Posted on 01/02/2015 10:14:42 AM PST by iowamark
The day after Republicans won the largest majority in the House of Representatives in almost 100 years and won a significant majority in the Senate, our liberal activist president claimed to hear the voices of all the people who didn’t vote. It was another example of stunning obstinacy from this president.
It seemed Democrats were melting down, Republicans were unified, and all we had to do was buy enough time to get our Republican reinforcements to Washington in January.
Like President Obama, Speaker John Boehner must have heard voices that didn’t vote.
Together, they crafted the CR/omnibus, a $1.1 trillion spending bill that funded the government for 10 months and blocked our newest elected Republicans from advancing conservative policy and delivering on campaign promises. With this vote, Republicans gave away the best tool available to rein in our liberal activist president: the power of the purse. The power of the purse is Congress’ constitutional strength.
For the next 10 months, the CR/omnibus will fulfill Obama’s ambition of creating an even larger constituency of dependency on Obamacare. The president’s goal has always been to create as much dependency as possible before enforcing the destructive employer mandate. The CR/omnibus hands the liberals that victory. This is unconscionable after watching the campaign rhetoric that won such decisive victories for the GOP.
Department of Homeland Security appropriations expire in February, when Republicans will supposedly fight to defund the illegal amnesty plan created by the president. Does anybody believe that Obama is concerned about Republicans not funding DHS? Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have already sued the administration for not allowing them to enforce the law.
The Constitution requires the president to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. He has refused to enforce the laws on border security, Obamacare, illicit drugs and the release of detained terrorists. His activism in his last two years has accelerated to include executive amnesty, initiating international climate deals without a treaty, and establishing an embassy in Cuba without consulting Congress. When our Constitution is under assault and House Republicans give away our constitutional power of the purse, they share the guilt of abandoning our founding principles.
The CR/omnibus legislation sufficiently undermines the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution that it warrants my pending vote against the speaker. John Boehner went too far when he teamed with Obama to advance this legislation. He relinquished the power of the purse, and with it he lost my vote.
This is why I voted for him!
Me too!! I hope many freepers will use what media they have to urger their Congressman to get rid of the Rino.Can’t stand him. He is capitulator. He is on video saying “We will fight the president’s AMNESTY tooth and nail. What a disjoinder from what he really did which was TO FUND IT!! GET OUT.
The only chance is to change the party from within. True conservatives must take it over, and the only way to do that is through the primary process. The current corruption didn't happen overnight, and the cure for it will take time as well. Keep challenging and beating RINOs in primaries and things will eventually change for the better.
Unfortunately though, once the general election rolls around the only real choice is to vote for the most conservative (or least liberal) candidate. Don't lodge meaningless protest votes - dry up the pool of available RINOs during the primaries instead.
It doesn't matter you will just get a Boehner clone.
They are not fools, we are. If we can not recognize that then the Republic is truly over.
From another thread:
Marsha Blackburn should be asked unofficially if she would be willing, and if she says yes, then she should remain quiet while Conservatives prepare to appoint her.
She has the right experience and the right stuff to ascend to Speaker.
And it is important that Conservatives put her name out there while she shuns the cameras and mics. But Conservatives must know ahead of time that she’s willing to accept.
As much as we decry the imperial presidency the GOPe don’t seem to mind and imperial speaker.
I wouldn’t elect Boner to weed my garden.
Many in Maine will be watching to see how Bruce Poliquin votes. I pray he does not follow the path Jim Longley took.
Unfortunately, it looks like we'll be stuck with Speaker Spray Tan for the next two years.
Rep Marsha Blackburn.
I also love Rep Gohmert.
One vote. Ha!
And big Kabuki Dance and the Nonehead wins by one vote.
They are probably already prepping for the Kabuki Show
(Seeing who Will Be Allowed To Vote Against Bonehead)
And Then 1 Vote.
I’d probably bet the farm on it. They will then justify the 1 vote margin with propaganda of how America is so closely divided.
That election thing? That was yesterday’s truth citizen. BTW, you are looking stressed. Perhaps suicidal. Report you your Obamacare approved and GOP funded psych for an eval. Leave your guns in their locked cases for collection while you’re gone.
And remember to vote.
I love Big Brother.
And then the Bonehead will say "See, I can work across the aisle, with all those people you threw out of office last time!!"
That is the unfortunate reality. But we have to do this even if it doesn't work. Put them on the record.
I agree with you on the “absolutely corrupt” part. I’m still holding out hope that Boehner gets thrown out a fifth floor window!
It would set a new precedent if they did.
From Wikopedia: It is expected that members of the House vote for their party's candidate. If they do not, they usually vote for someone else in their party or vote "present". Those who vote for the other party's candidate often face serious consequences, up to and including the loss of seniority. The last instance where a representative voted for the other party's candidate was in 2000, when Democrat Jim Traficant of Ohio voted for Republican Dennis Hastert. In response, the Democrats stripped him of his seniority and he lost all of his committee posts.
OK....is there any chance Boner is gone???
So why the hell did he NOT VOTE NO on the procedural vote (like the other 16 Repubs) that let it reach the floor?
There’s a bit of a show going on of course, pretend conservatism.
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