House Democrats will use a parliamentary procedure to try to break a logjam over government funding and bring a “clean” continuing resolution to the floor, according to senior Democratic lawmakers and leadership aides.
Reps. George Miller (D-Calif.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) will attempt to “hijack” an existing Republican bill and file a discharge petition that ripens in just seven legislative days, instead of the normal 30 days.
Under the procedure that Miller and Van Hollen plan to use, they can begin gathering signatures on their discharge petition on Oct. 11, one week from today. If the Democratic pair were successful and can line up 218 supporters for their measure, then they can bring a clean funding resolution to the floor despite opposition to such a move from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House GOP leaders.
The earliest they could get a floor vote would be Oct. 14.
But that would only occur if Miller and Van can get all 200 House Democrats – the easy part – while enticing another 18 Republicans to sign onto it. That’s the real test for Miller and Van Hollen. If the shutdown is still in place at that point, it would help Democrats to convince wavering moderate Republicans to support the discharge petition.
I — and I doubt I’m alone — will consider them activists for the implementation of ObamaCare and for a nullification of the people’s will.
In short, they will be Democrats, and progressive Democrats at that.
Time not only to replace these types; it’s time to shun them.
Look on the bright side: they wouldn’t be floating this gambit if they had confidence that Boner was ready to cave…
Might we note storied pundits John Podhoretz, Mona Charen and Jay Nordlinger all believe this hobbity visigothic fuss hurts good Republicans. They all three also adore Mayor Bloomberg.
Har de. Har. Har.
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And so the saga continues: Spoke with Chad Henderson again, confirms he hasn’t bought coverage, argues he didn’t lie. http://wapo.st/19ZCCo1
11:36 AM – 4 Oct 2013
Imagine how much easier it would be to get 6 Dem Senators to vote in favor of any of the already-passed House funding… 45+6 = 51!
I know, CRAZY TALK, right?
Oh, goody, George Will joined the Fox News panel. Yet another dumbass who thinks we should surrender to the democrats.
That’s a very interesting angle nobody ever wants to digest Drumwaster.
The ability of peeling off a dozen or more Republicans is a given in any policy debate, as is the inability to get even one lousy Democrat to have an independent thought, action, or vote.
I can only conclude being a Democrat, or progressive as they are known now, means you sold your soul. You are no longer master of your own destiny.
Probably the saddest indictment a person can receive, yet they are so proud of being free thinkers.
It’s all very odd and gross.
> as is the inability to get even one lousy Democrat to have an independent thought, action, or vote. <
in the house orangeman has been peeling off demonrats with the crs. dingy harry won't let that happen in the senate.
Me likey shunning.
These sorts rose to their elected positions of political fame and fortune by promising (and convincing) largish numbers of people back home in their districts that they both shared their convictions and could convince other politicians from other districts to vote their way enough times to ‘bring home the pork’. It’s become all about transferring monies from the Treasury to voters.
Democrats have a much easier time of it. Since Democrats have enthusiastically embraced Marxism, having found that getting the average person to vote a lofty idealistic (sober and Constitutional) line that doesn’t transfer monies is easy. Promise a voter that you’ll fill his belly if he’s hungry or give him nice things he’s seen on TV is easy. But promise ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ and only a short-term, ‘shameful’ safety net, that’ll not go over so well. Fuck ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty, these ‘Community Organized’ Democrats say. “I want an ObamaPhone, I want free health care that rich, greedy Republicans pay for, I want an easy time of it, and all that delivered by the Koch brothers’ staff, on their dime!”.
So, Democrats collecting stupid people’s votes is easily accomplished.
Republicans who enjoy the power and perks of the Ruling Class will give in, time after time, and support a Democrat’s ‘give away’ bill that transfers wealth. This give-in amounts to ‘losing more slowly’. Thus, we are in these dire straits: a collapsing Republic giving way to a dictatorship.
What to do about it? Can’t turn it around for one or two or even three (or more) generations. Well, we know what’s coming. Get a helmet.
“is NOT easy.”
Preview was so cool… )
OK, well OT, but notice how and where this bit of news is hidden…
All that beneath a headline featuring yet another crazy rat-thing Liberal predicting catastrophic death to all humans by 2030, because Global Warming.
It is to laff.
That’s a very interesting angle nobody ever wants to digest Drumwaster.
The ability of peeling off a dozen or more Republicans is a given in any policy debate, as is the inability to get even one lousy Democrat to have an independent thought, action, or vote.
I can only conclude being a Democrat, or progressive as they are known now, means you sold your soul. You are no longer master of your own destiny.
Probably the saddest indictment a person can receive, yet they are so proud of being free thinkers.
It’s all very odd and gross.
THIS. One of the most serious–but almost unmentioned–trends in American politics is the demise of non-Demunist, non-Commiecrat, Democrats.
RINOs? Sellouts? “Pragmatists”? Those who “go along to get along”? Sadly, those are not new in the GOP. From Teddy Roosevelt’s “progressives” (any time you hear that word, vomit), to Tom Dewey’s “Modern Republicans”, to Nelson Rockefeller’s later version of same, to the RINOs of today, that streak is not new in the GOP. Not at all.
However, there used to be a quite large number of Democrats, while they liked their pork barreling deals and their unions, were patriotic, non academic, at least somewhat churchy, and at least grounded in reality. They were called “Boll Weevils” (south), “Blue Dogs” (Midwest and Rust Belt), or just plain “Independent Democrats”. They would yank the Democrat Party from being the full blown academic pseudo-intellectual, media elite, entertainment elite, Commiecrats, like we have now.
But they are just about extinct. Joe Manchin was probably the last of them?
I always thought that “Blue Dog Democrats” were the ones who were elected for no other reason than because the public has gotten indoctrinated into voting ‘D’, to the point where they would “vote for a blue dog, so long as it was a Democrat”…
It seemed to have been used where Democrats were getting elected by areas normally marked as deeply conservative, and so the Democrat had to make the right noises. They went away when the Internet started showing that they were making speeches one way back home, but the exact opposite way in DC.
Those areas still tend to elect Democrats for the same reason that Eddie Murphy managed to win in “The Distinguished Gentleman” – “vote for Jeff Johnson – the name you know“.
I always thought that “Blue Dog Democrats” were the ones who were elected for no other reason than because the public has gotten indoctrinated into voting ‘D’, to the point where they would “vote for a blue dog, so long as it was a Democrat”…
That term was “yellow dog democrats”. The Blue Dogs had become so nauseated by the leftist Democrats that they had turned blue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition
“The term “Blue Dog Democrat” is credited to Texas Democratic Rep. Pete Geren (who later joined the Bush Administration). Geren opined that the members had been “choked blue” by “extreme” Democrats from the left.[5] It is related to the political term “Yellow Dog Democrat,” a reference to southern Democrats said to be so loyal they would even vote for a yellow dog if it were labeled Democrat. The term is also a reference to the “Blue Dog” paintings of Cajun artist George Rodrigue of Lafayette, Louisiana, as the original members of the coalition would regularly meet in the offices of Louisiana representatives Billy Tauzin and Jimmy Hayes, both of whom later joined the Republican Party; both had Rodrigue’s paintings on their walls.[6][7] An additional explanation for the term cited by members is “when dogs are not let into the house, they stay outside in the cold and turn blue,” a reference to the Blue Dogs’ belief they had been left out of a party that they believed had shifted to the political left.[8]”
I always assumed “Blue Dogs” meant that they were the opposite of Yellow Dog Democrats.