House Passes “Satan Sandwich” 269 – 161
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, August 1, 2011, 6:00 PM
HOUSE PASSES BILL THAT RAISES DEBT LIMIT
The US House is voting on the final debt limit deal.
The bill passed 269 to 161.
Now they’re thanking the House pages.
The US Senate will vote on the bill tomorrow.
Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) attended the session today to vote.
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Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
A complete sell-out. The majority of voting morons got what they deserved, in both parties. I am going to CHEER the Greek-style implosion of this economy as I hear news that the rioting as gotten out of control and is spreading from city to city across then entire nation. Burn baby, BURN!
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Watching CSPAN now as members of both parties applaud the passage of the bill and pat each other on the back in congratulations of their bipartisanship. Pathetic!
StrangernFiction commented:
Pathetic
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Wow, they’re even hugging each other across the aisle.
bear commented:
Another truly sad for the country.
bear commented:
parfon me….sad day
bear commented:
oh, never mind.
bg commented:
++
quickie via my local news station:
breaking.. debt ceiling legislation:
about 174 Reps & about 95 Dems voted yes..
expected to pass by a wide margin..
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Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Now John Boehner is at the gavel given the congratulatory speech. I despise that man and his spinelessness. All these members grinning ear to ear about how they just fooled the American people once again! Next up, the photo-op of Boehner & Cantor standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Redwine commented:
We the People have been sold out – completely.
Comrade Dear Leader can now celebrate his birthday with fireworks. He will be accepting devotional gifts and be allowed to kiss the hem of his garment.
The Tea Party terrorists will be held accountable.
We are so screwed.
Sickofobama commented:
Screw the Republican Party.
I hope a third party is created because Boehner just gave Obama a 2nd term.
Tea Party is a nice ring to it.
Mitch Rapp commented:
KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD!
Let our Grandchildren pay the tab! Let’s go broke! Let’s buy favors and votes from the Unions.
Corruption is king as is Obama!
maraz commented:
Now that Boehner sold out our country… maybe he can go golfing with Obama again… if Obama can fit it in with his back-to-fundraising schedule
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/08/01/having-singlehandedly-guided-america-through-its-economic-crisis-with-his-stalwart-leadership-barack-obama-will-now-attend-his-35800-per-person-fundraising-birthday-party/
lakewriter commented:
We just have to make sure WE dont hand Obama a second term. That means WORKING for the right candidates now in preparation for the big election. Cant leave the work to your neighbor. They arent doing it. It’s up to YOU.
Conservative Ken commented:
Ok, where is the sellout list? I want to know which Tea Party Reps helped throw us under the bus.
Major Kong commented:
Happy Birthday Mister Preeeeeeesident……..
Redwine commented:
Names. We want names.
Repubics who voted for this travesty need to be primaried. I don’t care what their excuse is.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
America is on a path of economic destruction. Today was the last chance to turn it around and take steps to save it. Instead, they all chose to ensure Obama’s re-election in 2012 and not cut any spending at all. And, they’ve started a Super-Duper Commission that is going to make so-called recommendations of spending cuts and tax hikes which the Congress may chose to completely ignore. Since the commission is stacked with an equal number of Dems and Republicans, gridlock is virtually assured in the Committee! Worse, they’re all goint to spread out on all the talking head news programs and proceed to lie through their teeth about what they’ve done!
The Senate can stop this but, by definition, they’re a worse bunch of back-patters and hand-shakers who preface everything they say with “my good friends across the aisle”. This will pass the Senate by an even larger percentage than it did in the House.
Today, I formally abandon the Republican Party as I can no longer be associated with such pathetic spineless wimps as Boehner & Cantor. I’m not going to move to being an independent either. The only way to get rid of people like Boehner and Cantor and the rest of them is to join the dark side and start the process of openly mocking them at every turn and making fools out of them until their entire party collapses into oblivion.
And I’m going to cheer the re-election of Barack Obama and the economic collapse of America. Hey, all you idiots got what you voted for, in both parties.
retire05 commented:
Thirty four American soldiers lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan in July, 2011, murdered by crazed Islamists who want to kill us all. You cannot find any mention of them, or their names, on the MSM websites.
Gabby Giffords, shot by a crazed loon and who received the best medical care money can buy returns to vote, and SHE is a hero?
Tell me our nation isn’t sick in the head.
Politically Incorrect commented:
F*ck the Republicans. Time for a third party.
Major Kong commented:
Now that Obama is flush with money again, let the good times roll, baby!!!
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/08/01/general-il-illinois-dream-act_8595687.html
http://nation.foxnews.com/alabama/2011/08/01/justice-department-sues-alabama-over-controversial-immigration-law
http://campusprogress.org/articles/free_birth_control_under_affordable_care_act/
Dan commented:
Do you all enjoy seeing the Republicans hug and laugh with their democrat pals who called us racists and nazis?
Why would the republicans hug people who called their supporters that?
Conservative Ken commented:
The Repub Sellouts are identical to the Socialist Dems. Only difference is they rode a different horse to get to office. Other than that they are blood brothers.
Like a previous poster said. “I WANT NAMES!”
Multitude commented:
Congressional pink slips are being printed up as we speak.
Sickofobama commented:
#22:
Because we don’t matter to them.
John Boehner – Obama’s golf buddy – only cares what Obama and the Piglosi thinks about him.
And the Beltway Boys.
Bill Mitchell commented:
The absolute short-sightedness of many of my Republican brethren in these blogs amazes me.
We sent two stronger bills to the Senate. Neither were even allowed up for debate. What were we to do, shut down the government unless ALL of our demands were met? Does anyone here even care if Independents vote Republican in 2012? Independents WANT COMPROMISE. They are not ideologues, they just want government that works.
The Democrats have NOTHING to run on in 2012 other than scaring the Independents into thinking we are too radical. They have the MSM to pound home that message every day. You don’t go for it on 4th down inside your own 10 yard line and you don’t throw deep every play. You play all 4 quarters and if you win by a field goal at the end you are glad to take the victory.
By passing this have we solved America’s debt problem? Does anyone here actually believe that was anywhere close to possible when we control neither the Senate nor the WH? Seriously? So stop bellyaching that Boehner didn’t delivery your unicorn with a nice bow around it’s neck. What he did deliver was a very good chance for us to win it all in 2012.
Unless of course everyone cries about how he sold us out and divides the party. Now THAT is exactly what the Democrats want right now, isn’t it? So if you help to divide the party when we need to unite, you are really working for the Democrats aren’t you? Let’s let the left self-destruct and eat their own here. Everywhere you read they are saying they got their asses kicked. Fine, let them implode.
Let’s be a team.
Lightwave commented:
Roll call here.
Some 169 Republicans sold us out. My Congressman, Geoff Davis of Kentucky, did not. I will feel proud to vote for him again.
But these 169 RINOs must now face significant primary challenges. That starts with us, and that starts tonight.
maraz commented:
Here’s the roll call on the votes….
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll690.xml
Lambs2DSlaughter commented:
No worries. If we can get Romney in the WH and a few more Republican senators all will be well.
zelda commented:
Hey Bill Mitchell # 26. I’m an Independent and I’m repulsed by this deal and spineless political figures and those who support the spineless in destroying this country. So shut up, take your team and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.
YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT WHAT INDEPENDENTS WANT!!!!! As one of those Independents that you so cater to enough to blow off your base, you make me sick. I’m sick of both parties(both are frauds) and Ron Paul is starting to look most serious to this Independent
Major Kong commented:
Four words that no longer mean a damn thing in the lexicon: “Consent of the governed.”
Hank commented:
Romney??
Romneycare aka Obamacare??
Are you off your meds?
Go away, Mitt, the ultimate R I N O
Time to elect an American patriot………..
Conservative Ken commented:
Two weeks ago a was an Allen West supporter. NO MORE! His yes vote sealed the deal. How dare he all himself a TeaPartier.
Lambs2DSlaughter commented:
Ryan, Pence, and West all voted yes.
serfer62 commented:
about 174 Reps & about 95 Dems voted yes..
Its time for Boehner to switch parties…the GOP mostly stood against it.
Rose commented:
They hate our guts. They are like hundreds of Indian women that the warriors turned a sleazebag over to, because he isn’t fit to be killed with honor – and the women are slicing off his eyelids and giving him thousands of “paper cuts” before they tie him over an ant hill, with some honey drizzled on him.
Lisa G in NZ commented:
“You call this winning?
- Obama gets over $2 Trillion to spend before the 2012 election
- There are no real spending cuts
- There is a massive tax increase effective January 1, 2013″
HA HA HA HA HA! I’m with Ann Barnhardt, America is now a country of “we the stupid”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/we_the_stupid.html
sheer lunacy
Rose commented:
#28, maraz – Thanks for the Roll Call!
averagemelon commented:
I’m an independent.
I’m a conservative.
My own personal budget has always been in order since I started running it 35 years ago.
You cannot spend yourself into anything but unpayable debt.
Debt is a form of slavery.
Chains of slavery.
The Democrats wanted their hands on the treasure and they got it. Everything else is a crap shoot. All of the Republicans have been played as fools. The money will be used to pay every criminal to make sure Obama wins his farce called an election.
Everyone was seduced by power and no one did the right thing RIGHT NOW. There seems to be too FEW GOOD MEN (and women) to do the job.
I grieve for Americans.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
#26 August 1, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Bill Mitchell commented:
Does anyone here even care if Independents vote Republican in 2012? Independents WANT COMPROMISE. They are not ideologues, they just want government that works.
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Hey Bill, government that is going bankrupt ISN’T WORKING! Sorry saps such as yourself would rather go-along-to-get-along and hope for the best then actually DO something to solve the current problems. YOU are not part of the solution becuse you are part of the problem. You’ve been suckered and enjoy it. From where I come from, we call that kind of person a damn fool. I’ll be laughing at all you fools when the Greek-style implosion happens and your homes are being looted by the masses of parasites you enable.
tru commented:
BILL TITLE: To make a technical amendment to the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
cnation commented:
Bill Mitchell wrote: By passing this have we solved America’s debt problem? Does anyone here actually believe that was anywhere close to possible when we control neither the Senate nor the WH? Seriously? So stop bellyaching that Boehner didn’t delivery your unicorn with a nice bow around it’s neck. What he did deliver was a very good chance for us to win it all in 2012.
+1
It’s all about the long game, people.
-c
Dan commented:
Support Palin in 2012 primary and other solid conservatives down ballot and we might just have a chance to turn this around.
Rose commented:
When SHEILA JACKSON-LEE votes FOR it, YOU KNOW WHO WON!
And it was NOT the TEA PARTY!
MrGoodWench commented:
Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) attended the session today to vote.
++++++
Its a ramadan miracle !!
pink tie Republican commented:
Boner boned the Republican party and conservative movement worse than Bush did.
averagemelon commented:
MY REPRESENTATIVE was one of the three MORONS who didn’t bother to vote! Maurice Hinchey, I spat on your shoes.
randyinrocklin commented:
This was a total capitulation on what we stand for and Obama got evrything he wanted. We’re gonna primary Boehner and McConnell (2014) for sure…
Ron commented:
The lefty idealoges are going ballistic on Obama, read the lefty blogs if you can stomach them. One thing for sure is that Obama is going to have a hard time getting back into the Whitehouse in 2013. He is being called a sellout by the hard left and is loosing the base. We need to stand together and challenge those Republicans that voted yes and make them explain themselves or primary them, there is still hope in 2012 and we cannot eat our own; That’s what the left does. Blame is shifting steadily on Obama. ( Did you hear what that lefty jorno said earlier?) Allen West has a lot of questions to answer and we need to give him a chance to clarify his yes vote. He is a pricipled conservative and we need to trust his judgement.
Militant Conservative commented:
Yipee! Counting on this to make me money.
Kicking the can down the road, are politicians
predictable or what. We’re headed for Greece
results. LOL, those who pray and listen know what
is coming. Sorry, many of y’all are not invited.
Man is flawed, GOD is not. Who do you trust?
Power is dry. Woo Hoo cha ching!
Tired Okie commented:
I knew we were screwed Sunday evening when Brian Williams showed up on a weekend for the nightly news proclaiming that a disaster was brewing in Washington–obama had won. The fix was already in, the media qued up for the selling to the stupid Republicans, and the phony dismay of all the media leftist, all designed to sell, sell, sell, to the stupid American voters. I fear we are done. I thought Allen West was real but not so. What do we have to replace these traitors with? More treacherous POLITICIANS waiting in the wings. satan’s army for sure. Good bye America.
StrangernFiction commented:
Zero Republicans from Oklahoma, Nebraska, Mississippi, Wyoming, South Dakota, or North Dakota voted no.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
#46 August 1, 2011 at 7:31 pm
pink tie Republican commented:
Boner boned the Republican party and conservative movement worse than Bush did.
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Establishment Republicans are locked in the mindset of being complete idiots and losers whose only objective in their everyday life is to do whatever it takes to make friends with those who hate them so they can feel better about themselves. The people they’re supposed to represent are only a secondary consideration at best. George Bush II had this problem in spades and he sold his own party so the Democrats would like him. They never did, and now we have Obama and a White House filled with openly avowed Marxists, Maoists, Socialists, and Communists.
Ladue Pundit commented:
Unemployment will only go higher. Consumer confidence is still sinking, because when 20% of the workforce in unemployed, people buy food and toilet paper. They dump cable TV and their landline phones, while continuing to drive their older cars. They cut their own grass, and clean their own houses. Even the Mexicans are leaving.
This may be a distant memory in Nov 2012, but the unemployment lines won’t be…
Todd Akin, R-MO, voted NO, just like he did on TARP, Stimulus, and Obamacare. Our next Senator who will send McCaskill home.
Major Kong commented:
Sorry Tired Okie we were screwed when John Boener was elected speaker.
Sickofobama commented:
Can’t believe Allen West buckled to Blabbermouth-Schultz’ lies.
Cheers to those TRUE Tea Party patriots who stood strong and against the traitorous Republican Party.
Ladue Pundit commented:
Major Kong commented:
Sorry Tired Okie we were screwed when John Boener was elected speaker.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Amen. Bachmann did the heavy lifting, traveling to dozens of states and stumping for Tea Party candidates who took the House. Boehner froze her out of chairmanships.
You are right. It was over before it began. Let’s make him pay.
Ladue Pundit commented:
Sickofobama commented:
Can’t believe Allen West buckled to Blabbermouth-Schultz’ lies.
^^^^^^^
Gabby Braindead Giffords’ best gal pal is Blabbermouth Schultz. They was huggin’ on the House floor. Gifford is a party switching traitor and opportunist. Had she remained a Republican, the Democrats would have demanded the seat be filled.
Mike W commented:
All the congresscritters that voted for this garbage should be put on a list and added to job cuts on this site. http://www.dailyjobcuts.com/ Then it can be sent to these fools. Found it at SDA .
Major Kong commented:
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#53 August 1, 2011 at 7:45 pm Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented: Establishment Republicans are locked in the mindset of being complete idiots and losers whose only objective in their everyday life is to do whatever it takes to make friends with those who hate them so they can feel better about themselves.
Yup. Just substitute any one of those Benedict Arnold rinos who voted a 2+ trillion dollar infusion into Barry the Bolshevik’s re-election campaign war chest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc39h3f6E0A
Ron commented:
If we want to make gains in 2012 we have to work with the hand we were dealt. I don’t mean accept the status quo. If we work together, no I don’t mean Rep. and Dem. I mean the conservatives, we can take over the reigns in 2012 and put together legislation that forces cut,cap and balance on the table and with a new President (Which there will be if we stand united against Obama and the Dems) we can put a stop to the damage done by Obama and the Dems.
Beltway Progressive commented:
Why are you people whining? This is American democracy in action. Your side lost the vote, that’s all… It’s not the end of the world.
The American people have spoken through their elected representatives. Either get in line, or get on the next bus to Somalia. There’s no democracy in Somalia to stand in your way…
StrangernFiction commented:
When SHEILA JACKSON-LEE votes FOR it, YOU KNOW WHO WON!
And it was NOT the TEA PARTY!
Hahahaha. So true Rose, so true.
Redwine commented:
Please,please read and pass around: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/we_the_stupid.html
Sickofobama commented:
#62:
STFU libtard!
Redwine commented:
STFU, #62, go bury your hear in Dear Leader’s a**. We have a country to save.
Redwine commented:
head
indccc commented:
Hey! I heard it was sugar coated! I can’t swallow a satan sandwich without a sugar coating!
Militant Conservative commented:
#62 been in Somalia in 1982. Your the kind of priss
That can’t handle it. Got news for ya bub, a new
Awakening is happening, it involves higher
Cerebral functions. Far higher than cranial rectal
Inversion liberal/progressives. The best you can hope
For is an inter pelvic protene poltice.
Powder is dry
Atlas Shrugged commented:
Maybe in the long run, this is all for the best. We aren’t making much headway toward fixing our economic problems with this budget, but the firestorm surrounding this process has gotten a LOT of conservatives VERY ANGRY. I’m thinking that, much like we saw after the health care debacle, there will be SEVERE repercussions in the next election. Conservatives’ anger simmered long after that disgusting display of arrogance, and it cost the Democrats their majority in the House, and several RINOS were replaced with real conservatives. I say “never forget what has happened here” and “hit the polls in 2012, and exact your revenge” on Democrats and RINOS alike!”
Militant Conservative commented:
#70
I have predicted an unprecedented take over of the house and the senate by republicans in 2012. However, the president may yet prevail, this a good thing, showing America evil Obama and the conservative answer. He owns the problems and WE have the solutions.
Satan is done, read and heed the bible.
Power is dry
Beltway Progressive commented:
I just do not see what you clowns are bitching about. You brought you case to Washington, you had your drama and your votes, and now you’ve got the results. Live with it, build on it if you can, but don’t expect the rest of us to fold.
Yes, not everyone agrees with you.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
#70 August 1, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Atlas Shrugged commented:
Maybe in the long run, this is all for the best. We aren’t making much headway toward fixing our economic problems with this budget, but the firestorm surrounding this process has gotten a LOT of conservatives VERY ANGRY. I’m thinking that, much like we saw after the health care debacle, there will be SEVERE repercussions in the next election.
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In 2010 ALOT of Conservative Republicans (like 70+ of them) got sent to Congress to carry out a certain agenda which they swore up and down that they’d do if they got elected. That agenda include the repeal Obamacare and putting an end to out of control spending. If they didn’t raise the debt ceiling, there would be an automatic 40% cut in spending. Heck, they could’ve attached the repeal of Obamacare onto the debt ceiling bill and dug in their heels until Obama signed it. But they caved. In fact, they ALWAYS cave whenever they start feeling that the Democrats and their media lapdogs are getting angry at them. They’ve done nothing to further the agenda they got sent to Washington promising (cross their heart and hope to die) to promote.
If you want to keep supporting these losers who always disappoint, then please be my guest. I’m done with them.
pink tie Republican commented:
Boner, McConnel, Reid, Obambam – they all wrote up the dollar’s death warrant and Obambam will sign it soon.
Molon Labe commented:
This vote shows why the GOP is beyond redemption. They are the Obama Lite Party.
Rose commented:
GIFFORDS was soooo upset over what the GOP was doing to the nation, she just HAD to get there to stop them…
She voted with the Majority of the GOP – SHE VOTED WITH BOEHNER!!!
Rose commented:
#63 – Tip o’ th’ Hat, StrangernFiction!