Government Shutdown part Deux: The REAL Waterloo.

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Well..Republican Conservatives had a very clear plan:

1. Step one - Re-invent the Republican party as the "Tea Party" that was infuriated with spending (Nevermind the man behind that curtain..who spend like crazy for 2 terms).
2. Step two - Scare the heck out of seniors by pointing out that the Health Care act carved out 500 billion from their Medicare and that the new scary President was setting up Death Panels.
3. Step Three - Paint the President as a foreign born, muslim, fascist communists (yeah..it makes no sense..but it worked.)
4. Step Four - Have the Chamber of Congress and the RNC spend billions of dollars on local elections..and make everyone of them, national. Promise seniors protection for their medicare and young folks, Jobs.
5. Step Five - Starve the Government of cash by extending the Bush tax cuts.
6. Step Six - Once in power, lard the congress with nonsense bills that have no chance of passing..further constricting government.
7. Step Seven - Shut down government.
8. Step Eight - Launch multiple investigations against the President.
9. Step Nine - Impeach and remove the President from power.
10. Step Ten - Give power to corporate interests.
11. Step Eleven - Crack open the Champange.

We are almost at step 7...and it looks as if that is going to happen.

Can't wait for the fireworks once the seniors that put them in power..stop getting their medicare and SSI checks.:lol:
 
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Granny says, "Dat's right - shutdown the gubmint an' put all dem politicians onna breadline...
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As budget cuts loom, is government shutdown next?
28 Feb.`13 WASHINGTON (AP) — With big, automatic budget cuts about to kick in, House Republicans are turning to mapping strategy for the next showdown just a month away, when a government shutdown instead of just a slowdown will be at stake.
Both topics are sure to come up at the White House meeting Friday between President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders, including Republican House Speaker John Boehner. A breakthrough on replacing or easing the imminent across-the-board spending cuts still seems unlikely at the first face-to-face discussion between Obama and Republican leaders this year. To no one's surprise, even as a dysfunctional Washington appears incapable of averting a crisis over economy-rattling spending cuts, it may be lurching toward another over a possible shutdown.

Republicans are planning for a vote next week on a bill to fund the day-to-day operations of the government through the Sept. 30 end of the 2013 fiscal year — while keeping in place the new $85 billion in cuts of 5 percent to domestic agencies and 8 percent to the military. The need to keep the government's doors open and lights on — or else suffer the first government shutdown since 1996 — requires the GOP-dominated House and the Democratic-controlled Senate to agree. Right now they hardly see eye to eye.

The House GOP plan, unveiled to the rank and file on Wednesday, would award the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs with their line-by-line budgets, for a more-targeted rather than indiscriminate batch of military cuts, but would deny domestic agencies the same treatment. And that has whipped up opposition from veteran Democratic senators on the Appropriations Committee. Domestic agencies would see their budgets frozen almost exactly as they are, which would mean no money for new initiatives such as cybersecurity or for routine increases for programs such as low-income housing. "We're not going to do that," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. "Of course not." Any agreement needs to pass through a gantlet of House tea party conservatives intent on preserving the across-the-board cuts and Senate Democrats pressing for action on domestic initiatives, even at the risk of creating a foot-tall catchall spending bill.

There's also this: GOP leaders have calculated that the automatic cuts arriving on Friday need to be in place in order for them to be able to muster support from conservatives for the catchall spending bill to keep the government running. That's because many staunch conservatives want to preserve the cuts even as defense hawks and others fret about the harm that might do to the military and the economy. If the automatic cuts are dealt with before the government-wide funding bill gets a vote, there could be a conservative revolt. "The overall sequester levels must hold," said Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.

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Wow... someone has an active imagination. Would be nice if you guys could keep your talking points straight. You can't decide whether the GOP created the Tea Party to reinvent themselves or that the GOP is in a civil war.

The rest is stuff you guys are doing or just plain paranoid imaginations
 

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