The GOPers had assured us that they really can actually govern not just oppose everything the President supports. They assured us there would be no more government shutdowns or playing chicken on a govt shutdown or debt ceiling. So far, they're not off to a very good start:
"The vote was 47 in favor, 46 against, short of the 60 needed to defeat a filibuster.
Anxieties are growing on Capitol Hill, with less than five left before DHS faces a partial shutdown on Friday and no clear path to avoiding it."
"I'm very disappointed," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said, "at the political ploy used by congressional Republican leadership to force a shutdown of Homeland Security."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/dhs-fourth-filibuster
No one ever will go broke underestimating the Republican party. For the sake of clarity, saying you'll fund the government as long as the Democrats vote for this or that measure they are totally opposed to is not a clean funding bill or honoring the promise of no more playing chicken. You're playing chicken with the government, ironically as much as the GOP beats teh drum over the threat of ISIS, etc. they are endangering us themselves by refusing to fund the DHS without conditions.
That they are failing to keep their promises is nothing new. This is the modern GOP were talking about which prides itself on never learning anything-they never learn anything as this would suggest they were actually wrong about something.
So in 2012 they had supposedly gained religion on immigration reform at least and they were going to pass reform lest the Dems locked in the Latino vote till the next millennium. Then came a piece by Heritage taht claimed they don't need the Latino vote to win the Presidency just get White people to vote.
They had allegedly learnt about the folly of government shutdowns after 1995 but then they did it again in late 2013. Now their doing it again. I'm sure their attempts to shift blame onto the Democrats for not submitting to blackmail will work better than they did in 1995, 2011, and 2013.
Will it be Mitch McConnell to the House's rescue again?
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called the vote Monday the "first opportunity for Democrats to show where they stand after a federal judge preliminarily enjoined the Administration from moving ahead with actions President Obama himself referred to as ‘ignoring the law.’"
"After the vote, McConnell put standalone legislation on the calendar to overturn Obama's immigration actions, outside the DHS funding process. He said he prefers the House bill, but that his alternative offers "another option we can turn to" if Democrats keep filibustering."
Note: As much as it pains me to have to say it, TPM errs in referring to McConnell as the minority leader.
Meanwhile the GOP is allegedly the party of balanced budgets yet reversing Obama's executive action actually would increase it by $50.3 billion dollars.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/23/obama-immigration_n_6738984.html
"The fourth time wasn't the charm for Republicans. On Monday, Senate Democrats again blocked House-passed legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security on the condition that President Barack Obama reverses his executive actions on immigration. They had filibustered the same bill three times in three consecutive daysearlier this month."
"The vote was 47 in favor, 46 against, short of the 60 needed to defeat a filibuster.
Anxieties are growing on Capitol Hill, with less than five left before DHS faces a partial shutdown on Friday and no clear path to avoiding it."
"I'm very disappointed," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said, "at the political ploy used by congressional Republican leadership to force a shutdown of Homeland Security."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/dhs-fourth-filibuster
No one ever will go broke underestimating the Republican party. For the sake of clarity, saying you'll fund the government as long as the Democrats vote for this or that measure they are totally opposed to is not a clean funding bill or honoring the promise of no more playing chicken. You're playing chicken with the government, ironically as much as the GOP beats teh drum over the threat of ISIS, etc. they are endangering us themselves by refusing to fund the DHS without conditions.
That they are failing to keep their promises is nothing new. This is the modern GOP were talking about which prides itself on never learning anything-they never learn anything as this would suggest they were actually wrong about something.
So in 2012 they had supposedly gained religion on immigration reform at least and they were going to pass reform lest the Dems locked in the Latino vote till the next millennium. Then came a piece by Heritage taht claimed they don't need the Latino vote to win the Presidency just get White people to vote.
They had allegedly learnt about the folly of government shutdowns after 1995 but then they did it again in late 2013. Now their doing it again. I'm sure their attempts to shift blame onto the Democrats for not submitting to blackmail will work better than they did in 1995, 2011, and 2013.
Will it be Mitch McConnell to the House's rescue again?
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called the vote Monday the "first opportunity for Democrats to show where they stand after a federal judge preliminarily enjoined the Administration from moving ahead with actions President Obama himself referred to as ‘ignoring the law.’"
"After the vote, McConnell put standalone legislation on the calendar to overturn Obama's immigration actions, outside the DHS funding process. He said he prefers the House bill, but that his alternative offers "another option we can turn to" if Democrats keep filibustering."
Note: As much as it pains me to have to say it, TPM errs in referring to McConnell as the minority leader.
Meanwhile the GOP is allegedly the party of balanced budgets yet reversing Obama's executive action actually would increase it by $50.3 billion dollars.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/23/obama-immigration_n_6738984.html
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