Bwaaaaaaaaaaah- House rejects balanced budget Constitutional

[malaise]

Amendment.

Fuck you Boehner! Fuck you ReTHUGS

Breaking on GEM$NBComcast. Lost by 23 votes

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[FarLeftFist]

1. We know how those budgets will be balanced. With devastating cuts to social programs.

[malaise]

3. That was the plan

Fuck them!

[JuniperLea]

4. Don't fall for the RW meme...

That's what they used to try to get this devastating measure passed! We need to raise taxes, pure and simple.

[Blue Owl]

2. In related news, Paul Ryan SUCKS IT big time

n/t

[elleng]

5. Right, but that's not NEWS!

[cal04]

6. comment from Jesse Jackson Jr.

Shortly before the vote, Rep. John Fleming, R-Louisiana, called Congress "hopelessly addicted to excessive spending and budget deficits" and said opponents of the amendment "are hopelessly in denial, just like a drug addict is in denial about their addiction."

Fleming's comments prompted a retort from Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Illinois, who said, "I am addicted to saving lives. I am addicted to making sure that Social Security is not violently cut by the balanced budget amendment."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/18/politics/balanced-budget-amendment/index.html

[malaise]

7. Unfuggingbelievable the crap these ReTHUGS

are trying to force on people in the middle of protests in every fugging state.

[vcc]

9. Rethugs trying to hurt us AND piss us off at the same time...

...either way, they benefit. They're going to try to cause as much damage as they possibly can before November 2012. That's why they need to be voted OUT. Though I'm glad to see that not every Republican was for this amendment, I maintain awareness at all times that their tactics are always changing and we need to just make sure they don't amass too much power as a group.

[malaise]

10. True not all ReTHUGS voted for this one

:hi:

[mmonk]

8. Good, Didn't want that thing to make it to the Senate.

[The Genealogist]

11. Who voted for it and against it...the roll call

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll858.xml

25 dems voted yea, 4 repubs voted nay....

[malaise]

12. Damn - those Dems should be replaced

Thanks for the link

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. It's always the same ones, too.

Like the execrable Colin Peterson (Douche-MN).

[jaxx]

15. DeFazio voted for it too.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. Good!

BBA would have been bad news IMHO.