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Subscribe to RSSMitch McConnell says the GOP only needs 51 votes to repeal the health-care mandate. "Reconciliation is available because the Supreme Court has now declared it a tax," McConnell said on FOX News Sunday, per Roll Call. "They have unearthed the massive deception that was practiced by the president and the Democrats to constantly deny that it was a tax…. And as a tax, it is eligible for reconciliation."
A long way down… “Members of Congress from both parties are increasingly mulling the unthinkable: going home in December without acting to avoid the $4 trillion in tax hikes and deep spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff,” Reuters writes. “Neither Democrats nor Republicans claim this is their preferred option, as it could rattle global financial markets badly and anger their constituents. But as they circle each other in an ever-more partisan atmosphere they see little prospect for a settlement acceptable to both parties in the lame duck session of Congress after the November 6 election.
“A coalition of Hispanic groups wants the feds to oversee vote counting in the electoral squabble between Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel and state Sen. Adriano Espaillat,” the New York Daily News writes. “Rangel was declared the victor in last Tuesday’s Democratic primary, but his Election Night margin of 2,300 votes has dwindled into the triple digits.”
Mike Pence equated “the Supreme Court’s surprise health care ruling to the September 11 terrorist attacks,” the New York Daily News writes. It wasn’t clear what Pence, who’s running for governor of Indiana, actually said, but he apologized. “My remarks at the Republican Conference following the Supreme Court decision were thoughtless,” he said in a statement. “I certainly did not intend to minimize any tragedy our nation has faced, and I apologize.”
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These old fools are the problem .. They have long forgotten their promise to the people . They act only to enrich himself and their friends .The GOP doesn't want America to expect to much from their government ..WE the people shouldn't expect social security or healthcare from our government unlike what these parasites in the congress and the senate get .Its time for the people to take back Washington ..We need to set term limits, 2 in a life NO RETIREMENTS and NO Healthcare benefits for these "BUMS" Also a capped salary of 45K ! We also need to keep all members of congress and the senate from sitting on any committee's .This is how we end up getting screwed. They sell us out to the highest BRIBE !
HAMLET: "They fool me to the top of my bent."
McConnell has zero=zero=zero credibility, NO TRUTH. Just a complete waste of time.
Useless for the middle class. McConnell (the minority, mark you) requires 60 votes for every measure. GOP refused twice to allow 2 million jobs in the American Jobs Act even to come up for DEBATE. And we want those ******* jobs.
You are so horribly right, Palm Springs.
I try not to feel ill of anyone but our house republicans whom we elected to represent us, is trying my patience. They take a needless vote for the 33 time on a health care bill that all the elderly and my children who are attending college need. They should be working on getting us back in business and they need to feel the same way we feel when we don't have health care, they sit there having all the benefits our tax dollars provide and waste time on nothing because it is my understanding they can't change the bill and they have not provided an alternative. They have all the benefits and most of the congress are millionaires where do we as a people stand with these individuals we supposedly are their bosses and they are not listening. Palm Springs you should run for public office I am sure just by reading your remarks you would serve us better than our present representatives. I totally agree!!!!!!!!
Reconcillation - yeah, right, try running on that one Mitch, that is a dog that just won't hunt.
The scum, better known as the Republican party, are the reason why President Obama must be reelected. Also, the Senate, and as much of the House as is possible, must have the Democrats elected to them.
We can not allow EVIL to take over our government!!!
We have met the enemy and it is us, if Americans believe the lies of the GOP.
Mitch McConnell is the largest piece of excrement in the Congress. He is the proverbial fecal matter in the punchbowl. Just because the individual mandate is a tax, that obviously doesn't mean the entire Affordable Care Act is a tax. That would seem obvious to all but the most disingenuous. The turtlehead's unfortunate truthful statements about how much he wanted to sabotage Obama from day one must be made an issue in this campaign. No president can succeed when the leader of the opposition just wants him to fail - however he can make him fail. And McConnell fails to mention that the individual mandate was originally a Republican idea. The Democrats originally wanted to put the penalty on employers who failed to provide healthcare. They settled on the Republican idea - which of course Romney enacted in Mass. But, details are the least of turtlehead's concerns. He just does what the people that bought him tell him to do. And he employs the demagogic teachings of Roger Ailes to the max. Term limits are not the answer. Both of the Roosevelts were career politicians. It's easier to put a total pawn in for two terms and then give him a million dollar job when he leaves. McConnell's got a golden parachute waiting for him, no doubt about it. He's been a good little toady for the richest special interests for so long. It's so easy to denigrate teachers' unions when you've got good ole oil magnates and Wall Street barons bankrolling you.