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Posted on 01/02/2015 10:14:42 AM PST by iowamark
The day after Republicans won the largest majority in the House of Representatives in almost 100 years and won a significant majority in the Senate, our liberal activist president claimed to hear the voices of all the people who didn’t vote. It was another example of stunning obstinacy from this president.
It seemed Democrats were melting down, Republicans were unified, and all we had to do was buy enough time to get our Republican reinforcements to Washington in January.
Like President Obama, Speaker John Boehner must have heard voices that didn’t vote.
Together, they crafted the CR/omnibus, a $1.1 trillion spending bill that funded the government for 10 months and blocked our newest elected Republicans from advancing conservative policy and delivering on campaign promises. With this vote, Republicans gave away the best tool available to rein in our liberal activist president: the power of the purse. The power of the purse is Congress’ constitutional strength.
For the next 10 months, the CR/omnibus will fulfill Obama’s ambition of creating an even larger constituency of dependency on Obamacare. The president’s goal has always been to create as much dependency as possible before enforcing the destructive employer mandate. The CR/omnibus hands the liberals that victory. This is unconscionable after watching the campaign rhetoric that won such decisive victories for the GOP.
Department of Homeland Security appropriations expire in February, when Republicans will supposedly fight to defund the illegal amnesty plan created by the president. Does anybody believe that Obama is concerned about Republicans not funding DHS? Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have already sued the administration for not allowing them to enforce the law.
The Constitution requires the president to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. He has refused to enforce the laws on border security, Obamacare, illicit drugs and the release of detained terrorists. His activism in his last two years has accelerated to include executive amnesty, initiating international climate deals without a treaty, and establishing an embassy in Cuba without consulting Congress. When our Constitution is under assault and House Republicans give away our constitutional power of the purse, they share the guilt of abandoning our founding principles.
The CR/omnibus legislation sufficiently undermines the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution that it warrants my pending vote against the speaker. John Boehner went too far when he teamed with Obama to advance this legislation. He relinquished the power of the purse, and with it he lost my vote.
yes...I have a list of 16 R votes in House to BLOCK CRomnibus...he ain’t on it and neither is Gowdy. Wondering what happened with Marcia Blackburn. spreading all over twitter in the rush for Gowdy for Speaker.
In TX the only two Texas heroes are LOUIE GOHMERT & TED CRUZ, that’s it!
You do not have to be a member of the house to be elected Speaker. It certainly would be unusual to have a senator as speaker of the house, but I don’t think there is anything in the constitution that forbids this.
Run against him!
You write as though you know absolutely nothing about Congressman Bridenstine.
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Did Shakespeare say this ?
“If you’re going to kill the King ... you damn well better succeed !”
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I hope you’re riqht. The first thinq the new Speaker should do is demand a Conqressional investiqation into the reqime/NSA’s use of spyinq and/or plantinq evidence (similar to the classified records the reqime planted on Sharyl Atkisson’s computer....) in order to unlawfully and TREASONOUSLY” control the leqislative and judicial branches.
The second thinq he should do is introduce emerqency leqislation to protect aqainst financial terrorism such as the terrorist run on the bank in September of 2008 by the allies of Obama who used that and the threat of another such run to illeqally AND TREASONOUSLY take the entire system hostaqe and place their puppet, Obama/Soetoro into our White House.
Machiavelli.
Good for Bridenstine. He is in a position to be a leader on this issue. He doesn’t appear to be beholding to Boehner and he is from a safe Republican district (OK-1) that has a Cook Partisan Index CPI of +18% R.
If you look at the vote for the omnibus bill many of GOP the Yes votes were from solid red safe GOP districts. There are a whole lot of fake conservatives inside the beltway. Stooges like Yoho and Crenshaw from my neck of the woods in FL. Total careerist rent seeking frauds.
Lets dump all the people around Dayton Ohio who keep voting for him as well.
Say it's not so. I know many, many politicians. They are not people that deserve your trust and confidence. They will latch onto whatever is currently in fashion among the voters and proclaim it to be their one true faith. They are lying. They are very self absorbed people who will say whatever it takes to speed them on their way to their personal ambitions. Those inside the beltway are at the NFL level of this behavior.
Marsha Blackburn bump!
uh... wrong house.
“A buncha ‘rats could easily come to Boner’s rescue.”
Amazingly enough, that could happen if the Republicans don’t stand together. Rules state that the speaker only needs to get a majority of the votes cast, not the entire membership. In that case, Boehner would have difficulty branding himself as a Republican. And Republicans would have difficulty convincing Americans they were not fools.
thanks ... I always have trouble with the “a” and “e’ and “i” ....
“A buncha ‘rats could easily come to Boner’s rescue.”
Amazingly enough, that could happen if the Republicans don’t stand together. Rules state that the speaker only needs to get a majority of the votes cast, not the entire membership. In that case, Boehner would have difficulty branding himself as a Republican. And Republicans would have difficulty convincing Americans they were not fools.
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Yes, then the duplicitous John Boehner would be, at a national level, the equivalent of Joe Straus (the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives). Straus wins the speakership ONLY by bringing in the Texas ‘RATS to vote for him. Straus then doesn’t allow a number of critical conservative provisions to come up for a vote.
Straus (and possibly Boehner) represents a coalition of RINOs and ‘RATS to form a ruling elite. Next week Boehner and a number of others may be further unmasked.
Say it’s not so. I know many, many politicians. They are not people that deserve your trust and confidence. They will latch onto whatever is currently in fashion among the voters and proclaim it to be their one true faith. They are lying. They are very self absorbed people who will say whatever it takes to speed them on their way to their personal ambitions. Those inside the beltway are at the NFL level of this behavior.
They are beltway careerists posing as conservatives to get elected. A generation ago they might have been blue dog Dems. No more.
I find it striking some of Boehner’s biggest supporters are from deep red areas. With the power of incumbency, these “conservative” Reps feel free to flip the bird at us. Nauseating.
No restrictions on who can be Speaker....
“His first vote in congress was against Boner. Bridenstine will not chicken out.”
Mr. Bridenstine is my Representative. He won’t chicken out.He is a real conservative.
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