Posted on 07/03/2012 10:05:18 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn
On Friday, while voters were still trying to digest the Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare, the House and Senate passed an omnibus spending bill.
The storms that wrought so much damage in the Washington, DC metro area Friday night might very well have been a manifestation of divine displeasure over the betrayal of conservatives by the massive spending in the student loan, highway construction, and flood insurance bill.
As John Hayward noted in Human Events, "Those three subjects have nothing to do with each other, but packaging them together made it far more difficult to vote against any specific portion of it. Oppose the extension of those famous subsidized student loan rates, and you’re against highway construction. Express reservations against all that highway spending, and you’re against low-interest student loans and flood insurance."
In the face of such political log rolling, only 52 Republican members of the House, and 19 Republican senators, voted against it.
Let's be clear: this outrageous bill could not have passed without the complicity and active support of the Republicans' Capitol Hill leadership. Far from being helpless pawns of a Democratic majority or the hapless victims of wily Democratic maneuvering, the Republican leadership worked tirelessly to steer the bill through Congress.
At the center of this betrayal of conservative principles was House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica, who happens to be the premier pork barrel spender in the House and the moving force behind this year's bloated highway spending bill.
Even worse, Republicans abandoned the one worthwhile item in the transportation bill. They quietly allowed the Keystone XL pipeline which Obama nixed and which figured so prominently in the Republican presidential primary to be left out, once again.
The passage of this omnibus spending bill is further proof that the establishment Republican leaders on Capitol Hill have no real interest in reducing spending or reversing the growth of government. The votes to do so are all symbolic, while their real goal remains to not get caught colluding with Democrats to divide-up the spoils coerced from producers by the welfare state.
Example no. 436,917 of why you should not support someone just because they have an "R" after their name. Republican not only does not mean conservative, it rarely means conservative.
I don't want the Dims to hang onto the Senate next term, I don't want the Dims to retake the House, and I don't want the Little Kenyan Tyrant to get another term in the White Hut---BUT, I remember what happened the last time the Republicans had the presidency, Senate, and House: it wasn't pretty.
So I guess we work hard to elect Republicans to keep the commies out of power, and then we work just as hard to keep the Republicans from governing as Republicans.
Ain't political life grand?
Life is struggle and only the fit survive.
I told ya, they used the symbolic Holder vote to divert our attention from this Obama-McConnell-Boehner pork spending bill. This is not the first time they have done this either.
“Republicans’ Capitol Hill leadership”
An oxymoron if ever I’ve heard one.
Instead of positng your frustrations on Freerepublic, put pen in hand and write your Republican Senator or Congress Critter and let them know how you feel. They heard us loud and clear in August of 2009 when we voiced our displeasure at ObamaCare and we can do it again. They are counting on us to sit on our hand and do NOTHING!
Yep... while the outrage over roberts was in full swing, everyone failed to read what mcromney said.. he said he would LIKE to repeal this, but that there were parts he would like to keep.. Translation, it ain’t gonna get repealed, but tweaked..
roday meconnell told us how difficult this was going to be to repeal... Translation, it ain’t gonna get repealed, but tweaked..
As long as a minority of the population continue to elect the government ( example, we are bitching about how mcromney got the nomination, with an average turnout of 18% of registered republicans going to the polls, mcromeny got the nomination with far less than 1/5th of the registered republicans )we will get shafted time and time again..
As long as people refuse to look at a politicians record, and just vote for him/her because they are “your guy”, or they are on “your team”, then you are part of the problem, not the solution..
And please don’t give me the “what am I going to do, I am but one voter” line of crap... you know what you have to do, and how to do it.
Republicans laugh at the dems because they line up each day and get their talking points for the day. Well, what do most republicans do? They line up to get their talking points too.... sheep are sheep, and sheep get hearded together before being led to the slaughter.
You can get in line with the rest of them, and get more of the same thing, or, you can just get sick and tired of the lies, the deceipt, and the theft, and just say “NO”...
Just like the hippies of the ‘60’s.... the solution is to turn on, tune in and drop out....
Turn on your mind, tune in your rational thought process, and drop out of the republican party.
“Instead of positng your frustrations on Freerepublic, put pen in hand and write your Republican Senator or Congress Critter and let them know how you feel.”
I do. And I know many others do too.
I attribute the fact that the Republicans don’t move us to the left even faster than they already do, when they have the opportunity, is (i) the pressure that is applied, and (ii) branding—they have to differentiate themselves from the Dims somehow.
All politics is personal. Until most people personally get screwed by the government, no change can be expected. OTOH, ObamaTax WILL screw everyone personally. This moves the big change in government to the 2016 election.
The scumbags passed this disgraceful monstrosity like a Friday afternoon news dump.
The scumbags had all the cover they could have wished for.
I know exactly what Romney was saying. He is scared of appearing to oppose the popular give-aways in the bill. I expect little good from him.
RE :” Republicans laugh at the dems because they line up each day and get their talking points for the day. Well, what do most republicans do? They line up to get their talking points too.... sheep are sheep, and sheep get hearded together before being led to the slaughter ”
But our talking points are better than their talking points.
They got Maddow, but we have Hannity.
The problem is that a lot of “conservatives”...when there is an opportunity to remove a Liberal RINO....start supporting the Liberal RINO
We have had great opportunities to take out McCain and GrahamNesty in GOP primaries...but instead get hoodwinked. I like Sarah Palin, but she supported John McCain over JD Hayworth in 2010...denying us a chance to get another more conservative Senator. Those things do not help
And, Good God....look at the mistake made with Marco “La Raza” Rubio. Could not believe how people thought he was “conservative” when many Conservatives in Florida knew he was weak on Illegals/National, Border Security, and, was pushing government funding of Global Warming Hoax nonsense
A RINO is a RINO...no matter who backs them. We must stop justifying RINOs...and stay away from “we need to support him/her because they can beat the Democrat”. Whenever that card is played, it always means the GOP candidate is a liberal
You want a heart attack(D) or cancer(R)?
FMCDH(BITS)
“We have had great opportunities to take out McCain and GrahamNesty in GOP primaries...but instead get hoodwinked. I like Sarah Palin, but she supported John McCain over JD Hayworth in 2010...denying us a chance to get another more conservative Senator. Those things do not help And, Good God....look at the mistake made with Marco “La Raza” Rubio. Could not believe how people thought he was “conservative” when many Conservatives in Florida knew he was weak on Illegals/National, Border Security, and, was pushing government funding of Global Warming Hoax nonsense”
I agree on both counts. Palin did us a disservice by backing McCain, though some on this forum said she had to do so out of “loyalty.” And we were bamboozled about Rubio, though I remember a few Florida Freepers trying to warn everyone about him. (Though by that time it was pretty much down to him and SunTan Charlie.)
“You want a heart attack(D) or cancer(R)?”
Apt analogy—quick death versus slow death.
” I told ya, they used the symbolic Holder vote to divert our attention from this Obama-McConnell-Boehner pork spending bill. This is not the first time they have done this either. “
And it won’t be the last.
did you expect less ?
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