The question is, of course, what will they do with that power?
From John Stossel:
"I so want to believe that the tea party marks the beginning of a comeback for small government. But I'm probably deluding myself. I know that big government usually wins. Remember the last time the Republicans took power? They promised fiscal responsibility, and for six of George W. Bush's eight years, his party controlled Congress. What did we have to show for it? Federal spending increased by 54 percent. That's more than any president in the last 50 years."
It’s not the Tea Partiers who need the reminder!
Yup. Let’s hope Boehner rides herd on the Cardinals. If the GOP reverts to its old ways, power will slip again through its fingers.
And never give us another smooth talker like Bush-Crist again!
You’re assuming Obama has been upholding and defending the Constitution for the last 22 months. He hasn’t. While it’s true budgets are set and passed by the House, Obama will ignore them and pass his agenda with Executive Order.
Job #1 for the 112th Congress - spend about 100 trillion fewer red cents in 2011. Stossel is clearly a propaganda spewing partisan.
Aw.. that’s just that irrelevant Constitution thingy what says so.
That restriction should also apply to QE as well. That thing the Federal Reserve and Treasury think they can just do, that creates money from nothing, thereby diluting everyone’s existing dollar.
Also in the Constitution:
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. (Article I, Section 9)
It seems to me that the Progressive congress has made it their ambition to “tax the rich”; that is, penalize them for being rich by raising their taxes dispproportionately.
Sounds suspiciously like a Bill of Attainder or did I misinterpret what I read?
Just asking.
Thanks for any reply.
Pardon my skepticism, but since when has The Constitution been a hindrance to the usurper?
Default!
I would love to see them de-fund all of oblabla’s czars immediately. Does anyone even know what they do? How much power they have and how much money they control?
Almost immediately after the new congress is seated, we will know how the next two years are going to be: whether they will be constructive in stopping the heinous threats against our nation; or will they be treading water and bungling efforts to achieve bipartisanship. Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
The way we will know what the future portends is how the Republicans man the three essential committees of the House of Representatives.
The Rules Committee, the Appropriations Committee, and the Ways and Means Committee.
The Rules Committee will determine how easily the Democrats can block the Republican agenda. So you can be your bottom dollar that the Democrats and the RINOs will push hard for “fairness” and “seniority” in this committee, because they want to prevent the Tea Party people from disassembling the waste, bloat and overreach, by making it easy to block the conservatives.
The Appropriations Committee will decide how to organize big appropriations bills. In past, a lot of the bloat and pork was put in the same bills with parts of the government that needed to be funded. So it will be up to this committee to separate the two. To put all the crap and waste into the same bill, so that it can all be allowed to die, and there is nothing the senate or the president can do to stop it.
And the Ways and Means Committee controls all federal taxation. Need I say more?
Stossel is incorrect. Dems has the Senate in 2001-2002
But then, Republicans have shown they can spend money they don't have, too, and your income belongs to THEM.