House to consider no pay bill until Senate passes

[g8orbill]

a budget

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/bud...o_code=121CC-1

From the article:


“We are going to pursue strategies that will obligate the Senate to finally join the House in confronting the government’s spending problem," Boehner continued.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said that next week Congress will authorize the temporary debt limit to give the Senate and the House time to pass a budget.

"The first step to fixing this problem is to pass a budget that reduces spending," the Virginia Republican said. "The House has done so, and will again. The Democratic Senate has not passed a budget in almost four years, which is unfair to hardworking taxpayers who expect more from their representatives. That ends this year."

[Emmitto]

I like it. I notice there are no details. And a funny little Constitutional issue that might "prevent" it.

Sounds like standard Congressional nothingness.

[madgator]

I may be wrong here. But I believe the only actual vote that the senate has done in the past 2-3 years was on Obama care.


what have they been doing?

[gator996]

You are wrong.

[g8orbill]

They have passed other things including the costly continuous resolution to increase our spending and keep from passing an actual budget

[corpgator]

Well let's see. The dems hold a majority in the Senate and want to pass their legislation. The repubs are in the minority and want none of it to pass, so they filibuster ALL of it. Ironic that repubs then blame dems for not passing anything.

Meanwhile, the house passes everything they want and the dems can do nothing about it.

So, the reps want only their bills passed in the entire government even while controlling only one branch and that was after losing the popular vote there.

There's one party that should be looking more to compromise, but all they do is obstruct.

[g8orbill]

problem is that for you dems- compromise only means pubs coming to the left-the dems never move to the right

[fredsanford]

Originally Posted by g8orbill

problem is that for you dems- compromise only means pubs coming to the left-the dems never move to the right

Wrong

[g8orbill]

Originally Posted by fredsanford

Wrong

Please show me where I am wrong

[mocgator]

Originally Posted by fredsanford

Wrong

No. 100% correct.

[mdgator05]

Originally Posted by g8orbill

Please show me where I am wrong

The inclusion of tax cuts for about 1/3 of the stimulus bill. The dropping of a public option in healthcare reform.

[Matthanuf06]

Originally Posted by mdgator05

The inclusion of tax cuts for about 1/3 of the stimulus bill. The dropping of a public option in healthcare reform.

Sort of the aim for the stars and if you miss you'll still land on the moon strategy?

That isn't real compromise. That's like if the right had their starting point at abolishing the income tax and "compromised" by having a flat 5% tax.

[mdgator05]

Originally Posted by Matthanuf06

Sort of the aim for the stars and if you miss you'll still land on the moon strategy?

That isn't real compromise. That's like if the right had their starting point at abolishing the income tax and "compromised" by having a flat 5% tax.

Yes compromising to the right by giving up on a healthcare system that is more conservative than just about any other first-world country (most places have Single-Payer not Public Option) is the equivalent of the right accepting a 5% flat tax. That is only true if you examine the world from the extreme right of the political system.

[g8orbill]

just because other countries have a single payer is that a reason to scrap our system for this socialized system? that is like when a child says, Tommy gets to do it! What a pile of horse manure

[PITBOSS]

what specific cuts do the house repubs want?

[Gatoragman]

There may some issues but what a concept, do you job or you don't get paid!

[g8orbill]

pitt- to become solvent we have to make cuts across the board(including SS and medicare/medicaid) and we also have to scrap the baseline budgeting system currently in use

[orangeblueorangeblue]

You cannot "cut" debt, dad. That's the problem with "cutting" Social Security. Medicare and Defense comprise 85% of our non-debt budget. You can cut everything else down to 0 and we'd still run a deficit.

[g8orbill]

obob- if you run a true surplus you can reduce your debt- to do that you have to reduce your spending to less than you take in

the problem is that most of the idiots we have in DC do not really care about how much we overspend as long as they maintain their power-they are afraid since so many are now dependent on the guvment that they will lose if they don't continue along the same garden path

[orangeblueorangeblue]

Originally Posted by g8orbill

obob- if you run a true surplus you can reduce your debt- to do that you have to reduce your spending to less than you take in

the problem is that most of the idiots we have in DC do not really care about how much we overspend as long as they maintain their power-they are afraid since so many are now dependent on the guvment that they will lose if they don't continue along the same garden path

Uh, no offense but what does any of that have to do with what I just posted?