WTF? Full list of "Policy Riders" in Boehner's full-year -$61B HR 1 Budget bill,

[ProgressiveEconomist]

already passed by the House.

Remember when Speaker Boehner said (on Feb 27th), "If they won't eat the whole loaf at one time, we'll make them eat it one slice at a time"? ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110228/ap_on_re_us/us_boehner_religious_broadcasters )

IMO, that sentence sums up Boehner's subsequent strategy of bad-faith "negotiations", which has led the nation to the brink of government shutdown.

"The whole loaf" includes dozens of bizarre far-right "policy riders" that have nothing to do with the deficit, the underlying premise for HR 1 (as if a short-term cyclical deficit at a time of high unemployment had anything to do with long-term structural deficits).

My hunch is that most of the more bizarre riders can be traced to corrupt-looking corporate bribes for their individual House sponsors.

WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?

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The full list of policy riders in HR1 includes: (from http://www.ombwatch.org/files/budget/OMB_Watch-HR1_Policy_Riders.pdf ):

Policy Riders in H.R. 1

Sec. 1284 - Prohibits funding for fresh fruits and vegetables in the school lunch program. under section 19 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act.

Sec. 4013 - Prohibits funds to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., or any of its affiliates.

Sec. 1112 - Prohibits transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay.
Sec. 2237 - Prohibits HUD funding for rental assistance to the elderly.
Sec. 4006 - Blocks the FCC from implementing Net Neutrality.

Sec. 1802 - Prohibits funding new Job Corp centers.
Sec. 4017 - Strips funding for any provision of the health care reform law.
Sec. 4030 - Prohibits BATF from collecting information on multiple rifle/shotgun sales to the same person.

Sec. 1590 - Prohibits DC from using its own, non-federal funds, for abortion services.
Sec. 4046 - Prohibits finding for a govt-sponsored consumer product complaints database
Sec. 1746 - Prohibits funding for EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gases

Sec. 4027 - Prohibits funds to carry out medical loss ratio restrictions in the health care reform law. (These provisions require insurers to spend at least a certain percent of their premium revenues on medical care.)

Sec. 4009 - Prohibits funds to pay the salaries and expenses of the following Presidential �czarsŽ: Obama Care Czar, Climate Change Czar, Global Warming Czar, Green Jobs Czar, Car Czar, Guantanamo Bay Closure Czar, Pay Czar and Fairness Doctrine Czar.

[KeepItReal]

1. "Prohibits funding for fresh fruits and vegetables in the school lunch program"

That's all you need to know about these mofos.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

7. Remember Reagan's "Why not make ketchup a vegetable"?

IMO this new "Policy Rider" is related to the same issue--school systems ' contracting out thier school lunch programs to corporate vendors of "fast food" burgers and fries, the mainstay of bad diets which are quite literally killing millions of children through obesity and subsequent early-onset diabetes, and heart disease, etc.

Fruits and vegetables are bad for business.

[KeepItReal]

10. Precisely

Proper nutrition is bad for the school lunch supplier business

:banghead:

[drokhole]

17. Yep...and for health insurance companies and Big Pharma...

...hell, even Big Oil. Heavier weight (i.e. fat people) requires more gas in transportation. Sure, it may seem like a negligible amount individually...but multiply that by millions of people thousands of time per year.

Fat people are big business. It's in their best interest to start them while they're young.

[KamaAina]

2. Calling out Planned Parenthood by name is a bill of attainder

and is therefore unconstitutional.

Of course, no one called them on it when they did it to ACORN. :eyes:

[ProgressiveEconomist]

32. I'm not sure the exact language of the rider mentions Planned Parenthood--have you seen it?

Legislative staff are quite ingenious when it comes to defining the generic scope of some piece of legislation so that it applies to ome particular target. Usually they do this to favor a particular corporate interest, but it works the other way too. For example, NYC schools reoutinely cheated by school funding language that excepts "cities of more than four million" (I'm not sure that's the right figure) from a more generous funding formula.

[liberal N proud]

3. Ruthless bastards,

[ProgressiveEconomist]

46. Kick!

[spanone]

4. fuck them....they hate america and americans...oh, and Obama too

[titaniumsalute]

5. He can eat my loaf...I'll pitch it right now for him.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

50. kick!

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I read a week or so ago that there were 65 riders.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. On MSNBC just a few minutes ago, I heard it's now up to 100 Riders! as per talking head. n/t

[ProgressiveEconomist]

15. Click through the LINK to ombwatch.org in the OP. I haven't counted, but the

number of boxes in the exhibit seens to be somewhere in the neighborhhod of 65.

Of course, since HR 1 passed months ago, additional riders could have been passed in subsequent House legislation.

[rucky]

9. I'm trying not to get too worked up...

knowing HR-1 will not pass - and they know it won't. this is just red meat for their frothing-at-the-mouth Tea Party base.

If I'm right, it means they're shutting down the government for a political stunt (which we all know is true).

[calimary]

11. They'll "make us" do WHAT?

EXCUSE ME?????????

They'll "make us" do WHAT????

They think they're entitled to "make us" do ANYTHING???


I do not know how to enlarge fonts here, but if I did, it'd be a BIG FAT BRIGHT RED SIZE 1000000 "FUCK YOU!!!!!!"

[LaurenG]

12. Fucking asshole high riding sons and daughters of bi*****!!!

I am not a hater but I feel the hate right now... god I wish we had a media that did their gd work. :nuke:

edit - because I think the "b" word is a rule breaker here...

[ProgressiveEconomist]

14. Wish we had a media that did thier gd work" AGREED, I posted this because

I hadn't seen any media coverage of the range of "Polilcy Riders", and could get nothing about the full list from google/news.

It didn't take lmuch Web Googling to happen upon a hit at ombwathc.org. Sometimes I wonder whether "Journalists" need tutorials on useing Google.

[drokhole]

13. And, yet, this has hardly been mentioned on MSM...

...they've only been focusing on Planned Parenthood (which is an important issue, don't get me wrong...and whose funds appropriation has been wildly misrepresented by the GOP), and "who to blame" if the government shuts down. I've heard a few mentions of slashing EPA funding, but that's it! Why in the blue fuck are they allowing the Repubs to control messaging once again?! Quit speaking of generic spending cuts, and let us know in detail just what it is these fuckers want to cut!

[Bluerthanblue]

16. don't these riders pretty much de-fund most all of the HCR? is

this the Republicans way of ending "Obamacare" without repealing it?

[MrsCorleone]

18. Yes, as well as the Consumer Protection Agency under Elizabeth Warren.

Do you see anything in these riders that benefit the American people?

I don't.

[Bluerthanblue]

19. the only thing that seemed remotely reasonable was no funding for legislative

committee rooms?

not sure what it involved, but it didn't seem all that important.

[FLAprogressive]

20. so funny that of the "czars" they won't fund "Drug czar" ain't one of 'em.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

37. Kick!

[dmr]

21. I'm so aggravated by that list I'm speechless

:grr:

[Incitatus]

22. Sec. 1590 - Prohibits DC from using its own, non-federal funds, for abortion services.

How is that even legal?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

33. "Is that even legal"? Since "America's Last Colony" has no House or Senate vote,

DC cannot retaliate against a State wohse legislator attacks DC in a piece of legislation. You never any other territorial US jurisdiction attacked in this way because it can retaliate again and again on every bill that might help or hurt the attacking state.

All non-voting DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton can do when DC is attacked by national legislation is rant--and boy is she good at ranting! See http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/154557-dc-delegate-washington-should-tell-congress-to-go-straight-to-hell. The headline in The Hill is, "DC Delegate: Washington should tell Congress to go straight to hell!"

[Rex]

23. HOW THE FUCK TO THESE PEOPLE GET ELECTED!?!

I am starting to seriously wonder about the general population of the United States.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

39. IMO ultra-wealthy and ultra-greedy Rs such as the Koch Bros create an alternate reality

for tens of millions of middle-class and lower class SUCHERS, that's how they get elected.

Combined with Reagan's torpedoing the Fairness Doctrine, ever-expanding media enable Fox News, right-wing hate radio, and other elements of the Republicans' "Mighty Wurlitzer" to allow a savvy few to saturate tens of millions of low-information voters with ridiculous propaganda.

Time after time over the last thirty years, they have promised "culture war" victories on womens' right to choose, religious school vouchers, punishing flag-burners, gays, and n****rs, stopping immigration, etc. etc. The masses who buy this stuff vote for them dutifully, every two years. But somehow notheing ever really happens except taxes for the very wealthy go lower and lower.

[underpants]

41. Fox News = MSM. They have a propaganda operation no one has ever had.... that and money

they have tons of money and Boner is the ATM.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

52. kick!

[sakabatou]

24. Marching proudly backwards...

[ProgressiveEconomist]

48. Backwards into the seventeenth century, before economics. The simple idea of

benefit-cost analysis seems to have been ruled irrelevant by the current House. Cancer screenings, Pell Grants, HeadStart, Job Corps, etc. merit EXPANDED spanding, not amputation during a business cycle low point.

When the Rs were in charge during a time of prosperity (brought on by Bill Clinton's budget-surplus-creating policies), the White House oposition was "Deficits don't Matter". When was the last time you saw the video of VP Dick Cheney uttering those words>

[thecrow]

25. I find #4009 particularly offensive in that it uses the Refucklican term

"Obama Care"

It glosses over the fact that it's Health Care by using this hate-centric term.

Oh and pity the mohair farmers, too

This whole thing just reeks.
Seriously, where are the torches and pitchforks on this?

[snappyturtle]

26. OMG! It's worse than I could imagine! I am foaming at the mouth mad.

:grr:

[cali]

27. that was my reaction when my rep described these on VPR

today

[davidthegnome]

28. Anyone else feel like...

you're in an alternative frigging universe after reading this shit?

I can't imagine how this could pass without republicans having a great majority in the house and senate and a republican President. Maybe I'm naive, but there's no frigging way this thing is going through.. what are they trying to accomplish?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

31. I wonder HOW MANY R House members sponsored any riders? Only 25 seats need

to switch from Republican to Democrat for Pelosi to regain the Speakership. If more than 25 individual Republican House members sponsored any of the more ridiculous riders, then diligent research and smart use of rider sponsorship in campaign ads could restore sanity to the House in 2012.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

29. Here's What Every American Should Do

Read through each and every rider individually (if you can; there are over 100), and then after each one, stop and ask yourself, "How does this particular rider increase jobs?"

When the answer almost each and every time is, "It doesn't," then ask yourself what exactly it is that Boner and his buddies are up to with this nonsense.

It ain't rocket science (clearly, since one of the riders prohibits funding for NASA).

[snappyturtle]

30. Kick! nt

[northoftheborder]

34. What I want to know:

Which of these "riders" have been compromised away by the Democrats in the latest "agreement"???????????? No one seems to mention anything except women's health. Is that all that is left? What about the rest?????????????????? Our friends Ed, Rachael, and Lawrence need to address this. I sent an email to Rachael last night, but have been gone all day and haven't had a chance to communicate further.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

35. Kick!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

36. IMO these riders are th BIGGEST untold story in journalism today. What, who, why

are largely untouched, let alone where, when, and how/

[drokhole]

44. Yep!!!

Planned Parenthood has been a great smoke screen for shielding the rest of this crazy shit. I've already vented about this on one of my earlier threads:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x845492

And you just know these things were drafted wholesale by lobbyists!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

45. "Written wholesale by lobbyists". Great point. And nice thread, although your title

lacks an attention-grabbing expletive to make it irresistible for DUers.

[Chorophyll]

38. No question about it --

John Boehner is a petrified turd from the sphincter of Ronald Reagan, spray-painted orange and dressed in a suit.

I didn't think I could hate anyone more than I hated Gingrich back in the day, but DAMN. :grr:

[ProgressiveEconomist]

54. kick!

[musette_sf]

40. "Fairness Doctrine Czar"??

Who in the hell is/was THAT?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

42. See ehe ThinkProgess LINK at

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/22/mark-lloyd/

[musette_sf]

43. thanks

[ProgressiveEconomist]

47. That was a 2-step google. I started out with +"fairness doctrine czar" and

was overwhelmed with ultra-right links. I fished out the name of the "czar" from one of them and tried again, with

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%2B%22fairness+doctrine%22+%2B%22mark+lloyd%22&btnG=Google+Search

That yielded the TP "Fact Check" link I posted.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

49. "Overwhelmed with ultra-right links" No wonder--any even partial restoration of

the "Fairness Doctrine" would put thousands of ultra-right media outlets and websites out of business! If their viewers had access to even a small dose of commen-sense questioning of what they're being fed, many of them would, as Harry Reid says, "snap out of it".

[Tx4obama]

51. That it NOT the list of riders that was agreed upon tonight !!! n/t

[ProgressiveEconomist]

53. Who said it was? Did you read the OP? This is the ORIGINAL list inside the bill

the House passed months ago.

The FINAL bill is slated to be voted on by the House on Thursday.