... and the ongoing McCainization of the Republican party proceeds apace.
There's no wound nearly so tragic (or fatal) as a self-inflicted one.
Well .. the blue-blood repubs have taken over the party and they don’t give a rat’s rear-end what we think.
Guess they don’t need my money or my vote either!
Maybe when we get hit again and it’s nuclear and it devastates America and kills 10’s of thousands of people .. I really do wonder if they will even pay attention then.
I think I’m going to be sick ......
For how many decades have you covered DC, Bob?
“leader” Boehner is a loser like lovable Bob Michal.
“Remarkably, the supine House Republican minority hardly resists and even collaborates with its supposed adversaries.”
Hardly remarkable. They are just acting like the kind of capons who lost the Congress initially.
We need a third political party to become the Second political party by putting a final kabosh to these eunuchs.
This post (<-click), from a tax-related thread, provides more details as to how constitutionally unauthorized federal spending got started when constitutional flunky FDR established his New Deal programs.
In fact, since the OP mentioned Pelosi in conjunction with Medicaid, note that when Jefferson talked about the Founder's division of federal and state powers, he mentioned that the Founders had trusted the states, not the federal government, with the care of the people.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons, (emphasized by Amendment10) our property, our reputation and religious freedom." --Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801. ME 10:262 http://tinyurl.com/onx4jAlso, Speaker Pelosi is also arguably in contempt of Sec. 3 of the 14th A. for the following reason. Just as Jane Fonda went to North Vietnam to embarrass American officials, Pelosi made a trip to Syria in '07 to embarrass President Bush. The problem with Pelosi's trip, however, is that given that she had taken an oath to defend the Constitution, she arguably crossed the line established by Sec. 3 by giving comfort to the USA's enemies. Indeed, I would argue that because of Sec. 3, Pelosi is no longer legally a congressperson, let alone Speaker of the HoR.
The people need to reconnect with the Founder's requirement for constitutionally enumerated federal powers, particularly those powers which reasonably justify federal spending. The people then need to wise up to the major problem that, thanks to constitutional flunkys like Nancy Pelosi, the federal government is not operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution as the Founders had intended. The bottom line is that the people need to get in the faces of "leaders" like Pelosi and the Democrats and Republicans who support her shenanigans, demanding that they start upholding their oaths to defend the Constitution by stopping unauthorized federal spending programs and appropriately reducing federal taxes - or get out of DC.
Bush:
thanks a lot for throwing Newt’s majority away
I guess the Republicans haven’t learned the lesson of 2006.
They must want a repeat of 1956-1994.
useless idiots, nearly the entire lot
Republicans give in to everything. They have become the Wimp Party.
Republicans give in to everything. They have become the Wimp Party.
Republicans give in to everything. They have become the Wimp Party.
Republicans give in to everything. They have become the Wimp Party.
I got a campaign call from the Repub party yesterday.
The woman asked me what the repubs in Washington need to do. (like they give a rat’s rear what I think, It’s just to keep you on the phone).
Anyway I told her “get some stones”, and “no money”.
Time for a coup.
(there are a few, rare honest conservatives in DC, but they can be counted on one hand or so)
It is well past time to revamp Congressional Legislative processes. Some suggestions:
1. Each bill, and any amandments, should deal with a single issue/program.
2. Earmarking should be eliminated completely.
3. Liberals should be prohibited from introducing ANY legislation.