this is rich....even the republicans don't like their very own budget....

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gotta love it...the republicans coming out against the republicans....but then if you watch texas and other braindead states, they get to rassling over who is most reactionary conservative...kinda like a who's dumber contest....or a less ugly girl contest

The GOP's Entire Budget Strategy Collapsed This Week, And Almost No One Noticed

By Brett LoGiurato | Business Insider – 2 hours 4 minutes ago

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House Republicans' latest fiasco confirms the suspicion: The GOP loves the Paul Ryan budget in theory, but even Republicans can't get it to work in practice.

That was the result of a seemingly nonchalant debate over a  bill to fund the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, which blew up in House Republicans' faces on Wednesday.

The THUD bill was, well, a thud, and it was pulled from the House floor amid the realization that it did not have close to the 218 votes of GOP support it needed.  Republicans couldn't garner the votes while abiding by their standards — billions in cuts on top of the levels of spending under sequestration. 

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said that the House will return to appropriating the bill after Congress' August recess. But a furious  House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers said that was "bleak at best," and other GOP sources said there's little chance of that, as well. 

What happened here? This bill to fund the THUD served as Republicans' starting point in negotiations with Democrats. The GOP used the Ryan budget — which it passed more than four months ago — as a blueprint for the cuts they would need to make.

But the problem with Ryan's budget is that it works in abstractions, and is never binding. And Republicans learned that, for the sake of saving face while going back to their districts, the heavy cuts projected in the Ryan budget just weren't workable. 

In  a scathing statement, the normally measured Rogers blasted his colleagues. 

"With this action, the House has declined to proceed on the implementation of the very budget it adopted just three months ago," Rogers said. "Thus, I believe that the House has made its choice: sequestration – and its unrealistic and ill-conceived discretionary cuts – must be brought to an end."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gops-entire-budget-strategy-collapsed...

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A few of them may realize that their wonderful budget simply will not work but they will never admit it. They would rather take the country over a cliff than admit they were wrong.

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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Thursday announced that its supply of pentobarbital expires in September, and the department has no alternative to the lethal, single-dose drug with which it executes its death row prisoners.

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geee i guess they couldn't use outdated supplies in case it would make them sick.....

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Well, Texas kicked Obamacare to the curb, they can't get it there :)

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unbelievable......they don't even have a plan for governing...just for preventing others from governing.

Paul Ryan and Obamacare: Can he stop Ted Cruz's government shutdown?

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Rep. Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin inserted himself Sunday into what could be possibly one of the the more remarkable debates ever to hit Capitol Hill.

Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation," Representative Ryan said he was not in favor of shutting down the government as a way of forcing Democrats to repeal President Obama's health-care law – a political tactic some Republicans, such as Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, have advocated. Instead, he said "there are more effective ways of achieving that goal" – though he was not asked to name any.

What is remarkable about the debate is that Democrats aren't going to repeal Obamacare. Ever. Nor does the Republican Party have any conceivable political lever to make them do so. A government shutdown will not defund Obamacare, nor will it likely change anyone's opinion about it.

And yet many Republicans are undaunted – and with good reason.

More than the debt-ceiling debate of 2011 or this year's angst over the sequester, the current talk of resorting to a government shutdown to defund Obamacare speaks to the changing character of Capitol Hill.

Senator Cruz hinted at this new math in speaking about repealing Obamacare to Young Americans for Liberty in Arlington, Va., Wednesday.

"Right now, we don't have the votes.... I'm going to be perfectly candid, we can't win this fight," he told the 300 libertarian students. "The only people who can win this fight are you. The only way we win this fight is if the American people rise up in overwhelming numbers and demand our elected officials to do the right thing and stand for principle."

Despite Cruz's plea, demographics suggest Young Americans for Liberty and like-minded voters can't change Congress enough to make a repeal feasible. There just aren't enough of them. But demographics do suggest that they can play a decisive role in determining their next Republican candidate for Congress during the 2014 primaries.

And that is the math that fuels Cruz – or at least ensures that his shutdown-the-government views must be taken seriously by the Republican establishment (a.k.a. those still playing by the old rules). The political polarization of America has, particularly among Republicans, replaced the old bean-counters with ideologues who are less interested in vote counts than standing fearlessly for their constituents' demands, even if that is at odds with legislative realities.

http://news.yahoo.com/paul-ryan-obamacare-stop-ted-cruzs-government...

so it is about the appearance and not the reality....i guess that explains the oxymoronic beliefs of the far right....