Boehner & Reid Reach a Deal to Keep Gov’t Funded
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The top Republican and Democrat on Capitol Hill have announced an agreement to keep the government running on autopilot for six months when the current budget year ends on Sept. 30. The announcements by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and GOP House Speaker John Boehner are aimed at averting any chance of a government shutdown this fall.
“The temporary spending bill is needed because Congress has been unable to pass a series of appropriations bills to fund the government in fiscal 2013, which runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, 2013,” CNBC adds.
It would also lighten the crush of business in a post-election congressional session agenda that’s already overloaded.
The agreement would fund the government at levels called for by last summer’s budget and debt pact between Boehner and President Barack Obama. The agreement embraces spending at a total annualized rate of $1.047 trillion for the day-to-day operations of Cabinet departments like the Pentagon and other federal agencies.
However, it‘s important to note the following from CNBC’s John Harwood: “Republicans had sought to reduce the $1.047 trillion level set for discretionary spending bills for fiscal 2013 by $19 billion. But to secure an extension that reaches well into next year, they agreed to put their bid for deeper cuts on hold.”
But there might be something else to this other than simply abandoning their proposed cuts.
“Should Republicans win big in November, the six-month extension would put them in a position for deeper cuts next year, rather than leaving spending decisions to a post-election, lame-duck Congress,” Harwood reports, adding that the agreement doesn’t raise the debt ceiling or solve the “fiscal cliff” problem.
The Associated Press contribute to this report.
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Comments (155)
Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:17pmBoehner deals with the devil again.Can’t compromise with Commies.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:21pmunless you are on the same team
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:34pmI agree .. all this does is give Obama more spending for 6 months .. and Boeher takes it off the table … I really wish we had someone on the CONSERVATIVE side (and not just commies) … NOVEMBER 6th take back America!
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:40pmI don’t like it either; but just shows you that we gotta finish the jobb we started in 2010; Lotsa RINOs are gone; now we gotta get rid of the rest of the Dems………Can’t wait until Nov 6!!!
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:04pm..
Report Post »“Boehner & Reid Reach a Deal to Keep Gov’t Funded”
It’s called a budget, you a**clowns.
soybomb315_II
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:14pm@Secret Squirrel
Report Post »Oh really, when was the last time Congress passed a budget?
The-Real-Enrico
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:15pmHow many times can you deal with the devil and not be a devil yourself? They both got to go! Boehner is just as bad as Reid if he is making the same bad deal as/with Reid.
He is a traitor and a rino.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:17pmSo republicans are going to keep giving Obama debt money to spend on his social programs and republicans get NOTHING in return???
COWARDS
Report Post »TeaDestroyer
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:14pmAnd people really think Mittens won’t be the same RINO progressive! Amazing! We should burn the constitution now before Obama/Romney kills it the rest of the way. Put it out of it’s misery instead of a slow strangulation, right Mr. Beck…oh wait, you’re suddenly all about the Mittens now.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:39pmIts worse than that Boehner has sold us out http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/betrayal-house-gop-leaders-refuse-to-defund-obamacare/ We need to vote him out he is a traitor.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 11:14pmBoehner disgusts me! He has one passion and one passion only “tax cuts for the wealthy”! Personally I’m for a flat tax or abolition in replace of national sales tax.. In other words I’m for the principle of low and fair taxes for all; however, many Repubs like Oreilly Boehner and others are only out to protect their wealth.. Again they are so shallow and they disgust me!
So wait till Republicans get control and instill austerity? Is that the plan?? What a bunch of morons!! Then you’ll only be thrown out in 2 years you idiots! Do you not want to make broad sweeping changes? Can‘t do that if you don’t have power and trust me you won’t have it long if you enact sweeping austerity.. Which I‘m for but lets face it it’s going to be tough..
Why not start it now under Obama?? Are you really that stupid or just afraid the Media will whoop that *** once again? lol
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 12:03pmKicked the can again? losers.
Report Post »KissMyAmericanFlag
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 1:02pm@JohnBoehner Compromise w/ spendthrifts Bad4USA. Let it shutdown: what’s the Best tht cd happen?;-)
Report Post »georgepatton
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:15pmPut both their heads together and you’ll get a perfect ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:22pmThis is why so many of us have problems with Romney….Can you imagine Romney/Boehner/McConnell leading the republican party??? Might as well have the democrats in charge
Report Post »TeaDestroyer
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:16pmIf you waste a vote on Mittens you did vote Democrat!
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 1:09am@Bigrod58
You tell ‘em buddy. Screw these liberty loving constitutionalists. Give me an establishment RINO Republican anyday. Just have ‘em say the right stuff during the campaigns and then go to DC and make deals that bloat the government and screw taxpayer and then repeat the process every 4/6 years. That’s what we need….not the stupid constitution. Don‘t let ’em get to you. Those constitution kooks will go away soon enough.
RINO’s 2012
/sarc
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:11pmI hear the Olympic Committee is considering a new event called, Can Kicking.
Report Post »Boehner and Reid were invited to give their input since they are already world class can kickers.
Mil-Dot
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:23pmYep, soak the kids and grandkids so they can continue to eat steak and lobster everyday. These guys are criminals.
Report Post »rich43068
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:11pmThe only way to fix this is to have 530 fewer dirtbags on the hill! I assuming there are 5 good congressmen … Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, Michelle Bachman, Marco Rubio and Allen West.
Toos the rest out! … into a 8×8 cell, if we had any real power!
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:27pmWest:
FAKE-TEA GOP
Pigford fraud
Tribalist, separatist Congressional BLACK Caucus
Debt ceiling hikes
NDAA
H.R. 347 (protest chill)
“Patriot” Act
Unconstitutional nation-building
CISPA (internet surveillance/control)
100 BILLION+ “transportation” STIMULUS bill
Bachmann:
“Patriot” Act
Unconstitutional nation-building
CISPA
Rubio:
Unconstitutional nation-building
The “Patriot” Act
Cosponsored PIPA (until it became politically unpopular)
NDAA
NEW Dream Act
Endorsed LEFTIST Scott Brown
Ryan:
Report Post »CISPA
TARP (which ignited the Tea Party AGAINST HIM)
Auto Bailouts
Economic Stimulus 2008
ADDITIONAL Economic Stimulus 2009
Debt ceiling hikes
Comprehensive immigration reform without amnesty (AMNESTY)
Socialized employment (extending UC)
Socialized education (No Child Left Behind)
Socialized medicine (Medicare Prescription Drug “benefits”)
Socialized housing (Section 8 vouchers)
Head Start
4th shattering “Patriot” Act
NDAA
Unconstitutional nation-building
H.R. 347 (protest chilling)
justangry
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:50pmAll those guys are great if you’re a fascist who wants America turned into a police state.
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:18pmIs Rand Paul a fascist too? What do you guys think of people like Mike Lee. I hear good about him but I don’t know his voting record. Enlighten me please.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:31pmI haven’t checked the Senate yet. I believe Rand Paul, and Demint are clean. I‘ve heard good things about Mike Lee as well but haven’t looked at him myself.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:35pmGee Brother,Keep telling them the truth they will call you a pot smoking hippie commie.I get that often.
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:38pmIF, and that’s a HUGE “if”, Michele Bachmann actually put some thought into her claims, rather than some innocuous, tangential linking that went through 6 different steps to get from point a to point b, THEN and only then would it have any credence. For any Conservative group to claim that Bachmann has used “careful scrutiny, vigorous debate and fearless leadership” is a joke. The woman is trying to undermine someone’s integrity merely with deceit and innuendo. Like Joe McCarthy before her, in Bachmann’s world (and the Conservatives rushing to her defense), it doesn’t take proof, only accusation, to smear someone’s good name.
Report Post »Bigrod58
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:48pmRon Paul:
Report Post »Loser
Can’t get the nomination
WakingSheep
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 12:40pmThe BigRod reply’s above are perfect examples of GOP though process.
Report Post »Ignore the facts then call names.
SquidVetOhio
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:32am@WINEDUDE
“Like Joe McCarthy before her, in Bachmann’s world (and the Conservatives rushing to her defense), it doesn’t take proof, only accusation, to smear someone’s good name.”
Shows your inept historical knowledge. The Verona cables declassified in the 90′s proved the Joe McCarthy was right. Almost everyone McCarthy outed (which had NOTHING to do with Hollywood btw) was shown to have been communicating with the Soviets. Educate thyself before you decide to side with communists.
Report Post »Shakespear
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:08pmI did, you just censored it.
Report Post »Shakespear
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:06pmTwo individuals agree to stick the American taxpayer for more than ANOTHER trillion dollars.
Do you know what I say???? Since they are the ones to agree on it. I feel that it is only fair
that they CAN PAY FOR IT OUT OF THEIR DEEP POCKETS! Then get off our backs!
We are fed up with these spending idiots! They are totally out of control!
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:04pmWhat a surprise, the Progressives have done there thing again!
Report Post »Banter
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:55pmShut it the F down!
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:22pmamen
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:19pmAgreed!
Report Post »antiprogressive
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:55pmit’s time for an official 3rd party…
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:23pmOr outlaw parties all together for elected officials.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:37pmLove the Sons of Liberty icon. Also, totally agree on your point.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:38pmmany 3rd parties already exist. watch out – they will call you an ‘obama supporter’ around here for such talk
Report Post »TeaDestroyer
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:21pmThat’s how the Romney Shills (Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, etc. and all the people RNC pays to make us Tea Party Constitutional Libertarians look kooky with lame retorts and name calling) get their progressive RINOs elected. If we don’t stand up for our beliefs who will?
Report Post »susie4dy
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:54pmWe needed to vote in more CONSERVATIVES to the House and Senate!
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:59pmYES!!!!! TOTALLY agree!
http://constitutionparty.com
Report Post »http://libertarianparty.com
The-Real-Enrico
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:41pmAgreed! They are only a few members that we could probably count on our fingers who are in office that should arguably keep their job.
We need to keep it up and don’t slow down. Connect with friends, associates, family and strangers, and mobilize with true constitutionalist, tea parties and/or libertarians.
We need deeds and actions more than rhetoric. (rhetoric is also helpful though)
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:55pmOh Enrico…. Incase you missed my post yesterday, I spent all afternoon looking at voting records of the GOP regarding the police state. Here‘s the whopping list of GOP Congressmen that didn’t vote for security over liberty.
GOP that have a clean record on the police state:
Justin Amash, MI
Timothy Johnson, IL
Tom McClintock CA
GOP that have a mistake or two on the police state:
Walter Beaman Jones Jr., NC (drones)
Report Post »Scott Tipton, CO (cyber security)
Raul Labrador, ID (cyber security)
Jeffrey Duncan, SC (cyber security)
H. Morgan Griffith, VA (cyber security, drones)
The-Real-Enrico
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:25pm@Justangery My buddy Rand didn’t make the list? How does his record look like?
Oh yeah and for people who are not worry about people who are giving our freedoms for security, what you/we securing if not our freedom?
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:33pmYeah Rand is there. Check the thread above.
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:51pmThe republicans in Congress have done their jobs. They have come up with several budget plans. The Senate has refused to bring anything to a vote. The Senate has failed. I am not happy with the leadership of Boehner. He agreed to a totally phoney deal which will harm the military.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:49pmLOL 19Billion!?!?
Is this a joke? Nice work RINO’s. Here’s to seeing you on the unemployment line this fall.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:39pmWas 19 Billion the “BIG CUTS” the article was referencing? LMAO
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:48pmJust shut the damn thing down. It’s not like they do anything but harass us anyway.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:42pmbut but but – who will keep us safe? who will bailout the banks? who will protect us from the hoards of armies wanting to invade us?
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:32pm@Justangery I 100% agree! I don’t know why they think it would or could hurt politically by the media and etc.
They/we will be blame for whatever or any downfall anyway. Anything and everything will be blame on conservatives and/or the repub party.
Shut it down. We did it before and we need to do it again.
Report Post »Tom Ballard
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:44pmBoth of these guys should be booted out!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:54pmAgree – what a joke the Senate and Congress have become- nothing ever gets solved.. just keep passing the buck down the road. Someone is going to have to face up and do something. No wonder the POSPOTUS gets by pulling all the BS he does.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:02pmRight, but Reid needs to go to prison, tarred and feathered, and a firing squad
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:43pmA President Ron Paul will call for a lower corporate tax rate, cutting spending by $1 trillion during his first year in office and ELIMINATING the Departments of Education, Commerce, Energy, Interior and Housing and Urban Development.
Sound good to anyone right about now?!?!?!?
Report Post »Ron Paul 2012! NO EXCUSES!!!!!!!
Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:51pmNo and BTW your still a moron ..
Report Post »antiprogressive
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:59pmAnd heroin for everyone and no military.
Report Post »yeah right…
Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:59pm@TFG,
Which of those policies bother you?
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:09pm@antiprogressive
Nice rhetoric. You and the truth aren’t friends eh?
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:15pmantiprogressive(progressive) DISSECTED…
LIE:
“heroin for everyone”
TRUTH:
The federal government HAS NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY to “manage” “drugs,” alcohol, wine, beer, raw milk, fat, sugar, salt, chocolate, coffee, etc, etc. Ron Paul seeks A RETURN to the 10th Amendment, which dictates STATE JURISDICTION.
LIE:
Report Post »“no military.”
TRUTH:
Ron Paul‘s noninterventionist foreign policy actually STRENGTHENS America’s national defense AND RESPECT around the world. The republican/democrat isolationist foreign policy of welfare, warfare, tearing down and propping up… has PROVEN A BLOODY, BANKRUPTING, UTTER FAILURE, and puts the nation in COMPLETE AND CONSTANT DANGER.
Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:16pm@Roth
Foreign affairs #1
Drugs #2
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:29pmI’m with my Brother on this one. Brother stated nothing but good policies. Don’t just start attacking without cause. You might not be with Paul on other issues(like myself) but the stated policy mentioned above are correct. Which one do you not agree with above.
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:33pm@TFG
Republican/democrat policies:
“Foreign affairs”:
A decade.
8,000 DEAD.
10,000s injured.
110,000+ ACTIVE DUTY TROOPS on mind-bending meds.
Amputations.
SHOCKING levels of suicides. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n2OQRYgGII
Homicides.
Trillions (that we DON’T HAVE) wasted.
NOBODY “TRAINED” enough to fight for themselves.
NOBODY “liberated” (for more than a week).
Unconstitutional police/surveillance state. TSA, DHS, NDAA, “Patriot” act (1770s Writs of Assistance).
A completely SURRENDERED INVASION into our OWN FRONT YARDS that is killing, raping, child-molesting, home-invading and hammered-driving-hit-n-running over THOUSANDS!!!!!!!
“Drugs”:
A COMPLETELY ILLEGAL “War on (some) Drugs” that has DESTROYED THE LIVES of TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS! The federal government HAS NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY to involve themselves in “drugs,” alcohol, raw milk, coffee, fat, salt, sugar, etc, etc.
Try again, FAKE-conservative TFG?
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:35pm@TFG,
OK, I understand. It goes beyond that original post. That being said, your visceral (my interpretation) response to libertarianism is predicated on a “trading of baseball cards” so to speak when it comes to policy.
Libertarians are non-interventionalists and are for legalization of drugs. Clearly you are for interventionist foreign policy and the continued banning of drugs. Now, we could argue both ways about the effectiveness of those policies and probably not convince each other. But that’s not the point. The point is that the party/candidates that promote your view on those two issues also allow for bloated government, unaudited federal reserve, patriot act, drone surveilance, deficit spending, departments of this that and the other, the EPA, the TSA, the ATF, etc.
I’m not sure, but I’d surmise that you and I would agree that most (if not all) of what I described is bad and we’d like to end that. The difference, as I see it, is that you would be willing to accept all of those things in order to keep drugs legal and to keep our military engaged overseas. I do not, obviously. The LP isn’t perfect for me either. I don’t agree lock stock an barrel with them. BUT, I have done a rationalization of polices, outcomes and principles and can’t find a way to rationalize all of those things I listed above at any cost.
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:14pmAnd your point ?
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:44pmi dont know about libertarians, but a constitutionalist would argue that the constitution does not authorize the federal government to ban any drugs. Just like alcohol prohibition, it can ONLY be done with a constitutional ammendment. So until the republican establishment starts talking about ammendments, they are not following the Constitution
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:39pm@tfg,
My point? I guess I will have to lay it out there for you. My point is that you are an illogical, hypocritical sheep.
Report Post »antiprogressive
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 3:47pmlibertarian policies…
I have read up more closely on this since my last post and I must admit I was overcritical.
Although I still believe making drugs LEGAL and treating offenders as “patients” only – without prosecution – would greatly INCREASE drug use, I admit prohibition doesn’t work.
Something needs to change for sure, but don’t ever forget, you can‘t rehabilitate someone who doesn’t WANT to change, – unless you go the “Clockwork Orange” route.
And he Does allow for war in DEFENSE. Good enough.
I change my stance on the PARTY, but I never felt he had a chance in Hades of getting elected due to his “charisma” and with the media as it is, I still stand by that.
But with a different leader, I could go that route.
The 2 “main” parties sure as he!! aren’t working…
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:43pmI bet Boehner cried when Reid boned him. Boehner is the head candyass in the house and Reid is like the perverted uncle no one talks about,a mealy mouthed progressive puke.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:52pm@Progressive:
While Boehner apperantly has sold us down the river again, the fact that it can allow the incoming Republicans – assuming we take the Senate and hold onto the House, in a position to make deeper cuts. If that is to occur, we have to hold any and all coming in, with their feet to the fires and ensure they do as the people demand in making the cuts reality.
With the Democratic national leadership declaring the other day that they would rather see the economy and the nation collapse than yield to the Republicans; I sense the real game will be with the fiscal cliff and debt ceiling battle soon to occur.
Obama has a scorched earth option ready, I can all but guarantee it, that if he falls from office, he will do all he can to take the nation down with him.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:56pmYou’re in as foul a mood as I am my friend. I‘m going tonight to vote down my ’conservative‘ Republican Governor’s new tax increase for road improvements to ease traffic congestion. Right. If you don’t want to deal with traffic move closer to work, don’t expect me pay to make your commute easier. I did.
Report Post »antiprogressive
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:00pmHe‘s doing THAT while he’s IN office.
Report Post »And loving every minute of it.
The-Real-Enrico
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:39pmI don’t think Boehner cried at all. It looks like two willing participants. Boehner wasn’t intoxicated ether.
Report Post »Oakdawg
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:29pm@ Gonzo. You must live in GA as do I. I voted no on the T-Splost. We are taxed enough.
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:42pmA win is when both sides lose a little.
Report Post »Rightallalong
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:41pmBohner again compromising with the devil. What a weak POS. Sad to say even the Republicans are failing the true conservatives.
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:40pmFAKE-liberal LEFTIST democrats and FAKE-conservative LEFTIST republicans…
REAP IT!!!!!!!!
AS for me… Ron Paul 2012! TAMPA! NO EXCUSES!!!! And The Constitution Party and The Libertarian Party FOR ALL ELSE! Congress, Sheriff, FRIGGIN DOG CATCHER!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »booger71
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:42pmWhen the Libertarian Party dumps their open border stance, then I will rethink my support
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:54pmGREAT point, booger71. Their “open border” stance is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE, compared with the REPUBLICAN “open border” stance and the DEMOCRAT “open border” stance! Muy, muy inteligente, amigo!
Report Post »antiprogressive
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:57pmThey are certainly a joke until they do….
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:58pm@Booger,
I haven’t found a political party that sees the world exactly as I do. I am a pro-life libertarian. There are lots of us but we aren’t the majority. Most see it as a state issue. Others are simply pro-abortion. BUT, the LP generally reflects most of my views and allows for the resolution at the state level where they do not.
As for immigration, unless you are going to fully militarize the border there will be illegal immigration. Just like banning drugs doesn‘t get rid of drugs or the war on poverty doesn’t get rid of poverty. Truth is that we are all immigrants of some sort. Our country is founded upon this premise. We need to allow for the legal entry of productive potential citizens. You want to come here? Sign the guest book. Work towards naturalization. Pay taxes. Join churches and communities. Why would we have a problem with productive and legal immigration. I‘d say we all agree that we wouldn’t. The problem arises when our government makes legal immigration nearly impossible and in the same breath (from a policy perspective) increases the incentives for illegal immigration. It makes no sense. I think you’re painting with a broad brush on the LP immigration stance. Like most things, it’s more complicated than a bumper sticker.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:50pm@booger71
Report Post »Gary Johnson is the libertarian party nominee. He was governor of New Mexico for 8 years. He is NOT SOFT on border issues
justangry
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 6:36pmBooger, I guess I‘m more of a libertarian leaning constitutionalist because I really don’t want open borders either. Too many threats coming in from down south and it makes us weak. I don’t so much mind if honest Mexicans come here to enjoy a better life as much as I care about terrorist/drug cartel infiltration.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:39pmEveryone there should either cut 50% of their staffs for 6 months, or have 100% take a 25% pay cut. Plus lose all “drivers” and government cars.
These people have no clue what is happening to the rest of us. I don’t know anymore if they ever did.
1 TRILLION+??? What a disgrace to common sense we have become.
Report Post »OldGringo
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:39pmNever put off til tomorrow what you should do today…
Report Post »didn’t your mother teach you anything?
huey6367
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:38pmI know of a way to keep the government operating – PASS A BUDGET HARRY!!!!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:44pmDemocrats: Budget? We don need no steenking budget!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:37pmOh hooray! Both sides want to keep spending money we don’t have. Don‘t tell me you’ve agreed to keep spending, tell me you’ve agreed to start paying for what you spend.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:37pmLet me guess, the deal includes someones first born and someones soul. Probably an arm and a leg in there somewhere, but no problem, we will get the bill.
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:36pmYea Bonehead can reach an agreement to pay himself but other than that he’s a useless pos ..
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:46pmIf Boehner is a bone head, then what is Reid? Toothpick bones Reid is going to lose his seat in November. Good bye, toothpick bones, Tea Party American’s have replaced you. Reid is the worst Chimp to ever run the senate. Reid needs to step down and go to prison for his complicity in Fast and Furious and No budget in 5 years.
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:56pmThey’re both jackasses ..
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