Raees wrote: You're naive if you think Republicans don't load bills with pork projects.
I am not saying they don't, but when you see ads complaining about this pol voting against something or for something, it is a compromise of voting for something they really don't like to get something passed they do.
And one way to grease the legislative process it to hand out pork to the districts, especially of the Congressman on the committees.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
FredHayek wrote: Please. The bill is loaded down with other crap that the Republicans don't want. If it was about one issue it would have passed. Sometimes you guys are so charmingly naive.
Then the Republicans should be reworking the bill rather than go on vacation. Their job is to legislate. No wonder their job approval is at an all time low.
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Despite a record low approval rate, I predict the Republicans will continue to maintain control of Congress and might even gain a couple seats, like Perlmutters.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Something the Dog Said wrote: Psst, the GOP held up the farm bill which passed through committee, but the GOP controlled House went on vacation without voting on it.
So yes, this GOP ad is absolutely false. Even though farmers across the US are in dire need, the GOP chose to take vacation rather than do their taxpayer funded duties.
Full disclosure would be that the House passed a drought relief measure which the Senate adjourned without addressing. It's accurate that the House didn't pass a "comprehensive" farm bill before the August recess and wholly inaccurate to attempt to claim that they did nothing.
That's the style of the Democrats though - either do things our way or nothing will get done at all. No sense in trying to find common ground and make some progress on what truly needs to be addressed immediately. That might interfere with the Obama attempt to run a "do nothing Congress" ala Harry Truman campaign for the last 80+ days before the election.
Democracy4Sale wrote: And I figure they'll lose some... Some of the wackos in the house that came in in 2010 are probably going to be thrown out.
They might lose a couple here and there, but there is no way they lose the 60 seats that the Democrats need to regain the majority. With the Republicans needing only 4 more seats to gain control of the Senate and in addition having over twice as many chances of picking up seats than the Democrats do, best odds are that the Senate will have a Republican majority next January as well. Probably not the 60 seat majority the Democrats enjoyed after the elections in 2008, but it wouldn't surprise me a bit to see the current 53/47 split with the Republicans holding the majority instead of the Democrats either.
Romney surrogate to CNN host: ‘Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead’
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien pointed out to Romney surrogate John Sununu that the candidate’s plan would turn Medicare into a voucher system much like the budget proposal offered by his vice presidential pick, Paul Ryan.
“It’s sounds awfully like the Paul Ryan Medicare plan,” O’Brien noted after reading details from Romney’s website.
“But it’s very different,” Sununu insisted. “For example when [President Barack] Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package, the Romney plan does not. That’s a big difference.”
“I understand that this is a Republican talking point because I’ve heard it repeated over and over again,” O’Brien observed. “These numbers have been debunked, as you know, by the Congressional Budget Office. … I can tell you what it says. [Obama's plan] cuts a reduction in the expect rate of growth, which you know, not cutting budgets to the elderly. Benefits will be improved.”
“Soledad, stop this!” Sununu shouted. “All you’re doing is mimicking the stuff that comes out of the White House and gets repeated on the Democratic blog boards out there.”
“I’m telling you what Factcheck.com tells you, I’m telling you what the CBO tells you, I’m telling you what CNN’s independent analysis says,” the CNN host explained.
“Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead when you do this!” the frustrated surrogate shot back.
“You know, let me tell you something,” O’Brien said. “There is independent analysis that details what this is about. … And name calling to me and somehow by you repeating a number of $716 billion, that you can make that stick when [you say] that figure is being ‘stolen’ from Medicare, that’s not true. You can’t just repeat it and make it true, sir.”
Something the Dog Said wrote: Psst, the GOP held up the farm bill which passed through committee, but the GOP controlled House went on vacation without voting on it.
So yes, this GOP ad is absolutely false. Even though farmers across the US are in dire need, the GOP chose to take vacation rather than do their taxpayer funded duties.
Full disclosure would be that the House passed a drought relief measure which the Senate adjourned without addressing. It's accurate that the House didn't pass a "comprehensive" farm bill before the August recess and wholly inaccurate to attempt to claim that they did nothing.
That's the style of the Democrats though - either do things our way or nothing will get done at all. No sense in trying to find common ground and make some progress on what truly needs to be addressed immediately. That might interfere with the Obama attempt to run a "do nothing Congress" ala Harry Truman campaign for the last 80+ days before the election.
Full disclosure would be that the House sat on the farm bill for over five weeks without bringing it to the floor for debate, then at the very last minute passed a "drought" bill that would have only benefited a few special interests and try to force the Senate to act on it at the very last minute without discussion or debate. The House "drought" bill would have required a conference committee and days of discussion before it could have been passed by the Senate. Even then, it is doubtful that the Senate Republicans would have allowed the 60 votes for it to pass. The House dropped the ball here, not the Senate. The House had over a month to act, knowing that farmers were in critical condition. The drought did not happen overnight. Instead the do nothing House GOP once again did nothing.
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