House Republicans Show Up Outside of White House Demanding Written Proposal on Debt Ceiling
The kabuki theater from House Republican freshman on raising the debt limit continues -- GOP congressmen show up at White House, want plan:
While President Obama and Congressional GOP leaders continue to negotiate a debt ceiling deal behind the scenes, several House Republican freshmen are growing impatient.
Nearly 20 of them ventured to the gates of the White House Tuesday with a letter in hand to the president demanding the he immediately deliver Congress a written proposal to raise the debt ceiling.
“Given the significance of our debt-driven crisis and the historic importance of the negotiations, we believe it is imperative that the work towards any agreement be as transparent as possible so that American people have a chance for careful evaluation of the process free from political posturing,” the members wrote in the letter.
Rep. Tom Reed, who led the freshman lawmakers to the White House, told reporters the group doesn’t care if opposing a debt ceiling increase harms their reelection chances.
“We don’t care about reelection,” he said. “We felt it was incumbent to come to the White House because this is a critical issue.”
Members of the group added they will not agree to any debt ceiling proposal unless there are detailed spending cuts and timelines involved.
Apparently they don't think their leader John Boehner is capable of negotiating for them if they're pulling stunts like this.
Is it the President's job to write legislation now?
Oh ok, well just to humor them I'd write this down on a piece of paper and hand it to them:
Dear Congress,
Raise the debt ceiling.
Sincerely,
President Barrack Obama
P.S. If you would also like me to do your job and write the 2012 Budget, I'll turn it in next week with my book report.
P.P.S. F*** off.
the lobbyists' job, but I like your letter better...lol.
:^)
The republicans are hysterical, and your suggestion is excellent.
These imbeciles are taking mob behavior to a new level of myopic ignorance.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
short, sweet, and direct to the point.............and, with a slight touch of respect (as respectful as this bunch deserves). I like it.
Tomorrow, I'm going to camp outside my bosses door demanding a pay increase. I'll let you know how that turns out.
where are these guys hiding the large
sticks shoved up their asses?
trouble is unless Obama totally gets rid of Medicare (which is looking more and more a probability) and SS (ditto) and Medicaid (double ditto)...
they won't have a thing to do with anything Obama proposes. Oh yes, he has to NOT want to raise taxes either...
If we do end up defaulting...I can't wait to hear from that idiot relative of mine...not to mention, supposedly several states, including the one she lives in is on Moody's :Down -rating" chopping block BEFORE any actual federal default.
South Carolina is another one. Because of their close monetary (?) ties to the govt.....
I think their constituents should be deeply concerned that their representatives have no clue how a bill is written or how it becomes law. Deeply concerned.
"Kabuki theater". It's in every post. Can we come up with another metaphor please?
.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Instead of sitting there and bitching, how about you come up with something better?
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
Bozo's Circus is copywrited so that's out . How about "Stump Stupid Inbred Shitheel Theater"?
Kinda catchy huh?
Dance macabre?
Drama of the dimwits?
Daily load of wankstains wanking?
Catapulting the propaganda?
Daily episode of Murder theater?
a bigger group of swinging D***ks all together ...........
D***ks == Daleks?
Or did you mean to type; D**ks
(Dang... Now I'm going to be trying to picture swinging Daleks in my mind for the rest of the evening.)
meant D**ks...
I've always like "dumbf*ckery" as a catch-all for the things that go on in DC, but then again, I wouldn't want it to lose all meaning through over-usage.
Hey, house Republicans, I got your written proposal right here. Big, brown, steaming written proposals for you right here.
when you need one?
Sit down and shut up.
Can these gomers read? Maybe they should just nail their letter on the door a la Martin Luther or throw them through the window with a flaming cocktail a la Ku Klux Klan. This isn't government, this is lunacy! If it were legal we could maybe sell them into slavery like they want to do to the elderly, the disabled, and the poor. It's amazing what the Koch dollars can buy.
For a few million dollars the Koch brothers have totally corrupted one of the two political party. And people think its a good idea to let the rich keep all of their money when some of them are using it to destroy America. Image if this kind of damageto our political system was done by some foreign power, we would be at war with them right now.
Exactly - the rich need lower taxes to bribe elected officials with until their take-over is complete.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Ding-ding-ding!
Ding-ding-ding!
One great remark right after another.
This stuff writes itself, doesn't it? These asshat Republican representative continue to make Stewart's and Colbert's jobs easier and easier.
Proud DFH, emeritus!
Silly of Stewart to be worried about what to do without Bush as preznit when the House is full of sociopaths just like him.
I'm impressed. They went out into the sunlight.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
They are not nerds. More like wankers.....or vampires. Just saying.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
would associate with them. Wankers? Well, if they were only wanking they wouldn't be causing this much trouble.
We need a new word, but I'm at a loss for what you would call a bunch of pig-headed, mis-informed, ill-educated, loud-mouthed, sociopathic, knuckle-dragging morons.
maybe?
!
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
says mr. burns (among others).
"The only thing that ever changed 'The Conservative Mind' was the Union Army." –Driftglass
I haven't seen that many turds in one place since being in a Porto-potty at the end of the day at "Taste of Chicago".
What other jobs have they had in their lives where their superior does their job for them?
the first thing to not get paid if we default would be their paychecks. Personally, I think they shouldn't even be getting paid now, until they get their anal-cranio trouble straightened out.
Section 7
"All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills......."
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;......"
They knew the job was dangerous when they took it, but they simply don't want to accept responsibility for the things they are clearly responsible for.
Just who the fuck do you think you are, you brain-dead sons of bitches? Go back to the hill and do your fucking jobs!
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
OK. I get it. These guys are dumber than a sack of hammers.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
They're rich, have power, and are fucking up the country.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
If we had a president who was worth a damn he'd gone out on the balcony and given them the middle finger salute and or hung a B A live on national television . Alright , I got a little carried away but you gotta admit that would be great .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
I would love to see that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After all, the righties thought it was funny of pics of shrub with his middle finger extended. I always said, he WAS a walking middle finger......
Those greedy losers can kiss my rosy red butt! If they do not want to do the jobs they ran for, then they should just leave! There are other people out there you know.
you vote drunk.
This is what happens when you're dumb , ignorant and you vote.
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
we can't have any nice things.
me-oww!
...a few weeks or months ago. The tide has turned, and the only game in the GOP playback is to try anything to get the tide to turn back. Anything, that is, short of actually doing their jobs.
63% of the National Debt is owed to the American people. The last few administrations have simply borrowed trillions of dollars from the Social Security fund to finance huge tax cuts for the rich, along with a few wars. Now rescumlicans want to tell the people who have given the money to Social Security fund that they don't want to pay them the money that they have invested. The rich and the military industrial complex have been given these funds, and now they refuse to pay them back.
You'll never hear this from rescumlicans because they don't want their friends to be obligated to pay it back. Rescums do everything they can to convince people that we are 1 step away from China foreclosing. Just so you know, China holds between 7% and 8% of the debt.
Rescumlicans are either uninformed, stupid or just a flat out liar. Personally, I lean towards them being liars... could they just be stupid?
"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" .. George Orwell
I guess we are dealing with 10 year olds here. Give me what I want or I am going to go outside and eat ants. If it isn't time to follow the 14th amendment now it never will be. These folks should be arrested as the terrorists that they are. We don't have OSBL to destroy us anymore, we have the tea baggers that are going to bring down this country. ARREST THEM!!!
It would be to see how many of the House freshpersons could correctly cite Article V of the constitution as would be required to institute the "...Balance..." part of this joke.
Here's a study guide:
To Propose Amendments
Two-thirds of both houses of Congress vote to propose an amendment.
To Ratify Amendments
Three-fourths of the state legislatures approve it
Actually, the steps are: 2/3 House approval
2/3 Senate approval Not likely
President signs VETO
3/4 of states ratify and give up the idea that the feds have their back
in an emergency.
Actually the President has no role in the Constitutional Amendment process but irregardless it is a very difficult and time consuming thing to accomplish. It can take up to 7 years. So I am sure all these ignorant tea party congressmen have no clue as to how the process works. I am serious when I say these guys are terrorists with the intent to overthrow our government. When is anyone going to recognize this?
... that one of the teas' requirements is that it pass both houses, by 2/3rds before 2 August?
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
Did these "people" drive their clown car over to the White House? If they have time for un-serious stunts like this one,they have time to do their GOVERNMENT-FUNDED JOBS. They make me so sick-at-heart that further words fail me.
It's no wonder they want to lay off all the government employees. They judge everyone else by their own behavior.
... it serves their purpose by raising the unemployment rate
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
They won't really be convincing until one of them doses himself in lighter fluid and strikes a match. Until such time I see no real sincerity in their theatrics.
it's no surprise that this group looks like
a bunch of fucking fat white men......what
a bunch of TURDS.
when elected officials don't listen. Look how much respect these CONS have for their constituents. They can feel the abject helplessness that voters/protesters in Wisconsin and Michigan and Ohio and other states have endured under their thug tactics.
Have any of you read this little article:http://news.yahoo.com/wisconsins-scott-walker-concedes-mistakes-defends-policies-213914690.html What these guys don't realize is that a State or a Country is by definition no where near being the same as a corporation. And as such should not be run like one. It amazes me they claim the Dems are for the "elite" yet they are the ones who think the "elite" (that would be the top earners in society, right?) should pay no taxes.
The right wing policy right down to the rank and file is to shamelessly worship the elite while shamelessly demeaning the poor or less fortunate. The later of which most of them fit in themselves. It's one more reason why they are irrelevant.
dadams said:
Are you suggesting that these doofusses are nothing more than ventriloquist dummies?
If you're not, can I?
Hooked on drama. It comes from watching too much Fox.
Sarah Palin reality tv
Imagine the gin and viagra sweating out of these weasals
I need to vomit now.
me-oww!
inappropriate know-nothing weirdos.
me-oww!
and told the Republicans to pass a clean debt ceiling bill. Instead we are going to get more chicken little legislation. "The sky is falling so we must pass crappy legislation that 90% of Americans oppose or else we might default". Bend over people cause its coming.
Republicans are liars and simply cannot be trusted.
Remember when you gave all the money to the rich, and it would trickle town to the middle class workers - eventually?
Well, eventually never happened, but we are back at the same concept. Give all the tax breaks to the
richjob creators, and jobs will trickle down. Since 2001 this is still just a concept.If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
Games the republicans play ... Sociopathic liars.
"we don't care if we get reelected because our convictions matter more to us and so we are just going to grand stand and play this silly game of pretending to confront the president with our country killing ideas no matter what anybody says or no matter what the consequences" "so there" "waaaa waaaaa wa".
What a mountain of horse manure.
"We don't care about getting reelected"
Here is a few more things you rat pig cowards can do to prove you are really serious about your convictions.
1) Give up your own tax payer government healthcare
2) Put forth legislation that ends all healthcare for all Washington politicians.
3) Give up your government salaries and get a second job.
4) Refuse all future social security or medicare benefits for yourselves and your families.
5) Kick lobbyists out of the government and end tax welfare for corporations.
6) Drive your grandmothers into the woods to die with a few cans of cat food and a blanket.
7) Send your children to work a 60 work week at around 5 years old.
8) Strip all the regulations out of everything government does to keep us safe.
9) Lick the behind of every CEO and Wall Street huckster then turn them around and finish the job.
10) Above all make sure that you grand stand and huff and puff until the US economy tanks so you can say you personally shut down government spending.
This little piggy when to FOX NEWS to spew his feeble ideas and lies.
This little piggy went to the House of Representatives to get fatter on tax payer money and tell even bigger lies.
This little piggy went to the Koch brother to fluff them and pay allegiance and get the talking points about even bigger lies.
And this little piggy went and told even bigger lies outside the White House where he huffed and puffed to make himself look bigger for the media.
And the last little piggy went wa, wa, wa, all the way back to his selfish, uneducated, fat tea bagger life, and was never ever heard from ever ever again.
The end.
DId we run out of Water Cannons and Police Dogs?
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
So a handful of Republicans who oppose raising the debt ceiling gather outside the White House to demand a written proposal from the President to do the very thing they oppose doing. So that they can make political points by voting against it. They're really earning their keep.
Louisville Lawyer
Oh, this version ends at 2:20, but in the longer version the are seen stamping their feet and whining "but we dont know hooOOWWwwwww!!!!! Bar-RAAAACK!!! I dont wanna!!!" Stupid Freshmen.
Did I say Freshmen? I meant douchebags.
Sadly, one of those GOP/TEA Party members represents my area here in Michigan (Tim Walberg). I did not vote for him, I am too much of a Liberal. But if he does not understand how a bill becomes a law, oh my word!!
Congress is supposed to deliver a bill to the president that they think he will sign-- or that they have enough votes to override his veto.
These guys are demanding the president to send a bill to Congress, which they are already determined to defeat. It's no wonder they think government is broken. They don't know how to do it.
Louisville Lawyer
Not one of those scumbag Tea Baggers would have the guts to go to the White House alone. They believe in gang rape. Dirty rotten bastards. They don't even have the smarts to realize that what they are doing is destroying this country from the inside out. And here we were sitting here worrying about China and Korea
who are laughing at us for being dumb enough to let these fools rule.
The President!
Stupid ignorant and contemptible!
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