October 3, 2013

MaaaMaaa! Part2

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@Earth_Pics


MaaaMaaa! Part 1-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023746045

October 3, 2013

Everybody has that ONE friend.....

@Earth_Pics

Ha!

October 3, 2013

I hope President Obama does this to the Republicans:

@Earth_Pics

They don't deserve anything less!

October 2, 2013

Paul Begala pwn3d Ted Cruz! Ha!

@PaulBegala:
@SenTedCruz cannot generate the votes to kill Obamacare, but he can generate the votes to reinstate @NancyPelosi as Speaker. Thanks, Ted.

October 2, 2013

Oh SNAP! Pelosi answered Cantor!

http://www.juanitajean.com/

That's gonna leave a mark.

October 2, 2013

Harry Reid's letter to Boehner:

@scontorno

October 2, 2013

Democrats can end the shutdown with 20 Republicans on board ( if no Dem defections) by Ezra Klein

So here’s Plan B, which would temporarily solve both the funding and the looming debt ceiling crises without requiring Boehner or the Republican caucus to do anything other than abide by the rules of the House:

House Democratic leaders should immediately file a bill with two simple provisions: one, providing for short-term funding for the government until Jan. 1, 2015, and a second lifting the debt sufficient to comfortably get the government past New Year’s (with the shutdown, the two issues are now effectively joined at the hip). The deadline should provide for plenty of time to negotiate a grand bargain while keeping pressure on everyone to negotiate.

Then the Democrats should circulate what is called a discharge petition for a special rule to bring it to the floor for an immediate vote. All it would take is about 20 responsible Republicans to sign the discharge petition, along with nearly the entire Democratic caucus, to create a majority that could force the vote and pass the bill. There are said to be at least that many Republicans willing to support such a bill, and as the shutdown proceeds there will likely be more.

Under House rules, once the discharge petition, with the requisite 218 signatures, is filed with the clerk, it immediately goes on what’s called the “Discharge Calendar.” And once the newly filed “clean” funding-cum-debt ceiling bill has sat in committee for seven days, petition discharging the committee from further consideration can be called up by any member of the House on the second and fourth Monday of any month. As a “privileged motion,” it would interrupt almost all other business pending before the House.

This is a well-established way for a majority House members to get around a recalcitrant speaker or majority caucus — it’s been used successfully dozens of times in the modern era, including the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. The question isn’t whether it would work. The real question is why House Democrats didn’t think to set the process in motion last week, when the shutdown was already a real possibility.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/02/democrats-can-use-this-one-weird-trick-to-end-the-government-shutdown/

Try it NOW!

October 2, 2013

President Obama invited congressional leaders to WH to discuss the budget standoff & debt ceiling

President Obama on Wednesday canceled part of his upcoming trip to Asia and invited congressional leaders to the White House to discuss the budget standoff that has shut down parts of the federal government for the first time in 17 years.

According to a White House official, the top four leaders of both parties from both houses were invited to meet with Obama at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time. The president will urge the House to pass a “clean” continuing resolution — without what Obama has called “ideological demands” such as riders aimed at undermining his signature health-care law — so that the government can reopen.
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Obama also will “call on Congress to act to raise the debt ceiling to pay the bills we have already incurred and avoid devastating consequences on our economy,” the official said.

The invitees include House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

A spokesman for Boehner, Brendan Buck, described the invitation as the beginning of negotiations with the White House, despite Obama’s stated refusal to put his Affordable Care Act on the table or negotiate over the debt ceiling.
<snip>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-cancels-part-of-asia-trip-washington-braces-for-prolonged-budget-battle/2013/10/02/e035be98-2b4b-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html

Past is prologue?
Hope not.

October 2, 2013

Grandfather Writes Letter To His Daughter After She Kicks Out His Gay Grandson

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/grandpa-letter-gay-grandson_n_4029750.html

Boom!

October 2, 2013

Ha! Germany's Olympic uniforms:

http://www.newnownext.com/german-olympic-uniforms-are-maybe-a-gay-political-statement/10/2013/

They may be ugly to some, but I love them!
(Germany denies this is a statement about LGBT rights.)