Posted on 04/11/2011 9:22:37 AM PDT by IbJensen
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.), who leads the Tea Party Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives and who is considering running for president in 2012, expressed adamant opposition to the spending deal agreed to late Friday night by House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and President Barack Obama.
“Make no mistake: I oppose this negotiated deal,” Bachmann said in a Twitter message sent out at about 11:00 am on Saturday. “It does not: Cut enough spending, stop funding Planned Parenthood, or defund Obamacare.”
Bachmann also expressed her opposition to the deal in a statement put out in a press release.
“The deal that was reached tonight is a disappointment for me and for millions of Americans who expected $100 billion in cuts, who wanted to make sure their tax dollars stopped flowing to the nation’s largest abortion provider, and who wanted us to defund ObamaCare,” Bachmann said in the statement. “Instead, we’ve been asked to settle for $39 billion in cuts, even as we continue to fund Planned Parenthood and the implementation of ObamaCare. Sadly, we’re missing the mandate given us by voters last November, and for that reason I voted against the Continuing Resolution.”
In a vote held at 12:40 am Saturday, the House approved the first phase of the Boehner-Obama spending deal, a measure to fund the government through Thursday, when a bill to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year will come up for a vote.
The short-term measure was approved 348-70 in the early Saturday morning vote. Twenty-eight Republicans voted against it, including Bachmann.
Speaker of the House John Boehner and Sen Mitch McConnell are both socialists. Both assist the democrats at every turn.
They may both very well be members of the elitist globalist CFR and worshippers at the idol of Gorebal Warmism.
Don’t forget Michel. He was a real peach.
Any member of congress that belongs to or listens to the CFR should be removed from office.
Not a member of Congress anymore, but a breathless presidential candidate: Newt Gingrich. He’s also friendly enough with Nutzy Pelousy to sit with her for a gorebal warming photo op.
Lugar, one or two of the Maine twins, Lindsay Graham, Bush I (dunno about II) and many others that I can’t recall right now. But there are many Republicrats who carry cards.
There are even more CFR members: Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain,and Fred Thompson. .
Should we worry whether they are CFR members or not? The CFR is on a fast-track course to abolish the sovereign U.S.A. by 2010, literally forcing us to become part of a North American Union
So does Mike Pence.
I think their message has been sent. “We seek the approval of the MSM more than the voters. They’ll be impressed with us b/c they are STUPID. Esp. Tea Partiers.”
It was a big, loud FU! Bob
I think that's exactly right. FWIW, I sometimes amuse myself by posting on a lefty board, and they are not only ticked about this deal, but convinced that Boehner rolled Obama. They are dreading what is going to happen when the debt ceiling issue comes up because they think the momentum is all against them.
And remember, we're fighting these battles while controlling only one house of Congress. We must win the 2012 election to have any hope of truly transformational change, because the left will not give up things like the ACA unless we do.
Constitutionally, every dollar spent must originate in the House, which WE allegedly control. We could have done a LOT better. The excuses are sickening.
Constitutionally, every dollar spent must originate in the House, which WE allegedly control. We could have done a LOT better. The excuses are sickening.
Some Tea Party activists are unhappy that Boehner’s deal didn’t already deal in trillions, but there simply weren’t trillions to cut in FY2011′s budget — only the remainder of the discretionary spending left after five months of temporary spending authorizations. Entitlement programs spend on auto-pilot as they are statutory obligations passed into law; the published federal budget produced by Congress only estimates those costs, while authorizing discretionary spending. Statutory changes to law have to be proposed and adopted separately from budgets by rule and by practicality. Ryan and the GOP will now have the opportunity to start proposing and pushing the kind of statutory changes necessary to change the direction of the auto-pilot that will reduce the entitlement spending for the future, starting in FY2012 if Congress can pass something that Barack Obama will sign.John Boehner: The Next fight will be trillions, not billions
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