Why Righties have no currency

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Even with the mess that Obama got dumped on him, the Right still finds a way to let us all ask - are they liars or just stupid.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/24/budget-reconciliation/

GOP Senators Who Used Budget Reconciliation To Pass Bush Agenda Items Now Calling It ‘Chicago Style Politics’

Today, Politico reported that Republican senators are prepared to go “nuclear” — essentially shutting down the Senate through the use of parliamentary maneuvers — if President Obama attempts to use budget reconciliation to pass key parts of his legislative agenda, such as health care reform and cap-and-trade. Reconciliation allows some legislation to be protected from filibusters and passed by a simple majority. On NPR this morning, Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) repeated a now familiar attack on budget reconciliation:

BOND: “In this post-partisan time of Barack Obama, we’re seeing a little Chicago politics. They steamroller those who disagree with them, then, I guess in Chicago, they coat them in cement and drop them in the river.” [NPR, 3/24/09]

Bond appears to be parroting his colleague Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), who said any use of budget reconciliation by President Obama would be “regarded as an act of violence” against Republicans, and likened it to “running over the minority, putting them in cement and throwing them in the Chicago River.” Other GOP senators have chimed in against reconciliation, with Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) calling it a “purely partisan exercise” and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) saying it “would be a mess.”

Despite their howls against Obama, Republicans employed the same procedure to pass major Bush agenda items (which were supported by all four aforementioned Senators):

– The 2001 Bush Tax Cuts [HR 1836, 3/26/01]
– The 2003 Bush Tax Cuts [HR 2, 3/23/03]
– Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 [HR 4297, 5/11/06]
– The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 [H. Con Res. 95, 12/21/05]


As ThinkProgress has noted, Gregg defended using the reconciliation procedure to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for domestic drilling in 2005, arguing, “The president asked for it, and we’re trying to do what the president asked for.” Evidently, Gregg has lost the same sense of patriotic duty.

While Republicans seem to be experiencing a particular form of political amnesia from the Bush years, they ought to be reminded that budget reconciliation has been used by several other presidents, including Clinton and Reagan. In fact, Republicans — with Bond and Gregg among the leaders of the charge — were instrumental in pushing through key provisions of their signature legislative agenda, the Contract with America, using budget reconciliation.

A list of instances where reconciliation was implemented:

Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1983
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993
Balanced Budget Act of 1995 (vetoed)
Personal Responsibility and Budget Reconciliation Act of 1996
Balanced Budget Act of 1997
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997
Taxpayer Refund and Relief Act of 1999 (vetoed)
Marriage Tax Relief Act of 2000 (vetoed)
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001
Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005

We are all Chicagoans, apparently.
 
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Even with the mess that Obama got dumped on him, the Right still finds a way to let us all ask - are they liars or just stupid.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/24/budget-reconciliation/



We are all Chicagoans, apparently.

Please, reference Congressional Records which clearly state that this method of pushing bills through was specifically for budgetary and taxation issues. The intention was to make certain that we didn't have to shut down the government because of a filibuster by the minority party.

Not saying it is right or wrong, but if you examine your list they are all budgetary and taxation bills. The Healthcare Bill is not. Again, not making a judgment, but realize you are comparing apples and oranges.
 
Please, reference Congressional Records which clearly state that this method of pushing bills through was specifically for budgetary and taxation issues. The intention was to make certain that we didn't have to shut down the government because of a filibuster by the minority party.

Not saying it is right or wrong, but if you examine your list they are all budgetary and taxation bills. The Healthcare Bill is not. Again, not making a judgment, but realize you are comparing apples and oranges.

Nice technical comeback.

At the heart, it boils down to the party in power getting its way.

If a health care scheme is set in place and fails, then there should be hell to pay. Just like there should have been hell to pay for Bush's ill advised tax cuts.
 
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I concur that they're all hypocrites. Whining about the other teams underhanded methods is just a symptom of professional politics. I mean, they have no product, success is a measure of being able to manipulate other peoples' power - there's nothing honest about it. There wouldn't so much have to be, but then every four years we're like kids on Santa's lap, and entries like Palin who aren't 100% slick and pedigreed get ridiculed - we beg them to lord over us like they're god's hands on earth.
 
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