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What Americans want

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The Republican-controlled House has voted to keep the government funded but its “continuing resolution” comes with a poison pill to defund the Affordable Care Act that Democrats have vowed is dead on arrival in the Senate. http://n.pr/19lQPNc

House Majority Leader says what he “thinks’ Americans want.

Let’s look at the numbers from the last election:

House Popular Vote:
Democrats – 54,301095
Republicans – 53,822,442

President Popular Vote:
Barack Obama – 65,917,257
Mitt Romney – 60,932,235

It’s clear what the American people voted for.  And it wasn’t this.

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House Republicans vote to defund Obamacare with threat to shut down the government

House Republicans passed legislation today to defund Obamacare while keeping the federal government open until December 15, sending the fight to the Senate.

The vote was 230-189. Two Democrats and one Republican broke party lines.

“Let’s defund this law now and protect the American people from the economic calamity that we know Obamacare will create,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said in a speech before the vote on the House floor. “We should pass this continuing resolution so the Senate can finally begin to do the same.”

There is virtually no chance Obamacare will be defunded. Senate Democrats have ruled it out, and the White House has threatened to veto legislation that does so.

And so continues the House Republicans’ constant waste of taxpayers time when our lawmakers should be working to improve the economy, not attack ObamaCare as a way to a try and “bring down” a President who has been elected and reelected. It happened, folks. It happened. You’ll never change that history. Get to the work of the people.

Best line from the debate – “I invite my colleagues wake up from this radical, ideological wet dream,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said before the vote.

(from Talking Points Memo)

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Republican National Committee votes to exclude NBC and CNN from 2016 Primary debates

The Republican National Committee (RNC) voted unanimously Friday to exclude NBC and CNN from the 2016 GOP presidential primary debates unless the networks kill their planned films on Hillary Clinton.

Via RawStory:

The Republican National Committee voted unanimously on Friday to exclude TV networks CNN and NBC from any Republican presidential primary debates. According to The Hill, the move is a form of retaliation against the networks for not bowing to the party’s pressure to not air a pair of films about former Secretary of State (and putative 2016 Democratic presidential candidate) Hillary Clinton.

“We don’t have time for the media’s games,” said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus about the election, which is still more than three years away. “We’re done putting up with this nonsense. There are plenty of other news outlets.”

The committee was meeting in Boston for its annual summer meeting. In its resolution against the networks, party officials called for “media objectivity and accountability” and called the Clinton films, which are still in the pre-production phases “political favoritism.”

CNN’s Jeff Zucker announced in July that the network would be producing a feature-length film about the former First Lady and New York Senator. NBC is planning on releasing a four-part miniseries about Clinton with actress Diane Lane playing the lead role.

Hillary Clinton hasn’t announced any intended candidacy for President in 2016 at this point. So, networks should be free to create whatever programming they wish. Were Clinton an actual candidate at this time, the issue would be framed in another perspective.