When Harry Reid is congratulating you on a job well done, you should be fired.

#FireBoehner

CBN NEWS – House Republicans overwhelmingly passed a plan Wednesday designed to prevent a potential debt crisis.

Wednesday’s “No Budget, No Pay” measure, which passed 285-144, would give the government enough leeway to meet three more months’ worth of obligations and avoid a first-time ever default.

Republicans gave up on spending cuts in return for an increase in the government’s borrowing cap.

This time when they raise the debt limit, they will require that paychecks be withheld for lawmakers unless they approve spending cuts. The issue of the debt limit won’t be raised again until May 18.

“This is not a gimmick,” Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., said. “For the past almost going on now four years, our colleagues in the Senate have failed in their most basic responsibility of governance, which is to pass a budget.”

“All we’re saying is ‘Congress follow the law. Do your work. Budget,’” House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said. “And the reason for this (debt) extension is so that we can have the (budget) debate we need to have.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate would pass the bill without making any revisions, noting the plan contained no spending cuts.

“It surrenders the hostage Republicans took in the past,” Reid said. “It decouples the full faith and credit of the United States from cuts to Social Security and Medicare, or anything else.”

“I thank Speaker Boehner on his leadership of diffusing a fight over the debt ceiling debate,” Politico quoted Reid. “Not everything here has to be a big fight.”

The White House said it won’t oppose the measure either.




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JohnCraven
JohnCraven

Why stop with firing Boner?

More importantly why persist in the vain delusion, which Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity and numerous others share, that somehow, someway, at some point we can bring this Republican Party, run by these people, back to the principles of Ronald Reagan?

Rush and Levin and Hannity have often said that the ruling elite of the Republican Party detested and despised Ronald Reagan and did everything they could to undermine him and they continue to do so to this very day.

We, the American People and conservative TEA Party types, won back the House of Representatives with candidates who espoused the principles of Ronald Reagan despite the ruling elite's interference and nearly took back the senate but because of the GOP's ruling elite's interference we fell short in the Senate.

What happened afterwards -- the GOP's ruling elite proceeded to either compromise our conservative TEA Party congressmen and women or they marginalized them as they did Michele Bachmann who nearly lost re-election or they ostracized them completely, such as Huelscamp of Kansas?!

I truly believe the GOP's elites through the election in 2012 to Obama with backing a candidate who refused to stand and fight most of the time except with people who were more conservative than him.

Why is it so hard for Levin and Limbaugh and Hannity to see that the Big Whigs in the GOP actually threw the election to Obama by send the GOP standard bearer out to NOT FIGHT

over much of anything?

Ordinary voters sat at home instead of voting for Romney because they had no one in Romney who would stand and fight for them. Why vote for someone who won't fight for them?

We are wasting enormous amounts of energy and time and treasure trying to taka a party

back to the principles of Ronald Reagan when its clear that the elites running the party won't go back no matter what. People are tired of this nonsense.

I for one would happily join an alternative to the Big Whigs of the GOP which is based on the principles of Ronald Reagan and our founding documents. I think many others would also.

John Craven

New Orleans

If you always do what you always did,

You’ll always get what you always got!

Mark Crutcher – Life Dynamics

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound

teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for

themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn

away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. As

for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an

evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2 Tim 4:3-5)

Praise to the Holiest in the height

And in the depth be praise;

In all his words most wonderful,

Most sure in all his ways!

(The Dream of Gerontius, John Henry Cardinal Newman)

[From the Homily of Pope Bendict XVI at the mass for

beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman, 19 September,

2010, Birmingham, England]

davienne
davienne

its so great when they get triple digit saleries can speak for " THE AMERICAN PEOPLE" while screwing us .. no jobs, no budget, illegal imigrant entitlements, an illegal criminal running this country into the ground....

bobemakk
bobemakk

The republicans are caving in. We have had no budget in almost 4 years. All politicians $UCK....I have lost faith in almost every one of them. God help US!

1endtimes2020
1endtimes2020

It's horrible to think about the money borrowed from China, and see the U.S. send F16s and 200 tanks to Egypt. They will be used against Israel, and Obama knows it. How telling is that? It tells any thinking person Obama has muslim preferences, to say the very least. To me, it says volumes. It's so crazy to put such fantastic weapons in the hands of murderers. God help us. God help Israel. Thank God for Netanyahu.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

I'm a little confused (but in dealing with Congress, I'm not surprised). The debt ceiling was actually reached on Dec 31st. They are passing a law that will meet 3 more months worth of obligations to avoid default. That takes us to March 31st (at least, using normal math, not that Congressional math).

My question is, so why will we not have to deal with the debt ceiling until May 18th? What new games and monetary tricks will they be using to fool us into believing anything they want us to believe?

My guess is that it will be much like that sequestration bill they passed to force Congress to cut spending (that really didn't force anything at all). Once May 18th arrives, we will find that the new deal is to eliminate the debt ceiling altogether and we will have lost everything before we even started.

Don't count on Reid's Senate to ever make a budget. It is totally against the Democratic way and they've discovered that, even though the law says they are required to make one, no one has ever upheld the law so why even bother. Works for them.

Yazz55
Yazz55

Notice that Boehner seems to have no opposition from those with a "D".

and

Kick the can down the road doesn't work - never has & never will - unless ya wanna be like Greece.

acer84
acer84

Obama is pleased with what the Republicans did today.

“Not shockingly the Obama Administration has announced its support House Republican proposals to suspend the debt ceiling until May 19, knowing full well that once the debt ceiling is suspended, it likely will never be reinstated. In their attempt to avoid a confrontation over the debt ceiling, House Republicans have effectively given the Obama Administration a blank check and the capacity to meet their stated goal of eliminating the debt ceiling once and for all.

http://getliberty.org/white-house-accepts-house-republican-surrender/

Malkiel_kol_hakavod_la_el
Malkiel_kol_hakavod_la_el

This is as I have read in many articles a big gimmick with no teeth and no real desire to cut anyone's pay in CON-gress... All the democrat senate has to do is pass a budget of any type even a insane budget or worse and CON-gress don't have a cut in their checks... republican have become not one way different then those we de·spise on the left minus the brain dead libtards in CON-gress who are the lowest forms of life on this planet....

I really have to say that these people on both sides in CON-gress are a useless bunch of idiots... Bonner said somewhere today "Obama’s Focus is to ‘Annihilate the Republican Party’ and 'Shove Us into the Dustbin of History' And its looking like bonner and the rest of these fools on the republican side of the isle are ready to help obama make it happen..... F**cking idiots and its only been 60 plus day!!!

StandProudNow
StandProudNow

"CON-gress" (emphasis mine)

Ah... So THAT's where the name comes from..... now it all makes sense!!

poljunkie
poljunkie

Oh Geez, I was driving and I heard a clip of Harry Reid thanking John Boehner for a job well done. Thank goodness I didnt craaaashhh.

StandProudNow
StandProudNow

Now I know the reason my car didn't start and I had to take a stoopid TAXI to get home :) PHEW!!! I'd been in a CANAL!!

poljunkie
poljunkie

That's kismet for you. Whew!

:-)

NYGino
NYGino

This administration is giving up the sovereignty of the United States.

bbitter
bbitter

well, calls, emails, and messages to my rep. did nothing.

Gotta love our elected officials. I wonder if my neighbors are ever going to wake up?

PFFV
PFFV

They are all (for the most part) COWARDS! Who cares about the future of our children and grandchildren! Not these punks that's for sure!

opinionatedhermit
opinionatedhermit

I am done being a Staunch Republican. After 35 years, it is time for them to find someone else.

I want nothing to do with John Boehner or Mitch McConnell any more.

They do not speak for me. They don't even care to try. It is very obvious, they are nothing but front men. They have their own agenda to put forward. And, with it, they cut the Conservative Voice right out from under there own feet.

More importantly: They are adults. I want no more part in this "Faux" Congress.

There may be no budget. But, Obama certainly thinks he can keep spending without impunity. Hmmm. I wonder why......"

Again, I want nothing to do with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell.

They are front men. They are frauds. And, they are entirely complicate, hand in glove, with Obama and his tyranny.

Rshill7
Rshill7

"This time when they raise the debt limit, they will require that paychecks be withheld for lawmakers unless they approve spending cuts." (CBN News)

How much in spending cuts? Did you nail down the dollar amount at least?

Is one dollar enough, you serial capitulators?

If not, you suck more than any collection of suckers have ever sucked. Do you hear any bells ringing? Well, ever read a book called, "For Whom The Bell Tolls"?

"It tolls for thee!"

PicklePlants
PicklePlants

I just mailed a form to my county clerk. I am no longer a member of the Republican party.

Fools.

Rshill7
Rshill7

Wimp : a weak, cowardly, or ineffectual person. (Merriam-Webster)

Wimps : More than one of the above. For example, a group of GOP House members.

Amy
Amy

Uck... I'm tuning out for the rest of the day. The events of the day are disgusting. This. The lack of info on Benghazi. Women in combat. My brain is in full meltdown and I'm feeling hateful.

StandProudNow
StandProudNow

I can relate to the feeling hateful. But this is part of their plan. They overwhelm us with so much stuff we have to tune out in order to not go nuts. What I see as the overwhelming problem is that we have no where to go. It's not like we can join the local repub party to make a difference...

The Tea Party hasn't gone away as so many wishfully claim, the Tea Party is a groundswell of opinions and sentiments that have not only not gone away, they have GROWN. The "causes" for the TP to get wind into their sails have NOT gone away. Instead they have multiplied!! We just need a leader to make it all come together!!!

PAGING GOV. PALIN!!!!!!!!!

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

In this next one note the phrase: GOD FORBID: All of these quote have two things in common. They all are our founding father and all signed the declaration of independence! In total there were 56, to include to black men. Both of whom were of a newly formed party called CONSERVATIVE!

"... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

"If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained _ we must fight!" Patrick Henry

"(T)he foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; ...the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained..." George Washington, First Inaugural, April 30 1789

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

"Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right"

"Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are a gift from God? Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Patrick Henry

"The citizens of the U.S. are responsible for the greatest trust ever confided to a political society"

"We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." James Madison

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves." William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783

"We must all hang together, or, assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.

chatterbox365
chatterbox365

It's going to take several elections for us to unf*** this cluster f***.

Thanks a lot RINOs...just keep handing out your s*** sandwiches.

Tracy Mitchell
Tracy Mitchell

There was a great quote made by one of the smartest men ever about 70 years ago and it still applies today.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

Apparently they haven't figured that out yet. So what can we common people do when even our own representatives are obviously insane. I say commit the lot of them and get a whole new group in.

StandProudNow
StandProudNow

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

Apparently they haven't figured that out yet."

They??? Why are WE believing they will act differently when the next bill comes along? ("We" not meaning us here necessarily)

What are the odds that this gopE can be transformed????? How many elections will it take to get rid of the RINO's and the Good Ole boy network? They will fight like their life depends on it... And it DOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ever seen a cornered animal??

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

Who said:

IN ORDER TO AVERT COMPLETE AND UTTER CORRUPTION OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT BODY, YOU MUST REVAMP IT EVERY FIFTY YEARS OR ELSE YOU ONCE AGAIN SUFFER TOTAL TYRANNY:

I'll give you a hint, he held over 2000 patents!

Rshill7
Rshill7

Based on the number of patents alone, I'd say Thomas Edison.

"Thomas Edison was an inventor who accumulated 2,332 patents worldwide for his inventions. 1,093 of Edison's patents were in the United States, but other patents were approved in countries around the globe."

Rshill7
Rshill7

Then you should have no problem listing one patent he held. Just one. Not over 2000...one.

Give me just one. Any old one will do.

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

If that is your true belief, then you write the History Channel and suggest that to them. As that is where I got the information. It is also in print in the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANICA. So no not bogus in the lest or misleading! But you believe what you wish.

Rshill7
Rshill7

"I'll give you a hint, he held over 2000 patents!" (Biggbear)

"Having held 2468 Patents he also was a booze guzzling, womanizing Paris lover." (Biggbear)

Can you point to even one patent he actually held?

In other words, your original question was completely bogus and misleading wasn't it?

So, once again, you are wrong. Right?

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

It is not in that book. According to all experts. If Franklin had any patents he would be, to this day the king of patents. Holding even more that Microsoft! His inventions are at bare minimum, awesome and miraculous to say the lest. These experts claim that he would have had somewhere around 4990 inventive patents had he applied. It is a historical documents and recent writings. As early as 2010!

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

Keep looking Mr. Wizard, you’ll find it!

Rshill7
Rshill7

Ah. We have a book I really enjoyed called, "Ben Franklin:America's Original Entrepreneur" by Blaine McCormick. It didn't say anything about that.

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

Having held 2468 Patents he also was a booze guzzling, womanizing Paris lover. His name is: BEN FRANKLIN. Excuse the possible condescension that is truly not intended. However this is why I an my wfe insisted on having our children home schooled. We introduced them to the Heritage Foundation that teaches the Constitution online. Great learning for us all. Valiant try Rshill.

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

The love my wife and I have for this country and those that are of like minded belief in it say that the first time the GOP sided with this FOURTH REICH NAZI IMPERIALIST, was when we went in default. Since that day in November of 2008, it has been down hill for our beloved Nations infrastructure and this Nazi bum has been thrust into yet another four year of illegal power, spending and God knows what else. So suffice it say that the wife and I shall do as always, trust in Jesus Christ and scream from the hilltops against this type of

totalitarianism and socialist insanity! We pray that our beloved American Brethren and sister do the same!

1endtimes2020
1endtimes2020

The power of prayer is huge. It will, at least, provide peace of mind and a joyful heart, and God will be pleased.

'Dear Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Help me to accept yhe things I cannot change, and change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference'. This is the alcoholic's prayer, and it can be prayed by anyone, regardless of their station in the world.

Ray
Ray

The Republican party is of NO USE to the citizens of the United States. They are bought and paid for by the Corporations. They are big government liberals who roll over at every opportunity. We need a third party, one who's platform will include that their constituents that have a vote will take priority over corporations. Citizens predated corporations, the constitution says, "We the people". It should also state that we should encourage COMPETITION over monopoly principles. It should include a platform of obeying the constitution AS WRITTEN, not reinterpreted. It should include term limit pledges, and if someone decides to go over that term limit, that person will have to be self funded. It should state that the Senate should be taken back to an appointment by the states again and not elected. Please add your thoughts.

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

If that is truly your stance, do what the wife and I did. Read about, research and then possibly join the Tea Party and the minute men organizations. We also belong to a group called the ACLJ (“AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE. Whom is in current efforts to IMPEACH THOSE IN THE OVAL OFFICE, SENATE AND CONGRESS that refuse to do the job for which they were hired. The articles of impeachment brought by jay Sekolow and Alex Jones mention a historic 412 members of our current Government body. That include Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy the NAZI COW Pelosi and the rest. This article mentions over 4000 violations ot he Constitution and Geneva conventions as well as human rights violations. So you say that the new generation doesn’t care or understand. The bulk of the followers of the ACLU and Alex Jones can be found in the ages bracket of 18 to 26. They have also plastered the Zonation airwaves and are gaining in strength daily! NEXT1 Check the facts, they are out there.

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

Here’s prayig you follow through with the plan. You have support in spirit and hope.

Ray
Ray

I like Jay Sekulow. I am thinking about starting a local TEA party here, there was one a few years ago, however it seems to have petered out!

M_J_S
M_J_S

Take some ques from the IRA, it will be the only way to handle things moving forward.

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

You are referring to the fascist terrorist group IRA. Classified as such by every known justice system on the planet. That IRA. The one that in 1991 attempted to recruit yours truly. That IRA that yours truly told to go get bent. Sure Ill take advise and notes from a terrorist moron the minuet I’m dead.

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

Now what Amendment give “WE THE PEOPLE” that power? Yes the American Government is rampantly corrupt and terroristic towards all. Which is the precise reason for this conversation. So which on is it. Can you say with out cheating by way of lookup or ipod, or ipad or what have you. Let’s get to some righteous facts here. I’ve got plenty.

M_J_S
M_J_S

"fascist terrorist group..." you mean the US government?

Sorry pal. Face the facts, we either get the votes and throw the bums out, or we throw the bums out.

Some of us will not go quietly.

sjmom
sjmom

Has the House considered what the Dem Senate will pass in a budget???? God help us because the fools in the House will compromise and we will end up with more uncontrolled spending.

bongobear
bongobear

And we're actually paying these people for this. Amazing.

Biggbear52
Biggbear52

Yeah isn't though. TIME FOR ANOTHER CONCORD BRIDGE!