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One way or another Republican leaders are trying to shut down the United States government. House Republicans passed a continuing resolution that makes $60 billion in additional cuts from a budget that was already strategically cut $40 billion by Democrats. Republicans are using a machete in a situation that calls for a scalpel. What does this mean for society? It means that we will have less people protecting the borders; less investigators making sure food is safe; and an recovering economy that takes a sucker punch right on the chin.
So how have Republicans responded? At the risk of job losses in the economy, Speaker Boehner has said, "So it goes." Sarah Palin has said a government shutdown would be good for the country. I guess to hell with the people not receiving their Social Security checks. Funny how the people that beat you over the head with their ultra nationalism are the same ways that seem to hate our government.
Everyone recognizes the need to address the large deficit. What pisses me off about this whole process is the unending hypocrisy of how the GOP has approached the cuts. They were absolutely committed to extending billions in crippling deficit driving Bush tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans but are the first to say we should increase the retirement age for someone that has made minimum age their entire life at a back breaking job. They are all about cutting health benefits to the working poor but voted to protect millions in subsidies to South American cotton farmers and advertising support to NASCAR. How out of touch these folks are would be funny if it weren't so damned serious.
The President and Democratic Senate, this includes you Manchin, must protect the country from this hypocritical assault from the Right. We must take a balanced approach as we reduce the deficit and protect the long term viability of the country.
I wonder if any of those "grassroots" conservatives coming off of election jobs still have "more important things to worry about than blogs." If they're back on the dole, maybe we'll see an exciting relaunch any day now.
As an update to Jeremiah's post on the Republican Congressperson who campaigned against government healthcare and then complained he has to wait a month for his Congressional health plan to kick in... here are more congressional healthcare updates.
* Sleeper issue? The Dem firm Public Policy Polling finds large majorities of Republicans and independents want anti-Obamacare members of Congress to forgo their own Big Government Health Care.
* Gamble of the day: A House Democrat is introducing legislation rolling back the most popular provisions of health reform -- and daring Republicans to vote for it.
I guess some hypocrisy knows no bounds. You often see Republicans screaming about the ills of government involved in health care but what people seldom hear about is that those same outraged politicians have GOVERNMENT sponsored HEALTH CARE through the Office of Personnel Management's FEHB.
Republican Congressman and physician, Andy Harris, has spouted off about not getting his government sponsored health insurance until 28 days after he is sworn into office. He is outraged. Well, good sir, with all due respect, there will be tens of millions of Americans that go without health care for the entire next year and tens of millions more that will have lapses in coverage or are under insured.
As Robert Gibbs said, the rhetoric doesn't match the reality when it is YOUR health care that is in question, government or not. Let no American go without health insurance!
Kentucky blog Barefoot and Progressive IDs the stomper, who has since confirmed his role to Associated Press. No surprise, he was part of the Rand Paul campaign, despite some on the right who tried to claim he was a liberal plant. The Paul campaign recognized him. Did they turn over that information to the police or were they trying to coverup for him?
Dana Milbank of the WaPo notices what the left bloggers have been saying for years. I'm still surprised the pro-choice Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito wasn't primaried by a teabagger this cycle, but since she's helped undercut any potential GOP rivals over the years, perhaps it's not surprising.
New York Times editorial points out the efforts by Democrats to pass mining safety improvements are being met with resistance by Congressional Republicans:
As investigations proceed into the biggest mine disaster in 40 years, Congress is its usual study in partisan obstruction, with Republicans in no hurry to rectify lethal workplace risks laid bare by the disaster. The majority Democrats' reform measure, endorsed by the Obama administration, would crack down on reckless mining companies with stronger monitoring and criminal penalties, subpoena-empowered investigations, and protections against the dismissal of miners who dare to complain about risks to life down below.
Congressional Republicans, echoing the message of Big Coal, complain that there's a rush to make new law. One of their authoritative colleagues, Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, finds the need for action now obvious. The proposal he co-sponsors aims at repeat offenders of mining regulations, like Massey Energy, that game the penalty system with extended legal appeals. It also would require better tracking of methane and coal dust and crack down on the practice of advance warnings when federal investigators approach.
If the Big Branch disaster were a terrorist deed, Republicans would be jamming the hopper with legislative antidotes. But dead miners? No rush, although it's clear that existing regulations are porous, underenforced and in crying need of repair by a responsible Congress.
"They got everything else in the entire bureaucracy that they need to control our healthcare system ... with the signing of this bill. ... That's why repealing this bill has to be our No. 1 priority."
- Republican Minority Leader John Boehner on a live radio show announcing his intention.
Repubs are pulling this out on the week that the first b$250.00 Medicare supplement checks are going out to seniors. Tim Kaine, head of the Democratic National Committee is daring the Repubs to make this destructive repeal move the focus of their fall campaign to win back Congress and has challenged Boehner and Company to reveal the things they'd take away from Americans and give back to Insurance Companies.
As I thought about Florida Rep. Ted Deutch's quote in my previous post this morning, I also recalled a discussion I head either on Olbermann or Rachel Maddow last night ( I really wasn't looking at who was talking, but was lying flat on my back after taking a pain killer for my cracked ribs) in which a Republican said he was really in agreement on the nuclear decisions that the President had come to, but in terms of voting for the treaty with the Russians he would probably have to vote NO. The reason? Because the Party Leaders are insistent on not supporting anything the President does prior to the November elections.
The goal is, still, to make the current Administration a failure.
OK... while many are watching the NCAA Basketball games, I'll be watching the big sports action of the weekend: The Health Care bill in the House of Representatives.
CSPAN is showing BOTH the debates in the House and the Reconciliation Bill debate in the House Rules Committee (on CSPAN 2). The major players will all be out there, making the points or stalling to try and get the bill bogged down. Whatever happens today will determine what gets voted on tomorrow.
I listened to a Congressman from Alabama give the Republican's weekly statement (after the President's weekly statement) on NBC this morning and was told that despite what Pelosi and Reid want, despite the threat of using reconciliation to push the Health Care bill through, the American People don't want the Health Care bill as it has been debated and argued over the past year. He said the American People want Congress and The President to "start over on a new page."
Here in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, about as American a location as you can find, I sit watching this knowing that I WANT a Health Care bill to be passed NOW. I know that if the government starts on a NEW PAGE it will be in the face of a rate-raising, highly profitable private insurance system and a 10-to-1 ratio of lobbyists who are NOT starting on a new page, who will work day and night to weaken any progress.
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