Posted on 12/18/2010 7:01:41 AM PST by Kaslin
Budget: The lump of coal in our Christmas stocking that was the omnibus spending bill is dead. The Congress the people elected, not the one they repudiated, can now guard the public purse, not pick our pockets.
The failure to pass a budget or any of 12 appropriations bills despite full control of both houses of Congress led to this paroxysm of spending, a $1.27 trillion bill full of earmarks that represented the antithesis to the type of government voters on Nov. 2 said they wanted. Those voices evidently were still being heard, particularly by the 23 Democratic and independent senators up for re-election in 2012.
Late Thursday night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid conceded defeat to those once derided as "angry mobs" and pulled the bill. He said he just didn't have the votes and would work with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to craft a continuing resolution to run the government until the Congress the people just elected can convene.
"This is a victory for the country," McConnell told National Review Online. "We decided that we're not going to pass a 2,000-page bill that nobody has seen since yesterday. That's not the way to operate and that's not the message from the November elections."
Indeed it wasn't. The people are tired of Godzilla-sized legislation, written behind closed doors, that our legislators did not read. This bill represented scorched-earth spending by a departing Congress. It also would have taken many critical spending decisions for the next fiscal year out of the hands of the new Congress. This is why Congress has only a 13% approval rating.
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Thanks for all you do on FR Kaslin. A very Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year to you and your family.
Now that its omni-busted, we can go about defunding NEA, PBS, ethanol, redundant Dept of Ed bilingual ed programs, corporate welfare/subsidies, earmarks, bloated HHS and NIH spending, Dept of Ag subsidies, bridges to nowhere, ACORN and Planned Parenthood and leftist group funding, affirmative action quotas, etc.
It’s the spending stupid.
It’s just astounding that, given the dire economic situation that we are in, the Feds have not even hinted about cutting the size of the federal government, and instead continue to massively increase it. State and local governments are cutting back, businesses and working citizens, families etc., are cutting back, and nowhere in the alternate reality called the “Federal Government” is there even the idea of cutting back.
And, they are the ones arguably most responsible for getting us into the dire economic consequences!
Ping
The libs, in their dreams to control to spending for the first year of the new Congress/Senate with crippling results - and with the publics short memory, would successfully blame everything on the New Boys in Town. (The budget was, by law, supposed to have been done months ago. I suspicion they deliberately 'drug' their feet in order to ram a totally insane one down our throats at zero hour - after all, that's how he got 'bummer care through. ahahaha. 'Burn me once, 'arry and it's gonna be harder to do it again.)
Now, not only does our side get to make up the budget - the billions for ‘bummer care in the bill are kaput. that will go a long ways towards the ‘defund’ side of the attack.
And they sunk themselves in their hubris. For purely execrable reasons, they dug up months old earmark proposals, thousands of them, and quietly stuffed them into the 2,000 page bill. Then they passed out the talking points: HYHPOCRITES! LOOK! the republicans claim to want to stop earmarks, yet LOOK at all these earmarks in the bill!
Oops. One egregious step too far. Even the 9 lib republicans who were ready to vote for the bill said: buh bye.
And so ‘arry and his Rat Pack were hoisted by their own petard. How delightful. And 'neither 'arry nor peel-face would attend 'bummer's signing of the tax-extend bill. Snooty little kids, taking their marbles and going home. This is going to be fun to watch. the 'bummer does not take slights lightly. Two slights at the same time: NOT invited to Wills and Kate's wedding, while other heads of state will be there - and snubbed by 'arry and peel-face, very publicly. He will be having a major narcissistic episode. I'd lay low, 'arry and peel-face)
WArms the cockles of me ‘eart to know ‘arry is going to have a really, but really, lousy Christmas in Searchlight, Nevada.
Let's not forget the taxpayer subsidies to the ACLU.
The more I hear about omnibus bills the less I like them. Do you know if we have always had omnibus bills from the beginning of the nation or is it something that developed later on? There is something that seems very sneaky about omnibus bills, it seems like they are just one of many tricks that politician can use to deceive us by hiding many controversial things in the bill. I really get the strong feeling that this happened as the government began to become corrupted, I just do not know why the legislature cannot just vote on each item at a time.
The more I hear about omnibus bills the less I like them. Do you know if we have always had omnibus bills from the beginning of the nation or is it something that developed later on? There is something that seems very sneaky about omnibus bills, it seems like they are just one of many tricks that politician can use to deceive us by hiding many controversial things in the bill. I really get the strong feeling that this happened as the government began to become corrupted, I just do not know why the legislature cannot just vote on each item at a time.
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