Posted on 12/18/2015 9:20:51 AM PST by HomerBohn
Sen. Jeff Sessions has had it with his Republican colleagues, and took to the floor this week to deliver a scathing speech in which he asked, "Who do we represent?"
The Alabama Republican was talking about a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that extends tax credits to people who don't pay taxes -- including illegal immigrants.
He was talking about a bill that offers sales tax deductions for those who live in jurisdictions without sales taxes.
He was talking about a bill that delays implementation of Obamacare's "Cadillac tax" for two years, well after the president is out of office.
"At a time of record immigration - with a full 83 percent of the electorate wanting immigration frozen or reduced - the GOP-led Congress is about to deliver Obama a four-fold increase to one of the most controversial foreign worker programs. The result? Higher unemployment and lower wages for Americans," he said.
Then he moved on to what prompted the electorate to give the Republican Party its sweeping victory in the Senate during the last election -- and how the GOP is paying their constituents back.
"The voters put Republicans in a majority in the 2014 midterm elections - a vote which constituted a clear decision to reject the abuse of our immigration system.
"That loyalty has been repaid with betrayal," he said.
He said that the bill essentially capitulates to all of President Obama's wishes.
"The omnibus approves - without conditions - the president's request for increased refugee admissions, allowing him to bring in as many refugees as he wants, from anywhere he wants, and then allow them to access unlimited amounts of welfare and entitlements at taxpayer expense," he said. "This will ensure that at least 170,000 green card, refugee and asylum approvals are issued to migrants from Muslim countries over just the next 12 months."
Then Sessions addressed unrest and dissatisfaction among GOP voters, prompting conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to declare that it's time to disband the Republican Party.
"There is a reason that GOP voters are in open rebellion," he said. "They have come to believe that their party's elites are not only uninterested in defending their interests but - as with this legislation, and fast-tracking the President's international trade pact - openly hostile to them. This legislation represents a further disenfranchisement of the American voter."
The House, including 166 GOP representatives, passed the omnibus bill Wednesday; only 64 Republicans, joined by three Democrats, voted against it.
The Senate is expected to vote on it Friday.
Here are excerpts of Sessions' floor speech.
(Watch Sen. Sessions Comments At Link)
We put them in there because of their promises, now we will get rid of them because of their lies.
No one was ‘betrayed’ They got what they voted for. Liberal, unprincipled republicans that campaigned on working with Obama. And they did exactly that since 2014.
The corporate lobbyists and donor class got what they wanted, that’s all that matters
THROW THE BUMS OUT.
That is the ONLY language these politicians understand. All the sniveling and bitching and moaning in all the world doesn’t matter at all to them. They could’t care less. The ONLY language they understand and care about is getting THROWN OUT by the voters.
DO IT!!!!
Sessions is one of the last Conservative Senators in the Senate...I don’t know who we have in the House anymore...
I just hope when your people come around to promise you the stars, moon and beyond, you will not vote for them, this is the only way this is going to stop....
Just when you thought the eGOP could not get any stupider...
Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)
Susan Collins (R-Maine)
Orin Hatch (R-Utah)
John Hoeven (R-N.D.
Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)
Ron Johnson (R-Wiss.)
John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)
Susan Collins (R-Maine)
Orin Hatch (R-Utah)
John Hoeven (R-N.D.
Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)
Ron Johnson (R-Wiss.)
John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
THROW THE BUMS OUT is right
EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of The house is up for re-election!!
Primary every single one of them - Demlican and Repubicrat.
I really can’t wait until the GOP convention next year, and the sight of a speaker at the podium proclaiming that “The Republican Party stands for limited government!”
Should be worth a hearty laugh.
Good for him!
Don’t file your taxes next year. Taxpayers should tell the Feds to pound sand.
I wish I had the power of a mafia don, Paul Ryan would be waking up hugging a horse head and Turtle neck would be going fishing like Fredo.
Yep. We WILL get rid of the spineless, greedy, lying thieves. No mercy!
I haven’t heard much about primary challenges this cycle. I know the deadline has passed for a challenge to my rep.
I ain’t contacting nobody. You guys are fools to keep believing in the political process. The Founders are rolling their eyes at the country they created turn to crap.
EXACTLY,
or said another way: support Trump and we will not be here to help you.
I doubt I would care if, somehow, ISIS militants made their way into Congress and slaughtered them all.
No, they won’t.
Incumbent re-election rate that’s north of 90%.
We are getting the gubmint we voted for.
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