GOP Sequester Retort Must Be: Obama’s Discretionary Threats

By: gsandlapper1 (Diary)  |  February 20th at 04:44 PM  | 

And not that Obama merely proposed “it”. Congress passed “it”, but “it” is a small decrease in automatic budget law increase and does not require the specific draconian budget cuts that the Chief executive threatens and could easily be absorbed without resort to any so threatened. Here is the actual text of the actual sequestration bill that the Republican House and Democratic Senate passed; and | Read More »

Lew’s signature: Ego, Eagleton or IQ problem?

By: gsandlapper1 (Diary)  |  January 12th at 02:45 PM  | 

Usually when one sees such scribbling on U.S. currency it is evidence of a technical violation of federal law and that gravity was employed to cause ink to flow to the tip of the previously unresponsive violator’s pen. When seen other than on currency it is usually an adult’s boredom-induced doodling; a third-grader’s first attempt at cursive writing or markings made by a monkey that | Read More »