Here’s the Wikipedia article on Reconciliation: Wikipedia Reconciliation Act
Basically the original intent was to pass unsavory changes to keep a reasonable budget. But since it passed in 1974, the two parties have taken turns in the majority and each time raised the precedent for abuse of Reconciliation.
Can you believe these guys ramping up to use Reconciliation to pass the Senate bill? Oh my… You know – when Brown ganked Massachusetts, the evil partisan strategic side of me was like – Oh sweet destiny. Let them come. Oh – let them come. Draw them into the teeth of our forces. Harden their hearts and confuse their minds. Oh – let them use Reconciliation. Oh sweet arrogance – let them use Reconciliation.
F-me 72 minutes long.
I appreciate efforts to make positive comments. But holy horses ass don’t you hate being treated like you’re a stupid jerk who has no idea what’s happened in the past year?
I was just thinking about how the unions took the deal they just got with their ‘Cadillac’ healthcare plans?
Personally, and specifically Citibank – I don’t care if they ram it up their ass sideways with the trunk open. But rationally and fundamentally, it’s just another example of the philosophical approach the Left takes to problem solving:
I’m not a big believer in stimulus. But if you give their economic theory the benefit of the doubt – Keynesian economics – it doesn’t matter. The bills the Dems have passed that they are calling stimulus doesn’t follow the model. Most of the money is used to pay for government – rather than cut the fat like everyone else is doing – and infrastructure projects. Neither do the job Keynes calls for, which is to replace the lost purchasing of the population that’s stowing their cash
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This is great. I watch the news online and listen through the radio. Since the Obamania hit my news sources degraded down mainly to Fox news (online) and Michigan Public Radio. Throughout the day I usually catch the Fox latest videos. This evening I did my normal dabble over on some other cable new websites. I do this mainly just to get a feel for the far left – so I usually go right to MSNBC.
What’s holding Obama up on this Afghanistan decision? I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for the past few MONTHS but this is getting ridiculous. I’m starting to think this big long stall is just a process of appeasing his base. He wants the eventual decision to send more troops to seem extra double well thought out, as though he agonized and studied every other possibility. And he trapped himself during the campaign by demonizing Mc Cain’s support of Iraq and calling Afghanistan the “good war” – before the surge cleared up Iraq and before Afghanistan fell apart.
According to this article in the Boston Globe, there is mass confusion over counting the amount jobs created or saved by the use of stimulus money. Most groups reported jobs for workers that had not been hired yet, and for work that had yet to start. 90 jobs were reported as “created” when 150 people got a cost of living increase. The Democrats are saying they expected confusion and a shake out, but that the numbers would get increasingly accurate as time went on. This knowledge of inaccuracy certainly did not stop the Obama Administration from claiming that the stimulus has saved or created 640,000 jobs – something we now know (and guessed all along) is wildly exaggerated.
The damn Liberals hold this religion-like contempt for well accepted and validated economic principles. Or as Dr. Dove would say, the Noisy Dove character is a Conservative zealot who follows a religious-like view of economics. It just so happens this religious-like view of economics I learned in school and is held – in its basic form at least – by any and all practicing economists.
There are a few glaring differences, besides the tax being levied during a recession. Sulfur dioxide and carbon are different. You can cut out sulfur dioxide by changing your process or use a scrubber to remove it. Carbon is released no matter what you do, unless everyone starts using not-yet-invented carbon capture systems and disposing of it through not-yet-created disposal system. It’s the difference in capping and trading poison emissions and capping, trading, and taxing energy emissions – plant food.
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