Reid: Progress made to resolve political stalemate

Harry Reid
Jose Luis Magana








Otherwise, he warned, the threat of default was legitimate.




















He suggested keeping the government running through mid-January.






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If Reagan were here doing now

If Reagan were here doing now what he did in the 80s, he would be branded a RINO and traitor to the Tea Party cause. Ted Cruze would have nothing to do with him and snub invitations to the White House.

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a big 10-4 buddie....shame Ronnie wouldn't give Cruz an invitation now to join him.....


Brain eating zombies

I read this joke today and loved it. "Brain eating zombies invaded Washington DC and starved to death". A deal between Senators and the President will probably not help. The newest strategy with the House "suicide caucus" is to let the government default and when the President uses his authority to restore our credit to attempt to use that to impeach him. They really think that the public will support a political party which is trying to impeach a guy who is rescuing our savings and nursing home patients and Social Security checks. There is no limit to what they will do to us to reverse the last election.

JERRY ARIPEZ's picture

As the bell tolls!

I wonder if these geniuses know that violating their oath of office, as in not following the requirements of the 14th amendment ARE A FEDERAL CRIME?....

I can bet that the baggers will have this to ponder; the President will give them to the 17th to pass a clean CR raising the debt ceiling. If they refuse, he should have the DOJ arrest and charge every member that refuses with violating their oath of office.

They can then negotiate from inside the federal detention center on visiting days.

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Sleaze Baggers…Here Are the Sleaziest Things Republican Congress Has Done During the Shutdown

1. Grandstand at the World War II Memorial.
2. Berate a Park Ranger at the World War II Memorial for the effects of the shutdown.
3. Put on lab coats and stand with Cantor and chastise Democrats for not funding cancer research.
4. Fundraise off the whole debacle.
5. Rub their "nice house" in the faces of 800,000 federal employees they helped furlough.
6. Tell furloughed employees they shouldn't get back pay while they're prohibited from working.
7. Suggest furloughed employees take out loans if they can't pay the bills.
8. Accuse the president of "curb-stomping" people.
9. Keep the congressional gym and other amenities open as essential services.
10. Complain that the gym is gross and doesn't have enough towels.

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Disapproval of GOP Peaks In Blame for the Budget Crisis

As of Monday 10/14/13


Bye- Bye Baggers, Bye- Bye low lifes, Bye- Bye baggers, it's time to see you go!

Ted Cruz is the baggers doom and bringing on the gloom....LOL

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As insane as all this is............+

I feel we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. First of all, with the economic future of the entire country on the line, hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed, why the hell are Mitch McConnell, and Harry Reid talking on the phone. These two need to be locked in a room pending a satisfactory outcome to this disaster. I have felt all along, the ACA had no business being on the table as a bargaining chip. I do how ever agree that including the Sequester is an absolutely necessary item to be eliminated. It is responsible for many hardships the people don't need. That budget law enacted in 2011, was designed to appear to ridiculous for anyone to enact. Anyone except the Republican Party as it turns out. It was never expected to be used. Of course that was probably before the Tea Party.
This rolling disaster needs to be stopped now. Republicans lost the election. Allow what the people of this country approved at the ballet box to work, and quit trying to hijack our liberties......................

Republicans didn't vote for a

Republicans didn't vote for a shut down, the Dems allowed one for political reasons.

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You are one huge mistake, to say the least!

“The second mistake you made was posting something online that is "TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE". The first mistake you made was you believed in it too.



Seems to me preventing a vote to keep the government funded is as good as voting to shut it down.

Harry Reids the one

Harry Reids the one preventing the votes.. Check out the facts!


The facts

Only yesterday a move was made to vote In the House to vote on a budget to end the shutdown and it was blocked by a motion passed well before the shutdown that prevents anybody from bringing a motion to the floor but Boehner or someone designated by him. Since the House is where the government funding originates that prevents anybody but Boehner or his designated representative from ending the shutdown. It's not about Obama or the Senate. The problem is in the House. The nuts are in charge.

Theres no problem in the

Theres no problem in the House, they want to fund everything. All they are asking for is a 1 year delay of Obamcare on individuals.

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BS...Provide the facts as to WHO pays the bills, and WHO is denying the VOTE in CONGRESS HOUSE? That is the FACTS not your uneducated BS....You see you most light empty headed one....the House controls the purse and if THEY do not pay the bills and THEY do not let a vote go to the FLOOR for reopening the government, to hold hostages to forcing the Senate or the President; then the controlled GOP house, they are the problem.

The GOP was scheming all this before the OCT 1, deadline and the PROOF is out there for all to see are just plainly to naive and stupid to conceive it.

You just want and see a one way Congress and that is why Dennis, you need to go back to school, this is why there are TWO, Senate and Congress....

Just tell Harry Reid to allow

Just tell Harry Reid to allow the House GOP dozen or so funding bills to get a vote in the US Senate. Dingy Harry is blocking the reopening of the government. Open your eyes Jerry!!!

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A serious solution

I understand why the Republicans are so resistant to passing a longer-term CR bill. It seems that the only way for them to push their agendas is by forcing these crisis on the american people unless their demands are met. If Democrats could get a bill to pass that would address both the debt limit and funding of the government until 2015, there is a high chance that Republicans could lose enough seats over this issue to impede their ability to do this again. Make no mistake. If they get away with it the first time, they will do it again.

Realistically, I believe the best way out of this crisis would be for the President to draft a bill that simultaneously funds the government and raises the debt limit for nine months so that the actions of congress over the next crisis will be fresh in the voter's minds on election day. In order to appease the Republicans, the bill should also strip out congress and thier staffs' exemption from the ACA. Sequestration should be left as is under this bill and left to the next session of congress when, perhaps, cooler heads may be able to prevail.

The only reason why I believe the president should draft this bill is because he can force the House to vote on it, preventing Boehner from obstructing the process. I believe there to be enough concessions from both sides in a bill such as this that it would pass the House, Senate, and be signed into law by the President.

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Judgment Day Will be upon the GOP for thier Banana Repub




During a floor speech on Saturday, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) drew attention to the quietly passed rule when he attempted to present a motion to accept the Senate's clean continuing resolution and reopen the government.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), presiding over the chamber, told Van Hollen that the rule he was asking to use had been "altered" and he did not have the privilege of bringing that vote to the floor.

Please READ on, it gets even better of who wanted the shutdown and how they were going to prevent the Congress and the Government from opening to do the Peoples business.



While the face of this disaster has been Cruz the real architects have been Ryan and Cantor. So it is worthwhile to see what they want. Unbelievably, Ryan is insisting we keep the worst parts of the sequester. You know, the poison pill that was so stupid nobody would want to see that done to America. And he wants to remove birth control coverage from the ACA. They are after women again. And they are worried about leverage so they need to revisit the debt ceiling every two months. Way to kill the economy for good. Well they have sheltered themselves from the pain of both the shutdown and the sequester and they are not women and they are rich enough to withstand economic meltdown so I guess from their point of view it makes sense. For the rest of us not so much.

Ted Cruz is the best thing

Ted Cruz is the best thing thats happened to America since Ronald Reagan. Rhinos like Mccain and Mconnell need to leave.

JERRY ARIPEZ's picture

Reagan's Known for all these things...oops...

Doubling the deficit and so many others.....

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Wow you are totally worthless as a voter

You must drink a is RINO....Repubs in name only.....McCain....McConnell....

Ted Cruz...LMFAO....Like Reagan....LOL

He was always a popular President, but he has since been recast (mainly by conservative historians) as a great one as well. Yes, you can easily place him on that pedestal. You would merely need to ignore the Iran-Contra scandal, the huge budget deficits, his environment ignorance, his do-nothing reaction to the looming AIDS epidemic, his courting of Saddam Hussein, and numerous other blunders. “Reagan was truly a great president whose achievement rivals that of Franklin Roosevelt,” wrote conservative author Dinesh D'Souza, in his 1997 reappraisal where he credited Reagan for everything from the strong Clinton economy (go figure) to world peace (while somehow forgetting to mention Iran-Contra anywhere in the book).

Read this you misinformed uneducated boob....

10 Things Conservatives Don’t Want You To Know About Ronald Reagan

10. Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Taliban and Osama Bin Laden — a prominent mujahideen commander — emerged from these mujahidin groups Reagan helped create, and U.S. policy towards Pakistan remains strained because of the intelligence services’ close relations to these fighters. In fact, Reagan’s decision to continue the proxy war after the Soviets were willing to retreat played a direct role in Bin Laden’s ascendancy.
Conservatives seem to be in such denial about the less flattering aspects of Reagan; it sometimes appears as if they genuinely don't know the truth of his legacy.

Dennis ponder this.....My dobermans are smarter than you....



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