Comments on: The House Is To Blame

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:07:01 +0000

In reply to Badtux.

The Treasury is shifting money all over hell and beyond to cover bills and avoid the limit, but it won’t last forever, and the shutdown isn’t as much help as people may believe in reducing the bills because payments lag the bills. Eventually the shutdown will ease pressure, but not immediately.

Congress has no idea how things really work, and the whackoes are living in a separate universe, so they will never understand.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 05:47:10 +0000

Well, the IRS should be getting quarterly payments around now, so the Treasury should have enough cash on hand to meet Social Security payments at least. Incoming money for SS is still greater than outlay.

The debt ceiling issue is going to be the biggie though. Treasury is not prohibited from issuing new bonds to replace old ones on a one-for-one basis so a debt default seems unlikely, but the rest of government stays shut down until that ceiling is raised.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 22:45:44 +0000

I had a moment of panic there, Badtux, because ssa.gov was down for awhile. Despite separate funding they are cutting some services apparently because they share some resources with other agencies that are shutting down.

As far as the checks go, if the debt limit isn’t raised, Treasury can’t write the checks until they get the money to cover them, so there may be delays. Knocking a half-million people off the tax rolls certainly doesn’t help the situation.

This is sort of a cross between Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, Kryten – both other-worldly and macabre.

Yes, a lot of the people who were in House have ‘tweeted’ about the obvious inebriation, that Grayson identified as ‘the usual suspects’. Nothing like having a government controlled by drunken whackoes.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 07:23:22 +0000

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By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:41:07 +0000

The SSA is funded outside of the budget process so Social Security checks will continue going out, Bryan. But the VA pension checks definitely won’t.

If by “this feels institutional at this point” you are referring to Arkham Asylum, yeah :). The only thing we’re lacking is insane cackling. Though the smell of whiskey from the House floor may indicate that we’ll get that shortly. (According to observers in the gallery, a number of members of the Republican caucus are completely soused at this point… and who can blame them?).

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:58:32 +0000

I’m watching “F-Troop” (DVD)! One of the best things out of the USA evah!! 😈 (and so much more rational and sane than the USA the past decade or so!) 😉 😆

Then, I think I’ll watch “Get Smart”! Max is a genius compared to the US Gov!

Hmmm… Maybe “Gilligan’s Island” after (’cause that’s where you’re headed)…

And maybe “Dennis the Menace” after that (or maybe “Welcome Back, Kotter”)… Ehhh… Why not both! And then, to sum it all up… “Happy Day’s”!

Ooooh!! There are soooo many 50’s & 60’s TV shows I could add! Ahhh… they were the heyday’s of the great ol’ US of A! So sad… too bad… Bye, Bye!

Oh… “The Monkey’s”! “The Twilight Zone”! “Lost in Space” “It’s About Time”! “Mission Imposible”! “The Flintsones”… “Beverly Hillbillies”! “Car 54, Where Are You?”… Noooo there are too many!! Make it stop!! Oh, the pain… the pain! (guess who?) 😉

My Gawd! The USA was soooo prophetic back then! LMAO

Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’

Keep movin’, movin’, movin’,
Though they’re disapprovin’,
Keep them doggies movin’ Rawhide!
Don’t try to understand ’em,
Just rope and throw and grab ’em,
Soon we’ll be living high and wide.
Boy my heart’s calculatin’
My true love will be waitin’, be waiting at the end of my ride.

Move ’em on, head ’em up,
Head ’em up, move ’em out,
Move ’em on, head ’em out Rawhide!
Set ’em out, ride ’em in
Ride ’em in, let ’em out,
Cut ’em out, ride ’em in Rawhide.
…
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’
Though the streams are swollen
Keep them dogies rollin’
Rawhide!
Rain and wind and weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishin’ my gal was by my side.
All the things I’m missin’,
Good vittles, love, and kissin’,
Are waiting at the end of my ride.

Move ’em on, head ’em up
Head ’em up, move ’em on
Move ’em on, head ’em up
Rawhide
Count ’em out, ride ’em in,
Ride ’em in, count ’em out,
Count ’em out, ride ’em in
Rawhide!

😈

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:07:32 +0000

In reply to Badtux.

This feels institutional at this point. The Democratic leaders of the Senate know Obama won’t allow anything to endanger his main accomplishment. He won’t compromise, and the Senate is getting tired of being pushed by the House, when the House refuses to go to conference on the budget bills.

Republicans in swing districts are sweating bullets, because they are facing primary challenges if they break ranks, and probable loss at the election if they don’t.

When the VA pensions and Social Security checks stop going out, all hell is going to break loose.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:20:01 +0000

But the veto threat, Bryan, is what’s going to keep the Senate in line. The Senate isn’t going to arrive at a compromise with the House that they *know* Obama will veto. It ain’t happenin’. It would be the biggest waste of time since Miley Cyrus twerked at the VMA’s.

Obama has a big stick here (the veto pen), and if he doesn’t credibly threaten to use it if the Senate gives in to House blackmail, he might as well resign, pack up, move back to Chicago, and let Joe Biden run things.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:46:56 +0000

That, Badtux, is why I don’t see a role for Zero in this part of the opera that the US government has become. This is a battle between the House and the Senate, not Congress and the President.

If they pass something he doesn’t want, then he gets a duet, but he is just part of the chorus for the moment.

I’m going to use that quote in my next post, Kryten.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:34:01 +0000

At least Clinton had some limit’s, and wasn’t a complete sociopath. (Though he did go somewhat “Power Mad!”) 😉

Been meaning to post this quote for some time. I think it sum’s up the *Teapublican’ts* perfectly.

“Men never do evil so completely or cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
— Blaise Pascal