Posted on 12/15/2010 5:08:25 AM PST by Perdogg
If you thought Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., went on interminably last week, just wait until you see what Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has planned.
Democrats, having passed none of this fiscal year's appropriations, want to ram through the lame duck Senate a 2,000-page spending bill that no one had a chance to read. DeMint released the following statement yesterday.
Mike
God Bless you Jim
please kill this piece of crap Bill...
You have to pass the bill to know what’s in it. the centurys bigest joke.
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"The reading could take 40 hours, some news outlets estimate. Last year, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., forced the reading of an 800-page amendment on the Senate floor. The reading ended when Sanders, who had proposed the amendment, came to the floor to withdraw it."
Perhaps NOW we can see some of the beginnings of reclaimation of our nation.
Look, everyone knows they have to PASS it in order to find out what’s in it!
How can he call himself a ‘conservative’ when he is actively trying to kill one of the greatest traditions of the 111th congress?
;-)
“President Obama and Democrats have apparently learned nothing from this November’s election. This nearly 2,000-page omnibus filled with thousands of earmarks shows they are still determined to ram through as much big-government spending as they can in this lame duck session. Americans loudly demanded an end to the runaway spending, but Democrats are intent on raiding every taxpayer dollar that they can grab from the Treasury on their way out of power. This bill also funds the unconstitutional Obamacare law that Americans oppose and have asked Congress to fully repeal. Democrats haven’t given Republicans or the American people time to read the bill, but I’ll join with other Republican colleagues to force them to read it on the Senate floor.”
Washington, DC
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Snail mail is just that so call or Fax him. DeMint needs to hear from us now about this monstrosity of a bill....make all congressmen and senators READ this mess. Also call your Senators and urge them to stand by this Senator.
It needs to be read aloud on the floor of the Senate by each Repub. Senator. No speed readers allowed!
Agreed, and then I hope they read those 9892384790 supporting documents that aren’t part of the formal bill, but are part of it.
And I hope the Republicans interrupt frequently, asking for long winded clarifications!
I’d like to slap Reid so hard, that by the time he woke up, his clothes were out of style!
oh wait....
I hope they have to read it. Serve the dems right for holding it for the lame duck.
Aw, hell no! Force them to read it on the Senate steps out front!
What's anyone going to do about it? Republicans will roll over, and even if they complain the MSM will ignore it.
These people are outlaws, pure and simple, from the oval office to every stinking democrat on the face of the planet.
RINOS have already collaborated and sold out.
Once you strip all of the spin and lies away from various political congress critters it comes down to this:
Every Congress Critter's primary job is to be personally knowledgeable of every bill that comes before Congress no matter how big or small,
We have had more than two decades of bills being amended with blank sheets of paper to be filled in later. Yet we still pay them. Would you pay a person for not mowing your yard?
Senate Democrats began rolling out Tuesday a year-end, government-wide spending bill that cuts more than $26 billion from President Barack Obama’s 2011 requests even as it defies earmark bans – or veto threats over Joint Strike Fighter engines.
Filling more than 1,900 pages w/ 6,739 earmarks, and costing $1.1 trillion, the measure is sure to invite criticism as a last stand by the Senate’s old bulls before the more conservative, tea party-oriented Congress takes hold in January. But weeks of bipartisan work have gone into the effort to meet spending targets previously embraced by the Republican leadership and also try to salvage something from the failed budget process this year.
The Departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security have the greatest stake in the increased appropriations that are permitted above 2010 levels, but to a surprising degree, the bill also makes room for (illegals) new education and health spending in addition to billions to meet a shortfall in Pell Grants for low-income college students (illegals).
The first test—getting to 60 votes to limit debate—could come as early as Saturday. The $857 billion price tag for President Barack Obama’s tax cut deal with Republicans makes this task harder.
And if the Senate falls short of 60, it will have to either embrace some version of a stripped-down House-passed continuing resolution for 2011 or simply punt the fight into January when Republicans will have more power. (Excerpt) Read more at dyn.politico.com ...
HOORAY Jim DeMint!
Defund all collectives. Bring charges against all plunderers.
“It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.” - The Results of Legal Plunder; The Law; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
DeMint BUMP.
Stall, stall, stall.
Run out the clock on all of Reid’s trash.
Start fresh next year.
Kill the pork, postpone the Nightmare Act until the next session.
Go, Jim, go.
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