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Subscribe to RSSThe assault weapons ban is officially out of the official bill to be introduced on the floor (it can be presented as an amendment, but it will likely fail). The New York Daily News puts it on its cover with an all caps, “SHAME ON U.S.” framed by thumbnail pictures and the names of the children killed at Newtown.
USA Today: “Congress is on track to approve competing party-line budget blueprints as well as legislation to fund the government and prevent a shutdown March 27, but newfound fiscal momentum on Capitol Hill is a temporary reprieve from the budget battles that will renew this year. The Republican-controlled House and the Democratic-controlled Senate will approve respective ten-year budget plans with vastly different views on spending, taxes and entitlement programs before adjourning for a two-week spring recess.”
The House begins debating Ryan’s budget today.
“Meat, machismo and Moran all collided in the Senate on Tuesday, stalling action on a stopgap spending bill and threatening to push the long-awaited budget debate into the holiday recess beginning this weekend,” David Rogers writes. “The House, while free to plow ahead with its own budget votes Wednesday, is not entirely immune since it can’t go home without also acting on the stalled stopgap measure — required to avert a shutdown March 27.”
“If hiking the debt ceiling seemed difficult in 2011, it’s even trickier in 2013,” Politico writes. “They might have appeared to stand down from the last clash over the debt ceiling in January. But don’t be fooled: House Republicans are still planning to push for steep spending cuts or budgetary reforms alongside legislation to allow more borrowing.”
“Senator Elizabeth Warren plans to start shopping a book proposal to publishers, seeking to enhance her national political stature while promoting what she considers the cause of her public and legal career: protecting the middle class from abusive financial practices,” the Boston Globe writes. “The book’s working title is ‘Rigged,’ Warren said in an interview, and she expects it to offer a first-hand account of her battles in Washington to rein in the sorts of predatory lending and Wall Street excess that victimized everyday Americans.”
National Journal looks at what happened to Michele Bachmann. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) surmises that she’s been quiet because she had a tough reelection and is trying to rebuild her political war chest.
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"Shame on U.S." is absolutely correct. Our spineless Congress has once again capitulated to the NRA and their gun-manufacturer puppeteers. They're also cowed by the uneducated and paranoid people who equate an assault weapons ban with taking away all firearms - which no one is asking for.
All those holier than thou, law and order, sanctity of life hypocrites should have to walk in the shoes of one of those parents, spouses or siblings of those killed in Newtown, Aurora or any other tragedy where someone used a weapon designed to kill the greatest number of people in the shortest amount of time. Until then they should STFU.
Did anyone stop to think what is going to happen when all these guns that are being sold now, start to hit the gun market for resale when their owners find out they screwed themselves by buying more guns than they could afford. The gun manufacturers are going to take a big hit. But as usual greed for the short term is more important than looking forward to the long term. Same with the NRA, they are looking for short term gains, while sacrificing the long term.
Borrow and spend, borrow and cut, borrow and borrow....not good
Tax and spend, tax and spend and spend .....not good
Increase revenue and cut spending is the right solution. It must be balanced and include the Pentagon along with granny's SSI.
You can't take from one group of crooks and give to the other. A hard platform to present to us. The Republican difficulty selling their budget is hamstrung by Bush era economic follies. Crooked lawyers can put you in jail. When you accuse you are liable unless you can prove. This modern creation of a near slavery state enforced by a legal and juvenile view of value.
Think about it. No matter what you do you are cornered into a system where legally they can pay you excessively low wages. This denies property and basic services to many people. The threat of having to live under these conditions further leverages against employees. Remember how lucky you are. You could be working for wages near minimum wage with no opportunity for property or other basic services. The reason is they can and did.
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They are pulling 100 x the oil out of the ground then they did 50 years ago. They create the demand to suit them.
If an Americn worker produces 50 widgets but the company can only sell 25. That is a real surplus. The result is 50% of the company workers lose their job. The bank buys the homes the family moves to an apartment. The house is still there. As a matter of fact they're building more luxury homes now than ever in American history. Sorry we can't afford you fat head politicains or your corrupt business compatriots.