Economic Bailout Vote Reveals Republicans Irrelevant In Government

Start Thinking Right ^ | February 7. 2009 | Michael Eden

[Michael Eden]

Three Republican Senators made the Republican Party irrelevant until at least 2010. Their names are Susan Collins and Olympia Snow (both from Maine), Arlen Specter (of Pennsylvania).

After being nearly entirely excluded from the process of drafting the legislation for the Obama American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (or Generational Theft Act, or European Socialist Act, or whatever you want to call it - just don't call it "stimulus"), House Republicans finally showed their backbone by unanimously opposing the bloated fiasco. And all but three Senate Republicans joined their House colleagues by standing firmly against a bad Democrat plan.

Only 37% of Americans actually supported the terribly flawed plan, and support was declining daily.

I took part in a US News & World Report survey. Here are the results as of today:

Do you think the stimulus bill should focus more on tax cuts or more on spending?

1. 23.69% I think it should focus more on spending

2. 23.47% I think it should focus equally on spending and tax cuts

3. 52.84% I think it should focus more on tax cuts

In other words, an overwhelming majority of Americans favored the Republican approach.

Democrats are thanking their various deities or lack thereof for the three invertebrate Republican Senators. I don't doubt that Democrats will trumpet this as a "bipartisan compromise." What else should you call it when 3 out of about 218 Republicans votes for a hard-core partisan Democrat bill?

It is sad enough that this plan - which WILL hurt the economy badly over the long run - will pass.

But this betrayal - or display of spinelessness - from Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, and Arlen Specter, has long-term consequences that mean that this tragic socialistic undermining of the capitalist system that made this nation an economic superpower is only the beginning.

In the House, 178 Republicans stood up and said, "HELL NO!" And they were joined by something like 36 Republican Senators. A solid front, to be sure.

But three turncoat RINO-Republican Senators are all it takes to tear the throat out of any Republican opposition to any bill.

Today's vote is a demonstration of the fact that Republicans have no influence whatsoever in our government. Come what may, Republicans are totally irrelevant until at least the 2010 election.

The American people voted for complete Democratic domination. They are going to receive complete Democratic domination. And they are going to pay the bitter consequences for complete Democratic domination.

Democrats own everything now. And the only thing Republicans can do is keep reminding the American people of that fact until they turn on the Democratic Party the way they turned on the Republicans in November.

[Brilliant]

There is no question that the Dems are in firm control of the government, just as they have been for the last 2 years under Queen Nancy.

[lone star annie]

I want to know what is with the RAT senators from red states? What about those two idiots from Arkansas or what about Tim Johnson and Ben Nelson? The voters should send them packing next election.

I think Harry Reid and the rest have threatened them. We are under a dictatorship make no mistake. They will pass amnesty and then we will be in the minority forever and ever.

Dissenters beware. The firing squad is not too far off.

[northislander]

The new treasury secretary strikes me as a total fraud.

Reminds me of Steponallofus during the Clinton reign.

[rellimpank]

—elections have consequences—

[Michael Eden]

By the way,

for the record, the US News & World Report survey is available at:
http://www.usnews.com/sections/news/stimulus/index.html

[Michael Eden]

—elections have consequences—

As does suicide

[dware]

I say no more money or support in ANY form to the GOP - yes, the National party - if just ONE Republican votes for this ignorance. Don’t leave the party. Simply allow the national structure to fall apart. Then, we come in and clean up and start anew. They want to disregard the voices of millions of people? Well, screw them. Want to donate money to the GOP? Give it to someone running against these socialists who call themselves Republicans.

[LuigiBasco]

http://senateconservatives.com/donate/

Try this on for size.
I've given to them and Palin's pac!

Luigi

[Michael Eden]

I actually don’t blame the “Republican Party.” 178 House Republicans were united in their opposition to this. And at least 36 opposed it in the Senate.

You’ve got THREE RINOs who are as Republican as I am Chinese(which is not at all, btw).

I think the GOP should run against these 3 in the primaries and get rid of them.

Bottom line is that the American people voted to pare the GOP to irrelevancy. And now they’re going to pay right up the a@@ for it.

[roses of sharon]

Wait just a minute.....the “American” people will PAY FOR NOTHING, they will receive the stolen goods.

So why would they vote in 2010 for Republicans who will take away their gov cks?

[LibLieSlayer]

The firing squad will have many reticles focused on them too.

LLS

[dware]

I think the GOP should run against these 3 in the primaries and get rid of them.

Thats a cause I would support. But it has to start somewhere, and has to be made known far and wide. If we don't hold our elected officials responsible, they will continue to do this.

[Michael Eden]

If the American people actually had a net benefit, your argument would be completely true.

But they won’t. And the history of economics demonstrates that.

Let me put it this way: would I “vote” for the government to give me $1 million dollars? Sure. Who wouldn’t?

But would I vote for EVERY American to receive $1 million? Not if I was smart.

Why? Because doing so would cost more than $300,000,000,000,000. And that would create a cycle of massive inflation which would end with me taking a wheelbarrow of cash to the grocery store to buy a loaf of bread.

The result of socialism, again and again, is that it ends up creating a smaller pie. And Americans will discover that they actually earn MORE money if they have a smaller share of a LARGER pie than they will under socialism (where they have a more “equal” share of a SMALL pie.

This Porkulus Package WILL hurt the economy in the long run:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/04/cbo-obama-stimulus-harmful-over-long-haul/

[Doc91678]

Seems that Glenn Beck has it right. Beginning with the Maxine Waters slip about nationalization of the Oil Industry right down to the nationalization of the Banking industry and National Health Care. The Democrats now under the leadership of their Fuhrer have lead us into National Socialization. That folks is what we called NAZI in the 30’s.
Now we find that Alcee Hastings has slipped in a Bill to construct six reeducation concentration camps.
So here it is folks a rerun of the German 30’s in the U.S.A. We Americans have voted and elected ourselves into
the abhorrent people we fought against in 1942.

[Doc Savage]

Ask Arlen about Holly Maddox’s body stuffed in the trunk and his bosom buddy pal Ira Einhorn on the run; Ask him about how Scottish Law trumps our Constitution; ask him how he likes being the Dem’s buttboy! I prayed that his illness would end our pain, but no, the good die young on the battlefield, and the bad live forever in the Senate!

[Michael Eden]

I think we have arrived at the point where “My guy is garbage, but their guy is rotten, putrid garbage.”

I haven’t TRULY supported a politician since Reagan (and I also admired Dem Senator Patrick Moynihan).

I didn’t want John McCain for my President. I’ve DESPISED some of the things he’s done. But at the same time, I recognized that at least he wouldn’t destroy the whole freakin’ country like Obama would.

I don’t know what to do anymore. Our political system is so bad it would probably take the total collapse of the whole country and then truly starting from scratch. I mean, it would probably take another biblical flood, with an ark filled with a few truly decent conservatives. Because until Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi are completely washed away, that rot is always going to ruin the country.

[roses of sharon]

You are exactly right, on all points....except that the majority of Americans will vote for Democrats in 2010 and 2012 to “fix” whatever is ailing us, will vote for the party that offers more money from gov.

MOST Americans WANT nationalized health care, they want SS, they want Medicare and Medicaid, and on and on.

Remember, the majority of citizens are NOT real Americans anymore....they do NOT believe in what you and I believe in; individual liberty, small government, etc. They don't believe in the Constitution, they don't even understand it.

This is what 40 years of communist indoctrination have wrought.

The war room of MSM/DNC/Hollywood/Academia/Judiciary, have been successful.

We must admit this FIRST, before we plan a course of action.

[Michael Eden]

And that’s why I am NOT rooting for a “good” economy, but a real genuine downturn.

That’s the ONLY way we’re going to see a rejection of liberalism and socialism.

We’ve got expert trend analysts predicting food riots and tax rebellions by 2012 due to the disastrous policies that are being enacted right now.
http://nationalexpositor.com/News/1494.html

And if anything like that occurs, I don’t think people will keep saying, “We need more Democrats to fix this mess.”

And if they do, to hell with them.

[Michael Eden]

I found an article describing what you were talking about.

Found this statement:
Rep. Hastings created controversy during the 2008 presidential campaign with his provocative comments concerning Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

“If Sarah Palin isn’t enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention,” Hastings said, as reported by ABC News. “Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. So, you just think this through.”

What I can’t understand is that if a guy like Hastings thinks it’s okay to think this way, how does he think it’s wrong to think like the worst white supremacists and white separatists? Isn’t this guy flat out DEMANDING a race war?