Posted on 12/16/2014 5:47:49 AM PST by cotton1706
On Saturday night the Senate held a vote on a $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill that many referred to as the CRomnibus. I voted against this bill because I oppose the cynical substance of the legislation. I also could not support the un-republican and undemocratic process by which a small collection of political and economic insiders crafted it, to benefit each other at everyone else’s expense. I also oppose the signal this bill sends to political insiders on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue; the signal it sends to special interest cronies on Wall Street and K Street; and the signal it sends to working families struggling on Main Streets across this country who have been waiting for a decade for someone in this city to start putting them first. Above all, this bill failed to exercise Congress' power of the purse to prevent the president’s lawless executive amnesty.
Since this bill was taken up in the House of Representatives, supporters of the CRomnibus have couched their support in the language of compromise. “This isn’t a perfect bill,” they say.
However, I believe it is perfect. As a representation of everything wrong with Washington, D.C, and as an example of exactly the kind of unfair, unrepresentative legislating that triggered successive electoral waves of bipartisan condemnation in 2006, 2008, 2010, and again in 2014 – the CRomnibus is perfect. More and more today in America, the people who work hard, play by the rules, and live within their means are being forced to subsidize political and economic elites who don’t.
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Good speech. We just pray that he is right... and that the change really is coming.
Good speech. We just pray that he is right... and that the change really is coming.
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Indeed. This Mike Lee speech should be a MUST READ for Freepers. And especially the Lost All Hope I’m Giving Up On the GOPe Freepers.
Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions are the real leaders of Congress. We need to end the whining and start supporting these guys. Big Time!
The elites are laying the groundwork for Ft. Sumter 2.0.
Bump. This third party talk is a sure recipe for enabling the Democrat Party to NOT reap their just desserts from eight years of Obama misrule. Don't want another Rino / GOPelitist at top of ticket? Then, Conservatives must coalesce support early and stay the course. First order of business is to make it crystal clear that A Jebbie nomination triggers a conservative boycott in the General.
I make that pledge today.
bkmk
This is very hopeful! We need this. Thank you, Senator Lee!
Go Mike Lee! And Go Ted Cruz! God Bless you guys and your families!
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