What I find interesting is the type of agencies the GOP is willing to restore:
Restore funding to FEMA. Note that no funding is given to the Small Business Administration or the U.S. Geological Service. For FEMA to work efficiently, you need the U.S. Geological Service to gauge the scope of a floor or an earthquake and the SBA to start loans for business to rebuild.
Restore funding to Head Start. VA benefits. The most visible parts of the government.
And that would only count 84 percent of the government. So I guess you can call it both a plan to restore funding and leave the government unfunded. So the separate funding gambit is both to take the heat off the GOP, since it takes the most visible portions of government out of the public spotlight. They should had thought of that much much earlier.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arc ... nt/280408/
Now what really worries me is that some of the GOP are convinced that defaulting on the the national debt :
Senator wants managed catastrophe
Who is feeding him this drivel? Has he talked to a competent economist? He had better have a stimulus bill somewhere in his back pocket, if he's talking like this. A much bigger one than what was enacted previously, if you don't want another full-blown recession.
Somebody posted a timeline of the GOP responses to Obamacare, which as pretty amusing to me:
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
Restore funding to FEMA. Note that no funding is given to the Small Business Administration or the U.S. Geological Service. For FEMA to work efficiently, you need the U.S. Geological Service to gauge the scope of a floor or an earthquake and the SBA to start loans for business to rebuild.
Restore funding to Head Start. VA benefits. The most visible parts of the government.
And that would only count 84 percent of the government. So I guess you can call it both a plan to restore funding and leave the government unfunded. So the separate funding gambit is both to take the heat off the GOP, since it takes the most visible portions of government out of the public spotlight. They should had thought of that much much earlier.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arc ... nt/280408/
Now what really worries me is that some of the GOP are convinced that defaulting on the the national debt :
Senator wants managed catastrophe
Who is feeding him this drivel? Has he talked to a competent economist? He had better have a stimulus bill somewhere in his back pocket, if he's talking like this. A much bigger one than what was enacted previously, if you don't want another full-blown recession.
Somebody posted a timeline of the GOP responses to Obamacare, which as pretty amusing to me:
Quote:Oct 2008: "You'll never get elected and pass healthcare."__________________
Nov 2008: "We'll never let you pass healthcare."
Jan 2009: "We are going to shout you down every time you try to pass healthcare."
July 2009: "We will fight to the death every attempt you make to pass healthcare."
Dec 2009: "We will destroy you if you even consider passing healthcare."
March 2010: "We can't believe you just passed healthcare."
April 2010: "We are going to overturn healthcare."
Sept 2010: "We are going to repeal healthcare."
Jan 2011: "We are going to destroy healthcare."
Feb 2012: "We are going to elect a candidate who will immediately revoke healthcare."
June 2012: "We will go to the Supreme Court, and they will overturn healthcare."
Aug 2012: "The American people will never re-elect you, because they don't want healthcare."
Oct 2012: "We can't wait to win the election and explode healthcare."
Nov 2012: "We can't believe you just got re-elected and that we can't repeal healthcare."
Feb 2013: "We're still going to vote to obliterate healthcare."
June 2013: "We can't believe the Supreme Court just upheld healthcare."
July 2013: "We're going to vote like 35 more times to erase healthcare."
Sept
2013: "We are going to leverage a government shutdown into defunding,
destroying, obliterating, overturning, repealing, dismantling, erasing
and ripping apart healthcare."
Oct 2013: "WHY AREN'T YOU NEGOTIATING???
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell