Posted on 08/04/2011 1:52:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
August 4, 2011
Dear Mr. Robinson,
Thank you for contacting me regarding our mutual desire to see the debt limit standoff resolved so that America will not default on its loans and that our government can continue to provide the services that our seniors and veterans depend on and deserve. I appreciate hearing your thoughts about how to resolve the debt crisis. I assure you that I took the views of my constituents very seriously as I cast my vote throughout the entire debt limit crisis. While the legislation that was signed into law is not perfect, it is an effective instrument to cut government spending and restore fiscal accountability without raising taxes on American families and job creators.
After carefully reading the various legislative solutions and constituent letters on the debt crisis, I ultimately supported passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011, which was signed into law on August 2, 2011. I cast my vote to shrink a federal government that has done nothing but expand for the past 40 years. The bill requires cuts to our nation's budget that are greater than the amount that the debt ceiling is raised. Additionally, the legislation caps future spending to limit the growth of government and requires a vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. These three provisions are crucial, not only to make sure that we do not continue to pass our nation's debt onto our children, but to instill confidence among California's businesses and job creators.
I voted for the Budget Control Act of 2011 to hold the President accountable and ensure that he does not receive a blank check to continue his spending spree that put us in the situation we are in today. While the spending cuts are smaller that I would like, this legislation makes real progress toward restoring fiscal discipline to Washington and instilling confidence in America's job creators. Californians have been forced to tighten their belts for too long—now it is time that Washington did the same. With this new law, we will be able to hold Washington accountable for the money it spends by voting on a Balanced Budget Amendment and sending it to the states for ratification. Rest assured, I will continue to take your concerns into consideration when voting on legislation that so greatly affects all taxpayers.
I have heard all of concerns through the continuous debt negotiations and appreciate all of your input. I want to invite you to join me on a Telephone Town Hall on Wednesday, August 10th at 6:00 p.m. To be among the first called on Wednesday, please sign up on my website at www.denham.house.gov or call my office at 559.449.2490 or 209.579.5458 to be added to the list. I hope you can join the discussion."
Once again, thank you for contacting me. I encourage you to stay up to date with my activity in Washington and in the 19th District on my website, www.denham.house.gov, and on my social media sites: @RepJeffDenham on Twitter and Representative Jeff Denham on Facebook.
Sincerely,
JEFF DENHAM
United States Representative
Primaries. This is when you can annihilate the RINOs. This is also where you get rid of the faux Tea Party folks who betrayed us.
There is a long time until the primaries yet to go, but now is the time to start putting new candidates up and determining who needs to be culled from the RINO herd.
Get the right candidates in position, then defeat the rats.
That makes sense for the incoming freshmen. However, my three-term Reprentative has a 98% conservative voting record in a very conservative District. The one glaring exception which I strongly objected to was the YES vote on TARP. Sadly, my Representative rolled over for Boehner. There are turncoats in the ranks, ones who, when the chips are down, and their standing within the GOP establishment elite will be affected, will betray us. No third chances from me.
He did not blog-pimp either. He is good.
Nice going Jim...had a similar reaction with our local guy here in North Florida.
I used to be against having a constitutional convention because one never knows what will happen BUT given recent events...how the RINOs sell us down the river and how many state legislatures have gone conservative in the past elections, I think the time is NOW. It is the only way the People can take back this country directly. We have out of touch, or corrupt, representatives in Congress. I won’t touch the Whitehouse because it goes without saying what that is. I figure on any idems brought up for vote at a convention with each state having one vote, the country can be righted (not a pun). Worse case, each vote goes 30-20 in the conservative direction. I don’t think this can wait due to influxes of aliens and people moving from leftest strongholds like NY to destroy other states.
Well said, Jim. I fear the “fix” is in for this nation.
J.S.
Jeff Denham is my congressman too and I received the same form letter you did after emailing him and phoning his office before the vote. Denham is going to be at a town hall in Modesto tonight from 6 to 8 and we will be there. Modesto tea party sounds ready to tar and feather him. It was just reported on their facebook page that he just recently moved to Virginia for personal reasons and so he doesn’t even live in his district any more and some of them are mad at him for that too. Should be an interesting town hall tonight.
He's my rep too.
He came through for us -- and America -- and I'm proud of him.
But, yeah, we'll keep watching him too.
They didn’t get close to 75%. They got zero percent!
Actually, less than zero. As I said, we HAD control of the House. But they surrendered and gave away our slender hard won conservative beachhead without even putting up a fight! They’ve now diluted our tea party conservative power in the House and shared it with the socialist democrat/RINO senate and the Marxist president! Idiots! Cowards! Traitors!
The House controls spending, taxing and borrowing. Had they simply held the line and voted NO, then the feds would’ve been forced to cut the spending. And it doesn’t matter to me where they cut, because at least ninety percent of the feral (run away) government is UNCONSTITUTIONAL anyway. It ALL needs to be cut one way or another and WILL be!! This I guarantee you!! If not voluntarily, then by total collapse!! I prefer the former.
Alexander the Great, for all his faults, knew that one had to unite the few strongs with a collective of weaklings, somehow, in order to fully enjoy the realistic lot he had for his business.
In Congress we follow the Marxist language line of class division and a mandate of poor leadership of self satisfaction without any regards to not only absolutely unjust concessions (under the dirty corrupt words of compromise and bypartisanship), but outright stupid rhetoric of neglect between “the wants that create ballooning budgets” vs. the realities of enablers of budgets. When the enablers are dead, it is all fantasy. It is not about “charity” for the enablers or loving the “rich” who see no advantage in being given depreciated money that they gave in the first place cleaner and worthier.
Wish I could be there. I just told Sheila about it and she said she wouldn’t go. My ranting and raving like a madman embarrasses her.
Give ‘em hell for me!!
These RINOs are like a bad daughter who takes a perfectly good car given to her by her father for her to get to school safely, sells it for a bow tie and then gives that bow tie to her dad as a birthday present.
“but she meant well!”, cry the ideologue evil “neighbors”, happy to support a poverty strike on the family.
The RINOs are either bitten by the stupid Zero bug, or they really are traitors of the same kind ready to shoot us in the back if we are not happy with their work.
I think we need Town Hall Meetings run by We, the People. If the politicians want to show up, fine, but we don’t need them to air our grievances, and demand government does what we tell them to.
I will try but I’m not sure I can do it like you would do it. Some Modesto tea party folks are starting to talk about coming up with a primary challenger to Denham. Can I tell them you are thinking about it?
Thank you for writing regarding the debt ceiling.
My guiding principles during the debt debate have been straightforward: put our nation's finances on a path to solvency, avoid a costly credit downgrade, and avert the coming debt crisis. Unfortunately, the bill that passed the House yesterday is unlikely to achieve any of these and so I opposed it.
While federal spending has exploded by 28 percent in the last three years, this bill will decrease spending in the first year by a mere 0.1 percent – little more than a rounding error in a government that will spend $48,000 per average family of four this year alone. It's little surprise that the credit agencies – which have called for around $4 trillion in deficit reduction to avert a downgrade – have so far been underwhelmed by the package.
Whether the U.S. credit rating will be downgraded remains to be seen. This much we know: Congress has squandered a golden opportunity to put our nation's finances on a firm footing, and in so doing, has left our nation at the mercy of the ratings agencies and our creditors.
Thank you for writing, and I look forward to hearing from you in the future.
Sincerely,
Tom
We moved a couple years ago out of Cardoza’s 18th (Nancy’s lap dog) to Montieth’s district. Jeffie won the election like you say because we were told he was a fiscal conservative.
I got the same letter from Jeffie this morning via e-mail after sending a msg to him to vote no before the vote. I doubt he even read the bill and relied on Boner’s arm twisting.
Not sure if I can make it to the townhall meeting tonight.
Please do. A tea party challenger will have my support.
Yes Tom McClintock did good. Not many politicians like him that we can be proud of here in California. My previous Congressman Wally Herger caved just like Denham, and just like everyone figured he would.
No, I meant can I tell them YOU are thinking about challenging him? Was just kidding a little, but I would sure vote for you! And it might scare the hell out of Jeff Denham!
Right on!
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