Hilarious announcement by CNN newsreader

[Little-Acorn]

A few minutes after 1:00PM here (4:00 PM Eastern), some CNN newsbabe came on, to breathlessly announce that the House of Representatives had adjourned for the day.

"So, since the House members have decided to go home, this means they will not vote on the Fiscal Cliff deal we've been hearing about", she remonstrated.

Almost in the same breath, she then continued on, to say, "This is in part due to a minor procedural matter: There is nothing to vote on."

My wife wondered why I was laughing at the TV (she's the one who had CNN on). I repeated what the newsreader had said, and asked my wife why the absence of anything to vote on was considered a "minor procedural matter", and not the entire cause of months of problems that it actually was.

The House had, of course, passed legislation to avert the "Fiscal Cliff" months ago, in August to be exact. It's the Senate that has passed nothing, and has failed to even vote on anything passed by the House. And that failure goes on, up to the present time, a few minutes after 4:00 Eastern... and THAT is why the House will not be voting on any Fiscal Cliff legislation. (a) They already did, and (b) The Senate, which has done nothing and produced nothing, has not produced anything (such as a compromise to the already-passed House bill) that can be voted on.

But this CNN newsbabe could barely wait to announce how it's all the House's fault that nothing will be passed today.


....Memo to CNN newsbabe: This isn't even news. The tax cut expiration was extended till now, TWO YEARS AGO. Ditto for the automatic spending "cuts" (actually reductions in the rates of increase) in spending, that are also scheduled to take place tomorrow. This was set up, also TWO YEARS AGO. And not a thing has been done since. Why are you acting like it's a sudden crisis when it could have been fixed any time in the last two years?

[Kathianne]

The economy hasn't ever been Obama's top priority, why would it? He appears to hold our economic system in contempt, capitalism. He's for redistribution, socialism at best.

Byron York has a very good article:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-obamas-messianism-makes-economy-a-secondary-concern/article/2517235#.UOIXiLahA9d


Byron York: Obama's 'messianism' makes economy a secondary concern December 31, 2012 | 4:30 pm

Many Republicans have accused Barack Obama of ignoring the economy. That's not true. The problem with Obama is not that he has ignored the economy, but that it was never his top priority in his first term as president, even as millions of Americans suffered the consequences of a devastating economic downturn.



Now, with many still struggling, we know the economy won't be Obama's top concern in his second term, either. On "Meet the Press" on Sunday, when the president was asked to name his top priority for the next four years, he first listed immigration reform. "That's something we should get done," Obama said.



The economy came after that, as the president continued: "The second thing that we've got to do is to stabilize the economy and make sure it's growing."



Obama's third priority for his new term is to manage the explosion in U.S. energy production "in a way that also deals with some of the environmental challenges that we have." Given that the energy revolution -- fracking and the discovery of huge new sources of gas and oil -- is a key driver of economic growth, Obama's third priority is, in effect, to put the brakes on his second priority.

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