This is the august, deliberative chamber, recall. Not like that unruly People’s House, with all its 2-year temporary riff-raff and populist TEA Party dregs.
CNS:
The U.S. Senate voted 89-8 to approve legislation to avoid the fiscal cliff despite having only 3 minutes to read the 154-page bill and budget score.
Multiple Senate sources have confirmed to CNSNews.com that senators received the bill at approximately 1:36 AM on Jan. 1, 2013 – a mere three minutes before they voted to approve it at 1:39 AM.
The bill is 154-pages and includes several provisions that are unrelated to the fiscal cliff, including repealing a section of ObamaCare, extending the wind-energy tax credit, and a rum tax subsidy deal for Puerto Rican rum makers.
The bill avoids the fiscal cliff by making permanent the Bush tax cuts for everyone making $450,000 per year or less and putting off the automatic spending cuts (sequestration) from last year’s debt ceiling deal until March.
Well, I guess once McConnell and Biden reached a deal — and the President gave it his blessings, congratulating Republicans for seeing the wisdom of raising taxes on small business owner and job producers during a recession and at a time of high unemployment, all so he could show his base how he’s willing to tax the rich not for revenue, necessarily, but for “fairness” — what was left to say?
Besides. The Georgetown bars were likely still open, provided they hurried.
“fast, friendly service“
They are obviously geniuses because they fully understood when they voted the meaning and effects of things like this which is about 1/2 of a page, or .003 of the whole.
It continues on and on and on.
If they don’t pass a law every three minutes, people might wonder what they were actually doing…
No, Drumwaster. I don’t think anybody wonders.
CONGRESS: ‘We exist only to serve
Baal, er, Caesar!’And Boehner is, after all, and honorable man.
“And Boehner is, after all, and honorable man.”
Maybe (yes, I’m laughing), but even so, it isn’t clear that he’s in the game for the sake of honor in any meaningful sense of the term honor. On the other hand, that could be written up to his own confusion what honor means anyhow. In which case, we can send him to Montequieu (or Homer) for a quick brush-up on the subject.
Mark Antony, pick up the white courtesy phone.
Congressional Republicans have gotten confuzzled by the term “loyal opposition,” forgetting that it was coined in England where the Crown is a member of no political party.
Like our Constitution.
Exceptions, in our legal system, are required by design because they are where the real power and money flow from. They are coveted features by those who write the code.