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The President and Senate Leader Reid are engaged in name calling; mature leadership indeed. Senator Reid, calling the kettle black, refers to Speaker Boehner as a Dictator. Senator Reid also refused publically to even consider anything that comes from the House; anything! The President says, of course, it’s not his fault, it never is. Conservatives in Congress are ‘extremists’, but annual budget deficits north of a Trillion a year are mainstream. The President, facing the worst debt and spending crisis in history put a plan on the table calling for more stimulus spending, more debt, new taxes and no reduction in the annual deficit; the political equivalent of a rabbit punch. Apparently the President’s new stimulus plan is based on how well it went the first time around; which certainly was the case for the chosen few. Jobless claims this week; 350,000, which is about the weekly average we’ve seen for the past four years; FOUR YEARS!
In the past 90 days nearly 6,000 new regulations have been issued by the Federal Government some running to hundreds of pages. But wait, there is more to come, the bureaucrats are still working on ObamaCare and Dodd Frank, they have not even made a dent in what’s to come. You may recall last year the President promised to get rid of counterproductive regulation; promises, promises, always another promise. New regulations issued in the last 90 days 6,000; regulations taken off the books, zero. The President’s team has not managed to find a single regulation they viewed as unnecessary although I’m sure they went at it hard, after all, it was a Presidential promise.
The State Department folks being ‘disciplined’ and taking the fall for Benghazi, are actually still gainfully employed and have been all along, they just went from one chair to another. Despite a scathing report on the gross shortcomings in Benghazi no one is to blame! Alice never imagined a rabbit hole such as we have here.
Despite Federal Law to the contrary the use of private e-mail accounts to do government business is endemic in the Obama administration. There has been no comment from the administration, but Lisa Jackson’s alter ego e-mails are due to be released in the next two weeks which may explain her sudden resignation and will no doubt reveal the inner workings of the war on carbon based energy.
The Secretary of State has disappeared! This must be the worse concussion in history or the idea of facing Benghazi questions has scrambled Madam Secretary beyond her ability to recovery. I’m guessing the prognosis is that she’ll be just fine sometime after January 20th.
The Secretary of Treasury has accelerated the time line for another debt limit crisis putting it right in the middle of the fiscal cliff considerations. He had no idea before now? Are we running the Treasury Department with Turbo Tax software?
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the Senate is avowed in the idea that fewer guns equal greater personal security. Chicago, with exceptionally strict gun laws, just saw its 500th murder of the year. Could it be that only the bad guys in Chicago have guns?
Evidence mounts that the Syrian ‘rebellion’ has essentially been taken over by Jihadists. The guns have reached groups avowed to destroy America. How nice, we’re back at the same old gun game that just never works. Didn’t work in Iran Contra, didn’t work in Libya and it’s not working in Syria. In those places, more guns were the answer; here at home just the opposite.
The fiscal cliff will not be resolved because it’s not about anything fiscal. It’s a power play intended to fracture the Republican opposition. As we move inexorably toward a face to face confrontation with a $16 trillion budget deficit and $80 trillion in future unfunded liabilities the overwhelming priority is to destroy Republicans. We are not moving to create a rational solution but to create unfettered one party control of the political process.
Nearly any vaguely informed American could give you an outline of what needs to happen to fix the fiscal crisis: cut spending, eliminate corporate welfare, refocus budget priorities, eliminate unnecessary programs, means testing; eligibility changes for the younger generation, economic growth, and yes, even tax increases by way of reform.
No menu of rational ideas is in play in Washington. The process of addressing the fiscal cliff is disconnected from American common sense. We have front row seats for the overreach that always generates backlash; it’s the foible of power that our Constitutional Republic was designed to control. Problem is; we have to wait, we have to suffer worse before the groundswell, the demand, for real solutions rises up; if it does.
If it doesn’t; have a nice day Comrade!
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With the Republicans controling the House the only chances the President and the Democrats have of getting their legislation through is to fracture the opposition.They are willing to sit this out as long as it takes.The results of last months election show that the country leans left and there is no way the Democrats will bear the blame for this debacle.By waiting until the Republians cave they lend credence to the cold,inept image the Republicans created during the election.In addition with what we witnessed during the past election cycle the Republican party has little success and even less knowledge on how to get their message accross to the public.I doubt they have any idea on how to improve their miserable record in that regard.
The Democrats win in the short term of getting legislation through the upcoming Congress and win in the long run of dominating elections for years to come.An announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers named Red Barber had a term for this…….”sitting in the cat bird seat”
Landreaux writes “The Secretary of State has disappeared! This must be the worse concussion in history or the idea of facing Benghazi questions has scrambled Madam Secretary beyond her ability to recovery. I’m guessing the prognosis is that she’ll be just fine sometime after January 20th.”
When Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, in her acceptance speech, she said she would not leave debt for our children. NANCY would “PAY AS WE GO”. buma signed “pay as you go” demo idea. Wonderful concept BUT NOT DONE just like Pelosi done only in jest. A republican was jumped for he dared asked that extension for unemployment BE PAID ME. Republicans WILL BE BLAMED for trying to “PAY AS WE GO”. Remember demos couldn’t even CUT Cowboy Poet Society funding Harry Reid pet PORK. WE MUST DO A BETTER JOB OF COMMUNICATING WITH THE VOTERS. THAT IS OUR BIGGEST FAILURE. Demos PR shines far more than they deserve.
When first lady ___ “The regime of openness in government has been built by a lot of people sympathetic to Hillary Clinton. Now she would just sweep away those statutes because they are inconvenient to her.” ___
“Hillary stood there as the only First Lady in history to confer with Congress on a crucial domestic policy issue. Only a week before on January 25, 1993, the new President announced that his wife would lead a task force to overhaul the nation’s health care system.”
“It was not a surprise when the media virtually ignored a story later in February by Washington Times reporter Paul Bedard that appeared under the headline, “First lady’s task force broke law on secrecy.” Bedard noted that reporters had been denied access to the first task force meeting. He went on to quote a number of attorneys and experts who asserted that this was in violation of something called the Federal Advisory Committee Act or “FACA.” The little-known law, on the books since 1972, applies when a President convenes a group of people which includes private citizens to advise him on a particular issue. Although the President is advised by all kinds of formal and informal bodies within his Administration, FACA kicks in only when non-government employees or “outsiders” take part.”
“According to a litigation handbook published by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, FACA is “intended to protect against undue influence by special interest groups over government decision making.” The law requires meetings open to the public and press, advance notice of meetings, and other “sunshine” measures. The legal experts quoted by Bedard claimed that since Hillary was not a government employee– the First Lady does not receive a salary– her participation in the task force triggered FACA.”
“The irony of the situation was apparent. Robert Pear of the New York Times reported that, “Mrs. Clinton, a longtime supporter of liberal causes and ‘public interest’ law, might be hoist by her own petard,” and quoted Peter Flaherty, NLPC President and co-author of this book, “The regime of openness in government has been built by a lot of people sympathetic to Hillary Clinton. Now she would just sweep away those statutes because they are inconvenient to her.”
buma FOR same sex marriage. Got it voted down in CA.
buma FOR equal pay for women. He doesn’t pay equal.
buma FOR no pork in bills. Only Hillary bet buma in amount of PORK as Senator.
John Kerry FOR higher taxes except when he can save $$$ 1/2 million by moving his expensive boat to another State.
Laws DO NOT APPLY TO THEM
http://www.democraticunde.....215;529171
President Obama signed an “Executive order yesterday (27th December 2012) giving pay raises to Vice President Biden,members of Congress and federal employees beginning with the pay period 27th March 2013. It can be found on the “Weekly standard” website in an article entitled “Obama Orders Pay Raise For Biden,Members of Congress and federal Workers.”
SO MUCH FOR GOING OVER THE CLIFF !
http://www.weeklystandard.....92223.html
Well I thought my post about Congress and Biden getting a pay raise while we face the cliff would get some kind of a response.We need to get this out to the American public because everyone should know the hypocrisy of ALL OUR REPRESENTATIVES IN WASHINGTON !
Perhaps Nate and Conservative Gal could put it out on their twitter messages ?
“SO MUCH FOR GOING OVER THE CLIFF !”
Our HOUSE has been passing legislation addressing JUST THAT. WITH Harry Reid sitting on our bills. No voting on most & no re-witting of bill then sending back to HOUSE for consideration. A STANDARD OPERATIONAL PROCEEDURE for hundreds of years. ANOTHER STANDARD OPERATIONAL PROCEEDURE not done by demo Senate is passing a yearly budget. Been SO LONG since done. Their DEATH WISH.
WE have been trying to avoid THE CHIFF but THEY have a DEATH WISH.
Have searched for other examples where other Presidents have given such a executive order BUT unable to locate…
The President actually passed it by Executive Order,on a Friday,during Christmas week.You can’t try to bury it anymore than that!
1. Bob wrote “know the hypocrisy of ALL OUR REPRESENTATIVES IN WASHINGTON ”
Hey, enough Congress members had enough sense NOT to pass. Did they even put IT up to a vote ??? Direct YOUR ANGRY, in this case, towards bama. The ONE I call …. B U M …
2. Bob wrote “The President actually passed it by Executive Order,on a Friday,during Christmas week.You can’t try to bury it anymore than that!”
W R O N G !!!
“On Thursday, Obama issued an executive order that would lift the freeze and implement a 0.5 percent across-the-board increase starting the first pay period after March 27, 2013”
http://www.govexec.com/pa.....ing/60369/
3. Bob wrote “The President actually passed it by Executive Order,on a Friday,during Christmas week.You can’t try to bury it anymore than that!”
That hasn’t been true in YEARS.
Article you site came out Friday “12:50 PM, Dec 28, 2012”. You posted link here Friday & buma signed Friday. “HIDE”. Anyone SO INCLINED to print or mention on tv this executive order WOULD have the knowledge Friday. JUST LIKE BOB did here. Just as the author of your link did. I didn’t even check to see if he was THE FIRST TO BREAK THE NEWS. NOT TO MENTION CBO report was mentioned in the article. There are MANY GROUPS that read CBO reports like Heritage Foundation for one.
Fact that buma played golf with guy on recent vacation that has record for being with prostitute MEANS every time buma passes gas we’ll know about it in media that it honest.
I’ll give you WAS true THAT “You can’t try to bury it anymore than that!” back when pony express delivered mail. Just isn’t valid any longer since Al Gore invented Internet. Bob you knew of the order “ Friday,during Christmas week.” Didn’t THAT give you a clue…
Correction
I made a 1/2 error. Sorry.
Bob wrote buma “signed an “Executive order yesterday (27th December 2012)”.
Bob Dec 28th, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Bob wrote “The President actually passed it by Executive Order,on a Friday,during Christmas week.You can’t try to bury it anymore than that!”
Bob Dec 29th, 2012 at 10:46 pm
Guess I was 1/2 wrong MAYBE ??? Bob gave both Thrusday & Friday as signing dates…
http://www.youtube.com/wa.....um#t=19%2a
Bob
ABOUT THAT big secret AND signing “ Friday,during Christmas week” pay raise, I looked it up today and found THE VIEW. On their web site Friday they talked about pay raise. Now only twice have I watched that show, not this Friday, but I’m a GUESSING FRIDAY they discussed the pay raise then.
So my cutie saying + quoting you WAS true THAT “You can’t try to bury it anymore than that!” UNLESS back when pony express delivered mail IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN TRUE. Just isn’t valid any longer since Al Gore invented THE Internet. Bob you knew of the order “ Friday,during Christmas week.” Didn’t THAT give you a clue… MY SAYING IS ON TARGET. EVEN the View COMMENTED ON pay raise FRIDAY…