John Boehner’s plan to avoid a government shutdown in eight days doesn’t have enough Republican votes to pass, so the Speaker will have to beg Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats to bail him out.
Insiders are warning that if neither party wins control of the Senate on election night, Republican driven chaos and gridlock could grip the Senate and cause a government shutdown in December.
In fact, there is very little that Ted Cruz even likes about this country, including the United States Constitution, that he would burn to the ground in a hot second if he were able.
The House passed a CR 319-108 today, but the vote was calm before the storm as Republicans are setting up a government shutdown showdown with President Obama.
The truth is that since teabaggers became de facto leaders of the Republican Party, they have contemplated various schemes to shutdown Washington.
John Boehner continues to say that House Republicans will pass a CR that avoids a government shutdown, but behind close doors Republicans still don’t have a strategy to avoid another shutdown.
House Republicans have canceled a vote on stopgap bill to fund the government and have called an emergence meeting tomorrow as the deadline to prevent a government shutdown inches closer.
Instead of doing his job, Speaker of the House John Boehner is planning on using the month of September shame and smear Democrats.
John Boehner is back to making promises he can’t keep by doing the same thing that he did last year. Speaker Boehner is promising that there won’t be a government shutdown.
If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell’s own words encapsulated the entire conservative mindset when he promised that “Obama won’t like it, but that will be done. I guarantee it.”
Paul Ryan had the nerve to say that he didn’t speak out against the government shutdown because it was more important that Republicans were unified. Ryan’s support of government shutdowns is straight out of the Koch playbook.
Another government shutdown is brewing as House Republicans are ready to go back on a previous agreement to fund the government. If House Republicans continue to self-destruct, the result could erase the Republican House majority.
Mitch McConnell is already making plans for after Republicans take over the Senate, and his top priority is to get Obama to give him what he wants or he will shutdown the government.
After last week’s border vote debacle, anxiety is growing among some Republicans that the House will doom the GOP’s 2014 election chances by shutting down the government next month.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) how little he cares about regular people by calling the government shutdown that harmed millions of Americans, “a two week paid vacation.”
Seeing disaster and falling poll numbers, Sen. Ted Cruz is changing is story and claiming that he had nothing to do with the government shutdown that he caused.
Ted Cruz is little more than a figurehead of a much larger conspiracy whose real leaders are teabaggers Charles and David Koch and Jim DeMint
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The seditious conspiracy in the war for America is still ongoing and the next major assault is already in the planning stages and there is little any American can do to stop it.
Sarah Palin is trying to dodge all responsibility for nearly destroying the economy by claiming that President Obama caused the government shutdown by not bombing Syria.
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The Cook Political Report has moved 12 more Republican held seats into toss up category, which makes 18 Republican seats up for grabs. This gives Democrats a chance to retake the House.
Every one of America’s fiscal crises over the past three-and-a-half years is because Republicans refuse to do their jobs of conducting the nation’s business.
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It can hardly be disputed that throughout Barack Obama’s tenure as President, Republicans have not made one concession or presented one piece of legislation to benefit the people.
On CNN State of the Union, Sen. Rand Paul made a fool of himself by repeating the same blame Obama talking points that he admitted on video were his strategy for winning the shutdown.
The DOJ will have an easy time prosecuting and convicting the Kochs because there are money trails leading directly to PACs whose primary purpose was inciting opposition to the established law.
Obama is giving Republicans nothing. The president has rejected John Boehner’s offer to keep his hostages by raising the debt ceiling and opening the government for six weeks.
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House Republican Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) told federal workers who have been furloughed by the government shutdown that they should go into debt by taking out loans to pay their bills.
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reveals that the government shutdown has backfired on the Republicans. The government shutdown has made the ACA more popular with the American people.
Majority Leader Eric Cantor changed House procedural rules to guarantee Republicans could keep the government closed even if a bipartisan majority found a way to re-open it.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted John Boehner’s debt ceiling proposal, and warned that, ‘He is trying to hoodwink the American people.’
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Why was Edwin Meese hired by the Koch Brothers to be a Tea Party strategist?
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The Republican argument for not raising the debt ceiling is so weak that President Obama destroyed it in 10 sentences during his press conference today.
In a private meeting with House Republicans a terrified Speaker John Boehner warned his House Republicans that the Democrats, ‘want to annihilate us.’
It’s time for the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the conservative plot to harm the US government and its financial solvency and they must start with the Koch brothers.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is standing up the Koch brothers attempted takeover of the United States government by outing the conservative billionaires’ role in causing the government shutdown.
President Obama is calling John Boehner’s bluff and daring him to prove that he doesn’t have the votes to reopen the government through a House vote on a clean CR.
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It is a sad commentary indeed that a group of anti-government terrorists have, in two years brought shame on a global leader like America because they cannot accept the results of an election.
A new PPP poll looked at 24 House districts held by Republicans, and since the government shutdown 21 of them now have generic Democratic candidates leading.
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A senior House Republican has let it leak that Republicans are so desperate to get out of the government shutdown/debt ceiling standoff that they are debating whether to cave to Obama now or later.
Having learned nothing during the ongoing government shutdown, Speaker of the House John Boehner urged Congress to come together to open the government and destroy the ACA.
Republicans exposed themselves as the traitors they are because about 70% of the 86,000 civilians employed at 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have been furloughed.
John Boehner’s latest attempt to muster public outrage at Obama over the government shutdown was destroyed by the White House with a single tweet.
The current Republican government shutdown is what teabaggers came to Washington to do; “break the government of the United States.”
Harry Reid came out of tonight’s meeting at the White House on the government shutdown saying that, ‘The President of the United States was very, very strong, strong, strong.’
With every strategy that he is trying failing, Speaker John Boehner is trying to deflect blame for the government shutdown by using America’s veterans as political human shields.
Senate Democrats believe that they can use their leverage in the government shutdown to force House Republicans to solve the shutdown and the debt ceiling together.
Rafael and the wacko birds celebrated the government shutdown as if they actually accomplished something.
Democrats quickly shot down the latest Republican attempt to weasel out of their government shutdown by stopping the bills that would have partially funded veterans, national parks, and DC.
Americans can begin signing up to buy affordable healthcare insurance, and it is unlikely that reality will sink in to Republicans in Congress that the next phase of the ACA is underway.
President Obama called the government shutdown an ideological crusade and told Republicans that they, ‘don’t get to hold the economy hostage over ideological demands.’
John Boehner is privately warning House Republicans that the government shutdown could cost them control of the House in 2014.
Within minutes of the House’s passage of their third attempt to kill the ACA, Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats shot it down.
House Republicans continue to learn nothing as they have passed virtually the same CR that delays the ACA, which the Senate has rejected twice for a third time.
President Obama slammed Republicans for shutting down the government because they lost the 2012 election. He also told Republicans, ‘You don’t get to extract a ransom for doing your job.’
House Republicans are admitting that the clean Continuing Resolution that passed the Senate would pass the House, but Speaker John Boehner won’t allow a vote on it.
The Senate has hung tough and voted to kill the House second attempt to pass a CR that delays Obamacare by a vote of 54-46.
Like thieves in the night, House Republicans took a giant step towards shutting down the government by voting to put their poison pill of delaying the ACA for a year back into the CR.
Watch delusional House Republicans literally laugh at President Obama’s promise to veto their 44th attempt to get rid of the ACA.
Sen. Harry Reid slammed John Boehner and warned him that the Senate is going to be extorted. He told Boehner to get some courage and pass the Senate bill, or the government will shutdown.
Over half of Republican voters and Koch-patriots are clamoring for a government shutdown if Republicans fail to kill the ACA.
The depth of Republican madness was revealed when Sen. Ted Cruz suggested shutting down the military if President Obama and Democrats fail to acquiesce and kill the ACA.
It is safe to say most Americans expect Islamic extremists to launch terror attacks against innocent American citizens, but it is likely few expect a devastating attack from members of Congress.
In a editorial that reeks of panic and desperation, the Wall Street Journal is warning House Republicans that a government shutdown could give Democrats back control of the House.
Instead of killing jobs, employers expect to increase the number of full-time employees by nearly 2% over the next year as key parts of the ACA go into effect.
The effort to force a government shutdown unless the ACA is defunded gained another supporter as Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) says he will not vote the fund the government unless Obamacare is defunded.
The big Republican plan to shutdown the government unless Obamacare is defunded is already backfiring and setting up the GOP for complete failure in 2014.
This week’s group of speeches along with his willingness to shutdown the government show that Obama is challenging Republicans to meet him out back and settle this budget feud once and for all.
The concept of shutting down the government unless Republicans control the direction and vision of the nation is nothing less than criminal.
Republicans promise to shut down the government whether Obama follows their orders or not because they want to limit him to one term and they are very open about that goal. Eric Cantor blaming President Obama for a Republican proposed government shutdown shows that Republicans are so steeped in the criminal mindset that they are assigning blame to a victim prior to the rape.