His fiveday weekend. The house wont be back in session until tuesday of next week. But its not like they dont do work over the weekend. Super long or otherwise. Many house members will go back home to their districts this weekend where, of course, theyre going to be hearing from their constituents about what we are told are the very important and apparently at the moment stalled negotiations. But in the white house and the House Republican congress, over how to, lets be sure were getting this technically correct, how to cut the deficit in the medium to longterm so as to avoid an immediate and dramatic cut in the shortterm. Yes, thats right. Now, this may well present a problem for John Boehners caucus, because john boehner sent a letter to the president this week with his own plan, which advocates what just might be the least popular policy in american politics. Okay, maybe thats hyperbole. But just be a tiny bit, i mean, mandatory gay marriage, in which every single married straight p
The house wont be back in session until tuesday of next week. But its not like they dont do work over the weekend. Super long or otherwise. Many house members will go back home to their districts this weekend where, of course, theyre going to be hearing from their constituents about what we are told are the very important and apparently at the moment stalled negotiations. But in the white house and the House Republican congress, over how to, lets be sure were getting this technically correct, how to cut the deficit in the medium to longterm so as to avoid an immediate and dramatic cut in the shortterm. Yes, thats right. Now, this may well present a problem for John Boehners caucus, because john boehner sent a letter to the president this week with his own plan, which advocates what just might be the least popular policy in american politics. Okay, maybe thats hyperbole. But just be a tiny bit, i mean, mandatory gay marriage, in which every single married straight person had to immediat
0 specific proposal. and it is also super unpopular. look at this. almost 70% of americans say they oppose raising the eligibility age for medicare. that number is slightly higher among republicans than it is for the general population. more republicans oppose john boehner s plan than the already extremely high margin of the general public that opposes john boehner s plan. now, if you re following the news very closely in this slow-motion, groundhog day-esque political negotiation, maybe yoç already knew that john boehner wants to raise the medicare eligibility age. but if you just sort of glanced at john boehner s actual letter to the president with his proposal for medicare, you would be hard-pressed to come away with the understanding that that s what he wants to do. because john boehner never comes right out and says he wants to raise the eligibility age for medicare. instead, he says this, the house-passed budget resolution assumes enactment of structural medicare is massively,
job title is united states representative. amidç the crush of members heading out of the capital building today, you could even spot republican congressman mo brooks of alabama biking into his five-day weekend. the house won t be back in session until tuesday of next week. but it s not like they don t do work over the weekend. super long or otherwise. many house members will go back home to their districts this weekend where, of course, they re going to be hearing from their constituents about what we are told are the very important and apparently at the moment stalled negotiations. but in the white house and the house republican congress, over how to, let s be sure we re getting this technically correct, how to cut the deficit in the medium to long-term so as to avoid an immediate and dramatic cut in the short-term. yes, that s right. now, this may well present a problem for john boehner s caucus, because john boehner sent a letter to the president this week with his own p