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by Bryan

The House really wants to shut down the government. Instead of defunding the ACA [Obamacare] they now want it postponed for a year, and they want a tax on some medical equipment removed to continue to fund the government.

The Senate is not going to meet again until Monday and they will ship back the same bill they shipped before with neither of these amendments.

The only way of avoiding a shutdown is for Boehner to bring the Senate bill to the floor for a vote after convincing enough Republicans to join with the Democrats to pass it. The whackos will want his scalp if he does it, so he will probably have to lose the Speaker’s gavel if he does it. If he doesn’t do it, he may have a hard time raising money to run for reelection next year.

6 comments

1 Badtux { 09.28.13 at 11:12 pm }

Boehner is between a rock and a hard place. If he defies the Koch Brothers and brings the Senate bill to the floor, the Koch Brothers will primary him with a well-funded Teabagger opponent. If he doesn’t, his own campaign contributors will bolt and maybe he’ll get primaried anyhow. This is what happens when you put anarchists in charge of government, they blow shit up. Always been how it worked, always will be.

2 Bryan { 09.29.13 at 10:26 am }

If he wants to stay in the House he should just quit as Speaker, because this is no-win for him and the leadership. We have three parties operating with the Republicans and TPs acting as coalition, not a party.

In the US parties are labels, not organizations.

3 Steve Bates { 09.29.13 at 11:25 am }

The GOP is attempting to mix oil and water, and it might lose them the next House election. Their only likely solution? Lye…

4 Bryan { 09.29.13 at 1:57 pm }

The Party that is currently called Republican has a history of splintering and forming something new. That splintering is the only way around the gerrymandering that took place in 2010.

Well, they lie to themselves and everyone else, so lye is not new to them as they are quite caustic.

5 Kryten42 { 09.29.13 at 5:42 pm }

It seems the fundi extreme GOP crazies and their sycophants (like those at F-O-X) are really annoyed at the new Pope Francis. I wonder when the USA will attack Rome? 😆

Jon Stewart did a great segment about it. 😉 😀 (Of course!)

Raw Story did a good piece on the Rethugs. 😀

Why Republican lawmakers are dodging the town halls’ ‘Days of Rage’

And another typical insane female repug is in the news (from Raw Story):

A Republican lawmaker who has called background checks on guns a “knee-jerk reaction” to mass shootings slammed President Barack Obama’s health care reform law on Sunday for not providing background checks on the workers hired as “Navigators” to help Americans understand the law.

Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) told MSNBC’s Alex Witt that she was not advising her constituents to sign up for the new health insurance exchanges.

“I will say that our [Tennessee] Department of Commerce was very concerned about Navigators not having background checks,” Blacks said. “And they are requiring — and the state does have the authorities to be able to do that — but they are requiring that when people take your Social Security number, your bank information, your health information, that these have people that have been qualified, not only in their learning about the system but also that they have background checks so they don’t have the most personal information that could be let out there and used in ways that we would like our identity to be used.”

As Forbes’ Carolyn McClanahan pointed out earlier this year, Navigators can provide assistance to people who don’t have coverage by collecting three basic pieces of information: the number of people in the family, income information and sources of available coverage, such as employment.

“So what keeps Navigators from stealing your private information and your identity?” McClanahan wrote. “The requirements are the same as HIPAA, and for those who have ever accessed the health care system and needed information, you will realize the rules are very stringent. Section 1411 sets the fine for improper use and disclosure of information at $25,000. And identity theft is a federal crime regardless of where the thief obtained the information.”

While Black has demanded background checks for the Navigators, she told MSNBC in January that closing background check loopholes for gun sales would be a “knee-jerk reaction” to last December’s mass killing of 20 elementary school children in Connecticut.

“I think we need to talk about mental illness, about the breakdown of the family, about violence, about holding people who use guns in violent actions accountable,” she insisted to MSNBC host Chris Jansing. “I will not erode our Second Amendment Rights.”

What a hypocrite and a moron.

Well… That’s my laugh for the day! Now I have to finish breakfast and get ready to go confront my Bank of some typical bank insanity (yes, our bank’s are crazy also). Then spend a day installing windoze and a bunch of s/w & games on a friend’s PC in a way that their nieces & nephews won’t kill in a week. *shrug*

6 Bryan { 09.29.13 at 8:14 pm }

It is up to the state to establish the rules for their exchanges, because this is implemented on a state by state basis. The Federal government is just providing the money and training. Insurance is regulated by the states, not the Federal government, but you can’t expect Republicans to know that.

Given that Edward Snowden and the Navy Yard shooter both passed background checks, I don’t know what this Congresscritter thinks is important about them. Just because you have stolen anything yet, doesn’t mean you won’t. And if you have stolen, there is no certainty you will do it again. Most of the people talking to the ‘Navigators’ will be poor people, and you have to be a government or a bank to make it worthwhile stealing from the poor.