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Politico Stirs The GOP Pot

Posted on | December 17, 2011 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

According to Politico, a phalanx of Herman Cain accusers disguised themselves as the House GOP and staged a telephonic cat fight* over the Senate’s two month payroll tax holiday package:

In a private conference call on Saturday afternoon, rank-and-file House Republicans complained bitterly about the contents of the deal, which would extend through February the president’s Social Security tax cut, unemployment insurance and Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors. The sweetener of a provision requiring the president to expedite consideration of the Keystone XL oil pipeline wasn’t enough to offset the bitterness of a deal that gives the president two more months to pillory Republicans on a tax cut that is one of his most popular policies.
Republican leaders were warned that they could expect a rebellion if lawmakers are forced to vote on the Senate version of the bill, according to a source on the line.

The two month tax holiday passed 89-10 in the Senate. Interestingly, as you read Power Line, it was the $1 trillion continuing resolution to fund the government that was the harder sell, passing 67-32, eliciting some high dudgeon from some geezer named John McCain (a relative of the marquee name on this blog, I guess)

“Here we are again,” said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). “Not one member of this body has read the 1,221 pages of this bill representing $915 billion of the taxpayers’ money. Here we are with 15 minutes to consider a document representing $915 billion of taxpayers’ money filled with unauthorized, unrequested spending.”

Hey, you know, Senator McCain: that’s 1,221 more reasons why nominating your war record in 2008 and sending it on a bus tour around the country was a suck-tacular idea. Furthermore, it underscores the dangers of allowing the media and the cranial rectalitis setGOP elite decide whose ‘turn’ it is to fumble the ball.

One could rant further about the clowns in charge, but what we really need here is a of
Separated at Birth gag.

Splitting Congressional control in 2010 was a restraining order from We The People. Alas, the two conferences of the American Political Football League are more interested in preserving the two parties as such, with maximal power, than they are in carrying out their Constitutional duties. Truly, Senator ZombieReid deserves a special place in the Hall of Infamy, as this continuing resolution should more or less carry him past the 1,000 day mark on doing his flipping job with respect to the budget.

One hopes that Speaker Chevy and Minority Leader Honeydew will step up to the plate and start making these basic issues a regular source of grief for the Democrat party.

via Memeorandum

*I may have been slightly confused about the details of the story.

Category: Democrats, Republicans

Comments

7 Responses to “Politico Stirs The GOP Pot”

  1. House Republicans may save Social Security « Don Surber
    December 17th, 2011 @ 10:30 pm

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  2. Adjoran
    December 17th, 2011 @ 10:45 pm

    So Reid and Obama’s CR full of unspecified spending is McCain’s fault now?

    So WHO would you have nominated that would have beaten Obama last year?  Remember, McCain was neck and neck until he stepped in it over the financial crisis and “suspended” his campaign. 

    Huckabee?  Oh, you mean this is a joke post?
    Romney, because you love him so much?
    Fred Thompson or Rudy Giuliani, who couldn’t last past Florida?

    Explain how it’s John McCain’s fault, please.

  3. NAME REDACTED
    December 17th, 2011 @ 10:56 pm

    And Democratic party interests get 915 Billion dollars richer.  

    WROL

  4. MrPaulRevere
    December 17th, 2011 @ 11:39 pm

    Well far be it for me to speak for Smitty, but I think he’s making the point that McCain was an atrocious candidate who never made fiscal sanity the cornerstone of his campaign.

  5. Anonymous
    December 18th, 2011 @ 1:35 am

    Hey, you know, Senator McCain: that’s 1,221 more reasons why nominating your war record in 2008 and sending it on a bus tour around the country was a suck-tacular idea. Furthermore, it underscores the dangers of allowing the media and the cranial rectalitis setGOP elite decide whose ‘turn’ it is to fumble the ball.

    Are you a steer or what?  I am no John McCain fan but jeeze louise, in 2008 it was him, Romney or Huckabee to choose from last time.  McCain was the best of a sorry bunch.  

    Oh wait, you were for Bob Barr.  He was a GOP congressman who couldn’t keep his seat and then decided he was the shining hope of conservatives by running for President as a third party candidate.  

    And here we are again, Romney or Gingrich.  Or maybe  Santorum or Bachmann?  And BTW my retirement plan is buying a Mega Millions each week.  

    I think the GOP stepped in one of my field pies.  Ugh.  

  6. Anonymous
    December 18th, 2011 @ 8:08 am

    Technically, it was RSM, not smitty who voted for Barr (at least, it’s RSM who brags about it).  Of course, RSM lives in Maryland, so there was no chance of his vote meaning anything.

  7. AngelaTC
    December 19th, 2011 @ 12:11 am

    Suddenly John McCain is concerned about huge pieces of legislation being shoved through too fast.  Pretty funny stuff, that is.