or socialism on people has been by way of medicine..."
President Ronald Reagan
Posted on 07/28/2013 6:36:44 AM PDT by LD Jackson
With us or against all Americans. Simple thing here.
Here's the thing:
Only Obama can "shut down the government," by refusing to sign appropriation bills.
And only the House can appropriate.
So who's being dishonest?
Or stupid...
Time for him to go too. He’s become one of them, convinced of all the arguements that not a single dime out of any department can ever be reduced.
Coburn's case against the proposal is simple: Republicans, having failed to win control of the White House and Senate in 2012, do not have the votes to cut off Obamacare funding.
Or gutless?
This sounds like good advise.
I'm sure such sensible advise was expressed by such a man before the American revolution.
You obviously have no clue what Senator Coburn has been doing for years. Your statement tells me that. He does not agree with the argument that no department can withstand reduced funding. He has fought, for years, to do exactly that.
So we close down the Government and lose the House. What good is a House run by Nancy Pelosi who works the strings on the Boehner puppet.
No way will they defund Obamacare, not with Boehner in the drivers seat.
Obamacare and Amnesty will bankrupt the country and the Republicans will be blamed no matter what happens.
But you must be right that what has worked for Democrats in the past won't work for Republicans because well . . . . they're Republicans.
One thing Coburn did was refuse to vet Obama while both were on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2008 which put McCain through the wringer. If Coburn had been honest, we might not have Obama as President.
So then - according to Coburn - the House will be lost if they do not do one single thing to defund a program that virtually EVERYBODY hates (including the Democrat unions who stupidly helped foist this nightmare upon the nation) but thinks the House will be “saved” for Republicans who choose to do nothing, let Obama have his way of more deeply entrenching the program making it more difficult to remove later (which they won’t)??
Coburn has been in Washington too long. Even good people go bad if they dwell in the Capitol too long.
I have every idea what Tom Coburn has been doing for years. He has been going along to get along (or, in your illiterate locution, he has been 'wenting' along) and to get reelected.
In the year and a half before the passage of Obamacare I listened to this old hack offer every rationalization to oppose opposing Obamacare ("Obama won the election, Obama is a good man, it's going to be the law of the land, it is the law of the land, blah blah"), and he continues to do it now.
Go ahead, stand with the great Coburn. Get a new hairstyle, a new beard, a new pair of glasses every two weeks, and then land a booking on MSNBC, which is what he seems to view as very meaningful action for a careerist politician to do.
Come out AGAINST your once-fellow conservatives, for being impractical, obstructionist, unreasonable, dishonest.
You stand with Coburn. Coburn stands with that "good man" Obama and his (Coburn's) "very good friend" Nancy Pelosi.
I stand against you.
That's not how the Liberal press is going to spin it - it's a bad idea POLITICALLY to try and shutdown. It will not succeed.
Conservatives have much better ground to fight on (ie Sequestration), use that, not Obamacare - Besides, the House just took a vote to delay implementation, use that.
"G.O.P." "Going Over the Precipice."
Friends,
DC has become an imperial city in every sense of the word. The seven richest counties in the country are those that adjoin DC.
We are treated as colonies from which to extract wealth.
The Senate, the armed or monied Praetorians who select them and slavish silk bedecked courtiers who rely on the continued fleecing of the provinces for their wealth.....will corrupt or compromise any man long in that Sodom on the on Potomac.
Colburn by his statements has been compromised as has everyone else who whines that “we can’t do that”.
If a man were not compromised by the culture....or tolerant of it.....over a 20 year period, he would be on all our lips as a William Wallace, a Moses. Colburn is not such a man.
He is a conservative and votes right on most things.....but he is compromised. Trying to trim a plant that still gets bigger every year no matter which party is in control?
The DC weed needs dug out by the roots and the ground sown with salt.
Demand they shut it down. Shut it all down. Fund enough to cover SS, retirements, DoD, and other Constitutional services......and let the states cover the rest.
We have 50 states that duplicate services (or could very quickly)in every regard what we need save for defense and retirement.
To argue otherwise at this time in our history is cowardice and corruption speaking.
These same men send our son’s to die on foreign soil and call it duty. Yet they won’t risk their power and paycheck to save the very Republic they demand others die for?
Demand they shut it down!
I'm totally confident it will be ended, but don't give Obama a platform to stand on.
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