***Breaking News****Budget Deal Passes House Vote

[nmbluesky]

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of House Republicans and Democrats approved on Thursday legislation that would cut almost $40 billion from the budget for the rest of the fiscal year by a vote of 260 to 167. When the time for the vote expired, fewer than 150 members had voted yes, with scores waiting to see where their colleagues would fall before taking the plunge.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has vowed to quickly take up the House-passed legislation Thursday afternoon without further debate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/budget-deal-passes-house-_n_849334.html

[JuniperLea]

1. Sounds like a bunch of chicken shits...

"with scores waiting to see where their colleagues would fall before taking the plunge."

[justabob]

4. that is what jumped out at me too

weak as water... all of them. Well, MOST of them.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Sophomoric chicken shits at that.

[AlabamaLibrul]

2. Is this the "$40B in cuts" that CBO has determined to actually be 1% thereof? n/t

[truebrit71]

3. Harry Reid.."without further debate"..so the wolves are fucked then?

...remind me, why do I support the Dems??

[FrenchieCat]

6. You don't really want to.....

You just know that people being fucked totally is a Republican idea.

[MrTriumph]

5. No backbone.

x

[Bandit]

7. This is what was negotiated between Obama and Boehner

:shrug: Of course it passed..

[dflprincess]

8. But, but, but the president isn't a dictator - he has no way to get Congress to act!

Or that's what I've read here so many times - especially in regards to the health insurance scam.

[bullwinkle428]

10. I, for one, hail our new orange overlord!