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In reply to the discussion: The Republicans SERIOUSLY fucked themselves with the FAA thing [View all]DallasNE
(7,392 posts)Is to allow the FAA to shift funds around. There is a chance there are not enough funds to shift around to end the employee furloughs completely and keep all of the flights on time. Robbing Peter to pay Paul has its own set of issues. This was a foreseeable issue with the sequester and now Congress is playing whack-a-mole thinking moves like this can save the sequester. It can't. John McCain is now saying we must do this with the military, citing Syria as one reason. That is just more deficit spending because he does not pay for any of this. So, what do the Republicans stand for -- everything is situational for them.
The sequester almost worked at one time. Obama and Boehner worked out a grand bargain that would have prevented the sequester from ever taking place but Boehner would not bring it up for a vote in the House because of the Hastert Rule that says you have to have a majority of the majority for bills that originate in the House. It amounts to a House filibuster and is just as harmful as this application of it shows.