"Air traffic controllers set to return to the job" by Alan Fram | Associated Press, April 27, 2013
WASHINGTON — Unable to ignore travelers’ anger, Congress overwhelmingly approved legislation Friday to allow the Federal Aviation Administration to withdraw the furloughs. The vote underscored a shift by Democrats who had insisted on erasing all of this year’s $85 billion in across-the-board budget cuts, not just the most publicly painful ones, for fear of losing leverage to restore money for Head Start and other programs with less popular support.
Yeah, turns out the tax increase on the rich -- which was really a tax cut -- was all you got.
I had other things about the budget and sequestration, but the main point is after Obama "won" a great victory it turned out he actually lost. Republicans gave him their tax increase -- which was really a tax check -- to the rich, and said that is that. Sequester away, we'll protect the military, you, sir, will sign the bill when we send it to you, and that's that.
Another "ooops" from the Democraps.
With President Obama's signature promised, the measure will erase one of the most stinging and publicly visible consequences of the budgetwide cuts known as the sequester.
This is all bull. The government shut down the things that would make public mad so we would scream for higher taxes and all that. We never get the services back in return, they are just getting cut, but hey, when you need to send tax loot to so many special concerns and stuff it into so many well-connected pockets, how can you complain in land of free, home of brave.
Friday’s House approval was 361 to 41 and followed the previous evening’s passage by the Senate, which didn’t even bother with a roll call. Lawmakers then streamed toward the exits — and airports — for a weeklong recess.
Oh, they ALL PASSED IT because THEY WERE ABOUT TO GET on their TAXPAYER-FUNDED PLANE TRIP HOME!
Can these guys be any more $elfish down there, or are they that in$ulated by all the lobbying dough?
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama would sign the bill, but Carney complained that the measure left the rest of the sequester intact....
Don't want to here it, don't want to hear it. I know what I would do, you ain't doing it. Just shoveling loot into the war machine and its ancillary benificiarie$ and letting the Fed and the big banks it fronts for wreck the economy.
In the week since the furloughs began, news accounts have prominently featured nightmarish tales of delayed flights and stranded air passengers.
ALERT: AGENDA being PUSHed
Republicans have used the situation to accuse the Obama administration of purposely forcing the controllers to take unpaid days off to dial up public pressure on Congress to roll back the sequester.
That's true.
Halting the furloughs was the latest example of lawmakers easing parts of the sequester that became too painful.
When does the DECEPTION and FRAUD of POLITICS end?
They previously used a separate, wide-ranging spending bill to provide more money for meat and poultry inspectors.
The bill would let the FAA use up to $253 million from an airport improvement program and other accounts to halt the furloughs through the Sept. 30 end of the government’s fiscal year.
The money can be used for other FAA operations, too, including keeping open small airport towers around the country that the agency said it would shut to satisfy the spending cuts.
But Democrats were bitter Friday that cuts in many federal programs remain.
Well, they ought to be.
Besides the Head Start preschool program, they complained about ongoing cuts for health research, feeding programs for poor women, children, and the elderly, and jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, and about furloughs of civilian Pentagon workers.
It's too late. Obama locked you in for his political negotiating purposes, and once again we see the Republicans best the Democrats. Maybe you can use the filibuster next year in the "bitterness."
Congressional approval was hailed by groups representing the airline industry and the union representing controllers.
I knew I didn't like it for some reason.
‘‘The winners here are the customers who will be spared from lengthy and needless delays,’’ said Nicholas E. Calio, president of Airlines for America, representing major carriers.
But you will still be paying the $ame fees.
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