Republicans lack votes to prevent a shutdown

[Pavlov]

muh popular vote

[boutons_deux]

"They reportedly scrapped a Democratic offer for $20 billion worth of border wall funding and are holding out for a conservative overhaul of the legal immigration system."

“Every time we have a proposal, it is yanked back by staff members,” Graham, one of the key Republicans in immigration talks, told reporters Sunday afternoon.

“As long as Steven Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration we are going nowhere. He’s been an outlier for years.”

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/21/16916344/john-kelly-trump-white-house-daca-senate-graham-durbin

So Trash, GREAT EXECUTIVE AND LEADER , is being operated by a racist 30 year old punk, and vets-are-superior-citizens Kelly, plus the racist Freedom Kockus.

[boutons_deux]

Christian supremacist as DUMB as a bag of hammers, insulting the military's intelligence (maybe)

Pence accuses Congress of playing politics with military pay

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/p...-military-pay/

[boutons_deux]

Trump Is So Toxic That A GOP Senator Tells Him To Stay Away From Shutdown Negotiations


http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/...iticus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

Lindsey Graham wants anti-immigration nut Stephen Miller booted from negotiations: ‘We are going nowhere’


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/lin...going-nowhere/

[boutons_deux]

NYT political analyst: ‘Diminished’ Trump is hiding from shutdown mess ‘holed up in the White House’

Peters said that the necessary parties are “not communicating” with each other and need to stop “shouting at each other from the Senate floor.”

“Oddly, the president seems somewhat diminished throughout this entire process,” said Peters.

“He’s somebody that holds himself up as a master negotiator,

but he’s been largely invisible.

He hasn’t made a statement,

he hasn’t appeared in public.”

“He’s been holed up in the White House as all of this unfolds on Capitol Hill,” Peters said.

The New York Times said Sunday that Trump spent most of Saturday ignoring the crisis and

watching old videos of himself trashing then-President Barack Obama during the 2013 shutdown.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/opinion/shutdown-broken-congress-budget.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&mtrref=undefined&a ssetType=opinion

How's the Trash taste now, all y'all Trash fellators?

[boutons_deux]

The Shutdown Shows the Twisted Rules of a Broken Congress

This week’s government shutdown is a bipartisan failure, with bad faith all around, and both parties trying to blame the other for the consequences, in hopes of winning one for the team.

But it is also a systemic failure, in which an outdated budget process — the complex set of procedures that keeps the government open — has become an empty ritual, twisted in the service of narrow partisan gain.

The source of today’s dysfunctions goes back more than 40 years, to the

Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

That law was passed as a result of a perception within Congress — which under the Cons ution holds the power of the purse — that the White House had too much influence over the budget.

The law overhauled congressional budget development procedures in a manner intended to shift the balance of power in federal budgeting away from the executive and toward the legislature — and created the modern budget process.

That process is kick-started by the drafting of an annual budget resolution that was initially intended to serve as a check on the president’s proposal.

Congress hasn’t completed the entire budget process, with all the spending bills, on time in more than 20 years.

Many years, it has not passed any budget resolution at all.

This is perhaps the most basic responsibility of the legislative branch, yet for decades, Congress has repeatedly come up short.

That Congress can fail to pass a budget with so little consequence —

if anything, it boosted Republicans, by giving them two opportunities to try major partisan legislation —

shows what a cynical charade the process has become.

The stalemates that have come to define the budget process have helped set the stage for repeated shutdown showdowns.

It is a broken process that has enabled and empowered partisan bad faith by setting up a situation in which everything is riding on a few enormous bills.

So lawmakers try to hook other priorities — immigration, say, or health care — to “must pass” legislation in hopes of using the leverage to push them through.

The first step toward fixing the system is for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to decide that their priority is

to fulfill essential governing responsibilities NEVER from the Repugs

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/o...etType=opinion

Repugs hate and want to destroy govt in order to to enable/empower/enrich the oligarchy.

"Government IS the problem", so non-governance and/or MISgovernance is Repug orthodoxy.

America is ed and un able. Oligarchies have never, will never yield power and wealth willingly, peacefully.

[koriwhat]

ugh it's like boutons only knows how to drudgereport it up in here daily... article after article after article... and then sprinkled at the bottom of each post is his crybaby antics about the oligarchy. you sure you're not an overweight bull fem?

[koriwhat]

Repugs hate and want to destroy govt in order to to enable/empower/enrich the oligarchy.

DACA lmao! what other illegal programs are there created by the left? yall s project more than a movie theater.

[boutons_deux]

White House’s Mick Mulvaney: I think the government shutdown is ‘kind of cool’





https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/whi...e+Raw+Story%29

[boutons_deux]

Trump Budget Chief Can’t Explain Why Republicans Blocked Military Pay During Shutdown

Donald Trump’s budget chief Mick Mulvaney had no real answer when asked why the White House and Republican Party are blocking service members’ pay and benefits during the GOP-engineered shutdown of the federal government

“Claire McCaskill … brought up a vote to pay them while the shutdown was going on,” erson said, adding

“That vote — Mitch McConnell didn’t bring that up for vote.”

http://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-budget-chief-republicans-blocked-military-pay-shutdown/

[Chris]

[boutons_deux]

Leadership!

Trump is ‘itching’ to jump into shutdown debate even as aides struggle to keep him quiet

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/tru...e+Raw+Story%29

[Pavlov]

Damn Trump sucks at negotiating.

[Chris]

[Pavlov]

Republicans don't even want to pay the troops but they'll scramble to let them see the evil NFL this weekend.

[Chris]

Republicans don't even want to pay the troops but they'll scramble to let them see the evil NFL this weekend.

10%

[Pavlov]

10%

They'd vote to pay the troops. They keep bringing it up in the Senate.

Republicans don't want to. They keep killing it.

[koriwhat]

They'd vote to pay the troops. They keep bringing it up in the Senate.

Republicans don't want to. They keep killing it.

republicans don't want to pay the troops? but the left wants to house all of the worlds rejects. we could pay the troops and then some if we weren't the world's melting pot that the left wants us to be.

[Chris]

[Pavlov]

republicans don't want to pay the troops? but the left wants to house all of the worlds rejects.

"all"

You lie right after saying you don't want to lie like that.

[koriwhat]

"all"

You lie right after saying you don't want to lie like that.

you see lies in truth that you'd rather dismiss. that's the truth!

[Pavlov]

you see lies in truth that you'd rather dismiss. that's the truth!

No, you lied.

You're a lying hypocrite.

[djohn2oo8]

Koriliar.

[koriwhat]

No, you lied.

You're a lying hypocrite.

how am i lying when you s are advocating for foreigners illegally here to be amnestied while pissing on our own people who struggle day to day? As well, yall want more re s from the ME to come over too. ing comical.