The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

[Kepler]

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Senate passes a two-month extension. There were 19 wackjobs.

Here is the vote.

Boehner will now pass a clean bill with Democratic help and we'll be OK until December. I wouldn't have done it this way were I a Republican, but then again, I wouldn't be a Republican.

[Jimjamesak]

Senate passes a two-month extension. There were 19 wackjobs.

Here is the vote.

Boehner will now pass a clean bill with Democratic help and we'll be OK until December. I wouldn't have done it this way were I a Republican, but then again, I wouldn't be a Republican.

I am completely shocked both the Senators in my state voted yea.

[Rover]

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Calm before the storm. Senate now can't stop House from passing resolution since Boner will make deal with Dems. Give it two months so we can do this all over again as primary season looms right around the corner! McCarthy if he's the new Speaker can't make same deal unless he plans on retiring too.

[Kepler]

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Calm before the storm. Senate now can't stop House from passing resolution since Boner will make deal with Dems. Give it two months so we can do this all over again as primary season looms right around the corner! McCarthy if he's the new Speaker can't make same deal unless he plans on retiring too.

Temper Tantrum Ted and the Tea Toddlers want their moment. They think they can immanentize the eschaton by cutting off Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program heating oil credits for Christmas.

That will be a winner at the ballot box.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Temper Tantrum Ted and the Tea Toddlers

Excellent name for a garage band.

[Rover]

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I'm not sure why Boner and Itch didn't team up to push the CR until next Oct which Kep mentioned as the end of the fiscal year earlier. Yeah, that's at the end of the general election but at that point its easy to tell the crazies "Lets put this off until January when Ted Cruz is President" and they might grumble but it goes through.

Regarding other stuff like immigration, I know a lot of lamestream media members have a soft spot for the old drunk, but The Impotent Boner has little in the way of political savvy. 2 years ago after the Senate overwhelmingly passed an immigration bill he should have quietly gone to a handful of Northeast moderates in the House plus some retiring members and told them to sign that discharge petition the Dems were circulating. One week 5 sign up. Then another 5 the next week and so on. In the meantime he could rail in public against the effort but then go to the knuckledraggers and say "if we don't make a deal, they're going to get enough signatures to get the Senate bill approved". Assuming he actually cares to tackle this issue of course. Maybe because his brain has been pickled by too much gin, or because he can't stop crying, this never happened because the man just doesn't have the skills to pull it off.

[Rover]

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umm..yeah..

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...-leader-crazy/

[Kepler]

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I had no idea Broun was gone. Maybe there is a benevolent supreme being.

The Republican leadership put Broun ("evolution is a lie from the pit of hell") on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.

[ScoobyDoo]

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Look at who they want for the new majority leader.

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/...smtyp=cur&_r=0

[joecct]

Look at who they want for the new majority leader.

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/...smtyp=cur&_r=0

Rumor - denied by his office, says Gowdy will retire at the end of this session.

[Rover]

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Rumor - denied by his office, says Gowdy will retire at the end of this session.

Which ought to tell you all you need to know about his "investigation". If the guy thought he was going to uncover anything, he wouldn't be looking for an exit with a year and a half left in his term.

Sorta reminds me of when Ken Starr tried to ditch his job for a law school dean position in the middle of his so called investigation.

[dxmnkd316]

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Look at who they want for the new majority leader.

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/...smtyp=cur&_r=0

Holy **** he's one creepy lookin' dude. He looks like he has on some sort of Hollywood face prosthesis.

[ScoobyDoo]

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Tell me again how there's no GOP war on women?

Beating up on a woman testifying in front of Congress on her salary. That's just incredibly smart politics there.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) laid into Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Tuesday for grilling Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards over her salary -- something she suggested he wouldn't have done had Richards been a man.

Chaffetz had just finished needling Richards, who was testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, about why her salary increased by more than $100,000 between 2009 and 2013. Maloney was not pleased.

"I first would like to register my opposition and my objection to the chairman beating up on a woman, on our witness today, for making a good salary," Maloney said.

"The entire time I've been in Congress, I've never seen a witness beaten up and questioned about their salary," she continued. "Ms. Richards heads a distinguished organization providing health care services to millions of Americans. I find it totally inappropriate and discriminatory."

As Maloney spoke, the camera panned to Chaffetz, who sat there with a weak smile on his face, fiddling with something on his desk. It was a long several seconds.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) later said the "disrespect" Chaffetz showed to Richards is reflective of a much broader problem Republicans have with women.

"My colleagues like to say there's no war on women. Look at how you've been treated as a witness," Connolly said. "Intimidation. Talking Over. Interrupting. Cutting off sentences. Criticizing you because of your salary. How dare you! Who do you think you are, making a professional salary as the head of a premier national organization and daring to actually make decisions as the head of that organization?"

Good job, ******** (Chaffetz). Glad the people of your worthless state voted you in.

[dxmnkd316]

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Tell me again how there's no GOP war on women?

Beating up on a woman testifying in front of Congress on her salary. That's just incredibly smart politics there.



Good job, ******** (Chaffetz). Glad the people of your worthless state voted you in.

That's a load of bullsht. They're grilling her on her salary because it's a non-profit and they're trying to show that funding for PP is being somehow misused and not going towards reproductive health issues.

It's going to work on people who already don't like PP, but for the most part it's not going to do much.

This is just a load of liberal bullsh*t. If there was another non-profit that ran directly against the GOP (or for that matter the Ds), the opposing party would run the same lines out there. That she doesn't dangle has little to do with it.

The fact that she supports women's reproductive rights does.

[ScoobyDoo]

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That's a load of bullsht. They're grilling her on her salary because it's a non-profit and they're trying to show that funding for PP is being somehow misused and not going towards reproductive health issues.

It's going to work on people who already don't like PP, but for the most part it's not going to do much.

Funny. They don't grill other non-profit CEO's salaries when they're male.