House Server Update
National Journal Reports
When President Obama told Americans to contact their representatives to show support for his debt-ceiling plan, the response was so strong it knocked out several websites for leading GOP House members.
National Journal checks at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. of websites for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., showed a “Server is too busy” response on an otherwise blank screen. Boehner’s separate representative site was down, also, though the district and House Majority Leader sites of Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., were working.
The site for the speaker is up and running but I don’t know what is happening with Boehner’s seperate representative site. My search of www.house.gov* gives two dead links johnboehner.house.gov/ and johnboehner.house.gov/contact give pages with just
“Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)”
Huh ? Was the site hacked ? Did he shut it off ? is www.house.gov as functional as the House of Representatives ?
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My two useless congressional tea partiers got an ear full, especially since neither have answered separate related questions I posed months ago about the wasteful pentagon trough and their support for it.
The tea party is more of the same: plunder the poor for the wealthy’s troughs; medical insurance, military, etc
You forgot the impressively unapologetic racism.
But to be fair that may be more of an innovation than more of the same. I mean even the KKK wore those comical sheets as a nod to discretion.
Class xenophobia, too.
There is a too-commonly repeated bon mot – “we get the politics we deserve”. In fact, we get the politics we get. We get them for failing to stand up to self-serving liars.
This site is a very good example of how that happens. The comments section here is a frequent playground of trolls, who will write anything, no matter how untrue, make any argument, no matter how bizarre, in an effort to derail arguments that don’t serve their politcal interests. Those trolls tend to be treated as if they are just like everybody else.
Once upon a time, I refused to back down from one of those liars. My reasoning was simple. An unopposed lie is a lie that has a better chance of doing its job. A liar who is allowed to have the last work may conclude that persistence in lying pays.
What happened? The proprietors of this site banned both the liar and me. Same old moral-equivalance, pox-on-both-houses spinelessness that is seen throughout our journalistic culture and in corporate culture. Now, personally, I take being banned as a a sort of medal for a job well done. You guys, however, should hang your heads.
Gee now I feel inadequate for never having been banned. Maybe I shouldn’t be moderating my oft-held urges to call certain commenters douchetards.
America will default, I think its just a ploy to make the Democrats look useless and incompetent before the upcoming election next year
http://www.intelligenteconomist.com
“In fact, we get the politics we get. We get them for failing to stand up to self-serving liars.” kharris
I’d say we get the worst political hacks that money can buy. That political financing is spread around just enough so that there is some minor differences from one hack to the next, but they share a common inclination to represent their donor/backers rather than their constituents. There is much that needs to be done in restoring some degree of media control back to the FCC regulations of about twenty years ago when significant media outlets in a single geographic area could not be owned by a single entity. Then campaign giving in all its diversly propagandist forms needs to be addressed. That seems like an endless battle with little effort to reign it in on the part of the current political class. And family conflicts of interest are rampant. The biggest joke is how they all play the game of being honorable participants in a crooked system.
“So, do you prefer the business party that protects (some of) the rights of (some) people with vaginas or the one that doesn’t?” Pitiful.
kharris,
Regarding the ban…a sore spot? That is your interpretation of one incident that lasted a few days? While I sympathize with the sentiment about the lies in this campaign and before(?), making the comment section of AB a symbol for the whole deal is a cheap shot.
Astro turf?
I think its just a ploy to make the Democrats look useless and incompetent.
Well then it’s working.
Phone calls to Congress peaked on 35K/Hr today.
Phone calls to Congress peaked at 50K/Hr for the Obmam care debates.
Boehner ending up $350B short on his plan: Priceless.
I see later reporting has the most current number of phone calls at 40K/Hr.
Perhaps more importantly, the questions/messages are mixed. Some messages support the various debt ceiling options, and some ask for clarification whether Obama will pay Granma. Dunno if this what Obama wanted when he asked for them to call?
I say raise taxes on the rich, but by the time the effects are fully realized you will have a Republican in the white house lowering taxes
Maybe, Congressmen will realize what they are doing only after a default
http://www.intelligenteconomist.com
Yup! Those, powerless, toothless, racist, Tea Partyers force the bill to include even more cuts before passing it on to the Senate. Tthe Dems will have to decide to pass it as is or modify it and make it even more bipartisan before passing it. Then the president can decide to sign or not.
Dems in the Senate do not appear to be willing to totally throw away their political careers for their political beliefs/morals. The only group willing to concede their political careers for their political beliefs is the Tea Party members.
What was predicable is that it will go to the bitter end before it is resolved. Furthermore, the need for a two step solution was also predicable, as I have been say now for some time. A bridge bill getting us over the immediate time needed to draft and pass a final version of the eventual bill.
Thinking it ends there is also naive. From there we will go into the FY 2012 budget battles, and depending on the debt ceiling bill’s time frame, we can do it all over again. To date there has been public support for budget cutting overall, and not for more spending nor increasing taxes without it being “balanced” to solve the budget issues.
Thank you, president Obama, Reid, and Pelosi for showing us how poor were your policies, once and for all.