I think Cruz will fail because Obama isn't going to pass separate bills for each agency. But what Obama is going to do is let kids die of cancer? How is that an argument?
Obama doesn't draft budget bills, the House does. The House is responsible for passing budgets that can get through the Senate and the White House. The House is refusing to do that. The House is to blame. Hell, Democrats have already conceded that they are willing to vote on a bill that keeps the cuts of sequestration in place and doesn't take inflation into account(thereby shrinking real expenditures). I don't really have the view that 'democracy=majority rules.' And that the minority is required to toe the line of the majority. Having said, that doesn't mean I support the route House Republicans decided to take, I don't, however "subverting the democratic process" is not how I would describe it.
You don't view democracy to be definitionally majority rule??? If the Republicans get away with this, the precedent will be set for any small but vocal minority to LITERALLY grind government to a halt over their ideological quibbles. This renders government practically non-functional.
So, what are you trying to say? That you disagree that many house remembers got elected because of their opposition to the healthcare law? Are all of their districts going to be redrawn in there next reelection? I'm not even sure what you are responding to? I was anticipating a possible rebuttal of yours that the House Republicans are merely following their constituents' wishes. My response is that the majority of people didn't vote for the Republican House and that there is no justification to give priority to the minority of constituents that did vote Republican over the majority of constituents of that didn't.
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Date: 2/10/13 21:29 (UTC)Obama doesn't draft budget bills, the House does. The House is responsible for passing budgets that can get through the Senate and the White House. The House is refusing to do that. The House is to blame. Hell, Democrats have already conceded that they are willing to vote on a bill that keeps the cuts of sequestration in place and doesn't take inflation into account(thereby shrinking real expenditures).
I don't really have the view that 'democracy=majority rules.' And that the minority is required to toe the line of the majority. Having said, that doesn't mean I support the route House Republicans decided to take, I don't, however "subverting the democratic process" is not how I would describe it.
You don't view democracy to be definitionally majority rule???
If the Republicans get away with this, the precedent will be set for any small but vocal minority to LITERALLY grind government to a halt over their ideological quibbles. This renders government practically non-functional.
So, what are you trying to say? That you disagree that many house remembers got elected because of their opposition to the healthcare law? Are all of their districts going to be redrawn in there next reelection? I'm not even sure what you are responding to?
I was anticipating a possible rebuttal of yours that the House Republicans are merely following their constituents' wishes. My response is that the majority of people didn't vote for the Republican House and that there is no justification to give priority to the minority of constituents that did vote Republican over the majority of constituents of that didn't.