Posted on 12/22/2011 5:44:29 AM PST by Kaslin
For the past three years the United States Senate, under the leadership of Obama toady Harry Reid, has been an embarrassment for the United States. Now the so-called "Upper Body" has merely kicked the can down the road for two months on an extension of the payroll tax cut, and the House has rightly rejected the Senate's maneuver.
Americans need to kick the Harry Reid Senate down the road not for a period of months, but for a lifetime. We have a clear message for Harry Reid and his utter failure to lead the Senate: The nation is angry and our anger is directed at a legislative body that under Reid's leadership can't do its job.
Reid seems to think that his job is to force the Senate to follow Barack Obama's agenda. That would mean the Senate is obliged to put a rubber stamp on the president's destructive fiscal policies.
He's wrong. The U.S. Senate is not Obama's footstool. The Upper Body needs to do what the late Bill Buckley once counseled the nation -- put up a red flag and yell "Stop!"
The United States is so drowning in red ink that the monstrous debt this administration and our spendthrift Congress have amassed cannot be repaid even if America survives another century. Washington has saddled not only our children with a horrific debt, they have put it on the shoulders of several generations yet to be born.
As we have just witnessed in Greece, the days of reckoning inevitably arrive for all spendthrifts. The piper must be paid, and he won't wait forever to collect his monetary due.
Not long ago somebody asked a group of female Obama supporters how they think the United States can run up huge debts without going bankrupt. They replied that President Obama would see to it that the debts would be paid. Asked where the money would come from, they replied that Obama would come up with the money. Asked where he would find the money they replied that he would pay out of his "stash."
They don't seem to understand that Obama hasn't got a "stash." What money he controls is our money -- our tax dollars -- and that kitty, thanks to Washington's squandermania, is just about empty.
Such widespread ignorance of the facts of financial life seems to be widespread. Americans appear to have bought into the idea that Uncle Sam merely has to print more and more money to keep us afloat on the financial seas. It has not seemed to have occurred to such people that the government printing presses cannot keep turning out paper money with nothing like silver or gold behind it without participating in a Ponzi scheme to end all Ponzi schemes. Paper money is exactly that: paper. And that's how the world sees it even if Americans don't.
In the past our excursions into fiscal insanity have survived became Washington kept kicking the can down the road. That's over. We're reaching the end of that road. Our sole hope of survival is to deny Obama and his toadies in the Congress another four years; otherwise we'll make Greece look like the world's most fiscally solvent nation.
It's time to wave the red flag and yell "stop" as loudly as we can.
Harry Reid is one of the people in elected office I would most like to see kicked out on his can.
The House needs to remain in session.
Boehner needs to issue a DAILY press release stating that and that he is waiting for the Senate to return and work out a reconcilliation.
The Republicans in the Senate need to return to Washington and Sen. McConnell needs to issue have a DAILY press briefing stating that republican Senators have returned to engage in conference committee meetings towards reconcilliation and that the ONLY ROADBLOCK is the Senate Democrats!!!
This is how tou will win this thing!
We have a chance to change 1/3 of the senate by this time next year!
“....that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - Gettysburg Address
Overview of races (33 seats)
Democrats/Independents retiring (6 seats)
- - Joe Lieberman of Connecticut (Independent)
- - Daniel Akaka of Hawaii
- - Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico
- - Kent Conrad of North Dakota
- - Jim Webb of Virginia
- - Herb Kohl of Wisconsin
Democrats who have not announced intentions
- - Dianne Feinstein of California
- - Ben Nelson of Nebraska
Democrats/Independents seeking re-election (15 seats)
- - Tom Carper of Delaware
- - Bill Nelson of Florida
- - Ben Cardin of Maryland
- - Debbie Stabenow of Michigan
- - Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
- - Claire McCaskill of Missouri
- - Jon Tester of Montana
- - Bob Menendez of New Jersey
- - Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
- - Sherrod Brown of Ohio
- - Bob Casey, Jr. of Pennsylvania
- - Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island
- - Bernie Sanders of Vermont (Independent)
- - Maria Cantwell of Washington
- - Joe Manchin of West Virginia
Republicans retiring (2 seats)
- - Jon Kyl of Arizona
- - Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas
Republicans seeking re-election (8 seats)
- - Richard Lugar of Indiana
- - Olympia Snowe of Maine
- - Scott Brown of Massachusetts
- - Roger Wicker of Mississippi
- - Dean Heller of Nevada
- - Bob Corker of Tennessee
- - Orrin Hatch of Utah
- - John Barrasso of Wyoming
Question to all Freepers: Why isn’t Minority Leader Senator Son-of-a-Mitch McConnell being flamed on FR for his stupid payroll deal with “Bottleneck” Reid?
And we’re nearing the 1000-day mark without a budget. This ain’t Camelot. Absolute dereliction of duty. I won’t ask how much more they can do...I WILL ask, how much more are we going to take??????
RE: reconciliation
Republicans must not be allowed to vote for the cuts in Social Security funding -- only Democrats should be allowed to vote for the bill!
If the bill passes with even a single Republican vote for the bill millions of seniors will lose their homes, starve, and die.
We must prevent that! A Democrat-enacted bill will benefit the masses and do no harm to seniors! This is series!
...”female Obama supporters”....
Is that code language????
We must make the rats irrelevant for decades to come
Is that code language????
No it's not, it's this
“Americans Angry at Senate Sycophants”
Should read: “MSM Blaming Republicans for Perfidy of Senate Progressives”
Or “Lame Stream Media Blaming Republicans for Perfidy of Senate Progressives”
I remember very well that clip from an “Obama supporter” (code language...) in Sarasota, Florida, I believe. My jaw dropped then, and I haven’t recovered from it. The ignorance and stupidity of such useless eaters astounds me. That these people are allowed to vote should frighten, and anger, thinking, contributing Americans.
That video had almost 3 million views
I agree with you 1000 percent. Idiots like this should not be allowed to vote
Isn’t it true that Reid and McC are so unknown to the general public that citizens outside of NV and KY would recognize neither if they came to their doors with holiday packages as FedEX delivery people. The people are truly uninformed and are likely to stay that way. It takes study and effort to be informed.
Now, drypowder, you sound like you have no “decent respect for the opinions” (an old Jefferson line) of the uninformed of NV.
One of the bad ones on the list is the choice of the uninformed of IN: Lugar!
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