Posted on 12/12/2014 8:22:17 AM PST by C19fan
Retiring representative Jim Moran (D., Va.) says that Democrats got “virtually everything” they wanted in the cromnibus package that’s going to a vote in the House tonight, as he praised the bill in terms that could double as the conservative critique of the legislation.
Moran says that “the Republicans are indicating they need 80 Democrats” and he’s frustrated that Democrats won’t provide the votes.
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Boner Gives Dems Virtually Everything They Wanted.
Boner stiffs conservatives.
Of course the Republicans caved. It’s what the gutless cowards DO.
You are too kind. I think Boehner is actively colluding with Obama and his fellow travelers. Boehner is an enemy agent in the GOP and much of the GOP leadership is working with the Democrats against Conservatives and the will of the majority of citizens.
Exactly correct. What everyone is missing is that Boehner and the GOPe want amnesty and see the Cromnibus as an easy way to fund it while trying to act like they are in opposition. They can do this because we’re too dumb to notice.
Back to the Good Old Days (for democrats) during the Bush administration when republicans held the White House and a majority in both houses but democrats basically ran congress and the senate.
>i>I don’t think he believes that. I just think that he and the GOPe really want big government, because they want the power that it brings them.”</i>
Spot on. When the GOPe last controlled all three branches what happened:
Out of control spending went up.
Personal freedoms went down.
Government power over the citizenry went up.
How is that any different than when Dems are in power?
The main thing the GOP gave the Dems in this bill is a voting majority for it, so the majority of Dems could vote against it, even though it has everything they wanted. The only thing the GOP wanted was changes to Dodd-Frank so the guys who bankroll both parties can operate more freely.
Any Republican in the house running for their next reelection will have to answer for this in the primaries and if they survive that will get blasted by the Dems because they voted against this horrible bill that destroyed the country and our way of life. I bet Hillary is against it also...
"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies
the principle that denies to government officials
an exceptional position before the law and which
subjects them to the same rules of conduct
that are commands to the citizen."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
We win when we win, and thanks to Boner, we win when we lose
No, that’s not needed when you have a $200K+ job and are a powerful member of the most elite club in the world. Simple human greed will do the trick.
I've been thinking for a long time that the republicans are being blackmailed.
“No, that’s not needed when you have a $200K+ job and are a powerful member of the most elite club in the world. “
And when you leave office, you become a $1,000,000 + a year lobbyist......where you go to collect your payoff.
Nah that’s not it.
Fact is John Boehner has all the integrity of Barrack Hussain Obama. Kevin McCarthy is even less honorable.
These people are addicted to Power. Both parties are full of them.
I see a third party very soon funded by some big hitters, like Donald Trump and headed by Ben Carson or Jeff Sessions or Ted Cruz!! I refuse to swallow this crap from these bastard rinos. Those days are over for millions of us. NO DAMNED AMNESTY!! Get ready.
The GOP just removed itself from any donations/consideration/votes from me.
No bother telling me this will only aid the dim-bulbs.
The fact is, the only recourse left will be CW-II.
Democracy has failed and our country’s future rests on 1) hopefully, our military, and in support 2) the portion of the population holding real jobs who will rise up and tell liberals to get into the truck to go to a place where they will never be seen again.
There is a reason guns are selling
The second amendment was placed there as a defense against the government.
Honestly, you gotta admire the Democrats. They play for keeps, slimy and all, while our side just caves. Major post election buzzkill.
Actually, it would make more sense to simply collapse the period between the election and the newly electeds' assumption of their offices. The current two months (or two and as half months in the case of the president) is simply unnecessary in today's world. Originally designed to allow newly elected officeholds time to arrange their affairs before embarking on what, for some, could have been a two or three week carriage ride to Washington, the long delay now is simply an archaic remnant from a bygone era.
Frankly, there is no reason why, in today's world in which you can get to Washington in a day from the farthest corners of the nation, a newly elected member of Congress couldn't be sworn in on the day after the election is certified. Why continue a lame duck in office for two full months, a period of time he or she would not be able to do anything (under your proposal) but would still be drawing their full government salary.
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