The Fiscal Cliff

[Uncle Ted]

A deal has been reached.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/politi...html?hpt=hp_t1

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hailed the agreement he worked out with his GOP counterpart Mitch McConnell as "historic," saying that "in the end, political adversaries put aside their differences."

Wow. Historic.

[Uncle Ted]

Cruz is the male Sarah Palin. I see several failed reality shows in his future.

Palin didn't go to Harvard. Cruz is more like the hispanic Obama or the Southern Baptist Rmoney.

[myboynoah]

Palin didn't go to Harvard. Cruz is more like the hispanic Obama or the Southern Baptist Rmoney.

He's dumb, and a Canadian as well.

[All-American]

This is so unexpected! We BARELY escaped catastrophe!

Someone should let Cali know. I know he was getting pretty nervous.

[Moliere]

This is so unexpected! We BARELY escaped catastrophe!

[Pelado]

A friend of mine not only closed on a house during the shutdown, but also sold his house last week. I wonder how he circumvented this whole thing that is causing you an issue?

All cash deals?

[Uncle Ted]

He's dumb, and a Canadian as well.

We have a Canadian in the senate?

But isn't Obama a Keynesian?

[Moliere]

All cash deals?

Nope. Financing on both.

[Uncle Ted]

The Dems and GOP are holding hands under the table...

McConnell-Reid Deal Includes $3 Billion Earmark for Kentucky Project

A proposal to end the government shutdown and avoid default orchestrated by Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Leader Harry Reid includes a nearly $3 billion earmark for a Kentucky project.


Language in a draft of the McConnell-Reid deal (see page 13, section 123) provided to WFPL News shows a provision that increases funding for the massive Olmsted Dam Lock in Paducah, Ky., from $775 million to nearly $2.9 billion.
[...]

http://wfpl.org/post/mcconnell-reid-...ntucky-project


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[UVACoug]

Cruz sez he will behave...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireS...nment-20579881



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Proving once again that Cruz (and his sidekick Lee) are nothing but trolls. One day this is a life-or-death issue ... then when it comes time to put their money where their mouth is, they cave. If this was as important as they claim it was, they would be filibustering the bill ... but of course they won't because they have known all along that this was nothing but a horse and pony show designed to get their Tea Party base to give them a bunch of money. They are no different than any other politician except they have the audacity to nearly push the country off a cliff in order to fill their pockets with campaign donations. I am no fan of Obamacare, but this stunt they pulled was a complete joke. I feel sorry for the people that bought their bullshit and gave them money to help sustain this ludicrous cause. I just hope enough people show up at the caucuses next time Lee is up for reelection to get him out of there. As much as I respect his father, he has been a complete clown in the Senate.

[UVACoug]

I think it does demonstrate that you could cut 15% of the government spending and employment and not notice much difference. You probably wouldn't eliminate all the same people that are furloughed, I'd move a lot of the reductions to military, for example. One congress-person had a great idea, I thought. eliminate the debt ceiling as Obama wants. But replace it with the following rule: if congress doesn't pass a budget, then automatic spending reductions of 1% over the previous year are instituted. An additional 1% gets cut every 90 days that no budget is passed. Simple.

I like that idea. The debt ceiling is a complete farce. The only thing it accomplishes is it gives political grandstanders a tool to raise money with. It needs to be eliminated. It doesn't do any good for anyone.

[SeattleUte]

Proving once again that Cruz (and his sidekick Lee) are nothing but trolls. One day this is a life-or-death issue ... then when it comes time to put their money where their mouth is, they cave. If this was as important as they claim it was, they would be filibustering the bill ... but of course they won't because they have known all along that this was nothing but a horse and pony show designed to get their Tea Party base to give them a bunch of money. They are no different than any other politician except they have the audacity to nearly push the country off a cliff in order to fill their pockets with campaign donations. I am no fan of Obamacare, but this stunt they pulled was a complete joke. I feel sorry for the people that bought their bullshit and gave them money to help sustain this ludicrous cause. I just hope enough people show up at the caucuses next time Lee is up for reelection to get him out of there. As much as I respect his father, he has been a complete clown in the Senate.

Is Ted Cruz also LDS?

[myboynoah]

Is Ted Cruz also LDS?

lol

[SeattleUte]

lol

The LDS Church is responsible for the Smoot-Hawly Tarriff Act (and therefore The Great Depression), Proposition 8, and the 2013 Government Shutdown. Disgraceful.

[myboynoah]

The LDS Church is responsible for the Smoot-Hawly Tarriff Act (and therefore The Great Depression), Proposition 8, and the 2013 Government Shutdown. Disgraceful.

Plus the Civil War. Joseph Smith prophesied it and it came to pass.