Republican Senators neuter Federal Reserve Transparency bill

[GoreNoMore]

Republican Senators neuter Federal Reserve Transparency bill

Things like this are examples of why I am apolitical. I am not an advocate of a single party system. These blame those and those blame these, and round and round we go. The name of the game is "keep the sheep fat and happy". And it does not help that I am in Alabama myself and have been all my life. It helps to remember thou that those in Washington truly do not represent their constituents.

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HR 1207, the bill to Audit the Fed, now has 179 co-sponsors. Currently the leadership of the two parties has not addressed this legislation until recently. A Senate audit bill that is unrelated to HR 1207 titled “HC-45” was introduced to audit the Fed and was promptly amended to limit the scope. It appears now that a so-called limited government Republican by the name of Richard Shelby did the watering down of the bill. Apparently he has written into the margins of the bill in pencil "with respect to a single and specific partnership or corporation." That means that the scope of the GAO’s audit has been severely limited. This modified version of the amendment does not give GAO authority to look at all of the additional taxpayer risk. Why the secrecy congressmen? Senator Charles Grassley conceded to the amendments, and has therefore shown his stripes as willing to compromise the financial security of the United States citizenry for his own political gain.

Voters would do well to remember Senator Grassley and Shelby as people who do not support oversight or transparency into the monetary system of the United States. These Senators have abdicated their responsibility to the people and should immediately step down.

http://www.lp.org/blogs/austin-petersen/republican-senators-neuter-federal-reserve-transparency-bill

[GoreNoMore]

Things just seem to get stranger and stranger. Who would have thought?

[thecabal]

The whole rotten Dem/Rep oligarchy is corrupt to the core. We have to flush them all to have a chance to regain our country.

[KoRn]

Pathetic!!

They are like puppets.

Who is the puppeteer?

[kalee]

Power, the power of the office.
Lindsey Graham said it all last week with his “I am a Senator” comment.

[org.whodat]

The answer is the boys who supply the whores, K street calls the tune and plays the fiddle for the republican party.

[KoRn]

"Lindsey Graham said it all last week with his “I am a Senator” comment."

I recall seeing that. The good people of SC need to vote him out and throw his ass off into the Atlantic.

[Dick Bachert]

RE-ELECT NOBODY!

BUT, HOUSTON, WE STILL HAVE A PROBLEM!

What is to be done about the HILL RATS? These are the allegedly “professional” staffers who are so named because after an election their current boss loses, they scurry like rats to a new member – ANY MEMBER (his politics frequently seldom matter) – just to remain close to the power. Most are flaming liberals and, after the “experienced” staffer shows the new guy where the john is, because they have been up there for decades, far too many of these new members rely on them for how to vote and get along in the thoroughly corrupt system of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” that has caused the mess in which we now find ourselves.

IT GETS WORSE!

Let’s say the new guy needs an “expert” on tax policy. Well, son-of-a-gun, the professional staffer JUST HAPPENS to have a college chum who works at the IRS! Need an “expert” on education policy. Darned if that secretary he just hired doesn’t just have an old teacher friend who works over at the Department of Education!

NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME – ESPECIALLY IN MALFUNCTION JUNCTION. Looks like we will also need TENURE LIMITS with stiff penalties for breaking the rules!

[callisto]

We have to flush them all to have a chance to regain our country.

AND restore term limits!

[FReepaholic]

...The name of the game is "keep the sheep fat and happy"...

More like "divide and conquer".

As a great Alabamian once said of the two political parties: "There's not a dime's worth of difference between them."

[Dick Bachert]

Usually the guys with enough cash to help them win the next election.

It’s all about staying up there.

In fact, many of these clowns who lose wind up on K Street in a high 6 figure position trying — and often succeeding in — influencing their former pal’s votes.

[TADSLOS]

Money talks. The question is...who’s money?

[murphE]

ping

[SteelTrap]

I’m in TX and I have had it up to HERE with my Senators. Corncob and the cheerleader are slipping to the left on all sorts of issues. They aren’t even trying to that hard to hide it any more.

And I found out yesterday that the state senate included freeway traffic lights in a must-pass transportation bill. All these money grubbing corrupt SOB’s need to be thrown out on their asses! Its time to bring back the Hammer & Dick Armey!

[ColdSteelTalon]

Those who are running the new world order cannot be under scrutiny.

[ColdSteelTalon]

Where is the news source quote for this??? So far I see only the words of a blogger...

[djsherin]

Ping

[dcwusmc]

How about applying the death penalty, instantly and on the spot, for breaking the rules. (The Constitution) ANY taxpayer could carry out the sentence, whether on congresscritter or staffer. Any piece of legislation authored by staffer or introduced by member which either increased taxes or otherwise abridged taxpayer rights and liberty would be justification at the subsequent trial. After that, the sole remaining question would be the appropriateness of the method of killing. (Gun-grabbing legislation might merit a bath in the boiling oil vat, for example, whereas a one-cent per million dollars increase in the income tax might merit decapitation only...)

[SecAmndmt]

“A Senate audit bill that is unrelated to HR 1207 titled “HC-45” was introduced to audit the Fed and was promptly amended to limit the scope.”

GoreNoMore: “Things just seem to get stranger and stranger. Who would have thought?”

I expected this to hit a brick wall if it ever got to the Senate. Is it not safe to assume that some (or even many) of the 179 House co-sponsors don’t really want to see the FED audited? And that they knew full well that they could safely co-sponsor a bill which has very little likelihood of being signed into law?

[bamahead]

Voters would do well to remember Senator Grassley and Shelby as people who do not support oversight or transparency into the monetary system of the United States. These Senators have abdicated their responsibility to the people and should immediately step down.



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[ovrtaxt]

Who is the puppeteer? The global banking cartel.

[mad_as_he$$]

Kinda takes the wind out of the “there is no NWO of other controlling entity” crowd. What else explains this other than some one not elected did not want it to happen.

[takenoprisoner]

The tea parties could be the platform from which to launch grassroot campaigns to recall senators like Shelby Grassley and Lindsey.

“Honorable” Senator Shelby,

We have today launched a campaign to recall your sorry ass for attempting to obstruct the will of the people to have transparency in govt. We the people have a right to know what is going on in the federal reserve involving our taxes, our economy, and our monetary system. We the people have demanded a complete and thorough audit of the federal reserve system. While you Senator, in flagrant fashion, are attempting to obstruct such an audit in order, we must assume, to protect someone, or some group, or perhaps even yourself, from disclosure of illegal activities perhaps involving corruption at the highest levels of govt. Nothing else can explain your attempt to limit the scope of an audit of the federal reserve.

We ask you Senator, when the IRS audits one of your constituents, have you introduced legislation to limit it’s scope?

[Landru]

>ping<

The comments, read the comments. :o)

[zeugma]

More like "divide and conquer".

They put a lot of effort to keeping things evenly divided. It keeps us all yelling at each other than taking pitchforks to those truely responsible for what is going on.

[gargoyle]

...Let the de-balling of congress begin...

[Dead Corpse]

“Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment’s respite, deserve only the end of a rope... America’s historic misfortune is that her people have seldom been equal to the ideals upon which their nation was established. “— L. Neil Smith, The American Zone (2001)

[dcwusmc]

Very well spoken. That’s one of his I haven’t yet gotten. Thanks!

[Dead Corpse]

Tactical Reflections.

Quite a few of these are expounded upon in his book Lever Action.

[rob777]

"Where is the news source quote for this??? So far I see only the words of a blogger..."


This is the kind of thing that drives me crazy. I edit a news and commentary site connected with a local radio show here and Vermont. There are a lot of "news" items that I would like to include on our site but the practice of documenting sources is virtually non-existent among conservative bloggers. I have been bitten by too many false alarms to post anything without documentation. In several blogs it is alleged that the source is Senator Grassley's website. I could not find it when I went to his website. A number of blogs repeat this but none offer any links. I did find an article on the Huffington Post that at least has a copy of the document at the bottom of the page. I would still prefer a link to the actual document. If it has been pulled down, then explain this but ALWAYS provide a link!

[FBD]

huh...sounds like absolute frustration...
-as expected, this bill isn’t going anywhere, is it?

[Landru]

"huh...sounds like absolute frustration..."

Absolutely. ;^)

"-as expected, this bill isn’t going anywhere, is it?"

Nope, as expected.

It was the thought that counts, though. :o)