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Crack that whip (or not): “Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is leaving Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) budget plan to its own fate in the Senate by not whipping his GOP colleagues on the vote,” The Hill writes. “Republican senators say McConnell has made it clear he will vote for the House Budget Committee chairman’s plan, but has said rank-and-file members should vote as they want on the 2012 budget proposal.”
Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) weighed in yesterday about the defection of Tom Coburn from the so-called Gang of Six, NBC’s Libby Leist reports. McCaskill, who is up for re-election in 2012, said she has some sympathy for Coburn who was under enormous pressure from anti-tax conservatives. "I feel for him. I take shots from the far left and the far right almost everyday. So, it’s hard to get those compromises," she said.
McCaskill added she feels some of the same resistance from her own party on the issue of entitlement reform. "There's way too much pressure on our side of the aisle about not mentioning the word Social Security or talking about means testing in Medicare. I believe very much we can't afford to buy Warren Buffet's prescription drugs anymore ...but there's pressure being exerted on both sides."
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This is the same woman who lied about the "death squads" that kept seniors from getting needed medical care for fear of being ..killed at the doctors office ... pathological lier ...psychopath...unfit to run .... Could you trust this woman ?
whoa........the vote failed? so, what are republicants going to tell their oil money barons......i mean their constituent? what a misplaced priority.
Well people, you know who voted to let the oil companies keep running this country and it is about time that the people of this country had a say in who is keeping these jerks in office. Please vote these politians out of office and be very careful who we vote in. We need to have someone on the side of working men and women for a change. The tea party was brought about by rich corporate people to get a hold in government so they are no better than what we have in office now. They are not grass root people they are corporate money hogs.
JoAnn,
Do you have a link or proof that corporations are tied into the TEA Party?
Google
Are corporations are tied into the TEA Party?
Let's keep this effort of cutting oil companies federal tax breaks at the top of the list of budget reduction measures. Better to start there than taking on complete overhaul of Medicare. If both parties are serious they need to stand up to the oil lobby and do the right thing . This is a tiny first step. let' see if they can do it. Or otherwise, and JoAnn says, vote then out of office.
No American can have any doubt as to whom the Republicans/Tea Party have allegiance to after this vote for oil companies tax breaks. They sure don't include the working Americans.
Seattle Sue, you should change your name to Pollyanna...I'm changing mine to Alice because I think I just fell down the rabbit hole. We have enough gas, oil and coal to power our nation without middle-eastern oil and we'd better start taking it right now or one day we'll wake up to find the entire middle-east banning together and refusing to sell ANY oil to the west. We have only one world, and whether people drill here or in South America, Africa, the middle-east, Russia, etc, the entire world has to deal with the environmental effects of drilling for oil. There is no suitable alternative. We're in survival mode; You liberals need to get your heads out of your asses.
That is the problem FTG, you are stuck in the past. We cant go back. The day you can put a new born baby back in the womb is the day that you will have it your way!
Frances, The oil that is pumped out of the ground here is not necessarily sold in the US. Coal? Lead and arsenic anyone? Wake up! Nap time is over!
Here's gettting your head out of your ass; use up ALL our own reserves NOW. Once they're gone, and we have NO reserves left, nor any alternative energy sources in production, guess how much the Arabs can sell it to us for?? Yeah, good one, Frances.
Gateway + DBO...
Not sure I get your meaning... there are billions of pieces of equipment / machinery that require oil. Hydraulic fluid is even derived from oil and probably millions of products are made from it. Even if we are able to "power" a country from wind and/or solar (which we can't) and all drive Volts (which we won't) what would we do to run the equipment that runs the country?
Mechanical equipment = moving parts = friction = heat = oil (required).
Krell, DBO respond and mine are totally different. I'm talking policy, not production. I'm not saying DBO is wrong. My point is that yesterdays policies will not solve todays problems.
Frances,
You seem to have a rather short term view that the country and its welfare is only applicable to your lifetime and even in that you are misinformed. We are 5% of the earths population and consume 24% of its enery consumption. I make no judgement vis a vis the morality of this only that it is unsustainable. Our total oil and gas reserves will expire in 40 to 60 years we import more than we produce, if we increase production to meet our needs they will expire in 25 to 40 years. This also means using oil shale and all available resources much of which is economically non viable even at the current price of around $90.00 a barrel. Once we deplete our own we become entirely dependent on foreign oil with no influence on pricing. Our reserves limit the energy blackmail of others. Belief in American Exceptionalism does not define someone as Conservative some of the most exceptional Americans ever to walk the earth were liberal to a fault. Liberals are buried in military cemeteries around the world, I know a few who never returned from Nam and have Roosevelt Democrat family members buried in Okinawa and Korea. The guys who wrote the Constitution were considered revolutionary radical liberals by their conservative counterparts who fought to retain the status quo.
jkh
So what happens to working Americans when the big bad corporations lose all their tax breaks & subsidies that make it vaguely affordable to do business in the US so they pack up and move to countries that are glad to have industry to pull their economies out of the toilet?
Go where the jobs are?
This is what we get for voting for ex corp ceo's, businessmen/women and movie stars!
That bus left tire marks on Ryan. Wow...talk about abandonment issues.
There are plenty ex business/women still in the line up. They arent running for america, they are running for big business.
I presume you're talking about Nancy Pelosi. Everytime I look at her, I expect her head to start spinning as she spews out her green bile of lies. No one can trust this woman...I think she's on crack.
WTF? Sounds like you've got issues! I think your the one who's strung out.
Francesthegreat, If Pelosi is the only business woman or man you see out there then dont vote for her. Then the others dont vote for them either. Seeing that you dont understand that party lines have nothing to do with the rope that america is hang on.
Gataewaybull, Other than the residents of a small, liberal, San Francisco area district, NO ONE IN AMERICA EVER VOTED FOR NANCY PELOSI. As for Party Lines, you're right about that...This train wreck has been coming for a long time...like since Franklin Roosevelt...gaining momentum at an alarming rate since 2008. I believe in the Constitution, balanced budgets and accountable politicans; I believe that the USA is the greatest nation ever known to man, and the We, the American People are Exceptional. I love America. Do you? In other words, I am a Conservative.
True to your liberal principles, devie, when you don't have anything to say, just "ATTACK"!
Frances,
What does I believe in the Constitution mean? Who exactly doesn't believe in it?
JKH
Frances,
You might want to take a look at Americas advance from 1932 to 1980, see where we came from the heights we rose to and where we are now and see whose policy worked and whose did not.
jkh
Frances, our country is a relatively young one, and it's very hard to see how anyone could assume that it is or was "the greatest nation ever known to man" unless you have some universal parameters. But if, as you say, the US has been going downhill since FDR, that would mean that you think the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties were better times.....for whom exactly? Presumably that also means that the great immigration waves of the mid 19th century were a grand time...why not resurrect them now?
More BS over Energy from our Great Miss-informer -in-Chief. What happened to Obama saying and wanting the same....more and quicker drilling....in his MAJOR speech. Like most all the rest of his policies ....they only sound good.......
Do they not realize the jobs they can create.......need refineries also
His whole speech was BS....knew the whole time EPA would not allow anything he promised.
The only oil company he cares about is Petrobras!
The Republican Party is owned and controlled by “big money”, especially by the oil industry and by Wall Street, and over the last eleven years that just couldn’t be more obvious. All their excited talk about ‘conservatism’ and about fighting ‘socialism’ and everything else is just that, talk to cover and disguise their only reason for existence as being ‘puppets’ for those who strongly support them and who ‘pull their strings’. Everything they do benefits the few and is hidden behind the subterfuge given to the majority. To not see that, to not recognize that, to not understand that is an act of stupidity. Their effort is completely unified, with their concentration being stubbornly and arrogantly on their political ambitions, which they are convinced are gained in serving the few who back them with power, money and influence; the people just get the deceptive rhetoric. This isn’t the cry of some crazy it is simply recognizing and accepting the obvious, seen in the consistency they demonstrate and the deception that is always apparent from the results. To not realize this and instead to be manipulated by the con, is to actually be co-responsible for our own duping and abuse.
Guess that's why both gave more money to Obama and DNC than GOP.......
GOP wants to give you a job.......DNC want to give you a check(for a vote)
The GOP TPers don't want to give you a job (what have they done on jobs????) nor do they want to help anyone who needs help in this time of recession. We are still in a recession, people are still without jobs. Vote GOP and give the oil companies, pharma, insurance, banks, all the checks they need! And by god, they'll just keep that money and invest in more banks, pharma, oil, insurance, and cut employment so their bottom line is more profitable - thus losing more jobs. Get real 1Hiram.
Sorry Cathy, Obama said we were out of the recession in June 2009.
"What have they done"......got rid of Nancy Pelosi and the Ultra Liberal BS her, Reid and Obama wanted to cram down our throats...cap and trade, card check,Liberal judges appointed,more out of control spending. With those added to the damage he has already done.......definite double dip back to recession......
PS--since Nov elections the economic numbers have been best in 2 years.....not great just little better.
With absolutely no help from the party of NO!!!
FTG, if you dont like ms. pelosi dont vote for her. If you dont live in her district move there and dont vote for her, vote for the person or party of your choice. If you care to call me a liberal because I say dont vote for corp ceo's and big business, thats your choice. Where my friend is the attack? It is a comment and opinion just like all the rest on here. If you dont agree thats your choice. Me attacking is kinda harsh wouldnt you say? Thats the only kleenex I have to offer you!
FTG, there is no second guessing your party of choice. One party alone has made this country anymore of a train wreck than another. The train wreck is that we cant compromise on the solutions to our problems. Their are fifty states, four major areas. Two states are total disconnected. What do you really want FTG? We are listening, you are president right now, FTG. Get this great nation straight. What would you do?