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Congressman Steve Fincher votes to cut hunger subsidies but pockets $3.4 million from farm bill
GOP Senators who voted on the right side of ENDA
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Proud that Sen. Dean Heller from my state of Nevada did the right thing.
Sen. Lindsey Graham admits the GOP government shutdown “hurt” the Republican brand
Via RawStory: In an interview on Face The Nation, Sen. Lindsey Graham admitted the GOP bungled the recent government shutdown:
“After this debacle called the shutdown, our party’s been hurt, our brand name is at the lowest ever, Obamacare actually got a bump in polling and we got in the way of a disastrous roll-out. So from my point of view, this was a tactical choice that hurt us.”
To make his point, the South Carolina Republican told a story of a “friend” who had been personally impacted by the health care law.
“Friend of mine owns 52 Wendy’s, he’s put pen to paper, he has 40 percent of his workforce insured today,” Graham explained. “Under Obamacare, if 20 percent choose insurance, his insurance costs will double. That story is repeating itself throughout the economy. Obamacare is a debacle that will go into 2014.”
Bad news continues in the polls for Republicans
According to a CNN/ORC International poll released Monday 54% of Americans think it’s bad that Republicans control the House. That’s up from 43 percent in December 2012, during the last fiscal standoff. This is the first first time a majority thought GOP control was bad for the country since CNN started asking in December 2010.
The bad news doesn’t stop there:
• 63% percent of respondents want Boehner replaced
• An NBC/WSJ poll taken during the shutdown showed that approval of the Republicans in DC had fallen to a record low of 24%
• A recent Gallup poll showed another record low for the GOP, with only 28 percent approving
• A poll released Sunday funded by Moveon.org and conducted by the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling showed that incumbent Republicans trailed generic Democrats in 15 of 25 competitive House districts.
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GOP Shutdown costs taxpayers $24 billion
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As Time Magazine points out, the GOP shutdown of the government for 16 days cost taxpayers $24 billion.
And they think THEY are the party of fiscal responsibility???
Houston Chronicle regrets endorsing Sen. Ted Cruz
From the Houston Chronicle:
Does anyone else miss Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison? We’re not sure how much difference one person could make in the toxic, chaotic, hyperpartisan atmosphere in Washington, but if we could choose just one it would be Hutchison, whose years of service in the Senate were marked by two things sorely lacking in her successor, Ted Cruz.
When we endorsed Ted Cruz in last November’s general election, we did so with many reservations and at least one specific recommendation – that he follow Hutchison’s example in his conduct as a senator. Obviously, he has not done so.
Cruz has been part of the problem in specific situations where Hutchison would have been part of the solution. We feel certain she would have worked shoulder to shoulder with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in crafting a workable solution that likely would have avoided the government shutdown altogether.
But we’ll never know.
Republicans probably don’t want you to know they changed this rule
Late in the evening on September 30, 2013, the House Rules Committee Republicans changed the Rules of the House so that the ONLY Member allowed to call up the Senate’s clean CR for a vote was Majority Leader Eric Cantor or his designee — all but guaranteeing the government would shut down a few hours later and would stay shut down.
Previously, any Member would have had the right to bring the CR up for a vote.
Democracy has been suspended in the House of Representatives.
Things that make you go “hmm…”
More bad news for GOP in NBC/WSJ poll
Bad news for the GOP in the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.
Not only has the GOP reached it’s all-time low “Favorable” rating in regard to the entire history of this poll, but President Obama’s numbers have risen as well as the approval of Obamacare:
* 70% of Americans disapprove of the way in which GOP lawmakers are doing their jobs. Republicans unfavorable number are the lowest in the history of the poll.
* 53% majority blame congressional Republicans for the current government shutdown. Less than a third (31%) blame the president.
* 38% of Americans see Obamacare favorably, up from last month’s 31%
* In terms of a generic ballot, Democrats enjoy an eight-point advantage in the congressional midterm elections (47% to 39%), as compared to a three-point advantage last month (46% to 43%).
* By a 52% to 44% margin, Americans believe the government should do more, not less, to solve problems. In June, the results were evenly split.
More at NBC News
Gallup poll: Republicans set record for lowest approval rating since tracking began
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Congratulations to the House Republican members – you broke set a record.
From a new poll by Gallup, the Republican party has set a record low for approval numbers since Gallup starting tracking them.
With the Republican-controlled House of Representatives engaged in a tense, government-shuttering budgetary standoff against a Democratic president and Senate, the Republican Party is now viewed favorably by 28% of Americans, down TEN POINTS from 38% in September.
This is the lowest favorable rating measured for either party since Gallup began asking this question in 1992.
More than 6 in 10 Americans view the Republican party unfavorably. The Democrats faired a bit better with less than half of Americans viewing Dems unfavorably.
Remember, kids – yesterday Michele Bachmann was practically giddy that the House GOP was “winning.”
Meanwhile, the American people are the ones losing here.
Anderson Cooper shuts down GOP congressman who accuses him of bias
CNN’s Anderson Cooper was not having it when Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho on Monday insinuated that Cooper is biased against Republicans.
Cooper asked the Republican why the House won’t allow a vote on a clean CR to “see” if it would pass. Labrador insisted there are not enough votes to pass the bill.
When Labrador practically accused Cooper of doing the bidding of the Democrats, Cooper was quick to refute the allegation.
“All of a sudden, just because you don’t like the fact that the Republicans are in control of the House of Representatives, you want to make sure that the Republicans actually pass the Democrat’s–” Labrador began before being interrupted.
“I don’t have a stake in this,” he said. “This is the way it works in journalism. When you’re not on Fox News, you get contentious interviews. When you’re not on MSNBC and a liberal, you get contentious interviews. My job is to ask you questions that are different than you think, just as my next guest, who’s a Democrat, I’m gonna ask the same kinds of questions… that’s what a journalist does.”
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