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Some sobering thoughts but what you can expect from Boehner who is bound to do something and then step in it neck deep:

Don’t Be Fooled

Sep 10, 2013 | By CAP Action War Room

Republicans Try to Force Even More Budget Cuts

The government will shut down in 20 days – just nine congressional work days — unless Congress passes a bill to keep funding it. And while most of the media focus has been on the GOP’s unceasing effort to defund, delay, and undermine Obamacare, Speaker Boehner (R-OH) is plotting another, more hidden plan to lock in damaging and unnecessary austerity for the rest of the year and possibly into 2014.

Boehner has promised that to avoid a government shutdown, he will ask the House to pass a “clean” short-term budget resolution, simply extending current spending levels while a longer-term deal is worked out. That may sound reasonable, but hidden behind Boehner’s deceptive claims are some pretty dirty truths.

First of all, current spending levels are already painfully and unnecessarily low, but Boehner’s plan would go even further and lock in another round of deep cuts to domestic spending.

But it doesn’t stop there. Boehner’s plan actually increases defense spending by $20 BILLION compared to the sequester, while leaving spending on non-defense discretionary programs at unacceptably low levels.

You don’t have to take our word for it. Here’s Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) crowing about the cuts they are trying to force on Democrats and the president:

“In signing a CR at sequester levels,” Cantor wrote, “the president would be endorsing a level of spending that wipes away all the increases he and congressional Democrats made while they were in charge and returns us to a pre-2008 level of discretionary spending.”

Wait, there’s more! On top of all of this, House Republican leaders have devised a convoluted scheme to try and trick rank-and-file Republicans into not shutting down the government over Obamacare while still being able to somehow claim they defunded the law. This “smoke and mirrors” plan is already being derided by the Tea Party and recent polling found that just 6 percent of voters think delaying and defunding Obamacare is the right path forward.

(This final scheme comes on top of a separate GOP demand issued today that Democrats either agree to delay Obamacare for a year or Republicans will refuse to increase the debt ceiling, thus creating a world economic calamity.)

BOTTOM LINE: Republicans have scheduled just 9 days of work in September and aren’t even planning on being here the week before funding for the government runs out. Passing a partisan spending plan with only GOP votes is just another waste of time that makes it more likely that the government will shut down because of GOP intransigence, demands for damaging austerity, or both.

For a detailed brief from the Center for American Progress on how all of this adds up — or doesn’t — click HERE.

Missouri Republicans are officially bat-shit crazy:

(From CNN)

MISSOURI GUN BILL

The 'shoot me' state: That's what critics are calling Missouri, where the state legislature's trying to accomplish something that's never been done: pass a law that will not only let residents own a machine gun, but also arrest federal agents if they try to take it away.

What's more, the bill would make it illegal for anyone to publish identifying information about a gun owner.

The legislation already passed once through the Republican-led House and Senate, only to be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon. He said there's this thing in the U.S. Constitution called the Supremacy Clause. You can't have state laws supersede federal laws.

Lawmakers insist what they're proposing is not only constitutional, but essential to protect the rights of gun owners. And today, the legislature votes to override the veto.

*sigh* Their lawyers are wrong. They are wrong, stupid (yes, dammit, I called them stupid) and bat-shit crazy. There is absolutely NO -- repeat NO -- ambiguity about the Supremacy Clause, which is Article VI, Clause 2:



"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."



To declare that Federal laws don't apply in a state is known as "nullification." We see how well that worked for the South in the mid-1800s.



It is not unconstitutional to regulate firearms, just as it is not unconstitutional to regulate medication, food, or health and safety standards. And really - I would love, love, LOVE to see a local Barney Fife try to arrest an ATF agent performing his lawful duties.



And still the regressives bitch about "waste, fraud and abuse" in government, and government spending their money. WTH do they think THIS is? The MO legislature wasting time and money continuing to pass laws that are unconstitutional and will get the state sued. Let's take a look at the money that they are wasting. I don't have figures, so I will use categories ... Utilities for the Capitol. Time and Salaries of the legislature and all its employees. Gas for official vehicles (the Capitol police and groundskeepers, for example). The paper and reproduction costs associated with producing legislation. All the office supplies used. The extra (crazy) lawyers they had to hire to get someone to say this was legal. The time the legislators wasted bragging about this to the press (on the taxpayers' dime). The Governor's time and salary, and the time and salaries of all the OTHER state government employees who had to handle this insanity. THEIR official vehicles. And the time and salaries and lawyers' fees of everyone who will get sued into oblivion by the Federal government. And then there is the waste of time for the Feds who have to deal with this childish tantrum. Salaries, gas, utilities, rent on office space, etc. And the time that the U.S. Attorney, AUSAs and their staffs could be using to deal with criminals like drug dealers, money launderers, child pornographers, bank robbers and the like. Where are the shrieks of outrage from the so-called fiscally responsible regressives for wasting their money on completely useless posturing and weenie-wagging?



GAH. I'm going to the gym and stomp around the track for an hour to work off aggression.

Blue, words to live by! 

Thanks for the love ladies.

I love that quote, bluedahlia.

You don't have to go to the gym to work out the aggression, RetiredLibby. Just fire 100 or so rounds from a machine gun in Missouri. And if you accidentally kill a kid on purpose, you can get off, get your gun back, and attempt to kill your spouse.

I love that squirrel meme, yorkiemom.

Don't give up hope.  It may have spawned Todd Akin - but it also didn't elect him to the Senate, right?

Interesting ties to Missouri. I have a rental in St. Louis that I hope to visit it early next year.  And Todd Akin - that was one scary dude. "Legitimate rape." Thank God his true colors showed, and he wasn't elected.

GGG, where in St. Louis is your rental? We lived in the Creve Coeur area.

OMG crazy4carrots. That person's comment was awesome.

yorkiemom - The Old North neighborhood - where Crown Candy Kitchen is located. I know - "North of Delmar" is rough, but there is a serious revitalization effort in that neighborhood. I knew I had to be a part of that.

I like "IDJUTS."

Ah Faux News. The reason why I prefer Al Jazeera English. When I admit that, though, some on the Right question my being 'Murican enough.