Debt limit approaches; stories already appearing about GOP wanting to shut down the government
So, House Republicans delivered on what they were elected to do: they passed a "continuing resolution" to fund all operations of the federal government except one, at current levels, thus avoiding a shutdown. The bill provides that no federal funds shall be used for Obamacare.
One would think this strategy would avoid any possibility of the Dems and their media allies claiming that the GOP was threatening a government shutdown. There's no way House Republicans could rationally be accused of either shutting down the government or threatening to do so, because they passed the C.R. in plenty of time for the senate to act.
Today is Saturday, Sept. 21st, and I'd like to make a prediction: The Democrats and their media allies will still accuse Republicans of threatening to shut down the government.
Yeah, I don't see how that accusation would fly either, but they'll do it anyway. And the media will run the usual dozens of hand-wringing, heart-wrenching stories about poor little old ladies who are scared to death they won't get their Social Security checks.
The media will get away with the "GOP shutdown" story because senate majority leader Harry Reid has said he won't permit a vote on the continuing resolution as-is; i.e. without funding for Obamacare. Instead he intends to strip out the de-funding provision before submitting the bill to a vote.
You'd think if a party leader refuses to submit a crucial continuing-resolution budget bill for a vote, he would be the guy threatening to shut down the gummint. But of course that's not the way the media will spin it. Rather, the media will praise Reid for standing up for the working people.
See, in the senate, Democrats have the votes to get whatever they want. But if they vote *for* the CR as-is, it de-funds Obamacare. So they'll first strip out the troublesome provision and *then* vote.
GOP senators are said to be mulling a filibuster of the crucial spending bill, but I don't think they're likely to actually do that, since the Dems and their media allies are ready to pounce with the "You're shutting down our precious government!" story. So I suspect we'll see things work just the way the bastard Reid has said.
Representative government is a wonderful thing. Government "of the people, by the people and for the people." Wish we had one.
One would think this strategy would avoid any possibility of the Dems and their media allies claiming that the GOP was threatening a government shutdown. There's no way House Republicans could rationally be accused of either shutting down the government or threatening to do so, because they passed the C.R. in plenty of time for the senate to act.
Today is Saturday, Sept. 21st, and I'd like to make a prediction: The Democrats and their media allies will still accuse Republicans of threatening to shut down the government.
Yeah, I don't see how that accusation would fly either, but they'll do it anyway. And the media will run the usual dozens of hand-wringing, heart-wrenching stories about poor little old ladies who are scared to death they won't get their Social Security checks.
The media will get away with the "GOP shutdown" story because senate majority leader Harry Reid has said he won't permit a vote on the continuing resolution as-is; i.e. without funding for Obamacare. Instead he intends to strip out the de-funding provision before submitting the bill to a vote.
You'd think if a party leader refuses to submit a crucial continuing-resolution budget bill for a vote, he would be the guy threatening to shut down the gummint. But of course that's not the way the media will spin it. Rather, the media will praise Reid for standing up for the working people.
See, in the senate, Democrats have the votes to get whatever they want. But if they vote *for* the CR as-is, it de-funds Obamacare. So they'll first strip out the troublesome provision and *then* vote.
GOP senators are said to be mulling a filibuster of the crucial spending bill, but I don't think they're likely to actually do that, since the Dems and their media allies are ready to pounce with the "You're shutting down our precious government!" story. So I suspect we'll see things work just the way the bastard Reid has said.
Representative government is a wonderful thing. Government "of the people, by the people and for the people." Wish we had one.
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