Month: October 2013

The TanMan is ‘Tania’ – Tea-Publican economic terrorists to reject Senate plan

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

In an earlier post, I posed the question:

Will the TanMan waive the so-called "Hastert Rule" and allow a vote
on the Senate bill in the House to fund the government and to raise the
federal debt ceiling to prevent an economic disaster and to do "what's
in the best interest of our country"?

Or will the TanMan continue to side with the Tea Party economic terrorists holding him hostage in a classic case of Stockholm syndrome?
Will "Tania" give the Tea Party economic terrorists what they want —
the destruction of the federal government and the U.S. and world
economy?

The question has now been answered by "Tania," who is siding with the radical Tea Party economic terrorists. Ed Kilgore reports at the Political Animal blog, House Wants More Obamacare Concessions:

WileyCoyoteEarly reports on what House Republicans might offer as a “new volley”
of demands as the debt limit breach approaches centered on a
reiteration of the very short-term debt limit and appropriations
extensions that were sent to the White House over the weekend only to be
rejected. But now it seems clear that a determination to obtain more
Obamacare concessions is the main difference between House and Senate GOP conferences, according to WaPo’s Montgomery and Helderman:

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif,) said the new House plan was
designed to be attractive to Democrats, because it would follow key
timelines that have been established in the Senate negotiations —
funding government agencies until Jan. 15, for example, and raising the
debt ceiling until Feb. 7.

Will the TanMan do ‘what’s in the best interest of our country’ today?

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The reporting this morning is that Senators Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell on Tuesday
will present their colleagues with a plan that could resolve the
standoff, end the shutdown and lift the threat
of a default.

What happens in the radical Tea-Publican House led by the TanMan, Weeper of the House John Boehner, remains much in doubt. Senate
Leaders Push Debt Deal With House Still in Doubt. With a deal in sight, the question is whether House Republicans are ready to accept it. Will House Republicans allow a retreat?

I am afraid there is what Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan once referred to as "irrational exuberance" among the Beltway media villagers and the banksters of Wall Street that this is a done deal.

Remember this at the height of the financial system meltdown on September 29, 2008? House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205; Stocks Plunge – NYTimes:

In a moment of historic import in the Capitol and on Wall Street, the House of Representatives voted on Monday to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry. The vote came in stunning defiance of President Bush and Congressional leaders of both parties, who said the bailout was needed to prevent a widespread financial collapse.

The Tea-Publican economic terrorists ‘rigged the rules’ to shut down the government

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Here is an "inside baseball" analysis of the current Tea Party government shutdown and hostage taking over the federal debt ceiling that most political reporters have failed to report, probably because procedural rules are not as sexy as provocative soundbites from politicians. As Democrats seethe over GOP tactics, video over rules change goes viral:

In a sign of how angry Democrats are over the government shutdown, a video Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has posted of an obscure rules debate has gone viral.

The video — which has already attracted more than 702,000 views since
being posted to YouTube on Saturday — shows Van Hollen engaging in a
parliamentary inquiry with Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who was in the speaker’s chair at the time. The two men
discussed why Democrats could not bring up a Senate amendment that would
provide funding to return the government to normal operations. 

Normally an individual lawmaker would be able to force a vote on a
bill where there is a dispute between the House and Senate, but on Oct.
1, House Republicans passed a resolution, H. Res. 368, altering the
rules to make that impossible.

“The Rules Committee under the rules of the House changed the
standing rules of the House of the to take away the right of any member
to move to vote to open the government and gave that right exclusively
to the Rep leader, is that right?” asked Van Hollen, the top Democrat on
the House Budget Committee.

“The House adopted that resolution,” Chaffetz replied.

Political polarization is a symptom of social disintegration

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By Karl Reiner

Political polarization is making America ungovernable.  Congress has become so deadlocked that a large part of the federal government has been shut down.  It has been unable to reach an agreement on the
Defaultfederal budget or on raising the debt ceiling.  THe U.S. now faces a danger of default.  Because the dollar is the world's reserve currency, the consequences would be unpredictable and quickly spread worldwide.

The U.S. has the world's most expensive healthcare system.  Healthcare is a $2.7 trillion part of the economy.  While America spends 18% of its GDP on healthcare, nearly 50 million people remain uninsured.  While the U.S. struggles to contain costs, other countries spending far less per capita on healthcare achieve better results.