What the fuck?
Honestly, Congress? Honestly? I'd be more happy with a bunch of goddamn monkeys throwing fecal matter at each other than this batch of assholes.
edited 21st Sep '11 4:53:39 PM by YoungMachete
"Delenda est." "Furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed." -Common Roman saying at the end of speeches.
Gunpla is amazing!
Wow, go fuck yourself Boehner.
Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ
2 things:
1) FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
2) more reason for me to hate the GOP congressmen.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry
I give up. I've honestly gone off my rocker.
North and South Korea get along better than the US Congress. Israel and Palestine could come up with a resolution before Congress.
edited 21st Sep '11 4:57:08 PM by Pentadragon
Gunpla is amazing!
At this point I say Congress just get into a massive battle royal and the survivors remain.
I changed accounts.
The Republicans just ass-raped any chance they had at the Presidency.
I am now known as Flyboy.
Well this time, it was the Dems that were blocking legislation. For good reason, obviously, but still.
Why did 48 Republicans sign on board with the Democrats though? "NOT ENOUGH CUTS!" while the Democrats said "TOO MANY CUTS" or something? Kind of ironic.
Gunpla is amazing!
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Not unless the media doesn't even touch this subject. Which I doubt it will!
The article says the republicans siding with the democrats hate the emergency funding cuts. If anything this is a sign of some cooperation ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
edited 21st Sep '11 4:59:18 PM by Thorn14
Remeber that thread I said if poltical parties were personifactions in style of hetalia.
I could see Republican and Democrat staring daggers at each other while ready to wrangled one anothers necks.
This is a why am I not surprised.
Eye'm the cutest!
I think I saw that political cartoon in 2002.
"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."
I changed accounts.
I don't think it matters if the media covers this too much (and I doubt that it wouldn't, honestly; it's too big a story to not show government ineptitude, since it's instant ratings), because the Democrats can now say that the Republicans tried to destroy the government (and therefore popular things like Social Security and Medicare) not once, but twice.
edited 21st Sep '11 5:04:58 PM by USAF713
I am now known as Flyboy.
Holy keg-standing Jesus, man. I swear Congress is the biggest collection of fuckin' idiots known to man.
Gunpla is amazing!
Well technically Democrats are the ones responsible this time. But when something like emergency aid funds are on the line, its not as bad.
I changed accounts.
A-fucking-men.
I am now known as Flyboy.
so basically. "CUT MORE LIBERAL PROGRAMS OR FUCK JOPLIN AND THE NORTHEAST SEABOARD"
stay classy, tea party.
its kinda sad to know with the way the Tea Party wants it, the money drives my college did (which I donated to) to help the college down at joplin with rebuilding the community were probably more helpful than Congress.
edited 21st Sep '11 5:22:32 PM by Midgetsnowman
Well it would be more Boehner's fault for trying to tack on ideology onto a routine bill and try to shove it through regardless of the actual point of the bill.
I changed accounts.
I would be much more sympathetic to the Tea Party if they were at least consistent in their budget-cutting (i.e. attacked conservative programs as much as liberal programs). Their partisan hactitude leaves much to be desired.
I am now known as Flyboy.
the point is they dont want to be consistent. Theyre convinced any bill that supports liberal causes is bad for the nation. No exceptions. Even if they thought of it first
Hey,does anyone think there is a familiar air to this issue because if anyone was not a toddler in the 90's or remembers Clintons presidency then holler.
Dog and Pony Show
SCENE: The Speaker's office, at the end of the first budget crisis
Surrounded by AIDES, JOHN BOEHNER stands in a pinstriped suit, holding a newspaper in one gloved hand as he strikes the banner headline with the other. It reads "CHORTLE AT BOEHNER'S BONER".
BOEHNER: Laugh at my boner, will they? I'll show them how many boners the Boehner can make!
“Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled.” — St. Bernard
I changed accounts.
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Rott, you just lurk and wait for when you can throw out witticisms, don't you? 
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^^ I know what you were referencing, but the way you phrased it just made me think of Congress as the subject of an epic play with Boehner as some sort of tragic hero.
edited 21st Sep '11 5:44:09 PM by Pentadragon
he sort of is.
He gives occasional hints he'd love to be more moderate than he is..but doing so is politically suicidal.
i'd watch it.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
As it was so fun last time, it seems that Congress has decided to have budget fights all over again!
Isn't that just fantastic?
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
The bill went down in a vote of 195 to 230. Forty-eight Republicans sided with nearly all Democrats in opposing the resolution aimed at keeping the government funded past Sept. 30, when current funding runs out, and through Nov. 18.
Two factions of Republicans had major problems with the bill as they headed into the vote: Conservative lawmakers wanted more spending cuts, and GOP lawmakers affected by recent disasters were uneasy with the bill's provision that tied $1.5 billion in emergency disaster aid to cuts to a fuel-efficiency loan program.