Posted on 12/14/2014 6:43:21 AM PST by Kaslin
And why would we need to kiss our sister when we crushed the midterms?
A victory for politicians, maybe.
It’s a complete and total loser for everyone else.
But if you look at where we are right now and you think victory is achieved whenever we can shrink the burden of government spending and limit Washington’s power over the nation, then the cromnibus is a victory. …Grasp them straws. Hard.
Whatever this bill is, it was not a dire necessity that it be rushed through a lame duck Congress.
It is an insult to the voters that made their wishes known on November 4 and a direct assault on the people in this country that want to stop this foolishness.
Call your congresscritter. I gave mine a call at his DC office, the staffer was one degree off from condescending and tried to lie to me that the congressman did not support amnesty or the ACA yet voted Yea on this cromnibus because it was a “strategy” for 2015. They are full to their eyeballs in BS and their staffers will get almost hostile when you call out their boss for being a liar and having no backbone.
BTW, I let the staffer know that in 2016 I will be working my butt off to ensure he never gets elected again, fool me once and all that.
I’ve done this over and over again. They just don’t effing care what you think. They are lashed at the hips thinking you’ll relent and vote Republican because Democrats are worse. In my book anymore, they aren’t. Not one damn bit of difference.
That's a positive.
It's obvious that the current power structure on both sides of the aisles wanted to have their way one last time before the newly elected members came in and tried to enforce some discipline.
The over riding goal of passing this bill before the new Congress is seated was to give the existing power base a full year of control, influence and payback for legacy cronies before the new and more reform minded representatives gain some influence and control.
For the House, they have usurped a full year out of the new House reps influence.
Cromnibus sounds like something Romney would do, or a crony. It just sounds bad. Like the infamous Porkulous.
John Boehner and Mitch turtle have to lose their leadership positions come January.
Also critical is what the glass is half full of!!
Make no mistake, they set this date for expiration so it could be pushed through by a lame duck congress. They wanted an excuse, and judging by this article, they will get it.
I’d like some of what this guy has been smoking. Flaks gotta keep on flakking I guess.
Cromnibus was a huge win for the uniparty and its cronies. Same as always. For everybody else who has to pay the bill it was an unmitigated defeat.
The last time the Republicans caved on a shutdown was during the last daze of the Nixon administration when the same bunch of socialist radicals defunded South Viet Nam and prohibited air strikes which would have destroyed the VC clogging the roads. Saigon would still be Saigon not Ho city.
The result was hundreds of thousands South Viet Namese died wasting the lives of American servicemen and women trashed on the suposition that money would be better spent for handouts here.
This guy is on crack. There is nothing good about a lame duck Congress giving away the store before the new owner takes over.
It doesn't take a genius to figure this out. . .Obama, himself, has said exactly this. . .he was quite open about it in past interviews while a U.S. Senator.
Winners, Obama, The Big money donors, Wall street.
Losers,the american people
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