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SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
Tue Oct 1, 2013, 08:13 PM Oct 2013

No lifeboat.

It's high time the GOP has to actually suffer for their intransigence.


I hope all the elected dems turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to the GOP as they twist in the wind.

It's also time for us to add some "misery" to their little buffet.

We should add to any further legislation, a provision that makes payment of debts AUTOMATIC (like it used to be).


If something is legislated, it's guaranteed to be paid for, with NO further legislating necessary...same for raising the limit.

The budget process needs to be put back to the way it used to be as well..

Appropriation committees should have a finite amount of time to reconcile the budget sent EVERY YEAR by the White House. If it's not ALL finished by a certain date, NO OTHER legislation can take place....except for disaster relief.


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shraby

(21,946 posts)
1. Should add that there will be no "vacations" until the budget is finished. They can just earn
Tue Oct 1, 2013, 08:16 PM
Oct 2013

the money they make by actually working on what they are sent there to do.

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)
3. I agree in principal. I've been furious all day and wanting to hurt republicans
Tue Oct 1, 2013, 08:19 PM
Oct 2013

but shit a lot of people are going to be hurt by the GOvernment shut down.

Bryant

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
4. Unless dems start letting them off the hook bit by bit, they will cave
Tue Oct 1, 2013, 08:22 PM
Oct 2013

If they get a little here and a little there, they will drag it out and make like THEY were "saving" this and that.....like that atrocious stunt at the memorial today..

It's like the arsonist showing the firemen around the fire scene..

Munchhausen by GOP..bringing self-inflicted havoc & crying crocodile tears, pretending to be the victim..

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