Posted on 02/09/2009 6:53:23 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama
America’s future in freedom hangs in the balance as three RINO senators on Friday announced they will join Democrats in their scheme to move this country irretrievably down the path to socialism. Senators Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) have indicated they will vote for the $1.3 trillion “stimulus” spending bill that purposes none other than precisely that outcome. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office ruled that less than 20 percent of the bill could in any way be considered stimulative.
The vote for cloture in the Senate is scheduled for 5:30 pm today. If cloture is invoked, debate would end on the 778-page bill that was not released to the Senate until 11:00 pm Saturday.
At noon on Tuesday the bill will be subject to another 60 vote hurdle by either waiving a budget point of order or achieving 60 votes on final passage. This bill that will ground this country in socialism will have passed the “greatest deliberative body in the world” with only one small window of debate on the bill as actually written on Monday afternoon.
These three Republican senators should forever be held accountable for bringing unfettered socialism to bear on the American people. Remember their names -- Specter, Collins, Snowe -- and let this forever be their legacy.
On the Senate floor Friday, Specter and Collins tried to justify their move by suggesting they were able to cut some spending out of the bill. It should be noted here that none were able to see their way through to cut the $4.2 billion slated for ACORN and like groups for “community stabilization.” An amendment offered by David Vitter (R-La.) that would bar ACORN from eligibility for these funds was voted down 51-45. ACORN, the group that once employed President Obama as a community organizer, is under federal investigation by the FBI for organized voter registration fraud, among other things.
The $820 billion (pre-debt service total) House version of the bill that so outraged Americans would have actually cost $7 billion less than this Senate “compromise” bill being touted by the three Republican sellouts. Democrats are already indicating that the $827 billion was an optimistic number on this “compromise,” yet once the servicing of the debt is added in at $827 billion, the cost is already over $1.3 trillion dollars.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) told reporters last week when the bill goes to conference to be reconciled with the House version, he wanted expenditures cut from the Senate “compromise” bill put back in during the leadership huddle with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.).
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), co-author of this so-called compromise, released staggering numbers in a chart giving subtotals of each category of spending (The numbers at the link are in thousands. I adjusted the figures below to include all actual zeroes in these massive numbers -- keep in mind this is in addition to the omnibus appropriations bill coming to Congress in the next week or two):
Agriculture: $5,109,430,000 Commerce: $21,513,000,000 Defense: $3,746,000,000 Energy & Water: $53,843,000,000 Financial & Gen. Govt: $10,762,000,000 Homeland Security: $5,076,700,000 Interior: $11,643,600,000 Labor, HHS, Education: $169,184,000,000 Military & VA: $7,428,295,000 THUD: $60,580,500,000 Appropriations: $365,629,525,000
Notice Democrats did not break out the over $365 billion labeled “appropriations” for scrutiny when they released these preliminary numbers on Friday. By far, the largest expenditures in the remainder of these slightly more categorized numbers show hundreds of billions of dollars in payoffs to decades-long Democrat constituencies: the left-wingnut global warming loons, government takeover of healthcare, subsidized housing, payoffs to teachers’ unions and building contractors. One can only at this point imagine the hundreds of billions allotted to their pet constituencies in the “appropriations” portion of the bill.
Never before in history has there been a $1.3 trillion dollar spending bill; supplemental, stimulus or otherwise. This isn’t yet the actual omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2009 that was pulled off of last week’s House calendar by Pelosi lest it hurt the chances for passage of this spending orgy. That additional omnibus spending bill is expected to cost taxpayers another half-trillion dollars in borrowed money. None of these spending bills include the expansion of TARP, the coming ask for hundreds of billions of dollars in additional bank bailout funds expected by legislators in the coming week(s). Nor does this include the tens of billions for the Auto Workers’ Union disguised as a bailout for the Big Three auto industry.
Democrats over the weekend had the audacity to term this a “bi-partisan” bill. Make no mistake: of the 219 Republican members of both the House and the Senate, Democrats may manage to get a whopping three Republican traitors to vote for this transfer of wealth out of the private sector. That hardly qualifies as bi-partisan, especially given that 11 Democrats voted against it in the House.
Lest you believe that my opening statement “America’s future in freedom hangs in the balance,” to be hyperbole, I would remind you that last week we saw President Obama place a limit on how much money an entity who receives bailout money can pay their executives. That was quickly followed by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) proposing legislation that would restrict compensation to executives in all financial institutions and could encompass all U.S. companies. The legislation would give the Federal Reserve, an entity that is unelected and completely unaccountable to the American people, the authority to monitor systemic risk in the economy and, according to Barney Frank, shut down financial institutions that face too much exposure. What we are witnessing is a government takeover -- socialism on the march -- actually now at a full-blown sprint under Democrat leadership.
The American people in multiple polls overwhelmingly object to this disastrous spending bill by upwards of 63% on Friday. A grassroots effort has sprung up led by members of the website FreeRepublic.com calling on folks to lobby the three RINO senators in person. They’ve got folks flying in for the effort that begins at 10:00 am on Monday from as far away as California.
As Winston Churchill said in a speech in 1941 as he battled the takeover by force of England by National Socialists (Nazis), “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
Connie Hair is a freelance writer, a former speechwriter for Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and a former media and coalitions advisor to the Senate Republican Conference.
Newsweek cover: "We Are All Socialists Now"
By "we" thay mean "all us Democrats", but you already knew that about Newsweek.
Rinos are traitors.
These three are fired, no matter what. All my time, and money will go to that end. They need to made examples of, nothing short of punishment is any longer acceptable !
They don't/won't/can't represent us anyway....I'll fund their dem rivals if that's what it takes !!
FOX news now reporting Collins say she WILL NOT vote for the package in the Senate.
Collins is now mad at the Dems....Snowe follows Collins...call them both, call them now!!! Collins will vote first of the 3 on the roll call.
He's new, has to run in 2010, and is so proud of his admittedly decent budget control when head of Denver schools.
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I blame the three republican senators totally and would call for their ouster from the GOP. We don’t need the SOB’s that bad.........
I sent emails to my Senators Babs Mikulski and Cardin.
I knew it was a waste of time when I did it, but you can’t blame me for trying.
Copy the emails addys & pass them on in your email. I just did that & asked everyone to email & pass it on.
Evil people do evil things - that is what they do. The national socialist party will pursue socialist ends, it is up to the righteous to stop the evil and those who love liberty to stop the socialists. It is in large part a failure of the Republicans to have FREE-market/small government principles that brings us to this grievous day of an economic coup d’état. The infamous three are just the last three! GWB campaigned for Specter over a conservative, McCain although apposing this bill is usually the first to expand the purview government. This day of infamy is the result of the public being trained in socialist schools. The greed for power and the god-complex that desires to be social architects will bring this plague of socialism- the ends and means have been the desire not just in the democratic party, but in the GOP as well.
Psalm 146:3 3 Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.
“This country” is already Socialist, and the GOP has been going along with it for generations, with an occasional halfhearted resistance. Face it, Reagan was an anomaly. But there is no reason that we have to accept slavery. It’s time to part company with the USSA and restore the Constitution in a new country. A new nation of freedom from the federal government will also mean freedom from the debt of the USSA. The first step should be to get rid of the GOP as a party here in the USSA because the GOP is nothing but an enabler and a way for the political elites to pretend that there is an alternative. Any party that accepts people like McCain, Graham, Spector, etc. will never support conservative Constitutional values. The best candidate for the new nation of freedom is probably Mexico and the Southwestern USSA. Mexico is corrupt, weak, and can be converted to a free country along with the former states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, Idaho, Southern Colorado, Mississippi and Alabama. The Mexican people have good family values, good work ethic, and will welcome freedom from the oligarchy that keeps them enslaved.
How the hell is it a "coup d'etat" if the Porkulus bill passes with a majority of votes from Senator and Representatives elected by a majority of their constituents?
And here I thought a sarcasm tag wasn’t really necessary.
The Puma ladies are on this too, they also phoned & emailed about little Tommy Daschle, so we are not alone in this fight!
http://pumapac.org/2009/02/03/even-better/comment-page-3/#comment-287396
I see that PUMA changed the original meaning of the acronym!
I've been watching Fox. No such bulletin.
Geez, I love those people!!!!!
I tried to give a thanks on that thread but my log in didn’t work. I donated to them during the campaign so I know I’m registered.
Lord Love them!
The term is used metaphorically. The normal process of passing a spending bill, any spending bill, has been circumvented. The tagging of this as an "emergency" bill has given license to ram this bill, complete with ACORN, Planned Parenthood and Union quid pro quo payback, down the throat of the public without their knowledge of its contents nor its consequences. The bill is a changing forever what is left of the constitutional government that facilitated liberty and prosperity such as the world has never seen. It is nothing less than the forcible usurpation of the economy - which means the end of the American way of life. Liberty was languishing in a slow death, but Barrak O'Marx dealt the final blow! Just watch how bold they become with control: euthanasia, censorship,UN treaty on the rights of the child- the nightmare has just begun. This is a coup over the graves of the founders and framers.
I didn't say it was a bulletin! The host was interviewing Rep. McCarthy - D and said, "Senator Collins now say she cannot support the Senate bill".
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