Congress is given the power to write budgets. But only half of congress has approved the recent attempt to defund the ACA. Congress (as a whole) hasn't passed anything that will keep the government "functioning".
President Obama should not negotiate with terrorists
- 24/09/2013 06:09:59 PM
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I assume the purpose of this post was ranting and provoking heated reactions for your amusement?
- 24/09/2013 08:16:14 PM
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I assumed that was the point of the post.
- 24/09/2013 08:25:16 PM
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As would I, that's for sure.
- 24/09/2013 08:44:31 PM
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I also just found this surprisingly good related op-ed piece by, of all people, Ted Cruz.
- 24/09/2013 08:31:03 PM
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consider this my swan song
- 24/09/2013 09:39:02 PM
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To be fair, they only have a terrorist ATTITUDE; the GOP coup attempt has been non-violent.
- 27/09/2013 03:28:48 PM
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only the far left would call this a coup
- 28/09/2013 04:13:18 PM
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A minority of a minority forcing its will on the majority in defiance of rule of law is a coup.
- 28/09/2013 11:17:43 PM
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gross accumulation of wealth of real problem I am just not sure how you find a solution
- 28/09/2013 04:21:37 PM
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I remember people complaining when their patriotism was questioned, thought they had a valid beef...
- 25/09/2013 05:57:52 AM
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i'm sorry your party has gone off the deep end and can't tell reality from their ass
- 27/09/2013 05:24:52 PM
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Yeah, they're out of touch with reality, Mr. Peaceful Protest = terrorism, sure, gotcha 
- 28/09/2013 01:41:55 AM
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- 28/09/2013 01:41:55 AM
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Re: Yeah, they're out of touch with reality, Mr. Peaceful Protest = terrorism, sure, gotcha
- 29/09/2013 03:51:06 AM
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- 29/09/2013 03:51:06 AM
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fucking over millions of people's lives is NOT "peaceful protest"
- 01/10/2013 09:04:30 PM
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I agree. The ACA is akin to domestic terrorism because it is fucking over millions of peoples' lives
- 01/10/2013 10:00:59 PM
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just because you won't benefit doesn't mean it isn't helping
- 01/10/2013 11:27:10 PM
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Oh, please. Cut the fucking hyperbole.
- 02/10/2013 02:54:31 AM
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It isn't hypberbole tyo him it is his reality
- 02/10/2013 03:47:30 AM
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I was with you until you engaged in your own hyperbole in that last line. *NM*
- 02/10/2013 06:05:12 PM
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I thought it was more of simple observation
- 04/10/2013 02:21:32 AM
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Bringing up the Nazis or other totalitarian regimes hardly counts as "simple observation".
- 04/10/2013 06:40:16 PM
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You have an amazingly cherry-picked view of the world don't you? Peaceful protests often hurt people
- 01/10/2013 10:20:43 PM
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yeah, you keep believing that. i suppose black is now white as well?
- 01/10/2013 11:28:58 PM
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If you insist on seeing everything as black and white it really doesn't matter which is which
- 02/10/2013 12:07:51 AM
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I had hoped
- 02/10/2013 08:43:58 AM
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Re: I had hoped
- 02/10/2013 10:48:13 AM
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Congress is given teh power of the purse so it is the left who is threatening a shut down
- 26/09/2013 12:59:20 PM
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Both right and wrong.
- 26/09/2013 04:55:36 PM
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Pretty much my take for the last two years; the GOP is pulling an Arafat: "95% is not good enough!"
- 27/09/2013 01:12:53 AM
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funny how the media celibrated the silly twit from Fort Worth for doing basically the same thing *NM*
- 28/09/2013 04:19:31 PM
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Yes, opposing an effective statewide ban on ALL abortion (for ALL reasons) is extremist
- 28/09/2013 11:22:32 PM
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- 28/09/2013 11:22:32 PM
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you would have a point if you posistion approached reality instead of being extermist blather
- 30/09/2013 01:58:13 PM
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So all TX outpatient clinics must meet the standards set for hospitals?
- 30/09/2013 11:00:24 PM
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no all TX abortion clince have to meet the same standards as outpatient surgical centers.
- 30/09/2013 11:29:48 PM
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"... mandate[s]... a doctor who performs abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital."
- 02/10/2013 01:54:41 AM
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You miss a lot of points
- 02/10/2013 03:37:00 AM
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Like where Wendy Davis threatened to shut down TX unless she got her way.
- 02/10/2013 06:49:52 AM
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Like I said you support grandstanding as long as it is your side doing it
- 04/10/2013 02:20:09 AM
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Neither shut down government? Sorry; I did not realize the US government was and has been open.
- 05/10/2013 12:49:50 AM
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I guess you also didn't realize Cruz is a senator. Unless of courrse you blame the senate?
- 05/10/2013 05:16:01 AM
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GOP Rep. on the shutdowns future: "You really have to call Cruz, I'm not even joking about that."
- 05/10/2013 03:59:01 PM
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