Every House Republican voted Thursday to reject the proposition that the Bush tax cuts added to the deficit.

As they have for the last 10 years. Along with a handful of democrats who supposedly know better, but would rather stay in office than tell voters the truth.

this reminds me of when indiana's legislature voted to make pi exactly 3.

I would like to submit a bill that makes it legal to walk into congress while it is in session, and machine gun the entire body until every member is deceased.

I doubt it would get the votes.

AdolfOliverPanties: I would like to submit a bill that makes it legal to walk into congress while it is in session, and machine gun the entire body until every member is deceased.

I doubt it would get the votes.

too late moron, they just legislated that bullets can't hurt them.

Next up, House GOP votes unanimously to reject the proposition that the Earth is round

Can we get an up or down vote on Gravity?

Well, that proves that.

God these people are morons. They're so moronic they're cementing their moronity into law.

/moron

So they're going to want their own pay cut, yes? Since making less money doesn't affect how much money you make?

WE REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE OUR OWN

Nadie_AZ: Can we get an up or down vote on Gravity?

nope, that'll stay in committee for another year or so. sorry.

Nadie_AZ: Can we get an up or down vote on Gravity?



Chief opposing lobbyist, by the way.

Nadie_AZ: Can we get an up or down vote on Gravity?

Well, since it's just a theory we should hear other opinions from this rel...um, really awesome person. He's not one of those conniving scientists, so I promise there won't be math.

Nadie_AZ: Can we get an up or down vote on Gravity?

One first, then the other.

These yahoos must be counting on the end times actually happening this year, because how can you actually look your constituents in the face after all of the crap they have pulled in the last year?

MaudlinMutantMollusk: WE REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE OUR OWN

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. TAX CUTS CREATE JOBS.

sno man: These yahoos must be counting on the end times actually happening this year, because how can you actually look your constituents in the face after all of the crap they have pulled in the last year?

Jesus socialism muslin usurper took yer jobs.
Scary black panthers, booga booga booga.

SilentStrider: sno man: These yahoos must be counting on the end times actually happening this year, because how can you actually look your constituents in the face after all of the crap they have pulled in the last year?

Jesus socialism muslin usurper took yer jobs.
Scary black panthers, booga booga booga.

wut?

/second time today I've had to use that...

Nadie_AZ: Can we get an up or down vote on Gravity?

WHY DO YOU REJECT INTELLIGENT FALLING?

TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

hubiestubert: Nadie_AZ: Can we get an up or down vote on Gravity?

WHY DO YOU REJECT INTELLIGENT FALLING?

TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

I believe in the "Earth Sucks" theory. Don't you dare be discriminating against me.

It's the elephant in the room, they don't want to talk about.

thomps: this reminds me of when indiana's legislature voted to make pi exactly 3.

Wait.

What?

AdolfOliverPanties: I would like to submit a bill that makes it legal to walk into congress while it is in session, and machine gun the entire body until every member is deceased.

I doubt it would get the votes.

I bet that if we took a national vote, this would pass with flying colors.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
why do we need the house again anyways?
why dont we have a true people's house.
every voter would be a member.
we meet and vote online
no need for reps anymore

TADA
things would be SO much better

put bills online, dynamically craft them
EVERYONE could read them
require a basic reading comprehension quiz on a bill before you could vote on it ...
this would be so much fun

What exactly does this do? If it "passes" it doesn't do anything right? I mean you can't legislate reality. Right?

WhyteRaven74: They're all the elephant in the room...

Wait for it...

DamnYankees: thomps: this reminds me of when indiana's legislature voted to make pi exactly 3.

Wait.

What?

Maybe it was just rounded to 3.1. anyway there was a thread about it a while back. I'd google for you but I'm off getting drunk.

DamnYankees: thomps: this reminds me of when indiana's legislature voted to make pi exactly 3.

Wait.

What?

Yep. It was back in the 1800's though. Late. There was a link to it greened on the SOPA protest day actually, you can probably search that day and find it.

sno man: SilentStrider: sno man: These yahoos must be counting on the end times actually happening this year, because how can you actually look your constituents in the face after all of the crap they have pulled in the last year?

Jesus socialism muslin usurper took yer jobs.
Scary black panthers, booga booga booga.

wut?

exactly.

The final tally was 174-244. If it had passed, the measure -- authored by Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) -- would have amended a GOP-backed bill that would have changed the way neutral budget score-keepers analyze the effects of taxation, to make it appear as if unpaid-for tax cuts don't deepen deficits.

So, if I read this right, if tax rates are slashed to 0%, the CBO would be required to say: "Yes, we are going to have a MASSIVE budget deficit, but slashing tax rates to 0% had nothing to do with it"?

When I'm elected to Congress, I plan to introduce a resolution unanimously declaring that I have a 12-inch dong and that Sofia Vergera and Christina Hendricks are dying to have a three-way me. Apparently, that's all it takes to turn fiction into reality.

Three Crooked Squirrels: The final tally was 174-244. If it had passed, the measure -- authored by Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) -- would have amended a GOP-backed bill that would have changed the way neutral budget score-keepers analyze the effects of taxation, to make it appear as if unpaid-for tax cuts don't deepen deficits.

So, if I read this right, if tax rates are slashed to 0%, the CBO would be required to say: "Yes, we are going to have a MASSIVE budget deficit, but slashing tax rates to 0% had nothing to do with it"?

That is what it seems like

Rep. Peters:

The Peters Amendment would not have altered H.R. 3582 in any functional manner, it simply would had added the following factual findings section:

(1) On January 8, 2003, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said that President Bush believed that the tax cut package enacted in 2001 and expanded in 2003 would "create additional revenues for the federal government and pay for itself."
(2) Before the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 were enacted, the Congressional Budget Office projected gradually rising surpluses, from 2.7% of gross domestic product in 2001 to 5.3% of gross domestic product by 2011, with the federal government operating debt free by 2009.
(3) The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 have added over $2 trillion to budget deficits from 2002-2011.
(4) Despite signing the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 into law, President George W. Bush's administration had, according to the Wall Street Journal, "the worst track record for job creation since the government began keeping records" in 1939.
(5) From 2001 to 2009, gross domestic product grew at the slowest pace for any eight-year span since 1953.
(6) Median household income declined during the Bush Administration for the first time since 1967, when this data began to be tracked.


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SnakeLee: Three Crooked Squirrels: The final tally was 174-244. If it had passed, the measure -- authored by Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) -- would have amended a GOP-backed bill that would have changed the way neutral budget score-keepers analyze the effects of taxation, to make it appear as if unpaid-for tax cuts don't deepen deficits.

So, if I read this right, if tax rates are slashed to 0%, the CBO would be required to say: "Yes, we are going to have a MASSIVE budget deficit, but slashing tax rates to 0% had nothing to do with it"?

That is what it seems like

The budget submission can dictate to the CBO how to frame and work their results. It's how Ryan was able to put out his plan that would miraculously drop unemployment to 2.5% within a year.

GAT_00: SnakeLee: Three Crooked Squirrels: The final tally was 174-244. If it had passed, the measure -- authored by Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) -- would have amended a GOP-backed bill that would have changed the way neutral budget score-keepers analyze the effects of taxation, to make it appear as if unpaid-for tax cuts don't deepen deficits.

So, if I read this right, if tax rates are slashed to 0%, the CBO would be required to say: "Yes, we are going to have a MASSIVE budget deficit, but slashing tax rates to 0% had nothing to do with it"?

That is what it seems like

The budget submission can dictate to the CBO how to frame and work their results. It's how Ryan was able to put out his plan that would miraculously drop unemployment to 2.5% within a year.

Yeah, but didn't the CBO say the Ryan plan was full of shiat?

Darth_Lukecash: GAT_00: SnakeLee: Three Crooked Squirrels: The final tally was 174-244. If it had passed, the measure -- authored by Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) -- would have amended a GOP-backed bill that would have changed the way neutral budget score-keepers analyze the effects of taxation, to make it appear as if unpaid-for tax cuts don't deepen deficits.

So, if I read this right, if tax rates are slashed to 0%, the CBO would be required to say: "Yes, we are going to have a MASSIVE budget deficit, but slashing tax rates to 0% had nothing to do with it"?

That is what it seems like

The budget submission can dictate to the CBO how to frame and work their results. It's how Ryan was able to put out his plan that would miraculously drop unemployment to 2.5% within a year.

Yeah, but didn't the CBO say the Ryan plan was full of shiat?

To be fair, when have facts ever really affected Ryan or his policies?

Denial is not just a river in Africa.

/What utter bullshiat.

Only payroll taxes on workers add to the deficit...duh.