Three Things We Learned From The CRomnibus

Townhall ^ | Dec 15, 2014 | Conn Carroll

[xzins]

After a week of passionate debate and late night votes, the Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill this Saturday that will keep the entire federal government, except the Department of Homeland Security, funded through September 2015.

Here are three lessons conservatives should take away from the ordeal:

1.Corporatism is King - Money talks and activists walk. That is the sad lesson from a $1.1 trillion spending bill that included huge payoffs to Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Citibank, and corporations that use taxpayer subsidized loans to invest overseas. Meanwhile, House leaders did nothing to stop President Obama's executive amnesty other than offer up a show vote on a separate piece of legislation that had no chance of even being voted on in the Senate.

2.Republican Leaders Want To Cave On Amnesty - Not only did Republican leaders not even allow a vote on an amendment to defund Obama's amnesty, even though they included plenty of other restrictions on federal spending in the omnibus, but they even included more than a billion in spending on programs to clean up Obama's last amnesty, including $948 million for the Department of Health and Human Service's unaccompanied children program and $260 million for the State to Department to spend on Central American countries.

3.Republican Leaders Lie - Not only did Republican leaders lie about Congress's ability to defund the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services office, the agency in charge of implementing Obama's amnesty, but they also lied to Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) in order to get his vote on an early procedural matter, and they falsely claimed that Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) empowered Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to sneak more Obama nominees past the Senate.

None of these lessons are good news for conservatives. If anything they show that with Reid out of the way in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) are going to be very eager to cut big deals with Obama so they can prove to Washington elites that they can "govern." These deals will all benefit large corporations almost always at the expense of small businesses and middle class Americans.

[MHGinTN]

And Shirley you know they don’t give a crap how you screw yourself or the political system, since either way they get what they’re aiming for. The two parties are owned by the globalist oligarchs, so it really makes no difference hos you or I vote or don’t vote, they, the oligarchs, have the system so rigged that they get what they want any way the events go down. This betrayal used to be hugh and series, but shirley you realize it is just chum in the water now.

[Uncle Miltie]

I’m going to work to spoil the Republican party for anyone but conservatives.

We have to conclude our party’s civil war in favor of conservatism before anything else matters.

[marsh2]

Brought home to me how deep the corruption is in the Republican party and how much corporate lobbyists have control over leadership. It needs to be surgically removed in the next elections if we are to return to healthy tissue and representation of the people.

[kosciusko51]

I don’t think a party civil war will fix the issues. It will need to be much bigger.

[Uncle Miltie]

Perhaps.

Let me know when the shooting starts.

;-)

[right way right]

Ted Cruz gave us a list of GOPe to guillotine.
That’s the most important thing we learned.

[MHGinTN]

Oh, to be sure, I believe the war will be won or lost forever at the primary levels. If we conservatives don’t stop sending to the election those the oligarchs select for us or those the oligarchs know they can blackmail (seen Boehner, Graham, Roberts, etc.?) then we will be so far down the path of corruption from the original plan of the Republic that we will never turn the tide. Personally, I believe we the people are already that far gone, but that doesn’t mean I will not work my butt off to stop allowing the oligarchs to select our nominees.