Breaking News:Obama signs legislation to end U.S. government shutdown, raise debt limit: White House

[pinto]

Source: Reuters

Breaking News: Obama signs legislation to end U.S. government shutdown, raise debt limit: White House

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/

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Just a Breaking News blurb.

[Heather MC]

1. President Obama Ended the SHUTDOWN!!

Well that's my Morning Headline

[lonestarnot]

2. Now get in your fucking clown cars and get out you pathetic piles!

[orleans]

3. great news!

(had to post it here too)

[calimary]

6. LOVE IT!!!

This is GREAT, orleans! Thanks for dropping it in here!

[alp227]

4. LINKS

AP

Reuters

NYT

[pinto]

5. Thanks.

[ogradda]

7. Finally.

I'm so glad.

[phleshdef]

8. Haha, preview of this post from the main forums page cuts off after the word "government".

"Breaking News: Obama signs legislation to end U.S. government"

[Nihil]

19. Quote:

"The US Government are no longer non-working incompetent people
- they are now just incompetent people."

[jtuck004]

9. Good. Now we can let food stamps decrease a little bit and get on with paying the banks

$85 Billion a month. Great news, especially if you're a banker, since we have recovered and all. Except for all the additional people added to the food stamp rolls since the Recovery Act was passed, of course.

...
The 2009 Recovery Act’s temporary boost to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits is scheduled to end on November 1, 2013, resulting in a benefit cut for every SNAP household. For families of three, the cut will be $29 a month — a total of $319 for November 2013 through September 2014, the remaining months of fiscal year 2014.[2] That’s a serious loss, especially in light of the very low amount of basic SNAP benefits. Without the Recovery Act’s boost, SNAP benefits will average less than $1.40 per person per meal in 2014. (See Table 2 for estimates of the size of the SNAP cut in each state in fiscal year 2014.) Nationally, the total cut is estimated to be $5 billion in fiscal year 2014.
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Here

On with the party! Happy Holidays, Everyone!

[babylonsister]

18. No, now we can let people who need food stamps get them. nt

[jtuck004]

20. Just less of them, soon. n/t

[csziggy]

23. We need jobs programs! Money for infrastructure would help with that

And everyone knows the entire country needs our roads, bridges, power grid, hospitals, schools, and more rebuilt. If we budgeted to work on 10% a year, people could get jobs, the economy would pick up, tax revenues would increase, fewer people would need unemployment, food stamps and other assistance.

Even business should like this since decaying infrastructure costs them money every day - and an employed populace buys more stuff.

[jtuck004]

24. yep. n/t

[question everything]

10. They had to wait for the last minute didn't they?

Great news for now. I am afraid that as 2014 begins, we are in the same place, again.

[yuiyoshida]

11. Yay!!!

[craigmatic]

12. Obama kicked so much ass today.

[Major Hogwash]

13. But, it's a good blurb.

We need more blurbs like this.
I like these kind of blurbs.

[mercymechap]

14. I'm dying to see how Faux News

and Rush Limbaugh are going to turn this around and give Republicans credit for ending the shutdown! How they helped the economy and the country and how Obama almost ruined it for all of us!

[Cha]

16. here's dittohead's initial reaction.

Rush Limbaugh: "It feels like we’ve lost a war to a communist country .... the media has led this coup." ---->
7:30 AM - 16 Oct 2013

32 Retweets 15 favorites

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/16/a-smile-or-two-we-need-them/

[DCBob]

21. RW media are having a hard time this morning dealing with very angry RW lunatics they created...

who are blaming mainstream Republicans for not standing strong with their lunatic leader Cruz. Its quite entertaining.

[pam4water]

17. Feewwwww. Wipes sweat of brow. How long until we go through this again? K&R n/t

[bitchkitty]

22. So sorry for the people who had

to suffer during this debacle. The silver lining is that the GOP showed their faces so clearly, that few will forget it come election time.

[Nihil]

26. Hah! Optimist!

Do you not remember the classic "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?" moment?

[bitchkitty]

27. If you're referring to either

of Bush's elections, I don't think he legitimately won either of them.

But I get your point.