House Speaker John Boehner is releasing the huge, $1 trillion 2015 government budget on Monday, only three days before the vote on Wednesday, Dec. 11.
That delay jams GOP legislators, who won’t be able to identify or oppose many of the unpopular spending programs that are likely buried deep inside the complex budget, which was drafted by GOP and Democratic members of the appropriations committees.
“There’s no way this huge bill can be addressed effectively,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking GOP member of the Senate’e budget committee, said on Sunday. “There are going to be thousands of pages.”
Boehner has held the budget bill secret until the last days before much of the federal government shuts down for lack of cash on Dec. 12.
Boehner declined to describe or release the proposed budget last week, which would have allowed legislators — plus GOP voters and advocacy groups — time to identify and rally against spending programs that are opposed by their constituents and supporters.
Those spending allotments could fund new energy regulations, enforcement of rules requiring employers to fund abortions, and President Barack Obama’s award of work-permits to foreigners living illegally in the United States.
Quote: FWP wrote in post #2There is no functional difference between Boehner & McConnell and Pelousy & Reid.
Any one that tells you differently is either a freaking simpleton (that is scared shitless about waking up and facing REALITY) or a troll.
I am so DONE with supporting statist republicans. So DONE!!!
F
There is a BIG difference in balls. Our side lacks balls.
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“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.” ¯ Winston S. Churchill
Quote: FWP wrote in post #2There is no functional difference between Boehner & McConnell and Pelousy & Reid.
Any one that tells you differently is either a freaking simpleton (that is scared shitless about waking up and facing REALITY) or a troll.
I am so DONE with supporting statist republicans. So DONE!!!
F
There is a BIG difference in balls. Our side lacks balls.
I no longer buy into that line of thinking: that the Boehners & McConnells are just "too scared" to do what they are elected to do. They are doing exactly what their donors want them to do. (And, the concept of having an "our side" has become an anachronistic construct at this point!!)