Posted on 11/17/2010 2:09:17 AM PST by Scanian
Just because the duck is lame doesn't mean it can't still do terrible damage to American freedom. Our new Congress, especially the new House, isn't yet seated, and this current Congress can still wreak terrible havoc on our rights if not stopped.
Case in point: Senate Bill 510, believed to be coming to the floor Wednesday, November 17 (pending). This is the food safety version of ObamaCare. Reading the thing will make your head hurt for all its cognitive dissonance. Trying to winnow out its complexity and hidden empowerments is stultifying.
Introduced by Dick Durbin of Illinois, the bill has moved through the usual phases of amalgamation and deal-making. The monstrosity advancing to the floor on Wednesday is not so much "food safety" as it is the decadence of the rights of small farmers, hobbyist food producers, garden-variety farmers markets, and your average small producer of foodstuffs. Under the rubric of safety, this Senate proposes a bill that establishes such new and sweeping powers over how you and I produce and consume foodstuffs that even the Pew Charitable Trusts are calling S510 a clear and present danger. National Health Freedom says,
"It is a dangerously broad regulatory bill giving extensive discretionary power to the FDA over the entire food supply chain without proper checks and balances to avoid abuse of power;
"It would impose one-size-fits-all-regulations on thousands of small and mid-sized farmers, small-scale local farms and food producers, and would drastically burden, to extinction, basic natural and organic food suppliers, thus endangering the lives of Americans who depend on local wholesome foods..."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Democrat against:
Ben Nelson - NE
Republicans in favor:
Alexander - TN
Barrasso - WY
Brown - MA
Burr - NC
Collins - ME
Corker - TN
Enzi - WY
Grassley - IA
Gregg - NH
Johanns - NE
LeMieux - FL
Luger - IN
Snowe - ME
Vitter - LA
Thune - SD
Voinovich - OH
Farmers did nothing when the government started farming regulations.
We deserve everything the government gives us these days because those before chose not to fight back.
That’s what I just said.
Glance at the roll call list, and look for the names of the three new Senators that were supposed to be sworn in immediately. You will find the names of Democrats Coons and Manchin, but the name of Republican Kirk is conspicuously absent. On principle alone, Republicans should be filibustering every single vote that comes before the Senate until they allow Kirk to be sworn in.
Isn’t this why that Delaware seat was so important? Because as a replacement for Biden, the newbie would have been sworn in immediately. While not a guarantee, this person could have been a real barrier to something like this.
Right or wrong?
Why isn’t Limbaugh and/or Hannity hammering away at this? We’re facing the abyss and they talk about how the dems are “losing it”. So what?
These two are clearly carrying the water for Tokyo Rove, again,it seems to me. Palin, Angle, and O’Donnell have more stones than these two ever did.
“So if Republicans vote against the bill, they will be accused of hypocrisy on the earmarks thing.”
This is where the rubber meets the road for Republicans. The dems have been pulling things like this for years, and the Republicans always give in because of the negative media coverage.
However, they were elected to use the backbone and do what’s right for the country. That’s it.
Also, your three-year life on all laws is a great idea.
Let ‘em pass it and start policing back yard gardens, issuing tickets or fines. See where that gets ‘em.
**Either they haven’t learned anything from the Nov. 2 election or they just don’t care
what the citizens want and don’t want**
DING DING DING!!!!!! We have a winner! We gotta wake up. Voting doesn’t appear to be working anymore.
Toll-Free number to the Congressional Switchboard
(866) 338-1015
WHILE YOU ARE CALLING TELL THEM TELL THEM TO REPEAL THE COORDINATING COUNCIL ON COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH IN THE STIMULUS BILL....$1.1 BILLION, IT CONTROLS HOW ARE DOCTORS WILL PRACTICE MEDICINE!
0 APPOINTED THESE 15 PEOPLE WHO WILL ARE THE DEATH PANEL!
I posted the thread to the TN State page.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:s510rs.txt.pdf
I don’t know if anyone has posted the bill yet but here is the link:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:s510rs.txt.pdf
That is a real possibility.
Similar thing in Illinois...
“Top Illinois Democrats have said they are just following the law in waiting for all the proper paperwork to be processed. That means Kirk won’t join the Senate until November 29.”
So is Burris there voting with Durbin, or is it just and empty seat?
take a guess...
why else delay the seating of Kirk?
ping for later
Thanks!
Orrin Hatch put on his facebook page that he voted NO on this this morning..............has it already been up for a vote???????
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