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3. UEB is an electoral issue. The GOP will fight it until they are defeated. As long as they hold House
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 07:01 PM
Mar 2014
majority, and if they win the Senate, it will never be granted again to Americans.

Obama has held fast to UEB in two showdowns, and the GOP even threatened default to pass Keystone, personhood and to end the Affordable Care Act.


Obama cannot veto a CR which stands for Contiuing Resolution without default, there is no line item veto available. The GOP have tried numerous times to tie all these regressive things so that the wheeling and dealing behind the scenes was needed.

Harry Reid has been calling them out more directly, as he may see the end of his authority, since they intend to remove him as Senate Majority Leader in November.

The GOP and their media owning compatriots are laying down the groundwork to desensitize the American people to losing all forms of AEB, food assistance, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public education and every program to equalize income and reduce poverty there is.

Stand up in the only place that counts with the ballot, or be used as their doormat and be discarded when of not further use to them. It's up to us, and it ain't that hard.




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