CNN Host Confronts GOP Reps Over Their Salaries Amidst Shutdown

[badb0y]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H3WQbupuww

My reaction

Not sure if it was posted here but I just found this to be hilarious how they were performing mental gymnastics to answer a "yes" or "no" question.

If it was posted already lock it.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Haha.. let me answer your question and then they start talking about how the countdown clock is actually a debt clock.. answer the question biatch!

 

[EagleKeeper]

Be very interested if they would put such a question to the Democratic leadership?

 

[dank69]

Be very interested if they would put such a question to the Democratic leadership?

Dems aren't asking for anything in exchange for funding the government or raising the ceiling.

 

[TerryMathews]

Dems aren't asking for anything in exchange for funding the government or raising the ceiling.

No they just swore they would veto any budget that defunded Obamacare.

They being the head of the Democratic party.

 

[soulcougher73]

Video cut short. Now i want to hear what he had to say about answering the specific question

 

[Thebobo]

These folks forget who they work for

Single term limits

 

[sourn]

Politicians being politicians. News@11

 

[kage69]

Be very interested if they would put such a question to the Democratic leadership?

Yeah you must be, the ones in the OP didn't even get a comment. Sounds like all kinds of scrutiny just aching to be unleashed.

Given how some Dems gave up voting district advantages in the interest of fair play, I wouldn't expect all of them to act like those stand-up hard workers dodging questions on CNN there.


Just most of them.

I'd love to see some real compensation rules slapped on Congress. Make health insurance and pay dependent on doing your damn job in the time you have to do it! There's got to be a way we can dissuade politicians from using the workings of government to conduct repetitive party purity tests, PR stunts, and other wastes of taxpayer time and money that don't involve getting pressing shit taken care of.

 

[Doppel]

At the end he says he will answer it but video cuts off. Damn I have blue balls. What happened after 1:22?!

 

[CountZero]

No they just swore they would veto any budget that defunded Obamacare.

They being the head of the Democratic party.

It is a non starter. Dems could add a national gun registry but it would never pass. Adding something you know has zero chance of making into law and blaming the people that won't take the poison pill is pathetic.

Reps could have used this as a time to talk about any number of possible budget moves. Items that have a chance of passing though perhaps in a reduced form (they only control the house so expecting to get everything is delusional at best). Instead they waste time, effort and goodwill (what little they might have outside of blindly partisan folks) to go after ACA, a move with zero chance of success.

It is just political games but it isn't even very well done. If they wanted to repeal ACA before it went into effect they should've won the presidential election but they didn't, they need to suck it up and move on.

 

[ivwshane]

There was actually one republican on msnbc, from Texas, that says he has already sent a letter asking to have his check stopped if there is a government shut down. So I'll give him some respect for that move, unlike Cruz who flat out sad "no".

 

[irishScott]

I actually watched that live earlier today (was in a food court and they had CNN on the TV). They continued to dodge the question, but frankly the host (whatever her name is) wasn't doing so well. That clip was her finest hour, the rest of the time she sounded as childish, entitled and whiney as the congressmen.

That said, the GOP really needs to cut the crap on this. I don't like Obamacare one bit, and part of me would be happy to see it de-funded, but the resulting backlash would simply see it re-funded next year, and Democrats likely in control of all 3 houses again. Like it or not, Obamacare is sticking around, at least for a while.

 

[TheVrolok]

It is a non starter. Dems could add a national gun registry but it would never pass. Adding something you know has zero chance of making into law and blaming the people that won't take the poison pill is pathetic.

Reps could have used this as a time to talk about any number of possible budget moves. Items that have a chance of passing though perhaps in a reduced form (they only control the house so expecting to get everything is delusional at best). Instead they waste time, effort and goodwill (what little they might have outside of blindly partisan folks) to go after ACA, a move with zero chance of success.

It is just political games but it isn't even very well done. If they wanted to repeal ACA before it went into effect they should've won the presidential election but they didn't, they need to suck it up and move on.

Bingo. It's all Bullshit posturing for their constituents who are too dumb to realize it's Bullshit posturing.

 

[kage69]

If they wanted to repeal ACA before it went into effect they should've won the presidential election but they didn't, they need to suck it up and move on.

Exactly.

I don't see how it's unreasonable to expect the GOP to get with the fucking program the way the Dems did when they lost the election and were a minority.

You know the GOP is in a smelly state when they can't even bring themselves to meet Nancy Pelosi's example of losing and not having the votes to do anything about it.

 

[TerryMathews]

Exactly.

I don't see how it's unreasonable to expect the GOP to get with the fucking program the way the Dems did when they lost the election and were a minority.

You know the GOP is in a smelly state when they can't even bring themselves to meet Nancy Pelosi's example of losing and not having the votes to do anything about it.

That's one hell of a skewed version of reality you have.

 

[michal1980]

more lmsm nonsense.

Would cnn ever challenge a Dem like this? Nope, they'd go work for them.

 

[michal1980]

It is a non starter. Dems could add a national gun registry but it would never pass. Adding something you know has zero chance of making into law and blaming the people that won't take the poison pill is pathetic.

Reps could have used this as a time to talk about any number of possible budget moves. Items that have a chance of passing though perhaps in a reduced form (they only control the house so expecting to get everything is delusional at best). Instead they waste time, effort and goodwill (what little they might have outside of blindly partisan folks) to go after ACA, a move with zero chance of success.

It is just political games but it isn't even very well done. If they wanted to repeal ACA before it went into effect they should've won the presidential election but they didn't, they need to suck it up and move on.

I forgot the rule, that the losing party must roll over and do whatever the majority party wants. Why even bother having republicans in office if they are just supposed to be democrat yes men.

 

[sportage]

LISTEN...!
Democrats not allowing republican attempts at defunding of ACA ie Obamacare is not the same as republicans holding the government hostage.
ACA ie Obamacare is passed law. There are thousands of passed laws by previous congresses over the past 200+ years of America.
Are republicans actually suggesting we rehash and re-qualify EVERY DAMN LAW passed by every congress and every president over 200+ years?

Well, THAT is exactly what tea party republican are insisting with their ACA act assault.
They are suggesting or insisting the public vote or decide ACA law.
Does that also apply to every law passed in the Reagan era?
Nixon?
Kennedy?
Johnson?
Lincoln?

Maybe republican goals are to actually reverse the laws passed about slavery during Abe Lincoln's presidency?
The public DID NOT vote or decide that law either.
Nor civil rights laws passed during LBJ.
Nor the Richard Nixon healthcare reforms laws creating Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO).

So really?
Republicans demand vetting every US law passed throughout our 200+ year past?
Slavery.
Social security.
Medicare.
Civil rights.
Every law rehashed?
I wonder just how ole Ronnie Reagan would feel about that?
Or Abe Lincoln.

When are people going to realize these house republicans are nothing but what they are, Traitors in America,
We might as well have a house full of Bin Laden's, Al Qaeda members, and Japanese WWII kamikaze pilots.
Because THAT is exactly the current republican US House makeup.
US traitors taking American citizens hostage day after day.
And some of you voted in these traitors holding office.
So, who exactly ARE you, anyway?
Can you prove your citizenship papers are legal?
???

 

[TerryMathews]

And some of you voted in these traitors holding office.

Obama voter?

 

[shadow9d9]

No they just swore they would veto any budget that defunded Obamacare.

They being the head of the Democratic party.

Why wouldn't they? And what does that have to do with this routine passing to pay the bills?

 

[shadow9d9]

I forgot the rule, that the losing party must roll over and do whatever the majority party wants. Why even bother having republicans in office if they are just supposed to be democrat yes men.

Do you just randomly throw in commas?

If, the Republicans don't, like, something maybe they should vote to defund, it, a 42nd time, instead of, holding up a routine bill that affects the entire economy?

 

[CountZero]

I forgot the rule, that the losing party must roll over and do whatever the majority party wants. Why even bother having republicans in office if they are just supposed to be democrat yes men.

I did not say roll over by any stretch.

They control the house and that is all. To think that you will pass legislation that defunds the signature law of the standing president when all you control is the house is just dumb. It does nothing.

This was a chance for the actual fiscal hawks to do, or at least try something but the opportunity is gone. Instead we get political grandstanding.

When you only control one house you have to pick and choose your battles and the Reps chose trench warfare instead of tactical strikes.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

No they just swore they would veto any budget that defunded Obamacare.

They being the head of the Democratic party.

False equivalency. A fine example at that.

 

[Subyman]

Reporter going for a zinger, quality question... Too bad there aren't any channels that let each side lay out their plan logically with honest questions instead of trying to put people on the spot with completely unimportant questions. But I'm sure there were 10 Bajillion facebook likes for CNN. Way to go.