Eat The Bullshit Sandwich – Or Else!

After the vote Friday, the House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, called out the names of potentially vulnerable Senate Democrats who will now be confronted with casting a vote on an issue Republicans see as a winner for them.”

The Republican Flies made a Shit-Sandwich for the Democrats to reject – because it is full of Bullshit! The Children of Beezlebub think they are real clever by pretending to be offering what the American People want, but, this bullshit sandwich is made Just For Democrats in the Senate. That they wrap it in the glow of lost reality, it is Pure Insanity, because no one is going to eat a shit sandwich – especially when you know it is full of shit – and the folks who handed it to you, are full of shit.

This delusional masquerade is not aimed at helping The People, but, hurting the Democrats in the coming elections. That they admit this is their true motive, is strange, because this is not what the majority of the people want as proven in the last Presidential election. To hear and see these Republican Congressman whoop and holler when it is clear they have voted to HURT THE DEMOCRATS IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA……is another declaration of war!

Eric Cantor emerges as the Major of the Thought Police he ready to take names of the Senators who refused to eat shit. This reeks of the shit the Nazi came up with to punish people who were not ‘One of Them’.

“You will hurt the people in the name of Lord of the Flies – or else!”

Jon Presco

A familiar Washington melodrama – will they or won’t they shut down the government – took center stage on Friday when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill to fund the government but only if President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law is ransacked.
Notching its 42nd vote against Obamacare and knowing full well that the Democratic Senate will reject it, Republicans in the House cast their vote, staged a noisy celebration in front of a placard declaring “SenateMustAct,” and then left town for several days to give time for the Senate to demolish its work.
“The Senate will not pass any bill that defunds or delays Obamacare,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said flatly.

After the vote Friday, the House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, called out the names of potentially vulnerable Senate Democrats who will now be confronted with casting a vote on an issue Republicans see as a winner for them.
But even some Republicans, particularly in the Senate, have been dismissive of their House colleagues’ tactics, calling them futile.
They were joined Thursday by New York Republican Representative Peter King, who told CNN that the party was “carrying out a fraud with the people by somehow implying or even saying that this strategy is going to win.”
He then voted in favor of the funding bill, complete with the Obamacare provision.

By JANET HOOK
And SIOBHAN HUGHES
CONNECT

The House of Representatives, voting along party lines, passed a measure Friday to keep the government financed that also eliminated funding for President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law, setting up a tense period of political jockeying before an end-of-month deadline.

The vote was a triumph for a wing of the Republican Party that has campaigned for months to make the fight to undercut the health-care law the GOP’s top priority. Their victory could be short-lived. The Senate next week is expected to restore the health-care money and throw the government-financing bill back to the House as the government moves to the brink of a partial shutdown on Oct. 1.

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Speaker of the House John Boehner (R., Ohio) watches a Republican rally after the House voted on a joint resolution that would continue funding the government and defund the Affordable Care Act in Washington, D.C. on Friday.
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The House vote was 230-189, with two Democrats voting for the bill and one Republican voting against it.

Even with the government-funding issue unresolved, House Republicans Friday opened another high-wire attack on the health-care law. Following a closed-door GOP strategy session, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) set a vote next week on legislation that would link a year-long postponement of the health-care law to a year-long extension of the government’s borrowing authority.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has told Congress it needs to raise the federal debt limit by mid-October, or the government will run out of ways to keep paying its bills. The White House has said it isn’t willing to negotiate over that debt-limit increase, as it has in past iterations of this drama.

For both sides, the showdown risks creating another market-rattling impasse reminiscent of the fight over raising the debt limit in 2011 that resulted in the U.S.’s credit rating being downgraded.

Republican leaders are hoping they will build up enough momentum to wring concessions from Democrats on the debt limit, even if the health-care provision is ultimately stripped from the spending measure.

“The key thing is we are going to negotiate over the debt limit. The president isn’t going to be able to say, ‘I’m just simply not going to talk with anybody,’ ” Rep. Tom Cole (R., Okla.) told reporters after Friday’s meeting.

The Republican strategy reflects the pressure the party’s leaders have been put under by an energized libertarian caucus in the House along with tea-party activists who say they are responding to public hostility toward a health care law many people still do not understand.

“This law is a train wreck,” House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) told a boisterous rally of House Republicans Friday. “It’s time for us to say no.”

Some Democrats are concerned about unpopular elements of the health-care law, especially lawmakers from conservative districts such as Reps. Mike McIntyre (D., N.C.) and Jim Matheson (D., Utah.), the two Democrats who voted with Republicans Friday. The House bill would keep the government funded through mid-December.

At the House GOP rally, Mr. Cantor turned the focus onto Senate Democrats facing re-election in conservative states in 2014, who include Sens. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Mark Begich of Alaska, asking them state where they stand on cutting off health-law funding.

Most Democrats, however, see the GOP effort to make “defunding Obamacare” central to their budget strategy as a political gift.

“Watching that GOP rally was like watching kamikaze cheerleaders,” said Rep. Steve Israel (D., N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “They should have handed out parachutes.”

The emergence of the defund campaign marks a shift that eclipses the party’s traditional focus on demanding spending cuts and long-term deficit-reduction measures in exchange for lifting the debt limit.

“The defunding or delay of Obamacare has become pre-eminent,” said Rep. Tom Rooney (R., Fla.). “It’s a little frustrating to those of us who look at this time of year as the time to address the debt.”

Senate Democrats are planning to strip from the spending bill provisions that would eliminate funding for the health law. Members of both parties say that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) has enough votes to do so, although the process may entail overcoming procedural hurdles laid out by opponents that could take up all of next week.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a leading foe of the health law, and his allies, have promised to do all he could to block the Senate Democrats’ funding bill if it includes any money for the health law.

“I will do everything necessary and anything possible to defund Obamacare,” Mr. Cruz said at a news conference Thursday with House conservatives and Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah). “Mike Lee and I will use every procedural means available.”

It could take a week for the Senate to surmount procedural hurdles, strip out measures hampering the health law and hold a final vote. The bill would then return to the House, where GOP leaders would need to decide whether to bring it up without changes.

“I’m much more confident there won’t be a shutdown,” said Rep. Pete King (R., N.Y.). He predicted that the debate could be drawn out nearly to the Oct. 1 deadline, because the House isn’t likely to quickly pass a funding extension stripped of the health-law provisions. “There could be some more back and forth.”

In a comments Friday at a Ford Motor plant in Liberty, Mo., President Barack Obama said Congress has lost sight of the goal of bolstering the middle class.

“They’re not focused on you. They’re focused on politics,” Mr. Obama said. “They’re focused on trying to mess with me. They’re not focused on you.”

He warned of the consequences of a government shutdown, saying that hundreds of thousands of Americans would not be allowed to go to work. “None of that has to happen as long as Congress passes a budget,” he said.

Mr. Reid made clear he was as determined as the GOP to play hardball. Asked Thursday if he was prepared to endure a government shutdown to protect the health law, he told reporters: “Yes.”

“In case there is any shred of doubt in the minds of our House counterparts, I want to be absolutely crystal clear,” Mr. Reid said. “Any bill that defunds Obamacare is dead. Dead.”

Some Senate Republicans have been critical of the Cruz tactics. Even if such a bill cleared the Senate, they say, Mr. Obama would veto it. “I know what a box canyon looks like,” said Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.). “Box canyon, here we come. This is a tactic that won’t work.”