See, now This is how you deal with a bad bill that you have no chance of stopping.

 

Just two days after Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) forced a closed session to highlight an alleged lack of progress into a probe of pre- Iraq war intelligence, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) staged another act of political disobedience today.

 

Lautenberg filed an amendment to change the official name of the "Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act 2005" to the "Moral Disaster of Monumental Proportion Reconciliation Act."

"Let's call this bill what it is -- a moral disaster," explained Lautenberg. "This bill would close the door of opportunity and cut critical services to the poor, elderly, sick and hungry."

 

Senators had yet to vote on the amendment as of this post, but given the Republican majority in the Senate the name change seems to have little chance of passage.

 

The overall bill being debated in the Senate is aimed at making cuts in spending on entitlement programs in order to offset the massive federal costs incurred for the clean-up of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita along the Gulf Coast. Democrats have massed in opposition to the cuts, which they insist disproportionately disadvantage the nation's poorest and most infirm citizens.

Edited November 3, 200520 yr by Balta1701

Ah the irony's. OMG THE BUDGET IS TOO BIG,THINK OF OUR GRANDKIDS!!!

 

OMG YOU CAN'T CUT PROGRAMS, THINK OF OUR GRANDKIDS!!!

Ah the irony's.  OMG THE BUDGET IS TOO BIG,THINK OF OUR GRANDKIDS!!!

 

OMG YOU CAN'T CUT PROGRAMS, THINK OF OUR GRANDKIDS!!!

Yes, it's incredibly ironic. If only there was some other way to bring the budget back into balance. Some other method, of say, bringing more money in to pay the bills which we've assumed over the past 5 years.

Yes, it's incredibly ironic.  If only there was some other way to bring the budget back into balance. Some other method, of say, bringing more money in to pay the bills which we've assumed over the past 5 years.

 

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