Mommy! Johnny Boehner didn’t return my phone call! Waaaah! Seriously? Is this what a president says in a press briefing? Good Grief!
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National Debt Clock A Long Time Ago When the Debt was Only $6 Trillion
Today the House of Representatives voted on a bill HR 2650, called the Cut, Cap, and Balance bill to get the runaway debt and deficit spending under control. The bill passed the house 234-190, will all but 9 Republicans voting for it and all but 5 Democrats voting against it. Tim Bishop voted no.
How many times are we going to hear asinine comments like the following from Zack Burgess at the Philadelphia Tribune?
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a great oration with his “I Have a Dream” speech that moved millions of Americans to action. Howard Dean gave a puzzling oration with his “I Have a Scream” speech that moved millions of Americans to laughter and derision. Tim Bishop flops at oration with an “I Have a Scheme” remarks that will leave hundreds (he’d be hard pressed to reach millions), scratching their heads.
The Democrats are banking on the American people returning to the days of voting by sound bite. They believe the Tea Party is an anomaly that will go down as a blip in the history books, rather than a force for educating the electorate on the issues. It is a strategy that has worked for them, even as recently as the 2010 election. In the First Congressional District of New York, Congressman Tim Bishop ran for reelection entirely on bashing his opponent, and not mentioning his record of voting with Nancy Pelosi 97% of the time.
Today we find out if the politicians in Washington can avoid a government shutdown. The morning line, is “not likely.” Let’s put this in context. For all the wailing and gnashing of teeth this will end up being about whether the gaping hole in the current budget is closer to a staggering $1.6 trillion or a mere eyepopping $1.5 trillion.
It was fun to watch the news yesterday whenever a Democrat was on and was asked, “Why didn’t you pass a budget when you had both houses of Congress and the White House?” After some feet shifting, the answers ranged from, “Well a budget is only a piece of paper it doesn’t commit to anything,” to, “That’s in the past and there’s nothing we can do about that now.” In other words we should move on.org I am disaappointed that the anchors didn’t follow up with, “You could have also passed all the appropriations bills for the remainder of the fiscal year, which would have taken this entire discussion off the table.” But it would have also shown what reckless spenders the Democrats were, right before the election which would have made their bloodbath even worse.
So now you can expect a heavy dose of heavy breathing, name calling, and Democratic righteous indignation captured on C-SPAN. (How quickly they can switch roles). But through it all, I want you to try a little mind exercise that will make everything crystal clear. You are hearing more and more venom coming out against the Tea Party, you know, that group of insignificant, Astroturf, (insert crude sexual reference here), overhyped, fading away, people who don’t matter any more, except to be a scapegoat for the left. Here’s the exercise: whenever you hear a Democrat or other statist say “Tea Party”, subsitute the word “People” and the meaning will be clear. “The People have hijacked the Republican Party.” “Boehner is being held hostage and prodded to make extreme cuts by the People.” You see, People, the statists are deathly afraid of the sleeping giant that has been awakened. They don’t like an electorate that pays attention. The electorate that they like is kept sedated with earmarks, told what to do and when to do it by the unions and community organizers, and dutifully pull the lever for them, and then go back to wherever the hell they came from.
They don’t like being outnumbered by millions who know the Constitution better than they do and will extract a price if they don’t do their jobs.
That’s my opinion; I’d like to know yours. Please comment below.
The new model of public service that we are being sold from Democrats and progressives is to get elected and then do nothing and stop anyone who tries to actually serve those who elected them. Shall we call it a politician subsidy or welfare, where we pay them to do nothing?
The order in the Middle East has been crumbling, but it seems that the only place President Barack Obama knows where to lead is on the dance floor or when ramming through his socialist programs. When it comes to real solutions to fix the economy or on foreign policy he is utterly lost.
It seemed an unlikely place. But then so was Gettysburg. If you asked anyone at about the time the Tea Party started if Wisconsin would be a major battleground, I don’t think they would have agreed. But in the last few days, a new Republican governor has taken on the public unions and they have fought back with a vengeance. It is a battle they can little afford to lose.
The corrupt main stream media, the unions, and President Barack Obama are fighting their Waterloo. The voters have had enough of bloated out of control government. The private sector struggles with unemployment and a stagnant economy, while the public sector grows and out earns them while they have to pay for it. The union thugs take to the streets, shut down schools, take students out of the classroom to protest with their union teachers, while Democrat lawmakers flee the state instead of doing their job. Is this Greece? No, it is Madison, Wisconsin.
