Does Piecemeal Funding Reveal the Republicans to be Hypocrites?

Linc · Oct 7, 2013

Yes, Obama wanted 1.2 Trillion, Repubs wanted 0.988 T and Dems agreed.
Repubs couldn't take YES for an answer and lowered it to 0.966 T, the P. Ryan#.
And, every time they wrote a new CR, they actually loaded each one with different "anti-laws".

iguanaman said:
LOL I just told you that the Dems had agreed to the Ryan budget numbers in the CR, they hated that because they were much too low but they agreed to sign on to avoid this circus from hurting our economy. But NO, that was not enough for the greedy 18% minority. They had to repeal a valid law too. No sane person will blame the Dems fro resisting such blackmail. It makes a mockery of our democracy and it main tenet.. Majority rule.
This stunt will cost the Republicans the House for sure, there are already 24 Reps. who's seats are in danger and this is just beginning.

Aderleth · Oct 7, 2013

aberrant85 said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/u...nservatives-find-favor-for-government.html?hp

With all the rifts opening in the GOP, the one tenet the party stood united for was that the federal government was too big and spent too much money. Surely such a bloated monstrosity such as this could go without a few days of spending, so the House Republicans had no problem shutting down the government by refusing to pass a clean CR.

Fox News even took to calling the shutdown a "slimdown." It's like a diet for the government! Isn't that cute?

Now, however, after receiving near universal condemnation and blame for the situation, the House Republicans attempted to pass a series of piecemeal funding approvals for various popular, very visible programs.

The party that pushed the last debt ceiling crisis that resulted in the Sequester that cut funding to nutrition programs for women and children, cancer research, national parks, the entire District of Columbia, and the VA, now wants to fully fund these and other programs and is calling the Democrats cruel for refusing to reinstate these vital government services.

And now, faced with the negative press of having withheld paychecks from more than a million government workers, the House unanimously passed a bill to give full back pay to all furloughed employees.

To wit: the party that HATES excessive government spending now cares deeply about the continuation of the good work our government does.

The party that RAILS AGAINST WELFARE QUEENS will now pay more than a million people to not go to work and go home and watch TV.

The one "plus" of a government shutdown, saving the government billions of dollars in wages, is now replaced by the country's largest temporary expansion of welfare.

All in protest of a government program that pays for itself and shrinks the deficit.

Has the party of "fiscal responsibility" completely revealed its underlying hypocrisy, unable to stomach the actual results of their most ardent beliefs?

Well... I don't think it reveals them to be hypocrites, because there's been plenty of evidence of that for years. The Republican party has been getting progressively crazier for a couple of decades now. They used to be reasonable opposition with some valid concerns. That hasn't been true for a long time now.

ocean515 · Oct 8, 2013

TacticalEvilDan said:
The CRs that the Senate sent back to the House did in fact have the spending levels the GOP wanted -- that way, the Senate Democrats could portray the House GOP as voting against their own proposed spending levels and take some of the focus from the ACA.

The House did the same thing by sending CRs with spending levels the Democrats wanted.

Indeed. As I wrote, if CR bills, without the gamesmanship, were involved, Congress wouldn't be in the place they are in. Even the Federal response, reportedly directed by the White House, is a nothing but political bildge.

Hopefully, people are paying attention. Not to the manipulated headlines, but to the facts.

Does Piecemeal Funding Reveal the Republicans to be Hypocrites?