Enough elephants had their price
Posted on 12/13/2014 7:37:27 PM PST by Perdogg
The Senate on Saturday night approved a sweeping $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund most of the federal government through the next fiscal year, turning back a conservative rebellion against President Obama's immigration policy.
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“Just vote for the GOP-e blindly and they will stand in opposition to Obama’s agenda!”
Yep.....
Enough elephants had their price
That is a certainty. The radicals will accuse boehner of putting America’s security at risk, and boehner will cave - quickly.
Did not take long for them to betray us.
The liberal wing of the republican party just made our jobs a lot easier for us. And this is how we do it.
On January 6 we start the “boycott.” the boycott will go after any company who donates to candidates that are vulnerable to fluctuations in consumer spending.
Next, TEA party campaign against the Washington establishment, both rats and thugs. Campaign MUST be active and the message generic. In other words, social issues are out. This isn’t about abortion, gay marriage, etc. it’s about getting rid of the establishment.
Finally, social issues. We need to get into the communities to discuss this. Keep it off the front pages. Take over local school boards, get more involved in local politics and any left winger who tries to get in, turn that person into a pariah.
If we do nothing more than those 3 things, we will be ready for 2016.
That is a certainty. The radicals will accuse boehner of putting America’s security at risk, and boehner will cave - quickly.
The problem is Boehner can’t cave if 30 or so conservatives hang tough and don’t vote to fund amnesty. Boehner is not going to get help from Pelosi now that they got their cash for all of FY 2015. All the Dems want is to divide the GOP and have a shut down to blame on the GOP.
Boehner is bare ass to the wind come February. LOL.
constitutional convention to destroy Washington is the path forward now it looks like.
We must uses the political green and envy of our state legislators to tear down their corrupt Federal counterparts.
Here’s the breakdown of Repub votes on final passage of cromnibus:
Yeas (RINOs):
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kirk (R-IL)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Nays (Patriots):
Corker (R-TN)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Flake (R-AZ)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lee (R-UT)
McCain (R-AZ)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Vitter (R-LA)
Not voting (WTF?):
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Now we are back to the “conservative rebellion” meme. I guess the “Warren” meme no longer serves their purposes.
Corker and Flake are nays? I’m not going to read too much into this vote since they knew it was going to pass.
The House vote OTOH, is cut and dried. Anybody who voted for the crapulous bill funded and supports the obama-boehner amnesty, obamacare, etc. They own it all now and we need to hang that vote around their necks forever. Make it their obamacare vote for ‘16.
ArchRINO McCain was also a nay.
Roughly four weeks - that’s a record.
Gee, that was predictable.
It’s interesting to see that for all the elections, the billions of dollars spent, the millions of manhours expended, the endless commentary, when push comes down to shove not even one fourth of the senate chose to stand tall.
Partisan politics is a useless strategy.
“the WaPo story quotes Schumer and other Dem senators as thanking Cruz and Lee for allowing them to get more nominations through the Senate than otherwise would have been the case.”
Actually:
“If the Senate had voted Monday on the spending bill under the original agreement, Reid would have had to wait until Monday evening to start processing nominees...”
Only an idiot or a turtle would believe the Democrats were not going to push all their nominees thru before losing control of the Senate.
From a GOP senator:
“...adding that until Saturday, liberals were being faulted for holding up the spending bill. “Now, I guess the blame will be shared,” she said.”
Oh golly! Imagine the GOP being “blamed” for holding up a spending bill! We sure would not want THAT to happen!
The GOP-E. What is the difference between them and the Democrats? Nothing!
“Arizona: Flake (R-AZ), Nay McCain (R-AZ), Nay”
One always knows McCain will fight against conservatives, just like his ‘good friend’ Ted Kennedy would. But McFlake has been a disappointment. He ran as a conservative until he won, then immediately went hard left so he could screw himself up into McCain’s butthole. I hate him more than McCain.
My screwup. If they voted Nay, it means they felt the heat coming from their home state. I still hate them both.
John McCain?
McCain's up for re-election in 2016.
libs do spew a good line of BS straight out of Alinsky.
Lie, then repeat as needed until the lie is accepted as the truth.
what an evil man he was.
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