Lame duck Congress agrees to $1.1 trillion budget
Faced with the threat of a government shutdown, Congress has worked out a continuing resolution that will fund the government through its fiscal year ending in September 2015.
There has been a lot of gnashing of teeth among conservatives about this deal. Many wanted the Republicans to fight harder now and limit this deal more. I am less worried. The political winds are clearly favoring conservatives and tea party ideals. Come next year Congress will be controlled by Republicans, and the 2016 budget will be shaped by their concerns. Whatever small gains the Democrats and Obama get now will be stymied then.
And then will come the 2016 elections. I expect an even greater win for conservatives, since Obama is making it clear he will continue to stand firm in support of Obamacare and many other liberal issues that have proved to be poison at the ballot box.
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Faced with the threat of a government shutdown, Congress has worked out a continuing resolution that will fund the government through its fiscal year ending in September 2015.
There has been a lot of gnashing of teeth among conservatives about this deal. Many wanted the Republicans to fight harder now and limit this deal more. I am less worried. The political winds are clearly favoring conservatives and tea party ideals. Come next year Congress will be controlled by Republicans, and the 2016 budget will be shaped by their concerns. Whatever small gains the Democrats and Obama get now will be stymied then.
And then will come the 2016 elections. I expect an even greater win for conservatives, since Obama is making it clear he will continue to stand firm in support of Obamacare and many other liberal issues that have proved to be poison at the ballot box.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Why would you mix political opinion with scientific articles about facts?
It really hurts your credibility. Surely you as a scientifically minded person should know that.
And, what’s with the one-sided politics?
Also as sure, there will be NO CHANGE IN THE MONEY PARTY WHICH IS THE ONLY PARTY.
If people you think will help you out in the conservative / tea party movement get in power there will be no substantive change in the way you or I are governed by our country and no change in the economic agenda of the banks. Come on! Drop the short-sighted political commentary, the fear-based attacks, and stick to the interesting stuff that intelligent minds want to know about.
I find it interesting that your answer to my political commentary is not to debate me, not to point out specific examples where my concerns or opinions are wrong, but to demand I simply shut up.
Well, sorry, but I will not shut up. I will speak my mind while always welcoming reasonable and civilized debate. If that is too painful for you then I guess you should find a different website to read.
Conservatives are starting to sound like the fans of a losing sports team: “wait until next year.” But next year never gets any better.
Boehner himself kept telling us that if we wanted him to grow a spine then we had to vote Republican at the then-next election (this past 2014 election). Well, America voted Republican more than ever before, but that was not good enough for Boehner, whose first move was not to take advantage of the most powerful mandate in all of American history but to surrender to the Democrat losers. We finally won the World Series, the Superbowl, the NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup Finals, but somehow we didn’t get the trophy.
But now we are expected to wait until next season, again, or until the next election. Except that then Boehner will do it to us yet again. It is as though Beohner is Lucy and we are Charley Brown, trying to kick the football.
So, is a shutdown really something that has to be avoided at the cost of our freedom for yet another year (or more)? Last year’s shutdown lasted two weeks, and people thought that the spine shown back then was worth voting *for* Republicans, not against them:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/12/04/politics-counts-shutdowns-political-damage-may-be-overrated/