House Republicans to throw Constitution out the window.

[RandySF]

Stuck in a budget quagmire with Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama, House Republicans are suggesting they can run the government without them.

The GOP is pushing for a House vote Friday that would declare their $61 billion in budget cuts the law of the land if the Senate and Obama don't act on the spending measure before April 9. That's the day the government would shut down if Congress doesn't pass a budget for the next six months, or a shorter interim.


www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/01/state/n074417D52.DTL#ixzz1IIcKqR7i

[guruoo]

1. Veto bait nt

[brooklynite]

4. What veto?

It's not "the law of the land" until both Houses of Congress pass the same bill. Wouldn't get my hopes up.

[Shiver]

8. Until both houses pass it, AND it gets the president's signature.

They seem to think they can pass a law, which has to go through the entire process, that will allow them to not go through the entire process.

[sharp_stick]

6. This scam

would never even come up for a vote in the Senate never mind Obama's desk.

There will be no need for even a veto threat on this, it's just a publicity stunt.

[guruoo]

13. Publicity stunt, and litimus test nt

[glinda]

2. Dictators much?

[SpiralHawk]

3. Republicons Got a Kinky Thing for Totalitarianism

Unlike honorable Americans.

[BadgerKid]

7. self-delete. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

11. Kinky (R) is as kinky (R) does

...but totalitarianism is totally unAmerican...

deal with it.

[sharp_stick]

5. Cantor is such a funny guy

The way he can deliver these lines with a straight face is fascinating. I'd be surprised if anyone, even the morons of the teabagger wing of his "party" would buy this as anything more than an idiotic publicity stunt?

Has anyone asked the pukes if this bill has passed their often talked about but never actually used "rule" of proving that it meets Constitutional muster before being voted on?

[AsahinaKimi]

9. Republicans acting like bullies again..

I wish Democrats would get in their faces and scream a little. Maybe they would back down.

[gratuitous]

10. I suppose the Democrats could run an ad

Something along the lines of, "This is the kind of nonsense the House Republicans were indulging while the spectre of a shutdown loomed over Washington. Social security payments not made. National Parks closed. Our military men and women suddenly working for free while they're in war zones overseas. And the House Republicans thought it would be good governance to propose a bill so out of touch with the law and reality that you would think it had been written on Uranus."

But that would be all partisan and stuff, and that's strictly forbidden in today's America. We can't call a bunch of know-nothing racist kooks racist. We can't call partisan Republican hackery partisan. Nope, you'll lose your job in the popular media if you do that. So we get the breathtaking spectacle of the House Republicans reaching into their stuffed diapers and smearing the walls with what they find there. But don't you dare call it smelly or shitty!

[Jazz Ambassador]

12. Does this mean

that they're no longer attaching explanations for each bill's constitutionality?

Or, better, do they have an explanation as to why this is constitutional? Because that would make for some quality April Fools Day reading.