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dballance

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1. I dont see the GOP House Passing It

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2013, 10:42 AM

Jan 2013

I don't think they were cowed one bit by the fact they lost in the last election. I also don't understand their strategy.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the lower chamber (and I mean "lower" in every sense of the word) that is supposed initiate spending bills? Not just throw up their hands and abdicate their responsibilities by throwing it to the Senate.

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Do You Favor Or Oppose The Current Fiscal Compromise? [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2013 OP

I dont see the GOP House Passing It dballance Jan 2013 #1

It works for now IMHO, in the long run we just have to keep speaking out and hoping for the best Liberalynn Jan 2013 #2

I don't even pretend to understand it so I have no opinion Fumesucker Jan 2013 #3

Going off the so called cliff would've garnered a whole army behind the president to fight the GOP mother earth Jan 2013 #4

Can you explain what you would have liked to happen, and how you think it would play out? muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #9

Maybe this will explain better than I can: mother earth Jan 2013 #10

Interestingly, he says "I think a reasonable person can defend the bill on its own terms" muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #16

Oh, you don't "see" it. Same old, same old, giving it all away before any mother earth Jan 2013 #18

And for "how much evidence do I have" to think people would demand the GOP get off their collective mother earth Jan 2013 #13

Starvation, poverty, homelessness, despair, sickness... Chan790 Jan 2013 #14

It always was a "game" of chicken & completely reversible...days...we'll never know mother earth Jan 2013 #15

Slightly better than nothing. Prometheus_unbound Jan 2013 #5

We don't know what the deal is yet Yo_Mama Jan 2013 #6

It's better than I thought we would get, or at least this quickly. nt bemildred Jan 2013 #7

The GOPers seem to be hating it, so I guess it must be OK. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2013 #8

It is what it is. rucky Jan 2013 #11

In today's political climate this is a huge accomplishment madokie Jan 2013 #12

How do you 'fix' a fake crisis? leftstreet Jan 2013 #17