The sequester

smoothy · Mar 1, 2013, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by talaniman

You have been watching to much "Pinky, and the Brain", and the "Walking Dead". Get a beer and settle down and watch Natgeo for a week and stay out of those loony right wing talking chambers.

Make that TWO weeks away from the rest of the nuts. Call me in the morning.

How about READING the damn link... ABC news reported on that... its one of YOUR lefty media outlets.

talaniman · Mar 1, 2013, 01:36 PM

I don't watch ABC news. Nor feed off loony nut jobs, right or left. Bad for the brain.

History Channel, I, and II, Natgeo, Discovery Channel, and whatever channel features WWE Wrestling. Star Trek on the weekends and Law & Order. Walking Dead and Game of Thrones supplement 12 Netflix discs a month and unlimited streaming.

With that and visiting my EMO right wing friends and other forums on this site, plus Fantasy Sports, I have little time for ABC News, and forget FOX!

smoothy · Mar 1, 2013, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by talaniman

I don't watch ABC news. Nor feed off loony nut jobs, right or left. Bad for the brain.

Yet you listen to the source of the lunacy himself... Obama.

But the fact remains the government DOES waste our tax money on stuff like that... how else can you explain the massive deficits in spending. Nobody in the Military is getting wealthy... except for those in the Command.

talaniman · Mar 1, 2013, 01:54 PM

And war contractors.

smoothy · Mar 1, 2013, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by talaniman

And war contractors.

Then there is the $1.6 BILLION dollars in advanced weapons the White house was giving to the Muslim brotherhood terrorist organisation in Egypt. Then there is all the money wasted on the ANTI-US UN... and the money wasted being given to Hamas terrorist organisation...

tomder55 · Mar 1, 2013, 04:18 PM

Today while the press was fixated on insignificant cuts to the rate of spending increases ;The Hill is reporting that 700 pages of new Obamacare regulations were released (during the Friday document dump) .
More than 700 pages of healthcare rules released - The Hill's RegWatch

Got to admit ,Zero is good at political jui jitsu . Of course the Congressional Repubics are asleep.. Maybe they will comment by the Sunday talk shows... and of course they will do nothing about it . One thought... the next budget show down is in 2 weeks or so. How about a complete defunding of Obamacare... NOW THAT's WHAT I CALL SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS!!

talaniman · Mar 1, 2013, 08:54 PM

Comments on the SHOP proposals are due by April 11.

Read more: More than 700 pages of healthcare rules released - The Hill's RegWatch
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A month and a half to read and comment starting this week end. Congress is on a long weekend any way.

tomder55 · Mar 2, 2013, 03:03 AM

Three of the regulations are final .

The rules will become effective on May 11, and HHS will take comments on an interim final regulation regarding cost-savings programs and government risk pooling .Not that that will change anything. I have seen this act many times. We have packed town hall with people who had negative comments on a pending law . The comments get filed ,and the law goes into effect unchanged... pure pro forma bs.

excon · Mar 2, 2013, 06:25 AM

Hello again,

I don't know what this has to do with anything, but I wanted to post it, so I am.

tomder55 · Mar 2, 2013, 07:11 AM

Yes Republicans are more critical of the Repubics running the party.

tomder55 · Mar 2, 2013, 11:17 AM

Next up ;the CR (or what the Dems call a "budget"). The Repubics have to establish the sequester as the permanent base line until the Dems in the Senate pass a budget that can go to a conference committee. They also have to set the budget priorities instead of this across the board cutting. The Senate Repubics were willing to give the President that authority ,but he passed on it.
The Repubics also have to get to the business of defunding Obamacare .
If the President wants to talk about taxes ,then go for it... Now is the time for a tax overhaul with the President's wish to close loopholes ,and the Repubic's wish to flatten marginal rates.

speechlesstx · Mar 2, 2013, 12:31 PM

And after all that his message is the same, it's the Republicans fault. How long can one man and a do-nothing senate get by with shirking responsibility?

talaniman · Mar 2, 2013, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by speechlesstx

And after all that his message is the same, it's the Republicans fault. How long can one man and a do-nothing senate get by with shirking responsibility?

For as long as repubs keep stalling in the house.

speechlesstx · Mar 2, 2013, 03:49 PM

Are you really that detached from reality or just think we are?

excon · Mar 2, 2013, 03:54 PM

Hello again, Steve:

Are you really that detached from reality or just think we are?

If you think it's only the Dems who are blocking and blaming, then you ARE pretty much detached from reality. BOTH sides are to blame.

But, I don't care about blame... The Republicans will take take that. I want to see my country back on track.

Excon

speechlesstx · Mar 2, 2013, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by excon

Hello again, Steve:

If you think it's only the Dems who are blocking and blaming, then you ARE pretty much detached from reality. BOTH sides are to blame.

But, I don't care about blame... The Republicans will take take that. I wanna see my country back on track.

excon

Obama wasted his currency on scarequester only to do an Emily Letilla impersonation after Repubics offered him the chance to pick the cuts. Even dems offered a plan and he passed, so what are you missing here? You want to help Trumka "take your country back"? From what?

tomder55 · Mar 2, 2013, 08:10 PM

Let's put it this way... he used his political capital in the last 2 months. Everyone knows a 2%cut is modest . It is up to him to make it work .He's the Chief Executive . It's time he started acting like one and make RESPONSIBLE cuts... not the ones he threatened with his demagoguery .

Wondergirl · Mar 2, 2013, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by tomder55

RESPONSIBLE cuts

Cutting federal funds to the Blue Angels.

smoothy · Mar 2, 2013, 08:23 PM

Bet the sluts like Sandra Flock still get their free birth control at taxpayer expense while they are paying to attend $40,000 a year universities like she did.

talaniman · Mar 2, 2013, 08:28 PM

Amazing though is that most of America agree with him,more so than with repubs.

Large Majority Of Americans, Including Most Republicans, Support Raising Taxes On The Wealthy | TPMDC

More in U.S. Now Want Balanced Approach to Cutting Deficit

Obama calls for replacing sequester with balanced approach - xinmsn News

I think his investments in political capital will screw you guy up despite the bravado from the right.

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