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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 08:28 PM Mar 2013

Conservatives Mixed On Continuing Resolution To Avoid Government Shutdown

Source: Washington Post

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) both expressed a desire on Friday to pass a continuing resolution that would avert a government shutdown later this month. They each suggested they would rather not hold the funding of the government hostage to the negotiations over the sequester, which goes into effect Friday.

But conservatives are giving the idea mixed reviews, with some calling for Boehner to use the continuing resolution — and by extension, the threat of a government shutdown — to secure concessions.

Reps. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) and Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) are asking fellow Republicans to sign a letter urging Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to do just that. The Club for Growth has signed on to the effort, saying it will likely urge members to vote against the CR if it doesn’t include such a provision.

It’s very unlikely GOP leadership would include such a thing in the CR. If he did, it wouldn’t pass in the Senate, where Democrats have the majority.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/01/conservatives-mixed-on-continuing-resolution-to-avoid-government-shutdown/



It is with this 'continuing resolution' that we shall see where the 'bear shit in the buckwheat'.

The sequester is squat compared to this...

Stay tuned...
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Conservatives Mixed On Continuing Resolution To Avoid Government Shutdown (Original Post) Purveyor Mar 2013 OP
Too many people becoming "Middle Class" Iliyah Mar 2013 #1
You know the Republicans are going to try and shut down the government Zorro Mar 2013 #2

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
1. Too many people becoming "Middle Class"
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 09:10 PM
Mar 2013

so the greedy 1-2% will try and make sure majority are kept poor.

Zorro

(15,691 posts)
2. You know the Republicans are going to try and shut down the government
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 09:27 PM
Mar 2013

The ignoramuses gave up putting country for party two decades ago.

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