Boehner Out Golfing Amid Government Shutdown Talks

Isn't it amazing how after over 2 years of their guy running the WORLD, in his mind, a couple of months after the Conservatives one just One House, these IDIOTS wonder why the Republicans haven't solved all the problems?

Because your Messiah is still pushing his Progressive Socialist Agenda LJ!!! People who know you say you really aren't this stupid!!!!

Lets see now, its Bush, Palin and Boehner that are the fault!!!!

Right!!! We all see the sense of that argument, don't we?

Bush been out of office for over two years now. Its Obama's watch. Its on Obama now. Palin can't be her fault, she isn't smart enough to be able to cause big problems. So lets look at the speaker of the house. thousands out of work, thousands scrapping to make thier bills and put food on the table. Major issues going on in this country. Republicians and Tea Party did alot of big talking for the reelection, got elected, took over the house, and now the leader is out playing golf instead of doing his job. They get enough time off, thats sending one hellva of a message to the people of this country. Hell they don't even have a approved budget and a deadline of 4 March.

Unless my memory fails me, and I don't believe it has, the House of Representatives has passed a bill for funding the government for the remainder of this fiscal year that is currently languishing in the Democrat controlled Senate run by Harry Reid. If the Senate had passed a different version of the bill and the attempts to reconcile the two were sitting on a table while Speaker Boehner was out on the links, I might understand the outrage. But it seems to me that the ball, along with the budget bill, is currently in the Senate's court, not the House's.

There may indeed be a shutdown looming, but if it comes it will come because Reid didn't call back the Senators early from their recess to roll up their sleeves and get to work in time to pass a bill to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year after the Democrats in both houses of the legislature punted on passing any kind of a budget for the fiscal year that started in October in the hope of changing the all but ordained shellacking they were set to receive in the election last November. The 112th Congress was seated in the first week of January, it is now the last week of February. The Republican majority in the House has a budget passed. The Democrat majority in the Senate does not. That, to me at least, shows a lack of ability on the part of Reid, not Boehner.

PrintSmith wrote: Unless my memory fails me, and I don't believe it has, the House of Representatives has passed a bill for funding the government for the remainder of this fiscal year that is currently languishing in the Democrat controlled Senate run by Harry Reid. If the Senate had passed a different version of the bill and the attempts to reconcile the two were sitting on a table while Speaker Boehner was out on the links, I might understand the outrage. But it seems to me that the ball, along with the budget bill, is currently in the Senate's court, not the House's.

There may indeed be a shutdown looming, but if it comes it will come because Reid didn't call back the Senators early from their recess to roll up their sleeves and get to work in time to pass a bill to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year after the Democrats in both houses of the legislature punted on passing any kind of a budget for the fiscal year that started in October in the hope of changing the all but ordained shellacking they were set to receive in the election last November. The 112th Congress was seated in the first week of January, it is now the last week of February. The Republican majority in the House has a budget passed. The Democrat majority in the Senate does not. That, to me at least, shows a lack of ability on the part of Reid, not Boehner.

I understand your point, but my is also somewhat simple. There is not an approved budget or continuance spending bill that is approved for the Pres signature. He is a leader, He should be pressing the issue just as the idiot Reid should be doing. Leaders do not leave their post when things need to get done. They lead and get the problems resolved. Not really an outrage, and the so called government shutdown is not really a full shutdown. None the less I believe leaders should be doing just that, not golfing. Just doesn't send (imop) a good signal.

PrintSmith wrote: I agree LJ - WHERE ARE THE JOBS THE DEMOCRATS PROMISED? And why, after saying since his inauguration that his primary focus would be on the economy and jobs, have those jobs not materialized and the economy stagnated?

Yep...it's ok if republicans don't create jobs because democrats didn't. So Republicans take their cue on what to do based on what democrats do....or don't do. Wow, I never would have guessed you conservatives would use liberals as the excuse for what you are incapable of doing
I mean...like who knew?
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Just like a progressive. Expect the opposition to do in 2 months what it couldn't accomplish in 24, complain that it isn't getting done fast enough to suit them and call it a failure on the part of the opposition.

It's almost as predictable as their saying that the reason their expensive plan failed was because it didn't get enough money. 45 years and Trillions of dollars later, all of which ended up being added to the national debt, the reason the War on Poverty failed to reduce the national poverty level isn't that the federal government was never intended or equipped to address this issue, the problem is that even more Trillions of dollars weren't spent, though it did have the benefit, if that is the right word, of drastically increasing the number of children born outside of marriage.

They told us that the reason our public schools weren't performing is that we weren't compensating teachers properly and spending enough on education of the youth. Now that the average teacher salary is above the average income of most families, not to mention a defined benefit pension plan financed at public expense that has unfunded liabilities totaling in the hundreds of Billions of dollars nationally, we find that the problem is worse than ever before and all the money that went to compensation and state of the art schools at the expense of music, art, trades and physical activity in the schools failed to fix the problem that they said it would, but that spending even more will still fix it. Go figure.

I'm not complaining that it isn't getting done fast enough......I'm complaining that a lot of lip service was given to creating jobs during the Republican campaigns, but now it seems like the Republicans have a whole different agenda.....and creating jobs isn't on it.

WHERE are the jobs? I guess golf is more important.

Just like a conservative. Expect the opposition to do in 2 months what it couldn't accomplish in 8 years, complain that it isn't getting done fast enough to suit them and call it a failure on the part of the opposition. Go figure.

I don't recall any unemployment problems when Bush was in office until the housing and credit bubble burst. You can attempt to blame Bush for that but you can't explain why the bubble was his fault....can you?