"Tonight Republicans pulled their immoral budget from the House floor "

Pelosi Statement on Republican Budget Collapse



I like it.

:rofl:

Trivia. That's the guy who put Steve Buscemi in the wood chipper in Fargo. :rofl:

"Ja, I come to fix ze cable."

The skanky doctor who transplants Chief John Andertons eyes. Actors name is Peter Stormare.

He fixes the cable?

mikey_the_rat

:kick:

for that insand budget?

HA HA, betcha George is crying himself to sleep tonight!!!!!

Had to be said

go piss in someone else's Wheaties.

Hope I can remember it one day when it's appropriate!

"Stick with what we've got instead of what we need and want!"

from the kind of leader we need. Have you seen her town hall meetings ? Her and Harmon are two peas in a pod.

bringing up what is wrong?

Now is not the time to be dividing the party. If you don't like what Pelosi, or Reid, or Dean or any other Democrat stands for or doesn't stand for, that's your prerogative. But wait until we pry back our NATION from the hands of the neocons before you trash the only hope we have of getting our country back. Their "sins" aren't going anywhere, and once we get out of the dark ages, you'll have plenty of time to bring them down if it needs to be. Until then they are our best hope, or do you think we can just throw them all out, and Ralph Nader will save us all like he did in 2000? (Sorry, had to be said)

they do this years ago before we became trillions in debt?

and they were (and still are) the majority.

Oh, how the mighty are fallen.

Republicans on so many things, including the war. This seems to be the first time that all the Democrats were on board. Like I said, why couldn't they do this before? It wouldn't have changed things but it would have shown our solidarity.

so they can escape scrutiny in an election year...

Hee hee hee.

Such is the fate of those who dare defy Darth Nancy and the evil Democrat Empire! :rofl:

Jon Stewart had a field day with the Star Wars video.

Bwaa haa haa - Friday headlines don't get any better than this!!





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http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-04-07T025724Z_01_N06265841_RTRIDST_0_CONGRESS-BUDGET-UPDATE-2.XML

Republicans in the U.S. Congress suffered two major setbacks on Thursday when their fiscal 2007 budget plan collapsed and they failed to put the finishing touches on $70 billion in tax cuts.

The developments could not have come at a worse time as Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress and the White House, were hoping to shake election-year blues dominated so far by ethics scandals and sinking popularity.

Now, instead of returning to their home districts for a two-week spring break touting tax cuts and the passage of a budget they hoped would trim huge budget deficits, Republicans will greet their constituents empty-handed.

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The ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, John Spratt of South Carolina, said, "Any idea that they'd (Republicans) be able to put this back on track, once we come back here after two weeks, seems far-fetched." (Additional reporting by Susan Cornwell)

These people are insane.

Thank God!!

That budget has kept me up at night. 30% cuts to education, WTF?

It's many years late... but better late than never, I guess.

Where was this bravado in 2001 and 2002, when I looked to the Congressional Democrats to protect my family from the neo cons???

The terror of the majority is now.... finally... at an end.

...Nancy, GO! ;-)

Link:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0605.sullivan1.html

:kick:

I e-mailed it to my dad, who is a staunch pro-business Republican.

I can only imagine his head exploding when he reads it.

:hi:

Consider, for instance, what happened last fall when Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), a Vietnam veteran and hawk who initially supported the Iraq war, called for immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq. When reporters asked Pelosi what she thought of Murtha's statement, she replied that the congressman spoke for himself, not the caucus. Her response was immediately denounced by liberal critics and portrayed by reporters as evidence of Democrats' lack of message, discipline, and shared conviction. In fact, as Howard Fineman would later report, Pelosi had worked behind the scenes to convince Murtha to go public with his change of heart and orchestrated the timing of his announcement. Knowing that the credibility of Murtha's position would be damaged if it looked like he was the token hawk being used by “cut and run” liberal Democrats, Pelosi made the strategic calculation to put Murtha in the spotlight by himself for a few weeks before stepping forward to endorse his suggestion.

The strategy worked, and it allowed Murtha to visibly establish Democrats as the advocates of what now looks like the position toward which our Iraq policy is headed. A late February Zogby poll showed that fully 72 percent of American troops think that the United States should leave Iraq within the year; 25 percent say they should leave immediately. In addition, Pelosi's party now holds the advantage on Iraq. As with Social Security, critics have charged that Democrats can't win without a plan for Iraq, but a mid-March Gallup poll showed that voters think Democrats would better handle the situation (they hold a 48 to 40 advantage over Republicans), even though only one-quarter of them think that Democrats have a plan for dealing with the country.

Over in the Senate, Reid temporarily silenced his critics when he staged a showdown last fall, shutting down the Senate to compel Republicans to discuss pre-war intelligence. GOP promises to pursue inquiries into how the intelligence was gathered, interpreted, and used had gone nowhere, and Democrats had no institutional means to conduct their own investigation. So Reid forced the issue, invoking an obscure parliamentary procedure that sent the Senate into a closed session. Republicans were furious, but they were also backed into a corner. Reluctantly, the leadership agreed to restart the investigations, putting the issue of intelligence back in the national spotlight. The in-your-face move signaled that Reid had the inclination, and the electoral security, to push Republicans around in a way that his predecessor Tom Daschle never could.

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So it is that Democrats can be “hopelessly divided” while voting together 88 percent of the time, according to Congressional Quarterly; just one percentage point lower than the vaunted lock-step Republican caucus. They can be “pathetically ineffective” while dealing a humiliating defeat to the president's biggest domestic policy effort. They can be deemed “weak” and “timid” while setting the terms of the debate for pulling troops out of Iraq.

Great points here about the way Dems have been portrayed and perceived as entirely weak and fragmented while they've been using what tools they can to fight the administration.

Thanks for posting this, FLDem5.

reality check!!!

college loans and all that stuff?
Thanks FLDem5!

K&R