John Boehner: Architect of the Death of the Republican Party
The RINOs and the clueless are doing their rounds today trying to shore up support for Speaker of the House John Boehner's "plan" to raise the debt ceiling and "cut spending". Yet it cuts nothing.
It suggests how much to cut, and then leaves it up to selected members of Congress to come up with specific proposals. The initial estimates by the Congressional Budget Office were $1B would be cut next year. That's right. One billion.
And we're supposed to get behind this.
Even better, Obama and Democratic Senate leader already announced it as "dead on arrival".
This is what happens when you continuously play the game of the hard core Left and buckle to them every time instead of standing your ground and making them come to you.
The House passed a budget for 2012. They passed a solution to the current predicament the Democratic Congress of 2008-2010 and this President have gotten us into at light speed compared to previous Presidents and Congresses. Neither have even seen the light of day in the Senate for debate, let alone a vote. Yet Republicans are expected to keep coming up with legislation while Democrats sit there and shoot down everything.
Yet instead of fighting for what was passed and making the Democrats sweat a little, Boehner keeps obliging them.
This weak-kneed unprincipled stance on things -- particularly on spending -- is what sent the Republicans to the wilderness for four years starting with the elections of 2006. 2010 saw them regain the House due to rallying of the conservatives and others against the epic spending levels of the previous Congress and Democrats. Now we are seeing little to no resistance and changing things. And people are angry at this. Others are getting demoralized. Cut, Cap, Balance was a plan that leveraged the strengths of the Republican negotiating position while ensuring that there would at least be a balanced budget amendment sent out to the States if the President wanted his increase in the debt ceiling. But Boehner and McConnell have refused to stand ground on it for even a few days and attempting to force a debate and vote in the Senate before buckling. Way to go, Boehner/McConnell.
Welcome to the death of the Republican party.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Tyrannical Federal Government Kicks Down Doors
So now we find out that the Department of Education is authorized to have armed agents and the ability to kick down your door if you're suspected of some kind of shady dealings with school loans. What about if you're way behind on your loans? Can they kick down your door then too? Where does this stop?
The main problem appears to be the Homeland Security Act of 2002 that gave any agency with an OIG the power to carry weapons and conduct these actions. This is very troubling as it's supposed to be the Department of Justice that performs law enforcement -- they're the ones trained properly and act as professionally as can be expected under dire circumstances like raiding a home. But the question is, who makes the decision to give the go ahead for such raids in the first place? An agency like the DoE executing these actions is like the local high school principal kicking down your door with a dozen armed school administrators because your child has been playing hookey or stealing other children's lunch money. It'd be ridiculous if it wasn't so dire and scary for what it represents to a supposed free society.
Congress has given away so much power to the executive branch that Congress has nearly become a subservient branch instead of an equal one with the ability to check the other two which are running amok these days. Separation of powers between the three equal branches was supposed to prevent things like this. But Congress, having created countless agencies like the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with Legislative power (issuing regulations), Executive power (enforcement), and Judicial power (adjudicating objections of the exercising of the other two powers), has us living under a tyranny in many aspects due to the unchecked power of these unelected bureaucrats. And it continues non stop with bills like The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare") that create boards of bureaucrats with power over what treatment you get or the Department of HHS grabbing the power to issues waivers to "ObamaCare" that it wasn't even granted in the legislation. These agencies actions of unconstitutional, and many of the agencies are unconstitutional.
This is why, more than ever, conservatives need the reins of power for many election cycles to reverse all this damage that statist "liberals" in both parties have caused. Congress needs to pass legislation destroying many of these agencies, and reclaiming powers that were granted either explicitly or implicitly through vague language from the ones that remain intact. And that's just the start, people.
The main problem appears to be the Homeland Security Act of 2002 that gave any agency with an OIG the power to carry weapons and conduct these actions. This is very troubling as it's supposed to be the Department of Justice that performs law enforcement -- they're the ones trained properly and act as professionally as can be expected under dire circumstances like raiding a home. But the question is, who makes the decision to give the go ahead for such raids in the first place? An agency like the DoE executing these actions is like the local high school principal kicking down your door with a dozen armed school administrators because your child has been playing hookey or stealing other children's lunch money. It'd be ridiculous if it wasn't so dire and scary for what it represents to a supposed free society.
Congress has given away so much power to the executive branch that Congress has nearly become a subservient branch instead of an equal one with the ability to check the other two which are running amok these days. Separation of powers between the three equal branches was supposed to prevent things like this. But Congress, having created countless agencies like the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with Legislative power (issuing regulations), Executive power (enforcement), and Judicial power (adjudicating objections of the exercising of the other two powers), has us living under a tyranny in many aspects due to the unchecked power of these unelected bureaucrats. And it continues non stop with bills like The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare") that create boards of bureaucrats with power over what treatment you get or the Department of HHS grabbing the power to issues waivers to "ObamaCare" that it wasn't even granted in the legislation. These agencies actions of unconstitutional, and many of the agencies are unconstitutional.
This is why, more than ever, conservatives need the reins of power for many election cycles to reverse all this damage that statist "liberals" in both parties have caused. Congress needs to pass legislation destroying many of these agencies, and reclaiming powers that were granted either explicitly or implicitly through vague language from the ones that remain intact. And that's just the start, people.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
More 2012 News
It looks like Sarah Palin is finally getting ready to enter the 2012 Republican Primary race. News is out now that she contracted with conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon to produce a series of videos exposing all accomplishments and successes of her time in office as Alaska governor. The statist press that continually trashes her on a regular basis has never really quite gotten around to that ever, and would have people believe she sat around and did nothing for two and a half years other than running with McCain for the VP nomination in 2008.
Finally Palin will get a chance to tell her side of the story to a wider audience than she reached even with her best-selling books at a time when the race for the nomination is finally beginning to get started. Without the interruptions and trashing. With the entrance of Palin, and the anticipated entrance of Bachmann, that brings the race up to four excellent conservative choices, which is a far cry from the lonely one that 2008 saw in Fred Thompson.
The poll referenced in the previous post on political momentum showed Palin with almost universal name recognition but with only slightly over average positive momentum. Once she starts actively campaigning and she's out there in her own words more often, she will see that positive rating rise, as a big factor in her languishing where she is: the belief that she wasn't going to run.
Finally Palin will get a chance to tell her side of the story to a wider audience than she reached even with her best-selling books at a time when the race for the nomination is finally beginning to get started. Without the interruptions and trashing. With the entrance of Palin, and the anticipated entrance of Bachmann, that brings the race up to four excellent conservative choices, which is a far cry from the lonely one that 2008 saw in Fred Thompson.
The poll referenced in the previous post on political momentum showed Palin with almost universal name recognition but with only slightly over average positive momentum. Once she starts actively campaigning and she's out there in her own words more often, she will see that positive rating rise, as a big factor in her languishing where she is: the belief that she wasn't going to run.
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