Following Thursday’s awesome report blaming “Congress” (and not the majority nuts that make up the House GOP), comes Friday’s report:
Congress could deal a blow to the economy
The Senate rejected a House plan to fund the government past mid-November. A fight over a few billion dollars in disaster relief funding for FEMA carries big risks.
BOB MOON: We’ve said it before, and we’ll probably end up saying it again: If Congress can’t agree on a bill to fund operations through mid-November, the government could shut down next week.
.. The House wants $7 billion worth of corresponding cuts. Today, the Senate said no way.
The House? House GOP, I think, you mean.
DAVID GURA: Ross Baker can hardly believe Congressis fighting over disaster relief. He used to be a staffer on Capitol Hill. Now, he’s a political science professor at Rutgers.ROSS BAKER: This is the kind of issue that 20 years ago would not have led to a possible government shutdown.
Ross Baker hasn’t been attention to the f*(king nuts who were elected in 2010 then. What he meant to say is that this kind of issue would not have led to a possible shutdown if (a) there the GOP House was serving with a GOP POTUS or (b) House is led by Dems.
That’s because in the grand scheme of things, this probably isn’t a fight worth having.
STAN COLLENDER: The absolute amount of money we’re talking about is insignificant — a virtual rounding error.
That’s Stan Collender. He’s a budget expert with Qorvis. The federal budget for 2010 was almost $3.5 trillion. Collender says this isn’t about the money — it’s about House Republicans standing on principle: they vowed to make cuts to cover any spending. With our economy in such bad shape, he says that’s a risky position.
Again, the bullshit kvetching only happens when there is GOP led House WITH a Democratic POTUS. I don’t recall any principled stance when there was a GOP led House and George W Bush ran up the biggest f&*king deficit evah.
Collender says we may see this kind of brinksmanship again and again.
Really, Stan Collender? We didnt see it under Dem led House in with GOP POTUS 1980s, 1990s. It only happened under a GOP House in 1995. We didn’t see it with Dem led House in 2006-2010, it only happened under a GOP led House in 2011.
Don Marron used to head the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. He says the business of governance has changed.
DON MARRON: Deadlines and precipices are what drive action.
No, it happens with whenever a bunch of f*(king thugs are elected and stop things just because there is a Democratic POTUS.
Politicians don’t focus on long-term solutions. And that worries another former CBO director, Alice Rivlin.
ALICE RIVLIN: If we can’t get even a small thing done, we send a message to the public, to business, to the markets, that we haven’t got a competent government in charge that can even solve small problems.
Yes, the House GOP doesn’t give a sh*t what you think, Alice Rivlin, there’s a Demoractic POTUS.
Stop abusing the term “Congress” and start blaming the right group: House GOP.
