Well the predictable republican cave took a awhile but finally happened. Being civil is admirable but being spineless is deplorable. As a student of psychology I do understand the behavior. Human beings, by nature, seek acceptance by others. Its part of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and basically occupies the first four foundational levels of the needs pyramid to various degrees.
Washington D.C. is as deep blue as it gets. Liberals get on their knees and pray to D.C. like Muslims pray towards Mecca...... the centers of their separate religions. Thus when a republican or conservative (yes.... there is a difference) is sent into Washington they hit culture shock immediately. They are immersed in liberalism 24/7 with no escape. As far as the left and the media (same thing) are concerned there is no America outside of the I-495 beltway. All news is inside the beltway. Everything important is inside the beltway.
Since liberalism is the center of everything..... IF you want to be accepted...... if you want to be a part of the social life....... if you want to get along...... you will gradually begin to change your attitude and positions in order to not be excluded or denigrated for not "reaching across the isle." It's a slow process... like the frog in the pot of warming water. Before they realize it they have been turned to the dark side.
Which brings us to Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, among others. These two guys are taking the most flack from the inside the beltway gang because of their stand against the funding of ObamaCare. So what are those two guys doing that makes them the focus of such animus?
Both are guilty of doing exactly what they said they would do when they campaigned for office in their respective states. (Texas & Utah) They said they would do their best to represent the interests of the people who sent them to Washington..... and that's exactly what they are doing!
The vast majority of Americans did not want ObamaCare and still don't. I'm sure as the sun will rise tomorrow that as sticker shock hits those who weren't engaged and were okay with the bill that they will suddenly oppose it too. You have to be 100% anti-American and 100% pro-destruction of the nation to support it! (That or not have a sufficient number of functional brain cells and are completely unable to form a cogent thought on your own)
Everything that Obama told the nation on coast to coast TV has proven to be lies. NO! You cannot keep your insurance if YOU like it. NO! You cannot keep your doctor if YOU like him. (or her) NO!! Your insurance rates will NOT go down by $2400 a year. Hell.... in a lot of cases you can't even keep your full time job!
As the program continues to roll out the horror stories are mounting up...... so much so that soon it will be obvious to even the most ignorant that the bill IS the nightmare the majority of Americans said it was all along. We told that to Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and they voiced our concerns to the other representatives in the nations capitol.
For that they were excoriated. For doing their jobs they are hated by everyone inside the beltway. Liberals hate them because they refuse to support the liberal agenda. Republicans hate them because they make them look bad by comparison. Both side call them crazy and stupid..... obstructionists... wacko-birds.... etc. BUT! Both stood strong and set an example to be followed by others.
How did all this mess come about anyway? Why all the bickering and fighting over these CR's? (continuing resolutions) It's because the party in power, democrats, have failed since 2008 to submit a budget to the House as required by the Constitution. Here is the item of interest.
USC 31 §1105 declares that “(o)n or after the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in February of each year, the President shall submit a budget of the United States Government for the following fiscal year.” After that it is up to the Congress to pass budget legislation and the president to sign it into law.
The president has failed to obey the Constitution since taking office........ and for a purely political reason too! (Yeah.... I know.... you're shocked by that too.) IF he submits a proper budget then he is obligated to clearly spell out exactly what his intentions are and thus exposes his agenda for all to see.
Without a budget then the House has no choice but to continue the last submitted budget (which was from George Bush) through the continuing resolution (CR) process. In practical terms the CR's end up being a budgetary Frankenstein. They are a conglomeration of individual funding requests mashed up and typically passed without comment in order to keep things running smoothly.
This CR was different though..... because if ObamaCare was going to be implemented it required funding. Here is the catch. The House is under NO requirement to allocate funding for every item contained either in a formal budget or in a CR.
It's like being a kid and going to your mother and saying..... "Mom! I need a quarter for an ice cream bar and $8997 for a motorcycle!" Mom opens her purse and hands you a quarter and shuts the purse. You can ASK..... but the one controlling the purse has the final say. THAT is the role of the House of Representatives as defined by the Constitution in as simple an example as I can make. (See the 14th Amendment)
Knowing that, and not liking it one little bit, the head democrat in the White House and the head democrat in the Senate decided that they would REFUSE to accept any CR from the house that did not give them 100% of what they demanded. (This is known as negotiating by liberals. They get everything they want and the other side caves.)
Thus.... when the deadline for passage came and went 25% of government was shut down. (and as a side point..... was anyone other than me curious about the fact that every single one of the agencies which went along with that farce already had ON HAND all the neatly printed closure signage??)
The reasons for the closures can be found in Obama's bible... Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. Alinsky taught that once you have a crisis.... either natural or artificial..... do all you can to make it as painful as possible for as many people as possible. Then constantly place the blame for the crisis on the people you wish to either eliminate or marginalize. Even if you created the crisis the public will begin to focus their rage on the people you are consistently blaming.
What did both Obama and Reid (as well as RINO republicans) do daily during the entire CR run-up and shutdown process? They all pointed fingers of blame at Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and anyone else who was trying to stand up for the American people. And the 5th column media gladly echoed every word multiple times a day until..... as Alinsky predicted..... almost everyone was blaming the wrong people for the shutdown.
As for the math..... as usual things just do not add up. (once again..... I'm shocked!) ObamaCare had one goal and ONLY one goal..... to help speed American down the road to full blown socialism. The Patient Protection part? ...... A steaming pile of male bovine solid emissions. Patients are required to turn over all manner of personal and private information which is to be entered into a massive government data base. John McCaffee, who makes security software, says the government system is so secure they might as well publish the data in the NY Times.
Those data can be legally accessed by any government agency which feels it has a need and used for any purpose they choose.... up to and including your prosecution in court. Also the "navigators" who enter this data do not have to pass any sort of background check and can even be felons. Yep.... that sure makes ME feel like I'm being protected! I really want a felon to have access to things like my SSAN and credit card information. Am I the only one who can see an opportunity for massive fraud coming?
Then there is the Affordable Care Act part. How's THAT working out so far? Under the employer mandate we have already seen millions of workers dumped from their previously employer provided health insurance into the government pool. (which seems to be most toxic) The average increase in cost to these workers is just shy of 400%. Deductibles are also increasing.... some by over 300%. This is NOT what Obama promised.
Combine that with companies scaling back from traditional 40 hour work weeks to 29.5 hours and the workers are really taking it in the shorts! More money going out.... less money coming in...... what money they have being devalued by the FED printing presses running non-stop.... and it's a nightmare. See the following:
The Weimar Republic - devalued currency
Weimar Republic - History
Top all that off with a $570 million dollar web site for people to sign up on that is so poorly coded that it might have well been a 5th grade computer science class project. (Although the 5th graders probably would have had a workable site for far less money) The administration had three years to get it right.... and blew it badly. Yet.... the left still expects ObamaCare to solve ALL of America's health care problems WHILE cutting spending too! That qualifies as a clinical case of acute self-delusion.
And.... the icing on the budgetary cake this week..... a 1 TRILLION dollar increase in the debt ceiling. (Okay.... around $800 Billion but close enough) Here's the analogy...... You have a credit card and you have blown right through your card limit because you just can't stop spending money! You're addicted to spending because it makes you feel powerful and important. Rather than come to terms with the fact that you're spending way more than you earn and cut back so as to reduce your growing debt problem..... you DEMAND that the credit card company raise your card limit so you can spend more! Does that really make sense??
And please.... do not try to give me that "We'll default for the 1st time in history!" BS either. The 14th amendment stipulates that the legally incurred National debt be serviced....... have at least the interest paid each and every month. To service the national debt requires around $20 billion dollars a month. (and you think YOU have credit card problems!) Revenue flowing into the treasury runs in the range of $230 billion a month. The ONLY way American could possibly default on a debt payment would be if the President..... in CLEAR violation of the intent of the 14th Amendment..... ordered the treasury to not make the service payment. That would be another in a LONG list of reasons to at least impeach or at most remove the president from office.
SO! What the media is now happily saying is that Obama WON!!! Yippie!! But did he really??? A recent survey indicates that more people than ever consider themselves to be conservatives. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee proved that people with a spine representing the WILL of the electorate CAN make a difference in Washington.
More people are seeing Obama for what he really is.... a childish and petty little man with no concern whatsoever for the people of America. More people than ever are seeing the democrats as a mean and vindictive bunch who will stop and nothing to get their way. More people than ever are discovering that they were sold a load of BS about how wonderful ObamaCare was supposed to be. More people than ever are starting to wake up to the fact that America has got a serious spending problem that puts them, their children and their grandchildren in jeopardy.
It's kinda like the Emperor of Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor when he said.... "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant." News flash to the left..... YEP! We're awake alright..... and we're righteously pissed too!
Washington D.C. is as deep blue as it gets. Liberals get on their knees and pray to D.C. like Muslims pray towards Mecca...... the centers of their separate religions. Thus when a republican or conservative (yes.... there is a difference) is sent into Washington they hit culture shock immediately. They are immersed in liberalism 24/7 with no escape. As far as the left and the media (same thing) are concerned there is no America outside of the I-495 beltway. All news is inside the beltway. Everything important is inside the beltway.
Since liberalism is the center of everything..... IF you want to be accepted...... if you want to be a part of the social life....... if you want to get along...... you will gradually begin to change your attitude and positions in order to not be excluded or denigrated for not "reaching across the isle." It's a slow process... like the frog in the pot of warming water. Before they realize it they have been turned to the dark side.
Which brings us to Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, among others. These two guys are taking the most flack from the inside the beltway gang because of their stand against the funding of ObamaCare. So what are those two guys doing that makes them the focus of such animus?
Both are guilty of doing exactly what they said they would do when they campaigned for office in their respective states. (Texas & Utah) They said they would do their best to represent the interests of the people who sent them to Washington..... and that's exactly what they are doing!
The vast majority of Americans did not want ObamaCare and still don't. I'm sure as the sun will rise tomorrow that as sticker shock hits those who weren't engaged and were okay with the bill that they will suddenly oppose it too. You have to be 100% anti-American and 100% pro-destruction of the nation to support it! (That or not have a sufficient number of functional brain cells and are completely unable to form a cogent thought on your own)
Everything that Obama told the nation on coast to coast TV has proven to be lies. NO! You cannot keep your insurance if YOU like it. NO! You cannot keep your doctor if YOU like him. (or her) NO!! Your insurance rates will NOT go down by $2400 a year. Hell.... in a lot of cases you can't even keep your full time job!
As the program continues to roll out the horror stories are mounting up...... so much so that soon it will be obvious to even the most ignorant that the bill IS the nightmare the majority of Americans said it was all along. We told that to Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and they voiced our concerns to the other representatives in the nations capitol.
For that they were excoriated. For doing their jobs they are hated by everyone inside the beltway. Liberals hate them because they refuse to support the liberal agenda. Republicans hate them because they make them look bad by comparison. Both side call them crazy and stupid..... obstructionists... wacko-birds.... etc. BUT! Both stood strong and set an example to be followed by others.
How did all this mess come about anyway? Why all the bickering and fighting over these CR's? (continuing resolutions) It's because the party in power, democrats, have failed since 2008 to submit a budget to the House as required by the Constitution. Here is the item of interest.
USC 31 §1105 declares that “(o)n or after the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in February of each year, the President shall submit a budget of the United States Government for the following fiscal year.” After that it is up to the Congress to pass budget legislation and the president to sign it into law.
The president has failed to obey the Constitution since taking office........ and for a purely political reason too! (Yeah.... I know.... you're shocked by that too.) IF he submits a proper budget then he is obligated to clearly spell out exactly what his intentions are and thus exposes his agenda for all to see.
Without a budget then the House has no choice but to continue the last submitted budget (which was from George Bush) through the continuing resolution (CR) process. In practical terms the CR's end up being a budgetary Frankenstein. They are a conglomeration of individual funding requests mashed up and typically passed without comment in order to keep things running smoothly.
This CR was different though..... because if ObamaCare was going to be implemented it required funding. Here is the catch. The House is under NO requirement to allocate funding for every item contained either in a formal budget or in a CR.
It's like being a kid and going to your mother and saying..... "Mom! I need a quarter for an ice cream bar and $8997 for a motorcycle!" Mom opens her purse and hands you a quarter and shuts the purse. You can ASK..... but the one controlling the purse has the final say. THAT is the role of the House of Representatives as defined by the Constitution in as simple an example as I can make. (See the 14th Amendment)
Knowing that, and not liking it one little bit, the head democrat in the White House and the head democrat in the Senate decided that they would REFUSE to accept any CR from the house that did not give them 100% of what they demanded. (This is known as negotiating by liberals. They get everything they want and the other side caves.)
Thus.... when the deadline for passage came and went 25% of government was shut down. (and as a side point..... was anyone other than me curious about the fact that every single one of the agencies which went along with that farce already had ON HAND all the neatly printed closure signage??)
The reasons for the closures can be found in Obama's bible... Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. Alinsky taught that once you have a crisis.... either natural or artificial..... do all you can to make it as painful as possible for as many people as possible. Then constantly place the blame for the crisis on the people you wish to either eliminate or marginalize. Even if you created the crisis the public will begin to focus their rage on the people you are consistently blaming.
What did both Obama and Reid (as well as RINO republicans) do daily during the entire CR run-up and shutdown process? They all pointed fingers of blame at Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and anyone else who was trying to stand up for the American people. And the 5th column media gladly echoed every word multiple times a day until..... as Alinsky predicted..... almost everyone was blaming the wrong people for the shutdown.
As for the math..... as usual things just do not add up. (once again..... I'm shocked!) ObamaCare had one goal and ONLY one goal..... to help speed American down the road to full blown socialism. The Patient Protection part? ...... A steaming pile of male bovine solid emissions. Patients are required to turn over all manner of personal and private information which is to be entered into a massive government data base. John McCaffee, who makes security software, says the government system is so secure they might as well publish the data in the NY Times.
Those data can be legally accessed by any government agency which feels it has a need and used for any purpose they choose.... up to and including your prosecution in court. Also the "navigators" who enter this data do not have to pass any sort of background check and can even be felons. Yep.... that sure makes ME feel like I'm being protected! I really want a felon to have access to things like my SSAN and credit card information. Am I the only one who can see an opportunity for massive fraud coming?
Then there is the Affordable Care Act part. How's THAT working out so far? Under the employer mandate we have already seen millions of workers dumped from their previously employer provided health insurance into the government pool. (which seems to be most toxic) The average increase in cost to these workers is just shy of 400%. Deductibles are also increasing.... some by over 300%. This is NOT what Obama promised.
Combine that with companies scaling back from traditional 40 hour work weeks to 29.5 hours and the workers are really taking it in the shorts! More money going out.... less money coming in...... what money they have being devalued by the FED printing presses running non-stop.... and it's a nightmare. See the following:
The Weimar Republic - devalued currency
Weimar Republic - History
Top all that off with a $570 million dollar web site for people to sign up on that is so poorly coded that it might have well been a 5th grade computer science class project. (Although the 5th graders probably would have had a workable site for far less money) The administration had three years to get it right.... and blew it badly. Yet.... the left still expects ObamaCare to solve ALL of America's health care problems WHILE cutting spending too! That qualifies as a clinical case of acute self-delusion.
And.... the icing on the budgetary cake this week..... a 1 TRILLION dollar increase in the debt ceiling. (Okay.... around $800 Billion but close enough) Here's the analogy...... You have a credit card and you have blown right through your card limit because you just can't stop spending money! You're addicted to spending because it makes you feel powerful and important. Rather than come to terms with the fact that you're spending way more than you earn and cut back so as to reduce your growing debt problem..... you DEMAND that the credit card company raise your card limit so you can spend more! Does that really make sense??
And please.... do not try to give me that "We'll default for the 1st time in history!" BS either. The 14th amendment stipulates that the legally incurred National debt be serviced....... have at least the interest paid each and every month. To service the national debt requires around $20 billion dollars a month. (and you think YOU have credit card problems!) Revenue flowing into the treasury runs in the range of $230 billion a month. The ONLY way American could possibly default on a debt payment would be if the President..... in CLEAR violation of the intent of the 14th Amendment..... ordered the treasury to not make the service payment. That would be another in a LONG list of reasons to at least impeach or at most remove the president from office.
SO! What the media is now happily saying is that Obama WON!!! Yippie!! But did he really??? A recent survey indicates that more people than ever consider themselves to be conservatives. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee proved that people with a spine representing the WILL of the electorate CAN make a difference in Washington.
More people are seeing Obama for what he really is.... a childish and petty little man with no concern whatsoever for the people of America. More people than ever are seeing the democrats as a mean and vindictive bunch who will stop and nothing to get their way. More people than ever are discovering that they were sold a load of BS about how wonderful ObamaCare was supposed to be. More people than ever are starting to wake up to the fact that America has got a serious spending problem that puts them, their children and their grandchildren in jeopardy.
It's kinda like the Emperor of Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor when he said.... "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant." News flash to the left..... YEP! We're awake alright..... and we're righteously pissed too!
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