Posted on 12/09/2014 2:04:01 PM PST by EternalVigilance
I’m not liking this at all.
Thanks for the ping, Lucy.
Every time I think I cannot get more enraged, I find out I can. Mr. RR and I have burning up the phone lines to Thune and our gongress persons expressing our feelings. Wish there were something more we could do.
I visited my Dad (nearly 98 yrs. old) in the nursing home this morning. He keeps his TV tuned to two channels, Fox News and C-Span. He told me, “I can’t believe why that ‘BSOaB’ (figure it out) is still wasting oxygen.”
We are paying Michelle Obama’s mother $176,000 a year to live *in* the White House and provide day care to the two girls.
“Absolutely.”
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Add my +1, See My Tag line.
Active Duty ping.
They cut troops pay, cut their housing, increased pharmacy fees, but put this in the budget:
"At 1,603 pages, the bill includes at least $1.2 billion for agencies to deal with the influx of unaccompanied immigrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border..."
This secret committee stuff happened last year also!!!!
From Nugent’s comments :
“.... Last year,when this same thing happened,we were forced to skip the normal process. The two bills weren’t “conferenced” by delegates from each chamber. There was no public deliberation and no opportunity for input. The two bills were fused behind closed door and key decisions were made on the thousands of line items of funding –not by elected representatives of the people,but by unelected members of the staff. No one knew who was increasing this or cutting that. No one knew why or how those decisions were reached. And once reached,those decisions were un-amendable. It was a simple case of take-it-or-leave-it.
In the end,despite some serious reservations about certain decisions,both chambers passed the bill and the fifty-year streak continued. The troops were funded and the whole process could begin again.
This year,as that same unaccountable process took place again,I could feel a certain tightening in my gut. Despite being a member of the Armed Services Committee and despite the general insight that comes from spending months crafting the finer points of such an enormous bill,it is still impossibly difficult to go through the whole thing in just a few days and find out what on earth these closed negotiations have yielded. .....”
Yep.
Don’t you mean, “...enemies foreign and democrat?”
Domestic enemies.....Democrat enemies.....same thing.
Sigh... Indeed.
hagel/obama ... and guess who takes the sword?
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