Posted on 02/20/2016 9:49:04 AM PST by smoothsailing
We Remember – December 23rd 2009 when Majority Leader Harry Reid passed a version of Obamacare through forced vote at 1:30am. The Senators could not leave, and for the two weeks previous were kept in a prolonged legislative session barred returning to their home-state constituencies. It was, by all measures and reality, a vicious display of forced ideological manipulation of the upper chamber; shared as a reminder for what set the stage, and what followed.
Riddled with anxiety we watched the Machiavellian manipulations unfold, seemingly unable to stop the visible usurpation. Desperate for a tool to stop the construct in December 2009 we found Scott Brown and rallied to deliver $7 million in funding, and a “Kennedy Seat” victory on January 19th 2010.
Unfortunately, the trickery of Majority Leader Harry Reid would not be deterred. Upon legislative return he stripped a House Budgetary bill, and replaced it with the Democrat Senate version of Obamacare through a process of “reconciliation”. Thereby avoiding the 3/5ths vote rule (60) and instead using only a simple majority, 51 votes.
Angered, we rallied to the next election (November 2010) and handed the usurping Democrats the single largest electoral defeat in the prior 100 years. The House returned to Republican control, and one-half of the needed Senate seats reversed. Within the next two election cycles (’12 and ’14) we again removed the Democrats from control of the Senate.
Within each of those three elections we were told Repealing Obamacare would be job #1. It was not an optional part of our representative agreement to do otherwise.
However, from the writing of Jonah Goldberg, an advocate for modern conservative political opinion, you find the following:
[…] If you want a really good sense of the damage Donald Trump is doing to conservatism, consider the fact that for the last five years no issue has united the Right more than opposition to Obamacare.
Opposition to socialized medicine in general has been a core tenet of American conservatism from Day One. Yet, when Republicans were told that Donald Trump favors single-payer health care, support for single-payer health care jumped from 16 percent to 44 percent. (link)
With control of the House and Senate did Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or House Speaker John Boehner use the same level of severity expressed by Harry Reid to put a repeal bill on the desk of Obama for veto?
Simply, NO.
Why not? According to NRO’s Goldberg it’s the “core tenet of American conservatism”.
If for nothing else, but to accept and follow the will of the people. Despite the probability of an Obama veto, this was not a matter of option. While the method might have been “symbolic”, due to the almost guaranteed veto, it would have stood as a promise fulfilled.
Yet the professional political class speak of “core tenets” and question our “trust” of Donald Trump?
TRUST?
We are not blind to the maneuverings of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and President Tom Donohue. We are fully aware the repeal vote did not take place because the U.S. CoC demanded the retention of Obamacare.
Leader McConnell followed the legislative priority of Tom Donohue as opposed to the will of the people.
This was again exemplified with the passage of TPA, another Republican construct which insured the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal could pass the Senate with 51 votes instead of 3/5ths. This is limiting government? No, this is usurpation of the will of the people.
However, the TPA bill passage provides both an example and a contrast.
We are not blind to the reality that when McConnell chooses to change the required senatorial voting threshold he is apt to do so. Not coincidentally, the TPP trade deal is another legislative priority of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Yet you question the “trustworthiness” of Donald Trump’s definitions of conservatism?
Another bill, the Iran “agreement”, reportedly and conveniently not considered a “treaty”. Again, we are not blind; nor are we blind to Republican Bob Corker’s amendment (Corker/Cardin Amendment) changing agreement ratification to a 67-vote-threshold for denial, as opposed to a customary 67 vote threshold for passage. A profound difference.
Yet you question the “principles” of Donald Trump?
A truly representative political body would be questioning the “ideological conservative principle” of their leader, Mitch McConnell. Or questioning Bob Corker. Both McConnell and Corker working to deny the will of the electorate within the party they are supposed to represent.
Of course, you need to remain willfully blind. You need to keep acting as if we are not aware of these closed door machinations. If you faced us, if you opened yourself to really being questioned by us, it would force you to admit some uncomfortable truths.
In years past our confrontation would have included tar and feathers.
Another example soon followed – Lisa Murkowski ? An Alaskan senator who can factually lose her Republican primary bid, yet run as a write-in candidate, without admonishment from the Republican Party, and the professional political class permit her return to the Senate with full seniority and committee responsibilities?
Did the RNC, Reince Preibus, or a republican member of senatorial leadership meet the returning Murkowski and demand a Pledge of Allegiance to the principles within the Republican party? No, but you damned sure required a pledge from candidate Donald Trump. Square that circle.
The “protectionism” and “isolationism” you rail against, in the few media appearances where you are brave enough to raise your head, is simply you projecting your own concerns of your own political interests. In essence, your necessary isolation to retain your status.
We do not forget Mitch McConnell working to re-elect Senator Thad Cochran, fundraising on his behalf in the spring/summer of 2014, even after Cochran lost the first Mississippi primary?
We do not forget the NRSC spending money on racist attack ads. We do not forget the GOP paying Democrats to vote in the second primary to defeat Republican Chris McDaniel. We are well aware the “R” in NRSC is “Republican”.
Perhaps you chose to think we forget. We do not.
You stand jaw agape, in admonition of those who have had enough and are willing to support candidate Donald Trump. Intentionally you must refuse to accept how intensely angry we are. However, specifically because of your refusal, you have now taken yourself further into the bunker and don’t realize the scope of our assembly.
Your latest attempt to quell the rising pitchforks is Paul Ryan; now charged with the definitions of who is allowed to call themselves republican, or conservative.
Tell those definitions to the majority of Conservative Republicans who supported Chris McDaniel and found their own party actively working against them.
Oh, we understand your definitions.
Where is the historical republican “character” in the fact-based exhibitions outlined above?
Remember Virginia 2012, 2013? When the conservative principle-driven electorate changed the method of candidate selection to a convention and removed the party stranglehold on their “chosen candidates”. Remember that? We do.
What did McConnell, the RNC and the GOP do in response with Ken Cuccinelli? They actively spited him and removed funding from his campaign. To teach us a lesson? Well it worked, we learned that lesson.
Representative David Brat was part of that lesson learned and answer delivered. Candidate Donald Trump is similarly an outcome of those lessons learned, and hopefully just as strong an answer forthcoming – yet these professional political voices speak of “character”.
Collectively the GOPe punditry speak of concerns toward candidate Donald Trump’s outlined tax proposals. Yet, these same voices ignore who cut the tax rates on lower margins by 50% thereby removing any tax liability from the bottom 20% wage earners?
Which party simultaneously expanded the role of government dependency programs? That would be the GOP (âBush Tax Cutsâ)
What? How dare you argue against tax cuts, you say.
The truth is the âBush Tax Cutsâ removed tax liability from the bottom 20 to 40% of income earners completely. Leaving the entirety of tax burden on the upper 60% wage earners. Currently, thanks to those cuts, 49% of tax filers pay ZERO federal income tax.
But long term our fiscal house is much worse. The âBush Tax Cutsâ were, in essence, created to stop the post 9/11/01 recession â and they contained a âsunset provisionâ which ended ten years later specifically because, if the baseline budget spending continued, the tax cuts were unsustainable.
The expiration of the lower margin tax cuts then became an argument in the election cycle of 2012. And as usual, the GOP, McConnell and Boehner were insufferably inept during this process.
The GOP (2002) removed tax liability from the lower income levels, and President Obama then (2009) lowered the income threshold for economic subsidy (welfare, food stamps, ebt, medicaid, etc) this was brutally predictable.
This lower revenue higher spending ‘baseline-budget’ approach means – lower tax revenues and increased pressure on the top tax rates (wage earners) with the increased demand for tax spending created within the welfare programs.
Professional DC Republicans focus on âspendingâ without ever admitting they, not the Democrats, lowered rates and set themselves up to be played with the increased need for social program spending, simultaneously. These same politicians have never addressed the abhorrent beast that is baseline budget growth. Ultimately, is this reality/outcome not simply a “tax the rich” program?
As a consequence what’s the difference between the Republicans and Democrats on taxes? All of a sudden Republicans are arguing to “broaden the tax base”. Meaning, reverse the tax cuts they themselves created on the lower income filers?
This is a conservative position now? A need to “tax the poor”? Nice of the Republicans to insure the Democrats have an atomic sledgehammer to use against them.
This is a winning strategy? This is the “conservatism” DC is defending because they are worried about Donald Trump’s principles, character or trustworthiness.
Here’s a list of those modern conservative “small(er) government” principles:
⢠Did the GOP secure the border with control of the White House and Congress? NO.
⢠Did the GOP balance the budget with control of the White House and Congress? NO
⢠Did the GOP even pass a FY 2016 budget with control of the House and Senate? NO.
⢠Who gave us a $2.5 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill in December 2015? The GOP
⢠Who eliminated, not just raise but eliminated, the debt ceiling? The GOP
⢠Who gave us the TSA? The GOP
⢠Who gave us the Patriot Act? The GOP
⢠Who expanded Medicare to include prescription drug coverage? The GOP
⢠Who created the precursor of âCommon Coreâ in âRace To the Topâ? The GOP
⢠Who played the race card in Mississippi to re-elect Thad Cochran? The GOP
⢠Who paid Democrats to vote in the Mississippi primary? The GOP
⢠Who refused to support Ken Cuccinnelli in Virginia? The GOP
⢠Who supported Charlie Crist? The GOP
⢠Who supported Arlen Spector? The GOP
⢠Who supported Bob Bennett? The GOP
⢠Who worked against Jim DeMint? The GOP
⢠Who worked against Rand Paul? The GOP
⢠Who worked against Ted Cruz? The GOP
⢠Who worked against Mike Lee? The GOP
⢠Who worked against Ronald Reagan? The GOP
⢠Who is working against Donald Trump? The GOP
⢠Who said âI think we are going to crush [the Tea Party] everywhere.â? The GOP (McConnell)
And, you wonder why weâre frustrated, desperate for a person who can actually articulate some kind of push-back?
Here’s a shock for ya – We are not just pushing back against Obama, Pelosi and Reid, we are also desperate for push back against you.
Inasmuch as President Obama is our fiscal enemy, so too are Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and now Paul Ryan. Which leads to the next of the GOP talking points. Where they opine:
âPolitics is a game where you donât get everything you wantâ
Fair enough. But considering us “whacko birds” have simply been demanding common sense, ie. fiscal discipline, a BUDGET would be nice.
The last federal budget was passed in September of 2007, and EVERY FLIPPING INSUFFERABLE YEAR we had to go through the predictable fiasco of a Government Shutdown Standoff and/or a Debt Ceiling increase specifically because there is NO BUDGET!
Thatâs a fiscal strategy?
Thatâs the GOP strategy?
Essentially: Lets plan for an annual battle against articulate Democrats and Presidential charm, using a creepy guy who cries and another old mumbling fool who dodders, knowing full well the MSM is on the side of the other guy to begin with?
THATâS WAS YOUR GOP STRATEGY?
Donât tell me itâs not, because if it wasnât thereâd be something else being done. And to make matters even more brutally obvious – when given control of the House and Senate in 2015 what did the GOP do?
The Republican DC politicians eliminated the entire debt ceiling, passed a $2.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, and kicked the can all the way to March 2017.
That’s a flippin’ solution?
That’s a republican solution?
That’s a conservative solution?
And don’t think we don’t know the 2009 “stimulus” became embedded in the baseline of the federal spending, and absent of an actual budget it just gets spent and added to the deficit each year, every year. Yet this is somehow smaller fiscal government?
But rednecks do it better than submariners. Because a humble redneck He was born.
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-levy-6/a-humble-redneck-i-was-born
The Iranian question is child’s play. We think that everything has to be big and grandiose and glorify the RAH! RAH! WORLD GUARDIAN! USA!
But the answer could be as mundane as when the wheels came off the chariots of the Egyptians (or possibly, jammed).
Kind of a heavenly counterpart to the Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute, sentiment.
Looks like Cruz is wrapping himself in the Confederate battle flag instead of the U.S. flag.
I didn’t know the Confederate flag was so popular in Cuba and Canada. I guess I have learned things I wasn’t aware of.
So does this mean per his robocalls if Cruz wins the election, he will be raising the Confederate battle flag at the White House grounds? That would certainly be an historic moment.
However, in Florida I heard he is wrapping himself in the Cuban flag. What about the Canadian flag?
Most all of the Tree House posts are informative. I’ve gained alot of knowledge there and have had my conservative batteries recharged often.
Crazy but if people support the cubans as NBC how can they not support all the Muslim with American mothers.
He’s saving the Canadian flag for Maine and Michigan, assuming he gets that far.
OMG this was read just before taking my BP!
Now to attempt and wait till it subsides. Certainly made the blood boil again. And these fools in DC really don’t get it? IMPOSSIBLE!
Sundance rocks.
Revelation Chapter 12:
1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.
2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 1193). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
Previous Bible commentators have taken this as a symbolic vision about Israel (Mary) giving birth to Jesus, and marking the start of the 3 1/2 year Great Tribulation.
However, since “knowledge had increased”, we can use star charting programs such as Stellarium to see that this could be a literal “great sign” in heaven.
The constellation “Virgo”, the Virgin, has always been identified with Mary the Mother of Jesus. The nine stars of Leo, the Lion (of Judah), form a “garland” above her head.
Jupiter has always been identified as the “King” star. It is striped (by His stripes we are healed) and has a large, red spot (they pierced His side).
Here is the sequence of events regarding the Sun, Moon, Jupiter, Virgo, Leo, Mercury, Mars and Venus
Mon, 21 November 2016 = 20th of Cheshvan, 5777
Jupiter enters Virgo (the Virgin’s Womb) crossing line from Spica to Porrima
Sat, 28 January 2017 = 1st of Sh’vat, 5777
Jupiter retrograde motion begins inside Virgo.
Sat, 10 June 2017 = 16th of Sivan, 5777
Jupiter prograde motion resumes inside Virgo
Thu, 17 August 2017 = 25th of Av, 5777
Total Solar eclipse across America (Charleston to Portland)
Sun, 10 September 2017 = 19th of Elul, 5777
Jupiter crosses Heze — Spica line. Virgin gives birth? Conjunction Regulus and Mercury
Wed, 20 September 2017 = 29th of Elul, 5777
New Moon, Venus — Regulus conjunction
Sun, 24 September 2017 = 4th of Tishrei, 5778
Sun at Virgo’s shoulders (clothed), the Moon is at her feet, Mercury, Mars, Venus are added to Leo’s nine stars as Virgo’s 12-star ‘garland’
The great sign in the heaven is complete. This formation has not happened in the past 6000 years and won’t happen again for at least another 2000 years.
Luke 21
25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring;
26 “men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
27 “Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 “Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”
Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 1023). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
See the image at: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_1y_hLqVXf4/maxresdefault.jpg
Graphic says 23 September 2017, as it depends on where you say Virgo’s feet are. Besides, no one knows the day or the hour.
Cruz supporters can’t see the utter folly in supporting a candidate, NO MATTER WHO IT IS, who is born OUTSIDE of the United States. Beyond the SIMPLE FACTS, there is a REASON why the Framers required our president to be a SPECIAL KIND OF CITIZEN.
So Long, Uncle Sam: Famous Americans Who Renounced Their Homeland
Lisa Halaby, daughter of a Pan American World Airways executive, became a Jordanian citizen when she married King Hussein in 1978. She says she automatically lost her U.S. citizenship but never renounced it.
Queen Noor's involvement in the political arena has been decidedly behind the scenes due to her ambiguous status as an American (although she relinquished her alliance and citizenship when she married). However, in 1984, when King Hussein walked the political tightropeâtrying to please both his American and Israeli allies as well as protect his Palestinian citizens during the Iran-Iraq WarâNoor stood by his side and supported his criticism of Americans for being one-sided in their commitment to Israel.
If Cruz is eligible then so is this guy and a whole bunch of others. How long until there are enough people imported here by our current ineligible POTUS that the new imports and/or their children can elect someone who doesn’t give a damn what our founders thought?
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No. Prince Hashim is not eligible. See Post 31.
Anyone who thinks this election is just about Trump knows nothing about we, the unwashed common, people. This goes deep. 30 years of glowBULLism and economic decline stops now. If not Trump then someone else. Like the ineffective Whigs before them the Republican run has ended.
Why did she lose her citizenship - was it because he was a king?
If so then my comment reverts to the children of a more ordinary foreign parent.
I remember d trump supporting obama’s tarp auto bailout and stimulus and admiring Canada’s nationalized healthcare. So the response to Obama narcissism is a rich liberal salesman who is also a narcissist?
What’s pathetic about the article? Did you read it?
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