Congress hurtles toward shutdown

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  1. Bluesguy

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    With a pen.
     
  3. Bluesguy

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    This isnt the budget this is a CR, go take a higher course in government and learn the difference.

    Now explain your claim the the 2009 budget deficit was Bush's because he did not veto it.
     
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  5. Bluesguy

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    This isnt a vote on the budget gk learn the difference.

    How was Bush supposed to veto the Democrats 2009 budget ?
     
  6. Bluesguy

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    Explain how a former President can use a pen to veto current legislation.
     
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    It's always fun to see these bigoted posts that include "waiting for the old people to die off" BS.

    Nothing but crystal balls and hope....
     
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    Fourteenth Amendment, Section 4:

    The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void."​
     
  9. Zorro

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    Who is questioning it?​
     
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    Run, run, run...
     
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    I love trumpettes that think that merely speaking it makes it so. Explains why they keep throwing such factless crap at the wall.
     
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    completely destroys, lol
     
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    That's exactly my thoughts about what the alt-left is doing....run, run, run, right into the wall.
     
  14. rahl

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    it's the budget. They DECIDED to try and pass a CR. They could have done budget reconciliation. But they're republicans, which means they're incompetent.
     
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    yes it is. Republicans are just incompetent, and tried a CR instead.

    They could have went with budge reconciliation, which only requires 51 votes. A shut down is 100% on them.
     
  16. LangleyMan

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    Trump inherited an expanding economy and Obama inherited an economy in recession.

    We had a huge demand deficit in 2009 that only government spending and tax cuts could close. Your comparison is either uninformed or disingenuous.
     
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    Trump inherited an economy plunging toward zero.

    [​IMG]

    Being a Very Stable Genius, he quickly turned it around!
     
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    Which again will be a referendum come fall.This finishes
    them off as a major party.They just couldn't help themselves.
    Ridiculously clueless and power hungry.Not an inkling
    of perspective.Yet they traipse around claiming President
    Trump is clueless.
    Democrats are now the Party of Daffy
     
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  19. LangleyMan

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    ROFL
     
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    Than you for an absurd comment.
     
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    :yawn:
     
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    Facts are stubborn things!

    Obama grew debt, far better than he grew GDP

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    The Very Stable Genius Trump, as expected, is doing a MUCH better job:

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    Facts are stubborn things!
     
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    There's just no way in arguing with hard numbers.
    Which is why Obama bent over backwards to Corrupt
    numbers.Like they way he oversaw the way The Bureau of
    Labor Statictics determine both U3 and U6.
    They just disappeared 1.2 million from the Total Labor
    force.This happened in late 2011 { December } and then
    reflected in January's 2012 Unemployment number.
    The BLS also instead of keeping the Labor force numbers
    for a full year,decided to keep for as little as 4 weeks.
    Keep the Total labor Force number low and you get a
    better Unemployment rate.Obama became obsessed with
    the historic fact that No President was ever Re-elected
    with Unemployment OVER 8 %.
    That is why the rigging started in December of 2011.
    And went all the way thru the summer.Causing former
    GE chairman Jack Welch to say on October 5 th after the
    Unemployment numbers came out dropping .3 % in just
    one month :
    " Unbelievable jobs numbers... these Chicago guys will
    do anything.can't debate so change numbers."
     
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    Please respond to the question I posted directly because clearly every single source of information including Senators of both parties, and every news source suggest that a vote required 60 votes which did not exist because a man named Schumer and a lot of his colleagues claimed one existed. Which vote was that because that is the only vote I'd like to discuss for now. Lets find out where all these Democratic Senators are mistaken.
     
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