Posted by Tina
Before stepping down John Boehner and the House of Representatives passed a spending bill that also raises the debt limit. This morning we find the Senate, under Mitch McConnel’s leadership, passed the legislation in the dead of night. The budget grants a two-year extension for democrat policy. Ted Cruz took to the floor and behaved like a mature, committed servant of the people:
“I’ve got to say, Leader McConnell has proven to be a very effective Democratic leader. With just 46 Democrats, the outcome is exactly what Harry Reid and the Democrats would want,” Cruz said of the budget accord. “Is this not a curious state of affairs? Why is a Republican majority leader fighting to accomplish the priorities of the Democratic minority.”… “In the Senate we have one leadership team. It is the McConnell-Reid leadership team. In the House we have had the Boehner-Pelosi leadership team. They operate in complete harmony growing Washington,” Cruz said. “That frustration is what is driving every day the growing and growing rage from the American people.”
The compromise deal includes $80 billion in new military and domestic spending. Cruz is right about the growing rage.
By the way you realize the deficit has been cut by 1 Trillion Dollars. Now if we could just get rid of waste in Military contracts on crap we will never use
The Budget sucks as is a crappy compromise where Republicans cut disability and social security again.
2014, The Weekly Standard:
As anyone who has bothered to inform themselves on government speak knows, when our leaders talk about cuts they refer to cuts in proposed increases. They ask for $100 million increase for a program. It gets “cut” to $80 million and is then heralded or decried as a “cut” depending on political persuasion.
PBS:
Daily Kos:
So this doesn’t represent a cut to SS but a change in regulation to close a “loophole.”
Interview on the incredibly corrupt, vile and disgusting Clintons. Everyone needs to listen to this and these criminals need to be exposed.
And did you know that 80% of Hillary donors are Jeb donors? Just proves that Demonrats or Republocons they are just different wings of the same corrupt, evil bird of prey.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/roger-stone-endorses-trump/
Good riddance to Johnny Lawnchair. A must read article
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/good-riddance-to-johnny-lawnchair-the-fastest-fold-on-the-potomac/
Indeed, these people are beyond shame. The big bulge of $33 billion of savings shown for the never never land of 2025 is due to a sharp increase in assumed discretionary spending cuts and Medicare benefit reductions. That is, the very same programs that are being pumped up during the next three years!
And that’s the same thing the Ryan-Murray budget did two years ago with respect to FY2014-15. In combination these 11th hour bipartisan shams have thus added $143 billion of real money to the national debt for the years before 2021, “paying” for them with imaginary savings to be realized after 2021. That is, until we get there—– at which time anything which bites into the gravy train will be predictably deferred.
And if you think Ryan is going to be better than Johnny Lawnchair you are in for a big disappointment. He will continue to play the Demopublican game because Demonrat or Republocon, they are just different wings of the same corrupt bird of prey.
Obama and Ryan: Covert collaborators
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/barack-obama-paul-ryan-relationship-215398
And good for Tom Tancredo. This is a must read!
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/30/former-congressman-im-quitting-gop/
Good article about why Tom Tancredo is leaving the Republican party. His reasons are the same as mine and why I don’t identify as a Republican any more.
Regrettably, the RNC and Calif. GOP still have my phone number and address, so I get calls all of the time, most of which I don’t answer. On occasion I do answer, because I think it might be a friend who has her phone # blocked. Every time I tell them to take my number off of their list, but of course they don’t. During the last call the young man asked me what I was going to do if Hillary was the Democrat’s candidate? My response was unless Ted Cruz was our candidate I would stay home. He went silent. I’ll do the same for future calls. Hopefully, they’ll get the message. NOT!
Peggy, I’m right there with you. The GOP has failed time after time to live up to their own rhetoric. I love what they say, I do not love what they do. When compared to the democrats, they (dems) promise to do stupid stuff and they do it, to great applause from their moron voters. Besides that they are outfoxing the GOP at every turn.
Jack, you have to watch this. It’s long but worth every minute.
I love this man. He is the real life Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
http://www.westernfreepress.com/2015/10/31/ted-cruzs-historic-grand-slam-speech-against-the-washington-cartel/
I love Ted Cruz.
90 minutes is a long block of time for most people, even me. I sure hope this speech gets broken into a series of clips.
The man is brilliant.
In the last presidential election 3 million Republicans stayed home because Mitt Romney wasn’t conservative enough. Had they voted, Romney would be our president today. I think we would be better off. Much better off.
I shake my head in utter disbelief, especially now when the unencumbered version of Obama has been set loose on our nation and the folly of such a move has been made clear.
The conservative’s Achilles Heel is his rabid stubbornness for perfection in a candidate. This thinking is irrational and something from my perspective we will never, or rarely, see. Americans don’t take their ball and go home…we play the best game we possibly can with the team we have.
While the socialists of this country content themselves with bite after bite, leading to meal after meal, and finally a banquet in terms of their goals the more conservative republicans spit out the bites they can’t agree with 100% so that they never finish a sandwich much less have the opportunity to attend the banquet. In the last seventy plus years this is how our nation has been fed and we are more socialist than ever.
Somehow, despite this insanity, the Republicans are winning at state levels all across the nation:
This achievement is profound evidence that the conservative message is pressing the national narrative to the right…we are gaining ground at the grass roots. We are building in strength and will enjoy greater influence over the things that matter to us most. The people who hold these positions are not all conservative; some are moderate. Not all of them agree completely on important issues. But the rightward trend cannot be denied. You can bet that the Democrat machine is working very hard to reverse this trend.
The Democrat field for president has two contenders at the moment worthy of notice, Hilary and Bernie. Both are big government fanatics. Both want to expand programs and institutions of learning for greater government control over our lives. One is, for certain, an unscrupulous person who probably deserves to go to jail.
Conservatives, Republicans, Independents and moderate Democrats who won’t vote for Sanders or Clinton, would be fools to stay home this time. This isn’t a political contest between two American parties. This is a fight for the very survival of our democratic republic. This is a fight for our liberties and for the very nature of our nation. This is the election that will determine whether we remain a free republic and begin to rebuild the ideals and institutions of our founding or remain on track to join those who hold more tyrannical ideals.
We must ask ourselves an important question as election day approaches: ” Must freedom wither in a quiet, deadening accommodation with totalitarian evil?”
Are we willing to participate in our own demise, even inadvertently?
Let us learn fro our own history and consider:
“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom I see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth all the means. This is our day of deliverance.” – John Adams
“If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight!” – Patrick Henry
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. — Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, 1787
There are times when “rebellion” means support for the lesser candidate.
While I understand the desire to send the RNC a strong message and applaud it, I also understand that words mean things and have no desire to encourage staying home rather than coming out to vote for the more conservative choice.
Let me clarify my above comment about the GOP call I received. My statement was made out of frustration because of the constant calls and for more of a shock value to get his attention to take my name off of their call list.
Ted Cruz is my #1 pick because I strongly believe he will be the best president amongst the other candidates from both parties. I make monthly contributions to his campaign and will continue to do so until the final pick is made, hopefully, in November of 2016.
I would go to the polls for all of the other candidates, except two. The two I won’t go for are Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush, because both would be very bad for the country and I don’t believe either can be elected president.
Based on the increased number of Republicans who have been elected in every state as governors, state legislators, county supervisors, city council and school board members we’ll have a strong base of candidates for federal positions for decades to come.
I couldn’t find the specific article I read that included the information for all of the positions I listed above, but did find this one on just the state legislators increased since 2010.
Republicans have gained more than 900 state legislative seats since 2010:
“Everyone knows by now that 2010 and 2014 were very good to the Republican Party. What they don’t understand (or understand well enough) is just how good. Yes, Republicans now control the Senate and have their largest majority in the House since World War II. But it’s downballot (way downballot) where the depth of the Republican victories over the past three elections truly reveal themselves — and where the impact will be felt over the long term.
As NCSL notes, Republicans now control more than 4,100 seats — their highest number since 1920. After taking over 11 legislative chambers from Democrats in 2014, Republicans now control 30 state legislatures completely — and have full control of state government (state legislature and governorship) in 23 states. Democrats, by contrast, have full control of 11 state legislatures and total control of state government in just seven states.
Why does the lopsided state of legislative control matter to national politics? For lots of reasons.
1. Policy is made at the state legislative level. That’s policy pertaining to states and policy that gets bumped up to the federal level. With Republicans in control of so many state governments, the policy incubator for their side will be vastly superior to what Democrats can do at the state and local levels.
2. State legislatures and governors redraw congressional lines. In most states, how the nation’s 435 House districts will look after the 2020 Census will be determined by state legislators and governors. And guess what? Republican legislators (and governors) are more likely to draw lines that are friendly to their side. Unless Democrats can reverse their state House and Senate losses before the 2021 redraw, Republicans could control the House for a very, very long time.
3. State legislatures are the minor leagues. Most of the politicians — President Obama included — who have gone on to great things, politically speaking, honed their craft in the state legislature of their home (or adopted home) state. Republicans’ farm system to grow the sort of talent that might one day run for House, Senate or even president is now significantly larger than that of Democrats.
Yes, in the near term, nothing matters more than which party hold the majority in the U.S. House and Senate. But, if you are playing the long game — and both parties have to if they want to stay vibrant and effective — what happens at the state legislative level has huge import. And, in that contest, there is no contest: Republicans are winning in a landslide.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/01/14/republicans-have-gained-more-than-900-state-legislative-seats-since-2010/
I may be changing my list.
Marco Rubio To Jorge Ramos: I Will Keep Obama’s First Executive Amnesty In Place Until Legislative Amnesty Enacted:
“In a little-noticed interview earlier this year with Univision’s Jorge Ramos, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
77%
declared that, as President, he would keep Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for DREAMers in place until it was permanently codified through legislation.
Rubio said, in part:
DACA…applies to young people that arrived in this country at a very young age before they were adults and I don’t think we can immediately revoke that… I’m not calling for it to be revoked tomorrow, or this week, or right away.
“I think it will have to end at some point and I hope it will end because of some reform to the immigration laws,” Rubio said in English.
So Rubio is pledging to carry Obama’s policy: leaving the executive amnesty for DREAMers in place until Congress submits to the order by legislatively ratifying amnesty. After a legislatively ratified DREAM Act, illegal aliens would be able to vote in U.S. elections and bring their relatives to work and collect entitlements in the United States.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/02/marco-rubio-jorge-ramos-will-keep-obamas-first-executive-amnesty-place-legislative-amnesty-enacted/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
You guys realize raising the debt ceiling gives the U.S. government the ability to pay the bills it has already incurred. We already spent the money and need to pay the bill.
So are you upset we do not default? We should not pay the bills we already incurred?
The message we wish to send is: STOP SPENDING.
What will happen when interest rates can no longer be kept artificially low as the fed has done for seven years?
Fun facts grabbed from the web:
Eighty-five percent of the projected growth in spending over the next decade is due to entitlement spending and interest on the debt
Obamacare is the largest driver of increasing federal health care spending, and it alone will add $1.8 trillion in federal spending by 2024.
Waste is everywhere. Example: The National Institutes of Health spent $387,000 to study the effects of Swedish massage on rabbits
Over the past 20 years, federal spending grew 63 percent faster than inflation.