What can I tell ya, folks... sometimes I just wake up, go on line, check out Drudge, and...
(*SIGH*)
...say, "Screw it."
Drudge sounds the alarm Glenn Beck sounds the alarm. Rush Limbaugh sounds the alarm.
Pat Buchanan... Mark Styne...
Thomas Sowell...
I can go on and on and on! Heck, you folks who read my newsbites and stand-alone pieces know whom I rely upon. Yep... newsbites are about news... breaking news... articles from the NYT, WP, FT... radio and television reportage via both domestic and foreign media.
(*SHRUG*)
But newsbites are also straight facts and analysis presented by pundits... editorialists... professors... philosophers - with my two cents worth added to theirs.
Anyway... let me get to work here! Newsbites can be found in the comments section.
11 comments:
http://blog.heritage.org/2014/02/11/obamacare-great-just-cant-wait-oh/
Yesterday, the Obama Administration pushed back ObamaCare's employer mandate by two years for mid-sized employers.
* UNILATERALLY CHANGING THE LAW. AND BOEHNER AND MCCONNELL WILL LET HIM GET AWAY WITH IT.
* FOLKS... THERE IS NO RULE OF LAW IN OBAMA'S AMERIKA. HE DOES WHAT HE WANTS WHEN HE WANTS. WHAT'S THE POINT OF EVEN GOING THROUGH THE CHARADE OF LEGISLATION UNDER OUR CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM WHEN SAID LEGISLATION CAN SIMPLY BE BYPASSED AT THE STROKE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PEN?
* FOLKS... REMEMBER WHAT I WROTE THE OTHER DAY ABOUT MY "OL' PAY" WHO DENIES THAT AMERICA HAS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED OVER THE PAST DECADE-PLUS? DO YOU REALLY WANNA BE LIKE HIM AND IGNORE REALITY? DO YOU REALLY WANT A KING...???
But that’s not all — employers got an added incentive not to lay off workers or cut workers’ hours. Why? Hurting workers doesn’t play well in an election year.
* UNDERSTAND, FOLKS... THIS IS WHY OBAMA KEEPS ON MOVING THE GOALPOSTS! THIS IS WHY HE KEEPS ON POSTPONING HIS OWN "SIGNATURE" LEGISLATION WHICH HE FOUGHT FOR ONCE SAYING "IT COULDN'T WAIT." OBAMA AND THE DEMS KNOW THEIR LEGISLATION - THE MOMENT IT GOES INTO EFFECT AS WRITTEN... THE MOMENT IT'S ENFORCED - WILL LEAD TO FURTHER LAYOFFS AND FURTHER CUTS IN WORKERS' HOURS. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE BLOCKING THEIR OWN LAW! (AT LEAST TILL WE GET PAST THE ELECTIONS...)
Many businesses have already paused hiring or cut workers’ hours because of ObamaCare's mandates and regulations. The Administration already delayed the employer mandate by a year, but now businesses with 50 to 99 employees will get a two-year reprieve before they have to provide government-approved health coverage for their workers—or pay a penalty.
* THIS IS NOT THE LAW! OBAMA IS SIMPLY RE-WRITING EXISTING LAW (RE-WRITING... IGNORING... CONSPIRING AGAINST) ON THE FLY. HE HAS NO AUTHORITY TO DO THIS! AND YET... BOEHNER AND MCCONNELL ARE REFUSING TO TAKE HIM ON AND DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION.
* AGAIN, FOLKS, FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES THERE IS NO EFFECTIVE "OPPOSITION" PARTY. AS LONG AS THE LIKES OF BOEHNER AND MCCONNELL CONTROL THE GOP AMERICA IS LOST.
John Malcolm, Heritage’s Gilbertson Senior Legal Fellow, says this is simply another of the President’s unilateral actions — a way to get around “settled” law (as Obama himself has referred to ObamaCare). Malcolm says: On July 2, 2013, the Obama Administration unlawfully delayed the employer mandate to begin in 2015. Now the Administration is at it again, delaying the mandate yet another year for those employers who agree to abide by politically motivated conditions — by agreeing not to lay off workers in order to come into compliance — that are not in the law itself. Ignoring statutory requirements and handing out goodies to favored employers engenders disrespect for the law and plays hide-the-ball with the voting public.
* FOLKS... EVEN THIS ISN'T STRONG ENOUGH LANGUAGE! OBAMA IS SHREDDING THE CONSTITUTION RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES! OBAMA IS "REIGNING," HE'S "RULING," HE'S NOT GOVERNING WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM!
* AND... NO... ONE... CARES...!!! (AT LEAST THE MAJORITY OF TODAY'S AMERIKANS DON'T SEEM TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS!)
[This] comes soon after a report that ObamaCare will drive 2 million people [2,300,000] out of the workforce just because of its incentives and subsidies for individuals.
Delaying the employer mandate doesn’t delay the rest of the law’s disastrous effects [though].
When the Administration delayed the employer mandate the first time, Heritage expert Robert Moffit said to go easy on the champagne: They see disaster in imposing the employer mandate in an election year. The White House is not politically stupid. While government actuaries predicted a modest dumping of workers out of job-based coverage, independent analysts predicted major disruptions in employer-based coverage.
* FOLKS... WE'RE IN DEEP SHIT.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303650204579375310934336066?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion
"ObamaCare" is useful shorthand for the Affordable Care Act not least because the law increasingly means whatever President Obama says it does on any given day.
* WISE-ASS LINE, RIGHT, FOLKS? KINDA CUTE... IN A WISE-ASS SORT OF FASHION. YOU CAN SEE THE SMIRK ON THE AUTHOR'S FACE.
* FOLKS... THERE'S NOTHING "FUNNY" ABOUT ANY OF THIS. THERE'S NOTHING TO SMIRK ABOUT. WHAT WE'RE WITNESSING IS AMERICA DEVOLVING INTO AMERIKA. WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS THE RULE OF LAW GIVING WAY TO THE RULE OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE WHITE HOUSE. (AND IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT EACH TIME OBAMA GETS AWAY WITH THIS HE'S CREATING FURTHER PRECEDENT THAT WILL KNOCK OVER FUTURE DOMINOES...)
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
His latest lawless rewrite arrived on Monday as the White House decided to delay the law's employer mandate for another year and in some cases maybe forever.
ObamaCare requires businesses with 50 or more workers to offer health insurance to their workers or pay a penalty, but last summer the Treasury offered a year-long delay until 2015 despite having no statutory authorization.
* AGAIN... FOLKS... CLOSE YOUR EYES AND WEAR EARPLUGS IF YOU MUST... BUT AMERIKA UNDER OBAMA IS NO LONGER A NATION UNDER THE RULE OF LAW.
Like the individual mandate, the employer [mandate was supposedly] central to ObamaCare's claim of universal coverage...
* RIGHT? (YES! RIGHT! FOLKS... REMEMBER... THIS WAS THE LAW OBAMA AND A DEMOCRATIC SENATE AND HOUSE JAMMED THROUGH! OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS GOT EXACTLY THE LAW THEY WANTED... EXACTLY THE LAW THEY THEMSELVES WROTE AND VOTED AND SIGNED INTO LAW!)
...but employers said the new labor costs — and the onerous reporting and tax-enforcement rules — would damage job creation and the economy.
* THEY WERE SAYING THAT THEN! IN 2010! AND SO WAS I!
Liberals insisted that such arguments were false if not beneath contempt, but then all of a sudden the White House implicitly endorsed the other side.
* YEP!
Now the new delay arrives amid a furious debate about jobs after a damning [non-partisan] CBO report last week, only this time with liberals celebrating ObamaCare's supposed benefits to the job market.
Well, which is it?
* YES... WHICH IS IT...?!?!
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
Either ObamaCare is ushering in a worker's paradise, in which case by the White House's own logic exempting businesses from its ministrations is harming employees.
* RIGHT...
Or else the mandate really is leading business to cut back on hiring, hours and shifting workers to part-time as the evidence in the real economy suggests.
* WELL...?!?!
Under the new Treasury rule, firms with 50 to 99 full-time workers are free from the mandate until 2016. And firms with 100 or more workers now also only need cover 70% of full-time workers in 2015 and 95% in 2016 and after, not the 100% specified in the law.
* SOUNDS LIKE RE-WRITING THE LAW TO ME!
The new rule also relaxes the mandate for certain occupations and industries that were at particular risk for disruption, like volunteer firefighters, teachers, adjunct faculty members and seasonal employees.
* ADJUNCT FACULTY MEMBERS, HUH... (PONDER THAT ONE, FOLKS; PONDER THE HYPOCRISY OF THE IVY TOWER MENTALITY!)
Oh, and the Treasury also notes that, "As these limited transition rules take effect, we will consider whether it is necessary to further extend any of them beyond 2015." So the law may be suspended indefinitely if the White House feels like it.
* APPARENTLY THAT'S HOW IT NOW WORKS IN... AMERIKA.
The text of the Affordable Care Act specifically says when the mandate must take effect—"after December 31, 2013"—and does not give the White House the authority to change the terms.
* DOESN'T MATTER...!!! WE ARE NO LONGER A NATION UNDER THE RULE OF LAW...!!! IF YOU CAN'T SEE THIS THEN YOU'RE EITHER WILLFULLY BLIND OR STUPID!
Changing an unambiguous statutory mandate requires the approval of Congress, but then this President has often decided the law is whatever he says it is.
* AND THE SCUMBAG REPUBLICANS LED BY BOEHNER AND MCCONNELL...? DO YOU HEAR THEM COMPLAINING - LET ALONE FIGHTING TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AND THE RULE OF LAW? NO... YOU HEAR FROM BILL BARKER... NOT JOHN BOEHNER... NOT MITCH MCCONNELL.
http://live.wsj.com/video/afghanistan-experts-stumped-by-simple-questions/854D3A1A-DBFE-4A78-8494-4E0422568E19.html?mod=trending_now_video_2#!854D3A1A-DBFE-4A78-8494-4E0422568E19
* YOU'VE GOTTA WATCH THIS! TRUST ME! WATCH THIS VIDEO! HERE... THE INTRO:
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.) had a simple question Wednesday for three of the Obama administration’s top Afghanistan specialists: How many American troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year? None of the witnesses at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Afghanistan had an answer.
http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/boehner-statement-latest-manipulation-obamacare
WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement after the administration announced that the president has again unilaterally altered the implementation of ObamaCare.
“Once again, the president is giving a break to corporations while individuals and families are still stuck under the mandates of his health care law. And, once again, the president is rewriting law on a whim. If the administration doesn’t believe employers can manage the burden of the law, how can struggling families be expected to? This continued manipulation by the president breeds confusion and erodes Americans’ confidence in him and his health care law. We need fairness for all, with relief from ObamaCare for every American.”
* I... WANT... JOHN... BOEHNER... DEAD...
* FOLKS... NOTICE... WHILE BOEHNER NOTES THAT "THE PRESIDENT IS REWRITING LAW ON A WHIM" IT'S HOW HE'S RE-WRITING THE LAW THAT HAS BOEHNER UPSET!
* FOLKS... DOES BOEHNER'S TONE NOT INFER ACCEPTANCE OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER TO RE-WRITE LAW...? (IT DOES TO ME!)
* FOLKS... DOES NOT BOEHNER BASICALLY INFER THAT HE'D BE HAPPY... THAT'S HE'D SUPPORT... FURTHER "PRESIDENTIAL RE-WRITING OF THE LAW" IF THE RE-WRITING INCLUDED DOING AWAY WITH THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE WITH YET ANOTHER STROKE OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL PEN...?!?!
* SERIOUSLY... PEOPLE... DO NONE OF YOU CARE THAT AMERICA HAS DEVOLVED INTO A MONARCHY... AMERIKA... UNDER "KING OBAMA?"
http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/why-i-m-getting-sick-of-defending-obamacare-20140211
* FROM THE LEFT...
It's getting difficult and slinking toward impossible to defend the Affordable Care Act.
The latest blow to Democratic candidates, liberal activists, and naïve columnists like me came Monday from the White House, which announced yet another delay in the Obamacare implementation.
For the second time in a year, certain businesses were given more time before being forced to offer health insurance to most of their full-time workers. Employers with 50 to 99 workers were given until 2016 to comply, two years longer than required by law.
* LAW, SMORE! OBAMA IS THE LAW!
During a yearlong grace period, larger companies will be required to insure fewer employees than spelled out in the law.
* AGAIN... SERIOUSLY... WHAT'S THE POINT OF EVEN USING THE TERM "THE LAW" NOWADAYS?
Not coincidentally, the delays punt implementation beyond congressional elections in November, which raises the first problem with defending ObamaCare: The White House has politicized its signature policy.
* DUH! (ILLEGALLY POLITICIZED!)
The win-at-all-cost mentality helped create a culture in which a partisan-line vote was deemed sufficient for passing transcendent legislation.
(*NOD*)
It spurred advisers to develop a dishonest talking point — "If you like your health plan, you'll be able to keep your health plan."
(*STILL NODDING*)
And political expediency led Obama to repeat the line, over and over and over again, when he knew, or should have known, it was false.
* NO ONE FORCED HIM; HE LIED OF HIS OWN ACCORD. THE MAN LACKS BASIC INTEGRITY. IT'S JUST THAT SIMPLE.
Defending the ACA became painfully harder when online insurance markets were launched from a multi-million-dollar website that didn't work, when autopsies on the administration's actions revealed an epidemic of incompetence that began in the Oval Office and ended with no accountability.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Then officials started fudging numbers and massaging facts to promote implementation, nothing illegal or even extraordinary for this era of spin.
* HOW DO WE KNOW THEY DID NOTHING ILLEGAL? ALL WE KNOW IS THAT OBAMA CONTROLS THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND HOLDER CERTAINLY ISN'T GOING TO GO AFTER OBAMA OR OTHER ADMINISTRATION FIGURES. FOLKS... THE FOX IS GUARDING THE HEN-HOUSE!
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304558804579376782319527324?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304558804579376782319527324.html
A member of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's transition team who had two outstanding warrants was arrested Monday night after a traffic stop but...
* BUT...?!?!
...was spared a night in jail in a case in which the mayor contacted a top police official, New York Police Department officials said.
* AND SO IT STARTS, FOLKS... SO IT BEGINS...
Two New York City police officers pulled over Bishop Findlayter, the pastor of New Hope Christian church in Queens, as he drove a 2012 Lincoln sedan at 11:21 p.m. at the southeast corner of Clarkson Avenue and East 92nd Street in Brooklyn, according to an arrest report. The officers said the bishop had made a left turn without signaling, according to the report.
As the officers ran Bishop Findlayter's driver's license information through crime databases, the report said, they learned that he had two arrest warrants issued on Jan.16 for failing to appear in court.
(The bishop had been arrested at an immigration reform protest in Manhattan on Oct. 16 but the report said he didn't pay his fine or go to court after being released with a summons instead of spending the night in a holding cell.)
The officers arrested the bishop and charged him with aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle in the third degree and making an illegal left turn, according to the arrest report. The officers took him to the 67th precinct, the report said.
Normally, officers who stop someone and find an arrest warrant are required to hold the suspect until he can be taken to court to clear up the warrants, court officials said.
* REQUIRED...
The arraignment court in Brooklyn was set to close at 1 a.m. Tuesday, before officers could get the bishop there to see a judge.
* AND SO...???
A local clergy council called the NYPD and Mr. de Blasio early on Tuesday morning, officials said.
* THE TIMELINE IS THAT THE TRAFFIC STOP TOOK PLACE LATE MONDAY NIGHT, THE PROCESS OF THE CHECK AND...er... NON-BOOKING... TOOK SEVERAL HOURS, GOING INTO MONDAY MORNING...
Mayor de Blasio called NYPD Deputy Chief Kim Royster, a top official in the NYPD's press office, shortly after [he was contacted].
* SO... THE MAYOR HIMSELF CALLED THIS FEMALE COP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT...
"We always get inquiries from the mayor's office, and the inquiry we received is if this individual was arrested or taken into custody," Deputy Chief Royster said. "When I inquired about it, the commanding officer said he was taken into custody, arrested and was going to be given a desk appearance ticket."
* ALWAYS...?!?! THEY ALWAYS GET CALLS FROM THE MAYOR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IF ONE OF HIS BUDDIES RUNS INTO A PROBLEM...??? STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDULRE...?!?!
(*SNORT*)
* HMM... I WONDER WHAT POLICE REGS ARE...??? (READ ON...)
"There is some discretion there, but the police patrol guide says [arrestees] have to be returned to the court" before being released, said Bob Cassidy, deputy chief clerk of citywide summons operations with the Office of Court Administration.
* HMM... AND IS THIS WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS CASE... DID THE GOOD REVEREND SEE A JUDGE WHO GRANTED HIM RELEASE?
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
NYPD spokesman Stephen Davis...
* HEY?! WHAT HAPPENED TO DEPUTY CHIEF KIM ROYSTER...? HECK... WHAT HAPPENED TO DEPUTY CHIEF CLERK BOB CASSIDY...??? ANYWAY...
Davis said officers in the department have some discretion to release people with outstanding warrants when there is no risk to the community.
* WHICH ISN'T WHAT BOB CASSIDY, DEPUTY CHIEF CLERK OF CITYWIDE SUMMONS OPERATIONS WITH THE OFFICE OF COURT ADMINISTRATION SAYS!
Mr. Davis said the commanding officer of 67th precinct, Deputy Inspector Kenneth Lehr personally responded to the station house and reviewed the arrest.
* SO... DE BLASIO CALLS NYPD DEPUTY CHIEF KIM ROYSTER... AND...??? (WHO CALLED LEHR? I'M ASSUMING ROYSTER. WHAT DID ROYSTER TEL LEHR?)
(*SMIRK*)
* HERE, FOLKS... AGAIN... THE TIMELINE...
The mayor's office sent emails to the NYPD officials and Mr. de Blasio called Deputy Chief Royster to inquire about the arrest, Deputy Chief Royster said. [Mayor de Blasio didn't ask that the bishop be released, Royster [insists].
* UH-HUH.
(*SMIRK*)
* AND ROYSTER DIDN'T FEEL THAT THIS WAS WHAT THE MAYOR WOULD WANT TO HAPPEN EVEN IF HE COULD COME OUT AND DIRECTLY ASK... AFTER PERSONALLY CALLING ROYSTER SOMETIME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?
(*SNORT*)
* AND ROYSTER DIDN'T ISSUE ANY INSTRUCTIONS TO THIS LEHR GUY... OR GIVE HIM ANY "HINTS" AS TO WHAT WAS EXPECTED OF HIM BY HER?
(*SNORT*)
With the local court set to close at 1 a.m., Deputy Inspector Lehr used his discretion to let the bishop go home for the night, provided he return to court the next day to clear up the outstanding warrants, officials said.
* WHAT DISCRETION...? BY USING (MISUSING) HIS "DISCRETION" DIDN'T LEHR TAKE DISCRETION THAT PROPERLY BELONGS ONLY IN THE HANDS OF A JUDGE...???
The officer had worked with Bishop Findlayter on community issues.
* THE "OFFICER...???" WE'RE TALKING A DEPUTY INSPECTOR! AND THE FACT THAT HE KNEW FINDLAYTER PERSONALLY WAS IF ANYTHING A REASON NOT TO INVOLVE HIMSELF - TO LEAVE ANY INTERFERENCE TO DISINTERESTED NEUTRAL PARTIES! (LIKE A JUDGE!)
Deputy Inspector Lehr asked the bishop if he was aware of the outstanding warrants, Mr. Davis said. The bishop told Mr. Lehr that he had hired lawyers to resolve the matter and didn't appear in court because he believed they had taken care of the matter, Mr. Davis said.
(*SMIRK*)
* FOLKS... IT'S HIS RESPONSIBILITY. PERIOD.
* OH... AND GUESS WHAT, FOLKS... (READ ON!)
Court officials said Bishop Findlayter did not appear in court on Tuesday.
(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)
* SO MUCH FOR LEHR'S "JUDGMENT."
Bishop Orlando Findlayter, endorsed Mr. de Blasio in June, when the candidate was running behind in the polls. The bishop helped solidify Mr. de Blasio's support among African Americans, and he was named to the mayor's inaugural committee and transition team.
* AND THAT'S WHY HE'S ABOVE THE LAW.
http://www.infowars.com/homeland-security-to-purchase-141000-rounds-of-sniper-ammo/
The Department of Homeland Security is buying more bullets with a solicitation for over 141,00 rounds of sniper ammunition.
* HOW MANY FRIGGIN' SNIPERS DOES HOMELAND SECURITY HAVE ON THE PAYROLL...?!?!
According to a solicitation posted on FedBizOpps, the federal agency is looking to procure 141,160 rounds of Hornady .308 Winchester 168gr A-MAX TAP ammunition. Such ammunition is sometimes retailed as “Zombie Max,” a marketing gimmick alluding to its power. “What makes the .308 ammunition so deadly is the long range capability of the round,” notes James Smith. “The ability is called ballistic coefficient, or the efficiency of a projectile in overcoming air resistance as it travels to its target. According to Speer Reloading Manual Number 13, the .308 165 grain has the highest coefficient of any hunting rifle.”
The latest purchase further illustrates the fallacy of the DHS’ excuse that it is buying bullets in bulk in order to save money. The federal agency will pay around $1.20 for each round, when a lower grain round could be acquired for around a quarter of the price.
The DHS has faced questions over the last couple of years as to the purpose of its mass ammo purchases which have totaled over 2 billion bullets, with some fearing the federal agency is gearing up for civil unrest.
* THEY ARE! THERE'S NO DOUBT.
The majority of the bullets purchased by the DHS were hollow point rounds (one order alone amounted to 450 million of them). Hollow point bullets just happen to be completely unsuitable for training purposes because they cost significantly more money compared to standard firing range bullets, contradicting claims by the DHS that the bullets were merely for training purposes and were bought in bulk to save money.
* READ THAT AGAIN, FOLKS...
The majority of the bullets purchased by the DHS were hollow point rounds (one order alone amounted to 450 million of them). Hollow point bullets just happen to be completely unsuitable for training purposes because they cost significantly more money compared to standard firing range bullets, contradicting claims by the DHS that the bullets were merely for training purposes and were bought in bulk to save money.
(*SHRUG*)
Large scale DHS bulk buys have contributed to ammo shortages across the country. In April last year, the Government Accountability Office announced that it would be investigating the issue, although no follow up has been forthcoming.
(*SMIRK*)
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/10/House-GOP-Leaders-Tie-Restoring-Veterans-Pensions-to-Debt-Ceiling-Increase
The House has passed a “clean” bill to extend the debt limit until March, 2015 by a vote of 221-201.
The vast majority of Republicans voted against the bill, while nearly 200 Democrats carried it across the finish line. 28 Republicans voted “yes.”
* AND MORE WOULD HAVE VOTED YES HAD THEIR VOTES BEEN NEEDED...
Speaker John Boehner, who usually does not vote, voted "yes," as did Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Whip Kevin McCarthy.
* THEY ALL HAVE TO GO...
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan voted "no."
* DON'T BE FOOLED, FOLKS; RYAN WOULD HAVE VOTED "YEA" ON COMMAND HAD BOEHNER ASKED FOR HIS VOTE. (HOW DO I KNOW? HIS PAST RECORD!)
Cantor blamed the debt ceiling increase on Democrats.
* CANTOR IS A PIECE OF SHIT. REPUBLICAN CONTROL THE HOUSE. THEY'VE CONTROLLED THE HOUSE SINCE JANUARY 2011.
"House Republicans need more responsible and willing partners in Washington so we can finally and boldly address our long term debt crisis," he said in a statement.
* I WOULD CELEBRATE IF CANTOR WERE TO DROP DEAD.
Ryan called the vote a "missed opportunity."
* AGAIN... RYAN IS A PHONY. I KNOW WHAT HE'S "SAYING." I ALSO KNOW HIS RECORD. RYAN VOTES AS BOEHNER DEMANDS. BOEHNER "LET" RYAN VOTE "NAY" IN AN EFFORT TO PROP UP RYAN'S UNDESERVED REPUTATION AS A FISCAL CONSERVATIVE.
"We need to pay our bills today and make sure we can pay our bills tomorrow," Ryan said in a statement after the vote.
* WELL WE CAN'T PAY OUR BILLS - NOT YESTERDAY'S... NOT TODAY'S... NOT TOMORROW'S - THAT'S WHY WE CONTINUE TO ADD TO THE NATIONAL DEBT.
The House GOP's inability to force even a modest fight on the debt ceiling prompted an outcry from conservative groups, including several calls to replace the current House leadership.
* GIVE ME A FRIGGIN' BREAK! THESE BASTARDS HAD THEIR CHANCE TO REPLAY BOEHNER IN JANUARY OF 2013 AND THEY DIDN'T. FOLKS... YOU NEED TO FACE THE REALITY... THE MAJORITY OF "REPUBLICANS" IN WASHINGTON ARE LITTLE MORE THAN "DEMOCRAT-LITE" SELF-SERVING CAREERIST POLITICIANS.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
"Today, Republican ‘leadership’ in the House completely gave up fighting for the priorities of the American people and once again caved to the demands of President Obama and the Democrats. This latest failure is just more proof that it’s time to dump the GOP leadership in Congress," said ForAmerica Chairman Brent Bozell.
* WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICAN ELECTED OFFICIALS CALLING FOR BOEHNER'S OUSTER...???
The 28 Republicans who voted "yes":
John Boehner (OH), Ken Calvert (CA), Dave Camp (MI), Eric Cantor (VA), Howard Coble (NC), Chris Collins (NY), Charles Dent (PA), Michael Fitzpatrick (PA), Michael Grimm (NY), Richard Hanna (NY), Doc Hastings (WA), Darrell Issa (CA), Peter King (NY), Kevin McCarthy (CA), Buck McKeon (CA), Patrick Meehan (PA), Gary Miller (CA), Devin Nunes (CA), David Reichert (WA), Hal Rogers (KY), Peter Roskam (IL), Ed Royce (CA), Jon Runyan (NJ), John Shimkus (IL), Chris Smith (NJ), David Valadao (CA), Frank Wolf (VA)
* NOTICE THAT SCUMBAG PETE KING IN THERE? WHAT HAVE I ALWAYS TOLD YOU ABOUT KING...?
* AND ISSA...??? HE'S NEVER BEEN A TRUE FISCAL CONSERVATIVE.
This marks the end of an era in which House Republicans sought spending cuts and reforms in equal or greater amount to the increase in the debt ceiling.
Republicans couldn't even come together with their own plan.
* BOEHNER REPUBLICANS. LEADERSHIP REPUBLICANS. (AGAIN... BACK TO RYAN... REMEMBER THE SO-CALLED "RYAN PLAN?" WHERE WAS IT TODAY...???)
“It's a recognition that we don't have 218 votes. When you don't have 218 votes, you have nothing,” Boehner said in a press conference.
* REPUBLICANS CONTROL THE HOUSE. PERIOD. BOEHNER IS A LYING PIECE OF SHIT. PERIOD.
Said Rep. Jim Jordan, a former chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, “I was willing to do something bold.”
* AND YET YOUR SCUMBAG COLLEAGUES VOTED BOEHNER SPEAKER... NOT YOU.
[Supposedly the House will separately vote to reverse many of the veterans' benefits cuts that were in the Ryan-Murray budget deal and "pay for" the spending increase with additional sequester cuts in 2024, five election cycles from now.
* YEP... THAT SOUNDS LIKE RYAN... FIVE ELECTION CYCLES FROM NOW...
* FOLKS... YOU HAVE TO GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS HOW CORRUPT THE GOP LEADERSHIP IS! THEY'RE WORSE THAN THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY'RE COMPLETE HYPOCRITES!
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