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Resolved Question: Why are Republicans blaming the failure to pass a budget on Democrats when it's the job of the Republican?
dominated House of Representatives to take the president's recommendations and create a budget that can be debated? Additionally, why do Republicans blame Harry Reid when McConnell has repeatedly filibustered budget negotiations? If anyone's to blame for the government operating without a budget it's the Republican Party. Every time Harry Reid has proposed amending the House Budget McConnell has filibustered the debate and insisted on passing the House budget as written. @ Meg - a budget bill requires 60 votes. The Democrats have 54.

Open Question: Why are conservatives so convinced that increased tax revenue would lead to increased government spending?
It seems the Republilcan argument against raising taxes is that the government will just spend more. During the last debt ceiling debate, Democrats offered $3 Trillion in CUTS, along with $1 Trillion in tax increases, which Republicans rejected. Beohner even said he would have rejected a $10 to $1 (cuts to increase) deal. Why isn't it possible to craft a law including both of those provisions, and specifically designating the savings and increased revenue for deficit/debt reduction? Do Republicans place their oath to Grover above all other possible solutions?

Resolved Question: Why do Republicans want a never ending Military Occupation of Afghanistan with no timetable for withdrawal?
House Republicans don't allow vote forcing Administration to stick to Afghanistan timetable Deirdre Walsh, CNN, May 17, 2012 http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/17/house-republicans-dont-allow-vote-forcing-administration-to-stick-to-afghanistan-timetable/ Washington - House Republicans pulled the plug on a vote Thursday on a bipartisan amendment to a defense bill that would force the Obama administration to stick firmly to its timetable for getting U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. Republicans were concerned the amendment could pass, according to two GOP congressional sources. Instead, GOP members decided to allow limited debate on Afghanistan, but just on one amendment sponsored by California Democrat Barbara Lee that was guaranteed to fail. It would essentially end the war in Afghanistan by limiting funding to the "safe and orderly withdrawal" of U.S. troops. One of the Republican sources stressed that there were a combination of factors for not allowing a vote on the timetable proposal, including "a lack of White House engagement." GOP leaders expected a bloc of their own members to support the measure and they couldn't rely on the White House to lobby Democrats against it. The source stressed Republicans didn't want to "roll the dice" and have a vote setting firm dates for the administration's war policy, which would expose significant reservations about the president's plan, which GOP leaders have largely supported. Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, who pushed for the vote on the timetable amendment with North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones, decried the decision to deny a vote on his proposal on Thursday. "What is the Republican leadership afraid of? Are they afraid a bipartisan majority of this House will vote to follow the will of the American people and change our Afghanistan policy?" he said. McGovern explained that his amendment required the president to stand by his commitment to transition all combat operations to the Afghan government by the end of 2013 and complete the transition of all military and security operations by the end of 2014. It would have also required the administration to come back to Congress for approval if it wanted any troops to stay beyond 2014. Jones told CNN he was confident the amendment would have passed. "That's the reason they didn't bring it up," he said. worthless...good point, it seems Obama on indefinite detention of Americans (NDAA), drones, War, Free Trade is more in step with Republicans than his own Party http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll270.xml

Resolved Question: Republicans claim victory in "gay marriage"?
debate, but black Christian leaders in my community say that while they are outraged and intend to send 0bama a petition expressing that outrage, they will still support him in Nov. Is Romney still your man, Repubs? It's not too late to change your mind. Don't answer my question with your question. How rude of you.

Resolved Question: Obama's literary agent says he was 'born in Kenya'. How did the mainstream media miss this?
Tim Stanley; The Telegraph. Whatever you think of Breitbart.comâs punishing vetting process, it has exposed just how little work the mainstream media did in investigating candidate Obama back in 2008. Not all of Team Breitbartâs revelations have been election-deciders, but they have often been stuff that a simple Google would have uncovered. If they revealed tomorrow that heâd had his own cross-dressing-themed sitcom on primetime TV in the 1980s, I wouldnât be surprised. The latest find is a fascinating inversion of the birther conspiracy. Breitbart.com has discovered that in 1991 Barack Obamaâs literary agent (who also represented New Kids on the Block) published a booklet that included a biography of the future President. The audience was âbusiness colleaguesâ in the publishing industry and it was designed to promote Obamaâs anticipated first book (later abandoned) called Journeys in Black and White. Hereâs how it describes the authorâs origins. Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. The key phrase here is âwas born in Kenya" â and this bio line was apparently being used as late as 2007. Today, the President has satisfied all right-minded folk that he was in fact born in Hawaii. Breitbart.com itself has always rejected the absurd cult of birtherism. In fact, this story is really the opposite of birtherism â Breitbart infers that in the past Obama encouraged people to think that he was born abroad in order to establish an identity as an authentic, exotic voice in the debate on racial politics. Obamaâs old literary agent has issued a terse statement to the effect that the wording was all her fault and she never consulted her client. If thatâs true, sheâs a bad agent. A different agent, quoted by Breitbart.com, disagrees. He told the website âthat while âalmost nobodyâ wrote his or her own biography, the non-athletes in the booklet, whom âthe agents deal[t] with on a daily basis,â were âprobablyâ approached to approve the text as presented.â If we accept that Obama didnât provide the biography, it would seem highly unlikely that he didnât get a chance to vet it. Accepting that he didnât do that either, itâs incredibly strange that the literary agent approached by Breitbart.com does not remember Obama calling the agency to register a complaint and make a correction. My mother spent a lot of her childhood in Grenada. If my literary agent told people I was born in the Caribbean, Iâd at least pick up the phone to set the record straight. Look beyond the sordid details and the big story here is that this nugget wasnât part of the wider discussion had back in 2008 about Obama's background and credentials. And why not? The documents were easy to find â the one that showed that âborn in Kenyaâ was still being used in 2007 was on the Internet. As for Obama, the vetting continues and Republicans have yet more to play with â with the focus, sadly, once more on race. For those who think that the Tea Party media is being obsessive and nasty, think of this as an exercise in levelling the playing field. If The Washington Post is going to write about how Mitt Romney once cut the hair of a guy it presumes was gay (because, well, his hair needed cutting), then Breitbart.com probably thinks it has every just cause to shout about every occasion that Obama ate a dog or told someone he was half-Phoenecian to get their vote. Tit for tat, although the Rightwing's tat is a little better researched. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100158834/obama-used-to-be-a-kenyan/ So the Lefty Tool-boys once again get together for a group whine, demanding we ignore reality. Sorry , but that is not gonna happen; Truth will out. Obama was not vetted in 08 at all, just stuck on a pedestal and rubber stamped for election while 'Tingles' ran thru the News room. That Failure of the Media to do it's Job is the Point if the article. You would know that if you had bothered to read it before going to 'line 4' on your Obama-bot 'Talking Points' sheet. You guys are seriously lame. Obama was Not vetted in 08 and to this day we actually know very little about him...That will change. He Will be vetted this time. Facts Matter...Get used to it.