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  • #691
    Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

    Trouble in derpland.

    Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham said Thursday night that the Republican establishment should "pull the plug" on House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) bid to become House speaker.
    They're getting started on McCarthy early. This may just be Ty Cobb sharpening his spikes to intimidate the opposition -- the crazies think McCarthy's going to be easy to steamroll and they are probably just showing him the instruments of torture in advance as a mind game.
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    • #692
      Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

      The annual apocalypse has been moved up from December to November 5th.

      The Treasury Department said Thursday Congress must lift the debt limit by Nov. 5, putting House Republicans in a tricky spot during an already hectic fall.
      It will either be one of Kevin McCarthy's first tasks as speaker, or one of John Boehner's last.

      In a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the federal government is taking in less revenue than it had anticipated. Lew said the federal government therefore must increase its borrowing authority in five weeks or face the prospect of a catastrophic default.

      For House Republicans, a vote to increase the debt limit is one of the toughest they ever have to cast. Boehner has had to rely on a core group of his members plus House Democrats to get the measure through the chamber in the past few years. The battle over the debt limit was so bitter in 2011 that U.S. government's credit rating was downgraded, an unprecedented move.
      Remind me again why we don't just abolish the debt ceiling?
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      • #693
        Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Trouble in derpland.



        They're getting started on McCarthy early. This may just be Ty Cobb sharpening his spikes to intimidate the opposition -- the crazies think McCarthy's going to be easy to steamroll and they are probably just showing him the instruments of torture in advance as a mind game.
        Basically the issue is that McCarthy is essentially Boner 2.0, and nothing is going to change if McCarthy is speaker. The GOP is right now at a crossroads: Does it decide to use the platforms that were able to get it back into a fighting position to restore it to prominence, or do they simply go with the old and busted rhetoric derp that they've been proclaiming since their beloved actor was in office, resulting in the movements becoming demotivated and the commies taking another election? It's obvious that you, Grover, Scooby, and the like want old and busted to win out.

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        • #694
          Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          The annual apocalypse has been moved up from December to November 5th.



          Remind me again why we don't just abolish the debt ceiling?
          Less revenue? What a shocker. How about cutting the deficit spending?

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          • #695
            Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

            Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
            It's obvious that you, Grover, Scooby, and the like want old and busted to win out.
            I certainly don't want a major American political party adopting the barely-concealed nativist agenda of the TPers. OTOH, I don't want the Neocons' less well-concealed fascism back. If you've got a way for the GOP to shoot both of those evil fringes into the sun, I'm all ears.
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            • #696
              Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

              Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
              Less revenue? What a shocker. How about cutting the deficit spending?
              DOD budget is $630 billion. Grab an axe and go to it.
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              • #697
                Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                DOD budget is $630 billion. Grab an axe and go to it.
                But...terrorism!!!!!!!
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                • #698
                  Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                  Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                  But...terrorism!!!!!!!
                  Anything to go full-blown Roman Empire, eh?

                  We can start cutting the DoD budget. Mind if we pull the rug out under all of the Lockheed Martin contracts first?

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                  • #699
                    Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                    Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                    Mind if we pull the rug out under all of the Lockheed Martin contracts first?
                    Nope.
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                    • #700
                      Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      Nope.
                      What, you'd rather a Raytheon one or two first?

                      After all, you have to spend an extra $15,000 to make sure that toilet seat doesn't fall off if the plane ends up in turbulence...

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                      • #701
                        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                        Nope.
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                        • #702
                          Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                          What, you'd rather a Raytheon one or two first?

                          After all, you have to spend an extra $15,000 to make sure that toilet seat doesn't fall off if the plane ends up in turbulence...
                          Overhead did that and the stupid contracting officer who wrote the contract that charged overhead on a piece by piece arrangement rather than a % of the part cost.
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                          • #703
                            Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                            Originally posted by joecct View Post
                            Overhead did that and the stupid contracting officer who wrote the contract that charged overhead on a piece by piece arrangement rather than a % of the part cost.
                            I'm pretty sure that violates about fifteen sections of the FAR.
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                            • #704
                              Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                              Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                              Anything to go full-blown Roman Empire, eh?

                              We can start cutting the DoD budget. Mind if we pull the rug out under all of the Lockheed Martin contracts first?
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                              • #705
                                Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                                Start looking for a new job Kelly! Good luck overcoming a Dem Presidential win in NH next year.

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