Air traffic controllers expected to miss their first full paycheck Tuesday, while military pay deadline looms

[jonnyutah 531]

Just now, thegeneral said:

I accept your surrender in this matter.

Hahahahaha. You dodged my question and didn't own up to your obama mistake. 

You lost many posts ago, that is why i am laughing at every post of yours since.

Hahahahaha. Loser. 

[seafoam1 3,401]

Just now, jonnyutah said:

Hahahahaha. You dodged my question and didn't own up to your obama mistake. 

You lost many posts ago, that is why i am laughing at every post of yours since.

Hahahahaha. Loser. 

He's trying to be timhackLastwordguy. 

Liberal surrealism. 

 

[thegeneral 3,549]

Just now, jonnyutah said:

Hahahahaha. You dodged my question and didn't own up to your obama mistake. 

You lost many posts ago, that is why i am laughing at every post of yours since.

Hahahahaha. Loser. 

I’ll concede Obama had very close to the super majority. He was passing national health care. 

Biden did his work without anything close super majority . How did he manage it? What witchcraft! 

[seafoam1 3,401]

2 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

I’ll concede Obama had very close to the super majority. He was passing national health care. 

Biden did his work without anything close super majority . How did he manage it? What witchcraft! 

Lastwordguy. So funny...

[thegeneral 3,549]

Trump will fix ObamaCare with something very beautiful and strong in 2 weeks.

As soon as he figures out how to do the budget.

[jonnyutah 531]

25 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

I’ll concede Obama had very close to the super majority. He was passing national health care. 

Biden did his work without anything close super majority . How did he manage it? What witchcraft! 

Very close

Hahahahahaahaha

[thegeneral 3,549]

3 minutes ago, jonnyutah said:

Very close

Hahahahahaahaha

And Obama wrangled them all. Navigated the death of Ted Kennedy as well and losing that seat.

Brain dead Joe got stuff passed through with 50 in the Senate.

Super genius Donald can’t seem to figure out how to do it. Biden just finished cancer treatment, maybe a call to him would help. He could give some pointers.

[seafoam1 3,401]

10 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

And Obama wrangled them all. Navigated the death of Ted Kennedy as well and losing that seat.

Brain dead Joe got stuff passed through with 50 in the Senate.

Super genius Donald can’t seem to figure out how to do it. Biden just finished cancer treatment, maybe a call to him would help. He could give some pointers.

LastWordGuy will never quit. 

[weepaws 3,315]

7 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

LastWordGuy will never quit. 

[thegeneral 3,549]

2 minutes ago, weepaws said:

Weepaws laying the wood to Peefoam tonight. Poor Peefoam!

[seafoam1 3,401]

No paycheck for you today. 

Go suck it air traffic controllers, we liberals are staying at home again today. 

  

[MDC 7,831]

MAGA: Fires hundreds of FAA employees.

Also MAGA: The air traffic controllers aren’t getting paid … Reeeeee!!!  

[Maximum Overkill 2,397]

58 minutes ago, MDC said:

The air traffic controllers aren’t getting paid … Reeeeee

Shame on Schumer! 

[Ron_Artest 2,148]

4 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Shame on Schumer! 

How does it feel to know that Chuck Schumer has bullied your president into submission.

 

[Sean Mooney 2,045]

FWIW- there have been 15 government shutdowns in history (including this one):

• 8 were under Reagan for a combined 14 days. In 6 of them the Republicans controlled the Senate and Democrats controlled the House. In the last two Democrats controlled both the House and Senate.
• 1 was under Bush Sr. It ran for 3 days and Democrats controlled the House and Senate.
• 2 were under Clinton (and occurred a month apart) for a combined 26 days. The Republicans controlled both the House and Senate.
• 1 was under Obama for 16 days. Democrats controlled the Senate and Republicans controlled the House.
• 2 happened under Trump's first term. They lasted for a total of 37 days. Republicans controlled the House and Senate for the first one. They controlled the House and Senate for most of the second one until Democrats won the House. The latter was over Trump trying to get 5.7 billion dollars to pay for the wall.
• This one has currently gone 28 days with the House and Senate both controlled by the Senate.

So 15 times the government has shut down:

• 12 times it was a Republican president.
• 12 times the Republicans controlled the House
• 8 times the Republicans controlled the Senate

Looking at the White House/Senate/House triangle, of the 15 government shutdowns the Republicans have had the "power" 13 times. 

The total days under a Republican President the government was shut down is: 82 days- an average of just under 7 days. 

The total days under a Democrat President the government was shut down is: 53 days- an average of just under 18 days.

 

It's almost as if neither party can claim the high ground on this stuff in one way or another. 

[Sean Mooney 2,045]

Here is a FOX News look at the 5 longest government shutdowns:

https://archive.ph/ZbSeo

 

At this point I tend to think the only thing that will solve this is the Republicans going nuclear and blowing up the filibuster which will open a huge Pandora's Box that no person should want opened. 

Hopefully they listen to what Rand Paul of all people said the other day and build a coalition of a fed Republicans and a few Democrats and work out something that can be used.