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Tuesday, Oct 15, 2013 Vol 3138 - Cruz-ing to Defeat
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Cruz Could Force
Default by Himself
Why did Tejas curse us with this evil manl? Link Ted Cruz could probably force a default and global economic calamity on his own—if he wants to. The Treasury Department says U.S. borrowing authority will expire on Thursday. How could this happen? Because the Senate can move quickly when necessary, but only by unanimous consent. Let’s say Reid and Mitch the Bitch strike a deal today (unlikely). Cruz surely won’t like it and has said repeatedly, “I will do everything necessary and anything possible to defund Obamacare.” If he’s true to his word, he could drag out the proceedings past Thursday and possibly well beyond. “If a determined band of nut jobs wants to take down the global economy, they could do it,” says Jim Manley, a former top staffer for Reid. “Under Senate rules, we are past the point of no return—there’s not anything Reid or McConnell could do about it.” If Cruz is truly determined to block or delay any deal that does not touch Obamacare, here’s how he’d do it: The hypothetical Reid/McConnell bill would probably be introduced as an amendment to the “clean” debt-ceiling raise that Democrats introduced—and Republicans defeated—last week. Reid voted against cloture on the motion to proceed to that bill, a procedural tactic that allows him to reconsider the bill later on. Let’s say he does so by 5 p.m. Monday. There would need to be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed. Cruz would dissent, but he wouldn’t be able to round up 41 votes for a filibuster. That wouldn’t be his only weapon, however. The real killer is that Senate rules stipulate there must be 30 hours of post-cloture debate, unless senators agree unanimously to waive it. Reid and McConnell would want unanimous consent to move quickly, but Cruz could refuse, thereby forcing 30 hours of debate. This would drag things out until Tuesday at 11:30 p.m. Then there would be a vote on the motion to proceed (requiring a simple majority), followed by an intervening day, assuming Cruz withheld his consent to vote earlier. So now we’re looking at a Thursday cloture vote on the bill itself, followed by another 30 hours of post-cloture debate that would blow right past the Treasury deadline. Finally, sometime on Friday, there would be a vote on the bill and on the amendment to swap in Reid/McConnell. Only then could the bill proceed to the House—which hardly owns a sterling track record of speeding through controversial bills as the global economy teeters on the precipice. Send e-mail to Bart Democrats Raise the Stakes on GOP by Eugene Robinson Link A crazy thing is happening in shuttered, dysfunctional Washington: Democrats are pushing back. This phenomenon is so novel and disorienting that many Republicans in Congress, especially the tea party bullies, seem unable to grasp what’s going on. They keep expecting President Obama and Harry Reid to fold like a cheap suit because, well, such a thing has happened 1,000 times before. I guess it’s understandable that the GOP might have forgotten the difference between bluffing and actually holding a winning hand. Late last week, Reid began demanding that Republicans not only reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling, but that they also make concessions on sequestration. In political terms, he is demanding that the GOP pay a price for putting the country through all this needless drama. Suddenly, Republicans who thought it was fine to hold the government and the economy hostage to nullify Obamacare are shocked that Democrats would even suggest tampering with another duly enacted law: the Budget Control Act of 2011, which established the “sequester” cuts. Was Reid moving the goal posts? Of course he was. That’s what negotiators do when they have the upper hand. I have lived long enough to see Reid and Obama act like men, not mice. Just think of the progress we could've made if Obama had acted like a man from Day One. Send e-mail to Bart Quotes "The reason why Obamacare's not working some states is because those governors in those states don’t want it to work, It’s working fine in California, in Maryland, in Kentucky, which has a Democratic governor, it’s not working where it’s being sabotaged." -- Bill Maher, Link Send e-mail to Bart Subject: from the DC shutdown Dear Bart, I was spared the furlough. I feel unworthy actually and a contractor. I'm IT and there are a few loan types that are considered essential with the Small Business Administration. I'm involved with the website and we are on a fixed rate contract still being paid. Our gov't boss is not guaranteed being paid - but he is so devoted to the job he was working with us all week to provide improvements on the website. It shows me how gov't workers are really devoted to the cause. Government workers have a bad reputation but it isn't true. There are so very many devoted workers for the government and they are being shafted so badly. Nancy Send e-mail to Bart
GOP Disapproval
Grows
Will there even be a GOP when they're done? Link While voters are angry with everyone in Washington, Republicans continue to see the brunt of the blame and growing disapproval, according to a new poll out Monday. Seventy-four percent of Americans disapprove of the way Republicans in Congress are handling negotiations over the budget, a new poll shows. This is up four points from last week’s poll and up 11 points since the start of the shutdown. Republicans are also struggling with support from within their own party. The Washington Whore Post, the paper that's always bending over backwards to make the GOP look good, reports that 49 percent of Republicans approve and 47 percent disapprove of the job the GOP is doing. Alternatively, more than six in 10 Democrats approve of the job Democratic members are doing. Send e-mail to Bart Another Firey Explosion in Tejas They don't believe in safety laws down there... Link An explosion sparked a large fire at an oil storage facility in no-safety-laws Texas, on Monday night. Firefighters from at least three area departments responded to the blaze at the Vess Oil Corp. The flames could be seen from miles away. Cause of the explosion is unknown. Send e-mail to Bart Subject: Janet Yellen Bart, you wrote: > "She'll eventually get approved and a million more women will switch their vote to Democrat." Uh, no. Unless you can provide some numbers, there is no correlation. None. Straw man argument at best. Clearly, one of us is crazy. Obama nominates a woman, the GOP goes wild because they f-ing hate women, women notice and stop voting for them - and you think that's a straw man argument? Look at your history, Boy. What you have failed to bring to your readers attention - once again - is that the current chairman of the Fed Reserve is of Jewish decent, which is a pattern going back over 43 years. Really? So it's about hating the Jews? What if I don't hate the Jews - does that make me stupid and uninformed? Do I need to pull my head out of my ass and educate myself about the "Jew threat?" Of the last 5 Chairmen, only Miller was non-Jewish, and he didnt even last a year. Ben Bernanke (2006-present) Alan Greenspan (1987-2006) Paul Volcker (1979-1987 George William Miller (1978 –1979) Arthur Frank Burns (1970 –1978) Why do you always avoid the Jewish elephant in the room, Bart? Fear of polarizing your readers is no excuse. My readers aren't stupid sheep who need me to tell them which side is up. My readers already know the news - they come here for jokes and perspective. I can tell when someone is religiously insane and that includes you. You see EVERY issue thru a Jewish lens and I don't. And because I don't have your handicap, you insult me. The Federal Reserve is at the heart of every economic problem in this country and you and other so called progressive sites never even talk about it for fear of anti-semitism. You can start by taking your own advice. LIST THE DAMN FACTS I don't care if someone is Jewish or not. I could drive myself religiously insane like you've allowed yourself to be driven. but I chose not to and my life is a whole lot happier without that religious hatred. Ask yourself how such an incredibly small and extremely unrepresentative minority ethnic group that only represents about 2% of the American population could so completely dominate the highest levels of the United States Federal Reserve System. Richard T I don't lay awake at night asking myself how the Jews got involved with the Fed. (Maybe they took a lot of economics classes in college?) I'm guessing you do. I hope things get better for you. Send e-mail to Bart
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Shutdown Shows Racists' Colors Some of us weren't shocked to find that out "The Kenyan Muslin's skin is darker than mine so that makes him bad." Link This weekend, racism came out of the closet. (Which assumes it has ever been in the closet.) Protesters marched through the streets of Washington on Sunday with a Slave Confederate flag and then a protester lounged against the White House fence with one. Displaying the Slave flag in front of a home occupied by a black family was meant to send a particularly repellent message. There were other signs of our descent. Remember Samuel Wurzelbacher? AKA “Joe the Plumber,” he was McCain's racist mascot in 2008. Over the weekend, Wurzelbacher posted an article on his blog titled: “America Needs a White Republican President.” “Admit it,” the article said. “You want a white Republican president again. Wanting a white Republican president doesn’t make you racist, it just makes you American.” America has come to a sorry pass. Not because there are still racists among us, but because the racists among us think they can tell us what makes an American. Send e-mail to Bart Subject: Hollywood Gossip? Bart dear, Where have your Hollywood gossip updates been? You didn’t followup on the last ones and they’ve been missing lately. Have to admit I’ve become a bit of a gossip whore, thank you very much! Takes away from the political BS. Love ys, Sue Sue, I lost my advertisers and that was the point of the "sub" pages. For six weeks I've been doing those sub pages and not getting paid for all that work. I'll bring Gossip back (plus Astrocat and others) when I get the new advertiser code - should be soon. Here's some gossip to hold you over: They have only been working together for two months but already this A list actor who is now dividing his time between television and movies is making this C+ list co-star actress uncomfortable with all of his comments and touching and groping. He has a girlfriend but has made it clear he would like to be with the actress who has been dodging him as best she can and she is thinking about quitting the show. "Two and a Half Men" Ashton Kutcher harrassing Amber Tamblyn who is married to David Cross. Quotes "It’s a new rule: if something doesn’t work, you get rid of it! If the mail is late today, let’s get ride of the Post Office! If a plane is late, get rid of all airplanes! It’s ridiculous!” -- Chris Matthews, talking about Teabagger insanity when it comes to Obamacare Link Send e-mail to Bart Subject: James Woods Bart, And we thought he was acting all those times he played a real asshole! Keith I think it's funny that he can't get anyone to hire him now. Maybe he can get on the Teabagger tour with Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller. Send e-mail to Bart
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It is time to let the computer call balls and strikes? Today's Major League umpires are so incredibly horrible - it's beyond belief. I'm only watching the NL games (Go Cards!) and that first game was f-ing atrocious After one particularly f-ed up call, I hit pause and snapped this photo. The blind-ass umpire called this a strike. Clearly, it's more than the width of a baseball outside the strike zone, but the umpires are so incredibly bad, they are corrupting baseball and it needs to be fixed. MLB is supposed to go to Instant Replay next year, but with umpires this f-ing blind, that's only the first step in a long journey. If you and I did our jobs this poorly, we'd surely be fired. Why can't Major League Baseball get umpires who can f-ing see? Send e-mail to Bart
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