Durbin to GOP: Stop acting like ‘squealing political pigs’

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/323119-durbin-to-gop-stop-acting-like-squealing-political-pigs


Durbin to GOP: Stop acting like ‘squealing political pigs’
By Ramsey Cox - 09/18/13 04:30 PM ET


Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told House Republicans to stop acting like “squealing political pigs.”

“We need to act like adults not like squealing political pigs,” Durbin said on the Senate floor Wednesday.

Durbin’s remarks were in reaction to a House Republican announcement that they would advance a government spending bill that defunds ObamaCare — something Democrats have said would lead to a government shut down.

“If that is what the Tea Party Republicans think is leadership, God save the United States of America,” Durbin said.

Unless Congress agrees on continued spending resolution (CR) by Oct. 1, the government will shut down.

Durbin said the situation was avoidable because it was a “self-imposed crisis” created by House Republicans.

Some Republicans have said the plan to tie government funding to an ObamaCare repeal is ill-conceived and will risk the economic recovery. But Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) needs Tea Party members to pass a spending resolution with solely GOP votes. Tea Party members have said this is the best chance Republicans have in repealing the law.

[Uncle Joe]

1. I believe that's like asking a scorpion not to be a scorpion.

http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?4&TheScorpionandtheFrog

The Scorpion and the Frog

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion
says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."


related information:
http://www.spectacle.org/995/scorp.html

Some people only have hammers to solutions, too many of the Republicans in power only have stingers.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[gopiscrap]

2. Good for Durbin

[malaise]

3. ROFL

[hobbit709]

4. They're acting?