskinen, who has been swept up in the so-called IRS "targeting scandal," which pre-dated his appointment to the top spot at the IRS and in which he was not involved.
His critics charge that
he lied or misled members in congressional testimony about the state of the investigation
a charge that has been elevated to ”high crimes and misdemeanors,”
the cons utional standard for the rarely used impeachment process.
“John Andrew Koskinen engaged in a pattern of deception that demonstrates his unfitness to serve as a Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service,” Fleming said on the floor Tuesday, while introducing the resolution.
“Commissioner Koskinen made a series of false and misleading statements to Congress in contravention of his oath to tell the truth.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/impe...ution-koskinen
Repug governance! what's not to ridicule!
Repug "social welfare" PACS were from the very start total frauds, nothing but conduits for dark money and political nastiness.
Paul Ryan’s poor sense of timing extends to the CFPB
Just 48 hours after House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) released an op-ed arguing that President Obama’s record discredits the entire progressive ideology, Americans learned that income growth last year was the fastest on record; poverty rates saw their largest one-year drop since 1968; and the number of Americans without health insurance dropped to the lowest point ever recorded in the United States.
The far-right Speaker’s timing could have been better.
As the Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien noticed, this wasn’t Ryan’s only recent trouble with timing.“The CFPB,” the Speaker said via Twitter, “supposedly exists to protect you, but instead it tries to micromanage your everyday life. That’s NOT a #BetterWay.”
It’s generally a bad idea to say something is a failure right after its biggest success.
That might seem sort of self-evident, but it apparently isn’t. Take House Speaker Paul Ryan. He’s been trying to recast the election as a contest between Hillary Clinton and not Donald Trump, but rather his “Better Way” agenda – basically tax cuts for the rich, spending cuts for the poor, and deregulation for big business – and what he says would be President Obama’s third term.
Now, as part of that, he recently had this to say about the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose job is, well, to protect consumers from financial malfeasance.
Right off the bat, the idea that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is trying to “micromanage your everyday life” is plainly silly.
The agency has been around five years.
Can you think of a single instance in which the CFPB has tried to micromanage any part of your everyday life?
What percentage of the public even knows the CFPB exists?
But more to the point, Ryan’s complaints about the agency come directly on the heels of one of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s greatest success stories.
Late last week, the CFPB reached a record settlement with Wells Fargo after the banking giant was caught allegedly bilking consumers, enrolling Wells Fargo customers in banking services without their permission, then charging them fees for accounts and services they neither sought nor authorized.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau did its job, looked out for the public, and scored its biggest victory to date.
In response, Paul Ryan condemned the agency and questioned its very existence.
Worse, it’s not just Ryan.
Earlier this week in Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Sen. Pat Toomey (R), in the middle of a tough re-election fight, “indicated in response to a question that he would like to see the [CFPB] dismantled.”
The conservative senator added that the agency is, among other things, “very ill-conceived and badly governed.”
Remember, this came just days after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s most impressive success story – a win that benefits everyday Americans from alleged misconduct from a financial-industry giant.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow
These dumb mofo Repugs, running their mouths in the fantasy echo chamber, expect their supporters also to be dumb mofos and in general, that expectation is met.
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