in the tradition of our Republican leadership...

[sc281]

I'm going to give up. I'm done. Might as well become a democrat and grab a slice of the pie since there's no damned difference between them and the french republicans.

Dohctr might have had the right fucking idea....

[talisman]

I hope you aren't expecting me to talk you out of it. I just want to pay off my cheap little house and remove myself as far as possibly from this society.

[sc281]

I hope you aren't expecting me to talk you out of it. I just want to pay off my cheap little house and remove myself as far as possibly from this society.

Not at all.

[Gargamel]

The "new majority" in this country are bound and determined to:

A. Make sure every perceived "need" and "injustice" is addressed and corrected by the federal government. The rights and bank accounts of individual citizens be damned

B. Spend massive amounts of "someone else's" money to meet the needs of statement A above....

The problem is that when you spend and borrow like we are on a Federal level, you eventually run out of "other people's money" and the free ride will stop.

It will be like going from 120 mph into an immovable object. It will not be pretty.

At that point, none of this bullshit will matter and I hope you have plenty of guns and ammo.


Whatever, as long as the lady next door gets her free birth control and cell phone in the short term.... its all good.

[dcs13]

I USED to think the guys hoarding guns,ammo,gold,silver,etc...were just a little out there... not anymore.
We are so effed. The "takers" have taken over our great country. Our only hope is they are so lazy and will be easy to kill when the riots break out. Hopefully we can thin the taker heard enough.

[Forever_frost]

Senate bill to reopen the government just got 223 votes

[ceyko]

...am I right in my reading that they are going to retroactively pay the employees?

On one hand, that is great. I know a furloughed person or two, so I WANT to be happy for them.

Mostly though, fuck that. No services - no pay. WTF is that paying someone for 0 work? I don't show up for work or am "furloughed" there is no damned pay.

[Denny]

...am I right in my reading that they are going to retroactively pay the employees?

On one hand, that is great. I know a furloughed person or two, so I WANT to be happy for them.

Mostly though, fuck that. No services - no pay. WTF is that paying someone for 0 work? I don't show up for work or am "furloughed" there is no damned pay.

Ya, that's not a furlough. Now we all did without a bunch of shit for a bit and still have to pay for it.

Why the fuck aren't bullets flying into DC?

[Vertnut]

Senate bill to reopen the government just got 223 votes

Yeah, and now we find out that Bitch McConnell got $3 billion for a dam project for his state. Wow. What a sell-out!

[Gaber]

Also tucked into this continuing resolution was a lump sum of $174k paid to the widow of the late Senator Lautenberg D of NJ. It's not like she was hurting for money.

His net worth was $56.8 million. Rated 8th richest member of Congress. I had know idea these politicians had death gratuitys.

[Broncojohnny]

I have been saying it for a while, the sooner this country goes bankrupt the better off we'll be. It won't be pleasant for a while but it will be a paradigm shift away from the idea that "government money is free money" that has stuck to everything since WWII. No one knows when it will happen but it will be very sudden and it will be an overnight event. All it takes is for people who buy the debt to decide they don't like the risk any more.

[Vertnut]

Also tucked into this continuing resolution was a lump sum of $174k paid to the widow of the late Senator Lautenberg D of NJ. It's not like she was hurting for money.

His net worth was $56.8 million. Rated 8th richest member of Congress. I had know idea these politicians had death gratuitys.

He's up for re-election against a Tea Party candidate, who apparently burned his ass in the press last night. I hope the good people of Kentucky send his ass home.

[Forever_frost]

...am I right in my reading that they are going to retroactively pay the employees?

On one hand, that is great. I know a furloughed person or two, so I WANT to be happy for them.

Mostly though, fuck that. No services - no pay. WTF is that paying someone for 0 work? I don't show up for work or am "furloughed" there is no damned pay.

They just enjoyed a 2 week holiday with pay and didn't have to put in any of the work or do any of the services.

[Geor!]

Kicking the can down the road, yet again, only to have the same bullshit happen again at the turn of the year. Sickening.

[line-em-up]

At least the good Tea party / republicans didn't give up. Here is the voting record.

Vote breakdown: How lawmakers voted on the budget deal


Published October 17, 2013•
FoxNews.com

The following list shows how lawmakers voted on the budget deal Wednesday: A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the measure. X denotes those not voting.




SENATORS:

Voting yes were 52 Democrats, 27 Republicans and 2 independents.

Voting no were 0 Democrats and 18 Republicans.

ALABAMA

Sessions (R), No; Shelby (R), No.

ALASKA

Begich (D), Yes; Murkowski (R), Yes.

ARIZONA

Flake (R), Yes; McCain (R), Yes.

ARKANSAS

Boozman (R), Yes; Pryor (D), Yes.

CALIFORNIA

Boxer (D), Yes; Feinstein (D), Yes.

COLORADO

Bennet (D), Yes; Udall (D), Yes.

CONNECTICUT

Blumenthal (D), Yes; Murphy (D), Yes.

DELAWARE

Carper (D), Yes; Coons (D), Yes.

FLORIDA

Nelson (D), Yes; Rubio (R), No.

GEORGIA

Chambliss (R), Yes; Isakson (R), Yes.

HAWAII

Hirono (D), Yes; Schatz (D), Yes.

IDAHO

Crapo (R), No; Risch (R), No.

ILLINOIS

Durbin (D), Yes; Kirk (R), Yes.

INDIANA

Coats (R), Yes; Donnelly (D), Yes.

IOWA

Grassley (R), No; Harkin (D), Yes.

KANSAS

Moran (R), Yes; Roberts (R), No.

KENTUCKY

McConnell (R), Yes; Paul (R), No.

LOUISIANA

Landrieu (D), Yes; Vitter (R), No.

MAINE

Collins (R), Yes; King (I), Yes.

MARYLAND

Cardin (D), Yes; Mikulski (D), Yes.

MASSACHUSETTS

Markey (D), Yes; Warren (D), Yes.

MICHIGAN

Levin (D), Yes; Stabenow (D), Yes.

MINNESOTA

Franken (D), Yes; Klobuchar (D), Yes.

MISSISSIPPI

Cochran (R), Yes; Wicker (R), Yes.

MISSOURI

Blunt (R), Yes; McCaskill (D), Yes.

MONTANA

Baucus (D), Yes; Tester (D), Yes.

NEBRASKA

Fischer (R), Yes; Johanns (R), Yes.

NEVADA

Heller (R), No; Reid (D), Yes.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Ayotte (R), Yes; Shaheen (D), Yes.

NEW JERSEY

Chiesa (R), Yes; Menendez (D), Yes.

NEW MEXICO

Heinrich (D), Yes; Udall (D), Yes.

NEW YORK

Gillibrand (D), Yes; Schumer (D), Yes.

NORTH CAROLINA

Burr (R), Yes; Hagan (D), Yes.

NORTH DAKOTA

Heitkamp (D), Yes; Hoeven (R), Yes.

OHIO

Brown (D), Yes; Portman (R), Yes.

OKLAHOMA

Coburn (R), No; Inhofe (R), Not Voting.

OREGON

Merkley (D), Yes; Wyden (D), Yes.

PENNSYLVANIA

Casey (D), Yes; Toomey (R), No.

RHODE ISLAND

Reed (D), Yes; Whitehouse (D), Yes.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Graham (R), Yes; Scott (R), No.

SOUTH DAKOTA

Johnson (D), Yes; Thune (R), Yes.

TENNESSEE

Alexander (R), Yes; Corker (R), Yes.

TEXAS

Cornyn (R), No; Cruz (R), No.

UTAH

Hatch (R), Yes; Lee (R), No.

VERMONT

Leahy (D), Yes; Sanders (I), Yes.

VIRGINIA

Kaine (D), Yes; Warner (D), Yes.

WASHINGTON

Cantwell (D), Yes; Murray (D), Yes.

WEST VIRGINIA

Manchin (D), Yes; Rockefeller (D), Yes.

WISCONSIN

Baldwin (D), Yes; Johnson (R), No.

WYOMING

Barrasso (R), Yes; Enzi (R), No.