Missouri and U.S. Republicans Suffer Stinging Defeats on Taxes and Guns

[paul alan]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Republican-dominated state legislature was dealt a stinging blow on Wednesday when lawmakers failed to override the Democratic governor’s vetoes on two emotionally charged measures: one for sweeping tax cuts, and another preventing the enforcement of federal gun laws in the state



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/us/missouri-legislature-fails-to-override-tax-cut-veto.html?_r=0


Nice ....

:)

[paul alan]

Legislators had returned to the State Capitol here to chip away at the 29 bills and four line items that Gov. Jay Nixon had vetoed — the most vetoes he has issued in a single session in his five years as governor. He was overridden more times in a year than any previous governor since the two-thirds majority rule was instituted.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/us/missouri-legislature-fails-to-override-tax-cut-veto.html?_r=0

[nic34]

It helps not having one party rule....

[Chris]

It also helps having now three threads on same topic.

[Boris The Animal]

It helps not having one party rule....
But that is exactly what you advocate, nicotine!

[paul alan]

....But Mr. Nixon won victories on the two most divisive measures, in an unlikely turn for a man who, for the first time in his tenure, faced veto-proof Republican supermajorities in both chambers.

“It’s a defining moment,” Mr. Nixon said at a news conference after his veto on the tax-cut bill was upheld. “Today was about protecting our economy, our communities and, especially, our schools from this costly and misguided bill.”



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/us/missouri-legislature-fails-to-override-tax-cut-veto.html?_r=1&




Makes the NRA win in Colorado look like child's play ....

:)

[paul alan]

It also helps having now three threads on same topic.

It also helps to have a truthful thread on the inability of Missouri Republicans to override the Governor's veto.


:)

[Chris]

His reference to Sisyphus is insightful. “We’re like the old Greek demigod who pushed the rock up the hill, just to watch the rock fall back down,” Mr. Berry said after Wednesday’s vote. The sruggle for liberty against an ever more powerful government is nigh on futile. It consumes us.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVQznzyE3BM

[paul alan]

....Over the summer, Mr. Nixon devoted most of his attention to the tax-cut bill, barnstorming the state to argue that it would decimate financing for education, mental health and other services. The bill would have slashed taxes for businesses and lowered the state’s income tax rate for the first time in more than 90 years.

The governor stitched together a broad coalition of support from the educators, with more than a hundred school boards across the state passing resolutions to sustain the veto.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/us/missouri-legislature-fails-to-override-tax-cut-veto.html?_r=1&


Master politicians teaching the tea party what Government is all about ....

Excellent....

:)

[paul alan]

....Mr. Nixon also enraged some opponents by withholding $400 million in state spending that he said he would release only if the tax cut failed. On Wednesday he said he would work to distribute the money quickly.


Cool ....

:)

[paul alan]

...After a summer of escalating confrontation and more than an hour and a half of debate on the House floor, 94 members, all of them Republican, voted in favor of overriding the veto of the tax cut, and 67 voted against it, with 15 Republicans joining the Democrats.

That fell well short of the 109 votes needed.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/us/missouri-legislature-fails-to-override-tax-cut-veto.html?_r=1&


Cons are still celebrating the vote ... and find it best to ignore the veto ....


:toothy9:.