AND....DHS funding Bill passes

[brooklynite]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I hope this was the clean bill that we wanted.

[yallerdawg]

2. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Have you ever seen anything so ridiculous in one day? What's next?

[randome]

4. Two major losses for Boehner today! Sweet!

Hope it's enough to take him out as Speaker. Then we can get down to some really crazy shit!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[riversedge]

3. what is the next invente crisis?

[ismnotwasm]

5. That moron

Did the unspeakable with the pooch on that one

[madokie]

40. I see what you did there :-)

[FSogol]

6. Haw-haw. n/t

[KamaAina]

7. Rep. Muntz (D-Springfield) chimes in:

[Capt. Obvious]

8. Did you research this before posting?

[pinboy3niner]

9. AP: Congress Sends Homeland Bill to Obama Without Conditions

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/homeland-funding-appears-track-minus-immigration-add-ons-29345768

The vote was 257-167.

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Capt. Obvious was snarking some other thread

3rd Grade style.

[Capt. Obvious]

13. I'll have you know

I snark at an 8th grade level

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. I'm sure you are capable of that

Just not this time.

[Capt. Obvious]

22. You can attack me all you like

but I'll be damned if I let you attack HappyMe like that.

Shame on you.

[pinboy3niner]

14. Thanks. Now I get it. :)

[HappyMe]

11. lol!

That was pretty funny.

[Capt. Obvious]

23. Thanks.

And I apologize for alcibiades_mystery belittling your sense of humor.

[Sheepshank]

12. and yet just today here on DU, person "crying" that Rep controlled Senate gets everything they want

n/t

[jtuck004]

16. "legislation Tuesday that will keep the agency operating through the end of September..."

And people actually get out of bed and vote so they can pay people to do this...

Standards have gotten really low.

[malthaussen]

17. So, let me get this straight...

Progressive Democrats are cheering the funding of an organization that routinely violates our basic rights, was set up as a result of the egregious Patriot Act, and is responsible, through the FBI, of starting terror plots with the explicit intention of "defeating" them and thus padding its record. What I want to know: why the celebration? Do the people here actually believe that DHS is "protecting" them?

-- Mal

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Do you believe that FEMA

which was shoved under DHS, should not be funded? Particularly given the horrible weather that is happening right now across a large swath of the nation that may result in a few disaster declarations if predicted flooding occurs?

[freshwest]

24. Guess it depends on where one lives nowadays, huh? 85% of DHS funding is FEMA. By all means, toss

Last edited Wed Mar 4, 2015, 10:05 AM - Edit history (1)

FEMA under the bus as the Infowarriors say, is the underlying message. For those who'll flood in the spring... Well, hey.

I saw how some came down on people living in red state hell when they had tornadoes in the last few years. Not pretty. But Libertarian as all get out.

Rand Paul wanted FEMA eliminated in the middle of Hurricane Sandy, said it should be privatized. Which only meant more people would have done without any help.

Same as this. I wish people would think about the big picture at times, but I've just about given up.

[BumRushDaShow]

26. They need to pull FEMA back out from under DHS

and make it a standalone agency again. Ever since Skeletor and Brownie were associated with it, it has struggled with trying to get back to their mission as the GOP continues to pummel it and try to defund it.

[freshwest]

29. Fine by me. But look who we're dealing with:

[BumRushDaShow]

38. That's it in a nutshell. nt

[treestar]

19. Even if there are abuses

in any agency, the idea the agency should be fund-starved out of existence is rather Republican.

[KingCharlemagne]

27. This one was especially crazy, as the DHS is a Bush-era creation. Republicans killing

their own child. Really boggled the mind.

I like your phrase 'fund-starved,' by the way.

[treestar]

31. thanks hehe

Just shows how insincere the Republicans are. They are the ones saying we need security so much after 911 that they invented this cabinet post for it.

[geek tragedy]

21. So much derp in just one post.

1) the FBI is not in DHS, but rather the Department of Justice.

2) How does DHS violate your rights? I'm not aware of it violating mine.

3) Most of its employees would have been forced to work without a paycheck in a shutdown. Including union members.

4) The DHS includes:

a. The Coast Guard
b. Customs and Border Patrol
c. Citizenship and Naturalization Services
d. The Federal Emergency Management Agency
e.The Secret Service
f. US Immigration enforcement.

As it turns out, most people here know more than you do.

[freshwest]

30. WHAT? You want to bring facts to this discussion? What next, blue links?

[treestar]

32. lol

Yeah, really, all DHS does is run the NSA to spy on DU.

[freshwest]

35. What's that song playing in the background?

Don't go to sleep! Argh!

[treestar]

37. Thanks for helping with workout music!

I listened to those while doing the elliptical.

The Dream Police they live inside of my head
The Dream Police, they know my thoughts as I type
And now they are looking at my garage!
Oh noes! Oh noes! They're spying on me!

[freshwest]

39. Step away from the computer with your hands up!

I am outa here (she said for the brazilianth time today). My biggest accomplishment for today should not be "I can see the floor of my car again".

~ redwitch

From the thread: I'm leaving DU...

http://election.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4869083&mesg_id=4869279

Cheap Trick was big at my health club years ago. Try this:

I have an atrocious singing voice. Loved to loop this and sing to it driving down the freeway, though.

[Rex]

20. .

Poor sad clown.

[B Calm]

25. All the drama for nothing. Now they are crying about the Senate rules that they use to love.

[madville]

28. And now we all love those rules again

Remember a year ago when everyone wanted to eliminate the filibuster entirely?

[treestar]

33. This is why all the name calling of Harry Read

and so on was dumb. Harry if anyone knows we can be in the minority again.

[freshwest]

36. Exactly!

[freshwest]

34. Well, not all of us. But some did and...

It wasn't like the GOP was going to give up any type of procedure to get their way in the dismantling of the US government. They have that plan. The one Sanders and Reid and others revealed. They are 'playing for keeps.'