Posted on 12/20/2018 11:50:33 AM PST by SMGFan
GOP senators emerged from the closed-door meeting in visible disbelief that President Trump is refusing to sign a seven-week stopgap measure to fund the government that cleared the chamber by a voice vote less than 24 hours ago.
Senate GOP leadership appeared confident on Wednesday that Trump would sign the stopgap, which will fund approximately 25 percent of the government, as long as they kept poison pill policy riders out of it.
But Trump, under fire from conservative pundits and lawmakers, reversed course Thursday.
“You're ruining my life,” GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) joked to The Hill when told about the decision. “No-I don’t think the votes are [there], ugh, we can’t have a government shutdown, period,” she said. “It’s never good. How many times do we have to learn that?”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Senator Collins, how many more Americans have to die at the hands of illegals before you step up ad do the right thing? How much does healthcare and car insurance have to cost before we close the border? How many blue collar jobs have been eliminated because of the invasion of illegals? Senator Collins do you support cutting funding to states that give illegals welfare, money that could be used to save social security and help our veterans? The President is asking for 5 billion dollars, that’s it out of a multi trillion dollar budget. Shame on you Senator Collins.
“I don’t know. ... Who knows. Does the person sitting behind him at the White House know?
“the person sitting behind him”
???
I believe he’s referring to Mike Pence.
Dirtbag Little Bob Corker could be on fire and I wouldn’t hand him a glass of water.
Not to worry, our tireless $150K plus Beneis paper pushers will be paid while on vacation from their fake jobs.
Raise the stakes, Mr. President! You have the clear authority under the constitution to cancel their Christmas and New Year’s recess and drag them all back to DC, by force if necessary, to keep working on this. Thus cancelling all the cocktail parties, fundraisers and vacations they’d planned for the time. Including those ‘members’ defeated or retiring at the end of the congressional session who may scream they have no place to stay and can’t afford DC hotel prices. I’m confident Homeland Security could cobble someplace together for them to stay like they’ve been cobbling together places for the illegals. Unlike some memorable past Rat state level delegations they won’t be able to run away to hide in different states. If Trump acts quickly enough he can block any who might want to flee the country. You’ll feel GREAT exercising the power and We The People will love watching you put them in their place.
This is about cheap labor and GOP Senators being bought and paid for by business interests that want open borders.
"When I see the present Socialist Government denouncing capitalism in all its forms, mocking with derision and contempt the tremendous free enterprise capitalist system on which the mighty production of the United States is founded, I cannot help feeling that as a nation we are not acting honorably or even honestly." - Winston Churchill, Woodford Green, July 10, 1948."We shall not allow the advance of society and economic well-being of the nation to be regulated and curtailed by the pace of the weakest bretheren among us. Proper incentives must be offered and full freedom given to the strong to use their strength in the commonweal. Initiative, enterprise, thrift, domestic foresight, contrivance, good housekeeping and natural ability must reap their just reward. On any other plan the population of this island will sink by disastrous and agonizing stages to a far lower standard of life and two-thirds of its present numbers." - Winston Churchill, speech, Blenheim Palace, August 4, 1947.
"The difference between what is seen and what is not seen was often noticed by the old economists. What is not seen is the infinite variety of individual transactions and decisions which, in a civilized society, within the framework of just and well-known laws, insure the advantage not only of the individual concerned, but of the community, and provide that general body of well-being constituting the wealth of nations. All this is blotted out by an over-riding State control, however imposing some of its manifestations may be. It is the vital creative impulse that that I deeply fear the doctrines and policy of the socialist Government have destroyed, or are rapidly destroying, in our national life. Nothing that they can plan and order and rush around enforcing will take its place. They have broken the mainspring, and until we get a new one the watch will not go." - Winston Churchill, speech, House of Commons, October 28, 1947.
"It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State. He will be in a better position to bargain collectively and production will be more abundant; there will be more for all and more freedom for all when the wage earner is able, in the large majority of cases, to choose and change his work, and deal with a private employer who, like himself, is subject to the ordinary pressures of life and, like himself, is dependent upon his personal thrift, ingenuity and good-housekeeping." - Winston Churchill, speech, Blackpool, October 5, 1946
"Liberalism (classical liberalism) has its own history and its own tradition. Socialism has its own formulas and aims. Socialism seeks to pull down wealth; Liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests; Liberalism would preserve private interests in the only way in which they can be safely and justly preserved, namely, by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the pre-eminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks, and shall seek more in the future, to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capital; Liberalism attacks monopoly." - Winston Churchill, Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, May 14, 1908.
"The British nation now has to make one of the most momentous choices in its history. That choice is between two ways of life: between individual liberty and State domination: between concentration of ownership in the hands of the State and the extension of a property-owning democracy; between a policy of increasing restraint and a policy of liberating energy and ingenuity: between a policy of levelling down and a policy of finding opportunities for all to rise upwards from a basic standard." - Winston Churchill, speech in Woodford, England, January 28, 1950.
"It is curious that, while in the days of my youth I was much reproached with inconsistency and being changeable, I am now scolded for adhering to the same views I had early in life and even of repeating passages from speeches which I made long before most of you were born. Of course the world moves on and we dwell in a constantly changing climate of opinion. But the broad principles and truths of wise and sane political actions do not necessarily alter with the changing moods of a democratic electorate. Not everything changes. Two and two still make four, and I could give you many other instances which go to prove that all wisdom is not new wisdom." - Winston Churchill, speech, Bele vue, Manchester, December 6, 1947.
"It is not Parliament that should rule; it is the people who should rule through Parliament." - Winston Churchill, speech, House of Commons. November 11, 1947.
"We have to combat the wolf of socialism, and we shall be able to do it far more effectively as a pack of hounds than as a flock of sheep." - Winston Churchill, speech, 1937.
"Athough it is now put forward in the main by people who have a good grounding in the Liberalism and Radicalism of the early part of this century, there can be no doubt that Socialism is inseparably interwoven with Totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State. It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism." - Winston Churchill, B.B.C radio address, June 4, 1945.
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill, House of Commons, October 22, 1945.
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." - Winston Churchill, Perth, May 28, 1948.
"I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries: that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their level; against the folly that it is better that everyone should have half rations rather than that any by their exertions, or ability, should earn a second helping." - Winston Churchill, London, June 22, 1948.
"Socialism is based on the idea of an all-powerful State which owns everything, which plans everything, which distributes everything, and thus through its politicians and officials decides the daily life of the individual citizen." - Winston Churchill, London, January 21, 1950.
"The British and Americans do not war with races or governments as such. Tyranny, external or internal, is our foe whatever trappings and disguises it wears, whatever language it speaks, or perverts." - Winston Churchill, Speech, Dorchester Hotel, London, July 4, 1953.
"You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty." - Winston Churchill, speech, House of Commons. March 12, 1947.
"Nor should it be supposed as you would imagine, to read some of the Left-wing newspaper, that all Americans are multi-millionaires of Wall Street. If they were all multi-millionaires that would be no reason for condemning a system which has produced such material results.: - Winston Churchill, speech, Royal Albert Hall, London. April 21, 1948.
"Rich men, although valuable to the revenue, are not vital to a healthy state of society, but a society in which rich men are got rid of, from motives of jealousy, is not a healthy state." - Winston Churchill, speech, House of Commons, April 24, 1950.
It’s time for Trump to go full on assault against Congresscritters who won’t do their jobs. I suggest a primetime address (which could, conceivably, be broadcast by all the news networks) whereby he declares he will keep track of and report to the public every demo and gop rat who is failing to do that for which he or she was hired.
Furthermore for members in his own party he should announce that he will not endorse any incumbent who doesn’t earn their pay. Perhaps most importantly, follow through until the problem is fixed.
The American people would go bonkers. You want a way to increase his base: persuade him to do this.
They keep forgetting they serve us. Listen to them whine.
Marshals Service will happily return them to DC on Trump’s order. Not the first time, for sure.
At least GOP corruption is pure. When they get bought they stay bought.
Someone is finally standing up to these pompous, arrogant fools in Congress and the simply can’t handle it!
I like the way you think. Make them actually do their jobs for the first time in their pampered lives.
Make the Repubs vote and then melt their phones.
“Some are leaving DC, the bastards.”
McConnell recessed the entire Senate, without objection.
They ALL went home.
Whining is so unattractive....
Stand up and take a roll call vote, no exceptions. Yes, no, or “present”. But remember, living with the consequences of the roll call vote may have unexpected side effects.
Our Senators and Representatives do not fear Trump nor the citizenry. That needs to change. Members who yawn and leave town need to be made to worry that they will be treated as enemy agents facilitating the invasion of the USA.
He’s a puppet?
I think that is part of it. But I also think it has deeper, more sinister elements to it as well.
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