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The Trick of Disaster
Opinion by AAABTonto:
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow.”
– James Madison, Federalist no. 62, February 27, 1788
I received a letter from Indiana Republican Senator, Dan Coats, explaining his vote to end the government shutdown:
Avoiding Default, Ending Government Shutdown
Last night I voted for legislation to fund the federal government through January 15, 2014 and raise the debt ceiling through February 7, 2014. The bill passed the Senate 81 to 18, passed the House of Representatives late last night and has been signed into law by President Obama.
While I deplored supporting yet another short-term Band-Aid, the only thing worse would have been a continued government shutdown, the United States defaulting on its debt obligations and the elimination of the spending reductions enacted by Congress in 2011. To my great disappointment, once again Congress is kicking the can down the road and ignoring what needs to be done.
I have voted more than two dozen times to repeal and replace Obamacare with common-sense health care reforms. Unfortunately, the strategy of the past few weeks failed to sway the President or Senate Democrats on repealing this law. However, as we’ve seen from Obamacare’s disastrous rollout, this law’s failures are more than mere glitches, and the fight to repeal it must and will continue.
I returned to public service to make the difficult choices necessary to tackle our debt, restore our country’s fiscal footing, and repeal the President’s devastating health care law. I am deeply disappointed with this short-term result, but my commitment to reducing our debt, growing the economy and stopping Obamacare will not waver. I will be an integral part of the ongoing efforts to address these serious challenges.
I can understand your position, Senator Coats, but I still think you made the wrong decision. And now, those who voted as you did, are patting themselves on the back and claiming to have made an “adult decision by avoiding disaster with calm cool heads and compromise.” You had an opportunity to finally tell Obama “no” and once again you feared the result. Economic calamity would not have been a result thereof.
First off and above all else, this whole damn situation started with Republican House demands for a one year delay in the roll out of ObamaCare for individuals; the same delay businesses were granted—which, the President had NO authority to grant to begin with. He has granted over 1400 such exemptions and thus violated the law he is supposed to uphold the same number of times. Then, as the debt ceiling deadline approached, these two issues became wound up together and thus it was concluded that the evil, Neanderthal Tea Party was “holding America hostage” because the President is black.
Never mind the rule of law or the Constitution or parliamentary procedure or facts, according to the Left the Tea Party just wants “anarchy” and to spread hate and ill will throughout the land while they torture little babies and kill old people … is this that “new tone” Liberals promised us? … how ’bout a cozy to hell?!
I am (and conservatives are) fed up with this ridiculous, insulting belligerence! The Left perpetually hammers fictional accusations and twisted statistics in order to heap blame upon their opposition. This recent government shutdown was no exception. Here are some of those accusations and the truth that the MSM refused to tell:
1. The shutdown was going to cause economic disaster and we dodged a bullet – This was entirely false—hell, the stock market was up just prior to the deadline. This was all about Obama’s demands to barrow more money on top of what he has already spent—$17 trillion. We have enough monthly revenue to pay our bills. We just need to stop spending money we do not have! Only 17% of the government was shut down and although those people employed by the govt. were not being paid at the time, they will all be paid including the time they were furloughed. It was, in essence, a paid vacation for them!
2. American citizens were staunchly united against the conservative wing of the GOP – The truth is that the American people never wanted ObamaCare to begin with—not a single Republican voted for it and all the House was asking for was a one year delay for individuals.
3. This was disastrous for the grassroots – The Tea Party (“anarchist, terrorists, kidnapping, legislative arsonists, obstructionists”) are constitutional activists, liberty-loving individuals who simply want the Constitution and the rule of law observed. This is the hope of the MSM—that their propaganda will stifle the opposition against Obamacare and Obama’s out of control spending. I don’t think the Tea Party is just going to roll over because the Left wants them too.
4. This issue is problematic for the Republican presidential roster in 2016 – The Republicans haven’t even decided on who their frontrunner is going to be and I suspect that GOP is going to feel heavy pressure to select a true conservative and to turn away from the influences of the Karl Rove crowd. Choosing another moderate presidential candidate is going to spell extinction for the GOP.
5. The shutdown has destroyed GOP chances for the Senate in 2014 – The ObamaCare roll out has been a disaster and people are discovering that it is causing their premiums to skyrocket. The ACA website is a joke and there are rumors that the code they used to write it may have been pirated. The 2014 election is still more than a year away and Obamacare will have had time to be seen as the disaster the Tea Party warned everyone it would be. Those who opposed ObamaCare will be seen to have been on the right side of this issue plus the debt ceiling and will be rewarded for doing so.
6. Ted Cruz will be relegated to the dustbin of history – I don’t think so. Ted has thrust himself to the front of the class because he has done what the GOP has refused to do since Reagan left office—stand for principle. The Left is, in fact, terrified of Ted Cruz.
7. The effort to de-fund ObamaCare was futile – The efforts of Cruz and Lee brought a new awareness to those who don’t usually pay attention to politics and despite all derision directed at them for having the audacity to question Obama’s monarchical genius, they have become heroes in the eyes of conservatives. They have forced the GOP to recognize their plight—whether or not they’ll alter their suicidal course remains to be seen.
8. The American people were furious about the government shutdown – Really? When those Americans who are lucky enough to have a job get furloughed they do not receive any salary. They are forced to forfeit that income and I submit to you that the American people are resentful of the govt. workers privileged status in this regard. Furthermore they resented being shut out of the national parks, memorials and monuments their tax dollars have already paid for. In the case of the WW2 Memorial, which was paid for by private donations, the persecution of those veterans outraged the public!
MRC Study: How the Broadcast Networks Spun the Shutdown Obama’s Way
The problem is that the GOP is ignoring reality and its base—but not only ignoring their base they excoriate them, blaming them for things they have not done and don’t have the power to do—yet. The GOP is so afraid of the mainstream media that it dares not utter any criticism of the President, who is not only in need of criticism, but in need of being served an entire stack of subpoenas! The GOP has no other strategy than “moderation” which has failed repeatedly; the GOP needs to dump the advice of the Karl Rove crowd and pursue a path of principle and restore the Constitution.
Limbaugh: GOP Has Made A Decision Not To Exist
The GOP needs to find a new embrace of conservatism and begin confronting the President. Chris Cristie and Jeb Bush are NOT going to be a solution to the GOP’s fecklessness!
Why We’ll Keep Fighting Obamacare – Jim DeMint
Former Obama Official Warns Americans Opposed To Obamacare: “Back Off”…
Liberals become more shrill when they feel threatened—so let’s make them as insecure as we possibly can. Their hatred of America is all the ammunition we need. We just need to turn it back on them and hound them mercilessly with it.
Keep Your Chins Up, Conservatives
How dare the people oppose the POTUS?! Obama just won this battle over the shutdown and he is still unhappy. Then, straightaway, he came out and scolded the Republicans for allowing Cruz to defy him. He told us (paraphrased): “if we didn’t like a policy or the direction the country was going, then we needed to go out and win an election.” Well excuse me, Mr. President, your arrogance precedes you. Someone might remind you that that is exactly what Ted Cruz and Mike Lee did. They won elections and they are doing what they promised they would do for those who elected them.
Obama is supposed to be the most superior leader on the planet, yet he cannot articulate his position—he has to impose it. He does not know how to compromise because he has gotten his spoiled-ass way his entire life! He employs the MSM to go out and commit character assassinations and to pummel the public with propagandized disinformation. The “petulant ONE” knows the Tea Party isn’t going to go away and the GOP knows they aren’t going to go away as well. The Tea Party is a significant threat to the status quo inside the DC beltway and I draw sustenance from that fact.
Following the conclusion of the debt ceiling vote Obama immediately immediately began harping on immigration reform. He is already distracting us from all that happened and all the other things that the media should be focused on. The media must be confronted in the same manner that Obama should be confronted—by not accepting their flawed premises and forcing them off of their agenda.
The Tea Party needs to continue to occupy Obama’s head—rent free!
The Flaw of the Land
Ben Carson Warns: ‘Socialized Medicine Is Keystone to Establishment of a Socialist State’
Opinion by AAABTonto:
Washington, D.C. is 22 square miles surrounded by reality. I don’t think there is any other group in the world that is more detached from the truth than those who occupy our nation’s capitol. Now, I am not the brightest bulb on the tree nor the sharpest knife in the drawer, but the fundamental problem with Obama is his “fundamental transformation” of the greatest human experiment in the history of man—America.
His centerpiece for said transformation is the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA); affectionately known as ObamaCare. Socialized medicine has been the goal of Progressives for nearly a century and even Ronald Reagan was steadfastly opposed to its implementation. This damnable piece of cheese was jammed through the legislative process via numerous and nefarious methods. While it was being promoted, the President promised us it was not a “tax,” not a single Republican voted for it, a majority of the people were against its implementation and once it was passed and it made its way to the scrutiny of the Supreme Court, Justice Roberts “saved” its demise by declaring that it was a “tax”! Thank you, Justice Roberts …. What happened there? I wonder if he wasn’t blackmailed somehow, but I digress.
Everything that the President promised us regarding ObmaCare has turned out to be untrue—yes, LIES! And yes, I am calling the President a liar; because he lied. It is NOT because he happens to be black. I don’t care if he is mauve with orange pinstripes; he lied, he is lying and will probably continue to lie. ObamaCare is an unmitigated disaster!
Obamacare: Impact on Taxpayers
1 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 will raise taxes on middle-income families in direct violation of President Obama’s pledge not to do so.
2 Many families that make far less than $250,000 a year have high-end health plans and will be subject to the excise tax.
3 The increased hospital insurance payroll tax rate will fund a new entitlement separate from Medicare for the first time.
4 Applying the HI tax to investment income will discourage investment and lead to slower economic growth, fewer jobs, and lower wages.
5 The individual mandate amounts to a de facto tax on individuals who do not want to purchase insurance.
6 The biggest tax hikes will take effect after President Obama’s first term and many Members of Congress are out of office.
7 The health legislation includes a myriad of smaller tax hikes, many of which will fall on middle- and lower-income Americans.
Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
This disaster is not any kind of of improvement on healthcare. In fact, it is a hindrance to obtaining healthcare. I wholly admit that there are problems with our healthcare system, especially from the insurance side of things. However, socializing medicine and erecting a bloated, vindictive bureaucracy to lord over and dispense healthcare is hardly an efficient method by which to streamline the industry. Issues with free market economics tend to repair themselves if given the opportunity, but socialist are opportunists and socializing medicine is the socialists on ramp to ultimate power.
Seniors Will Lose Big Under Obamacare
Obamacare’s Impact on Seniors
Take an aspirin and die. “There are no death panels,” yea right … This is redistribution at its most evil. Anyone with half a brain can understand that healthcare costs increase for all of us as we begin to age. Under this new system bureaucrats will determine who will get certain treatments based on a person’s age—the older you are the less efficient it is provide expensive procedures and thus our quality of life in old age is going to be diminished. Expenses will have to be curbed and distributed to those “most deserving.”
How Much Is Your Health Insurance Going Up Thanks to Obamacare?
Liberty is lost. This all about the limitation of choice, which is ironic because the people who are in favor of ObamaCare are almost all “pro choice” when it comes to abortion. However, when it comes to choosing anything else you need to ask their permission first. So is the government’s healthcare website just an exchange or is it something more? Is it a personal information vacuum designed to collect data on citizens?
Top IRS ObamaCare Official Advised White House On Groups Challenging Contraception Mandate
The Left claims that healthcare is a right. Really? If it is a right, then why do they need to penalize us for not “exercising” our right? Do rights need to be enforced by the IRS? Their entire contention that healthcare is a right cannot stand up to logical scrutiny; it is an intellectual fraud. The whole thing is unconstitutional and they know it.
Alright, conservatives expect the persecution and derogatory drivel from Democrats, but we’re also receiving it from the ungrateful GOP. After several dozen symbolic bills to “repeal” the dreadful ObamaCare were passed by the House—only to be placed in Harry Reid’s morgue drawer for Republican legislation—boneless Johnny Boehner was finally persuaded to pull the plug on the funding of ObamaCare and asked the President to delay its implementation for one year—money for government spending is controlled by the House.
Obama, the ONE who waited for himself, threw an toddler’s temper tantrum and forced the shutdown of the government—well, 17% of it. Then promptly blamed the Tea Party for holding his beloved bill hostage and then began calling them “anarchists, legislative arsonists, terrorists with bombs strapped to their chests, kidnappers, extortionists …” and numerous other hateful, childish names. How erudite and sophisticated. Man, what a leader!
RINOs Strike Tea Party Over Shutdown
“It’s time for someone to act like a grown-up in this process,” former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu stated, laying blame at the feet of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Tea Party Republicans as much as President Barack Obama for their uncompromising stance. Sununu, Rove and the whole host of beltway RINO elitists fault the Tea Party for their own failed strategies. They believe the media when they tell them that the GOP’s problem is their nasty base—the Tea Party. They think that trying to de-fund ObamaCare is going to make them look bad, that anything we might do to oppose Obama will cause the Republican Party shame. The media NEVER says anything favorable about Republicans unless they have forfeited some core conservative belief. When will Republicans come to realize this fact?
LeviConfronts Sen. Ron Johnson on Obamacare
More Conservative, Less Republican
The truth is that these RINOs don’t want to upset their beltway buffet of privilege. They don’t want to effect any political change or reduce the size of our bloated government. They just want to be in control of it themselves. They claim that they need to control the White House and both houses of congress in order to effect change, but the last time they had all three legs of the stool, they just spent more taxpayer dollars and increased the girth of the government’s bloated bureaucracies. They don’t care to defend their own constituents or their own country from the clutches of socialism? Apparently …
New ObamaCare premiums come as shock to some consumers (Video)
Then there is the epic failure of the government’s Obamacare website. The President calls it a “glitch,” but they’ve had three years to set this up and spent $634 million of taxpayer’s money on it and the damn thing does not work! It is a turd!
Obama, the Progressive Left and the ruling class Republicans are flawed. They are ruling this country against the will of the people. They are trying to rig the game so that the people can never win. ObamaCare is not the “law of the land”—it is the flaw of the land!
The ONE … Who Waited for Himself
Opinion by AAABTonto:
I don’t think our country has ever had a more arrogant, self-serving ideologue as President than Barack Hussein Obama. Never, in America’s entire history, has one man routinely disregarded the law and circumvented the Constitution for his own stated purpose of “fundamentally transforming” these United States. President Obama has made it profoundly that clear he “will not negotiate” with Republicans concerning the government shutdown. The last time I looked our nation’s capital wasn’t exclusively ruled by the executive office. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing his socialist healthcare program regardless of its unpopularity.
Late Friday evening I caught a bit of the PBS talking heads show: I think it is called ‘Washington Week’ and … the mentality of liberal commentators was (as usual) just amazing … at least one of them claimed that the President “won re-election on the Affordable Healthcare Act” and therefore it is an overwhelmingly popular program. Really?
I don’t remember it that way. As I recall, NO Republicans voted for this debacle. The Democrats “passed it” on Christmas Eve, had to change Senate rules to get enough votes and played hankie-pankie with its language because it did not originate in the House as required by law. The law is apparently irrelevant to Democrats.
Weekly Address: End This Government Shutdown
During his weekly address on Sat. 10/5/13, Obama read several tear-jerking stories from citizens nationwide who were feeling the effects of the shutdown and he encouraged Republicans to pass a budget—with funding for his dreadful ObamaCare, of course.
“The American people don’t get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their job. Neither does Congress,” the President implied. “They don’t get to hold our democracy or our economy hostage over a settled law.”
Republicans are not holding democracy hostage.
Obama continued to complain, repeating that he would not negotiate and declared he would not “pay a ransom” to meet the demands of House Republicans.
“That’s why I won’t pay a ransom in exchange for reopening the government. And I certainly won’t pay a ransom in exchange for raising the debt ceiling,” Obama said. “For as reckless as a government shutdown is, an economic shutdown that comes with default would be dramatically worse.”
It is Obama’s shutdown and thus his own recklessness. The Republicans have not instructed the police to barricade monuments and scenic overlooks. They didn’t even vote to de-fund his precious ObamaCare; all they did was ask for a one year delay in its implementation. That is hardly a an unreasonable request given the problems we are discovering as it it is unfurled and the fact that Obama gave businesses a one year delay.
While President Obama continued to throw his baby-assed temper tantrum, Republicans in the Senate fired back in their own weekly address, delivered by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Saturday morning:
10/5/13 Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) Delivers Weekly GOP Address On Democrat Government Shut Down
Obama complains that the Republicans cannot ‘pick and choose’ which laws they like, yet it is he himself who instructed his Justice department NOT to enforce DOMA. In addition to that, Obama has issued a plethora of exemptions for his disastrous healthcare program—something that is entirely outside of his authority. He did it anyway.
Prior to the law’s passing, Obama was traveling around the country selling his snake oil ObamaCare, he repeatedly proclaimed that it WAS NOT A TAX! …. But, when it finally made it before the Supreme Court, Justice Roberts concluded that the law was constitutional because IT WAS A TAX. Either way we were lied to, sold a bill of goods we didn’t order and told they are nonreturnable—“it is the law of the land.” Slavery and Prohibition were once the “law of the land” and they were both repealed. The difference is that neither of those examples were subsidized per say; once those ObamaCare checks start going out, it will be hell to stop them.
Fox: Obamacare Causing Skyrocketing Premiums for Families, Young Men
Obama claims that the suspension of government services is a “Republican shutdown,” but Republicans cannot and have not ordered the closure of the various memorials in Washington and across the country—Obama did that. Why? Because Obama is a spiteful, hateful, petty, egomaniac and he can’t stand the fact that someone would have the audacity to disagree with his superior intelligence. Similar to Pat Condell’s description of liberal Leftist students: Obama is proud of his socialist agenda like a toddler is proud of a turd. As a result of the People’s disobedience, Obama has sought to punish the masses.
Here’s a list of the “Obama Shutdown” public punishments:
From Breitbart:
1. Treatments for Children Suffering From Cancer – The GOP have agreed to a compromise by funding part of the government, including the National Institutes of Health, which offers children with cancer last-chance experimental treatment. Obama has threatened to veto this funding.
2. The World War II Memorial – The WWII memorial on the DC Mall is a 24/7 open-air memorial that is not regularly staffed. Although the White House must have known that WWII veterans in their eighties and nineties had already booked flights to visit this memorial, the White House still found the resources to spitefully barricade the attraction.
The Republican National Committee has offered to cover any costs required to keep the memorial open. The White House refused. Moreover, like the NIH, the GOP will pass a compromise bill that would fund America’s national parks. Obama has threatened to veto that bill.
3. Furloughed Military Chaplains Not Allowed to Work for Free – Furloughed military chaplains willing to celebrate Mass and baptisms for free have been told they will be punished for doing so.
4. Business Stops In Florida Keys – Although the GOP have agreed to compromise in the ongoing budget stalemate and fund the parks, Obama has threatened to veto that funding. As a result, small businesses, hunters, and commercial fisherman can’t practice their trade. While the feds have deemed the personnel necessary to keep this area open “non-essential,” the “enforcement officers” to ensure no business is done are “essential.”
5. Obama Blacks Out Sports, Entertainment Programming to Overseas Troops – The American Forces Network (AFN) that provides American sports and entertainment programming to our troops stationed abroad, has been shut down. For some reason, though, AFN News will still broadcast news, just not any of the popular and fun stuff.
Camp David is essential, but popular programming for heroes overseas is non-essential.
6. Obama Closes D-Day Memorial – The GOP have offered to compromise and fund the National Parks. Obama has said he will veto this compromise legislation. As a result, along with 24 other military cemeteries, the D-Day memorial in Normandy has been barricaded.
7. Obama Tries to Close Privately-Funded Mt. Vernon – Although George Washington’s Mt. Vernon estate is privately funded, the feds blocked visitors from entering the parking area because the Park Service maintains the lot. Apparently, the New Media publicity resulted in the feds backing down.
8. Obama Closes Over 100 Privately-Managed Parks That Cost No Money to Run – The U.S. Treasury actually makes money from the rent paid by a private company that “employs about 400-500 camp workers and managers across about a dozen states.” No federal money is used to operate these parks. No federal employees are used to staff these parks. Taxpayers make a profit from these parks. Still, Obama had them closed and as a result 400-500 employees and a private business are taking it in the neck.
9. Obama Closes Self-Sustaining Colonial Farm It Hasn’t Supported Since 1980 – “For the first time in 40 years, the National Park Service (NPS) has finally succeeded in closing the Farm down to the public. In previous budget dramas, the Farm has always been exempted since the NPS provides no staff or resources to operate the Farm.”
10. Obama Tries to Close State-Run Parks in Wisconsin – “The park service ordered state officials to close the northern unit of the Kettle Moraine, Devil’s Lake, and Interstate state parks and the state-owned portion of the Horicon Marsh, but state authorities rebuffed the request because the lion’s share of the funding came from state, not federal coffers.”
11. Obama Closes Vietnam Memorial – The GOP have passed compromise legislation that would fund national memorials and parks, and open them to the public. Obama threatened a veto. Apparently, the “essential” government employees are those erecting barricades, not those who could keep the memorial open.
12. Obama Closes Privately-Owned Hotel, Police Block Parking Lot – “The operator of a 51-room inn located on U.S. government-owned land in North Carolina abandoned his defiant stance on Thursday to keep the property open despite being ordered to close as part of the federal government shutdown.”
October is this inn’s prime season. The GOP have offered compromise funding opening the parks. Obama said he will veto that compromise.
State troopers blocked customers from entering the inn’s parking lot.
13. Park Service Ranger: ‘We’ve Been Told to Make Life As Difficult For People As We Can’ – “It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation,” an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment. “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”
Obama has made the pompous claim that he has “bent over backwards to work with Republicans,” and that is a bald faced lie. He has refused to to compromise on any of his proposals throughout his presidency and it has always been his way or the highway.
Obama Claims He’s Bent Over Backwards To Work With GOP America’s Newsroom
You are a liar, Mr. President. You have done NOTHING to cooperate, compromise or set aside your differences in order to find some common ground with Republicans, because for you, there is no common ground. You are a Marxist, Mr. President, a socialist, a statist and you admitted that when you made your “fundamental transformation” proclamation.
WW II Veterans Breach Barriers at World War II Memorial in Washington DC – October 2, 2013
This is conservatism’s goal line stance, they make this score and America will be “fundamentally transformed” and we may NEVER get our liberty back …. I hope and pray that the Republicans stay the course and force him to come to the table. Now, Obama may decide to raise our debt limit via executive order and he will, again, be acting outside the confines of the Constitution as he has not this authority. If he does, he needs to held accountable for it.
Mr. President, You Can End the Government Shutdown
Harry Reid – Professional Jackass
Harry Reid Goes Off on GOP for Causing Shutdown: ‘Embarrassing’ Tea Party ‘Anarchists’ Run the Show
Opinion by AAABTonto:
I am sick and damn tired of the pompous ass, Harry Reid. Shutting down the pathetically inefficient government is NOT an “blow to America”—it is about damn time!
Harry says, “All they (Republicans) have to do is accept what we already passed … they are fixated on embarrassing our President …”
No, Harry, all we have to do is give you the finger, which we should have began doing four years ago when you began ignoring the law by NEVER passing a budget and allowing the President to spend us into oblivion! We don’t HAVE to do ANYTHING YOU think we have to do, because we are AMERICANS! We are not “anarchists”—we want YOU to follow the rule of law! We tell dishonest, snake oil salesmen like you to let the door hit you in the ass!
No one wanted ObamaCare when you originally got it passed … on a Friday … at midnight … after bribing and arm-twisting half the congress—not a SINGLE Republican voted FOR it. Yet, you shoved it down our throats anyway and now it’s killing everything it touches. The President ran all over the country promising that it wasn’t a tax and THEN the ONLY way it survived the scrutiny of the Supreme Court was when Justice Roberts contorted himself into a pretzel and decided that it was constitutional because it was a tax!
There is seat in hell reserved solely for you, Harry!
The GOP: Breaking Bad … Wind
Opinion by AAABTonto:
The GOP is a sad example of American apathy. Today’s ruling class Republicans are afraid to fight for principle. They are willing to allow the wholesale decay of liberty’s essence in order that they might remain politically ensconced. This is a poor strategy. We have already seen, in the last election, that the conservative base of the Republican Party is not going to be enthusiastic about a moderate candidate. RomneyCare, ObamaCare, why vote for a pseudo moderate Republican when you can vote for a genuine Marxist Democrat? Only, Karl Rove knows the answer to that question …
No one wanted Obamacare. No Republicans voted for it. When it finally reached the Supreme Court, Justice Roberts ruled that it was constitutional on the basis that ObamaCare was a “tax”—a definition that Obama denied throughout his two year campaign to get passed through the congress. Never mind, Obama was going to impose it regardless of the people’s will.
Now, as it is being employed, we are discovering that our fears surrounding Obamacare were justifiable and then some. The President is handing out waivers and exemptions like candy to include the congress itself! And yet we couldn’t get the boneless Johnny Boehner to do anything about it even though he controls its funding. He finally relented after weeks of pressure …
Boneless Johnny Boehner
So the de-funding is attached to the continuing resolution and sent to the Senate. Finally engaged in battle against ObamaCare, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, we watch in horror as he comes under relentless, derogatory criticism by his own party!
Why do the establishment ruling class Republicans hate Ted Cruz?
From the article above:
Over the weekend Ted Cruz sat down with Chris Wallace to discuss the issue of defunding Obamacare, after this interview Chris Wallace made the claim to Karl Rove that establishment ruling class Republicans were asking him to “hammer” the Senator from Texas during the interview.
“As soon as we listed Ted Cruz as our featured guest this week, I got unsolicited research and questions, not from Democrats but from top Republicans, to hammer Cruz,” Wallace said, addressing Karl Rove, a member of the show’s panel.
Sarah Palin then took Chris Wallace to task and called upon him to release the names of those Republicans who were attacking Ted Cruz instead of using unanimous sources.
At this point it is unclear to me what Sarah Palin’s motive was: was she in disbelief of Chris Wallace’s statement and looking for proof, or does she believe the claim and is simply looking for the names of those Republicans who are going after Ted Cruz?
As for me, I happen to believe Chris Wallace for I see no benefit to him for making this up. So why are the establishment ruling class Republicans so opposed to Ted Cruz? I think Karl Rove’s response to Chris Wallace sums it all up:
‘This was a strategy laid out by [Utah Republican Sen.] Mike Lee and Ted Cruz without any consultation with their colleagues’
The establishment ruling class Republicans are upset with Ted Cruz because they have not been able to control him, he represents a threat to their power and they are more interested in protecting their station in life than they are with doing the work of the American people. …
Indeed, they are—the GOP has done everything they can to distance themselves from the Tea Party despite the fact that it was the Tea Party that did the heavy lifting and secured the House for Republicans in 2010. John McCain is probably the most outspoken member of the GOP whose resentful disdain for the Tea Party is obvious.
John McCain Says ObamaCare “Will Not Stand”
Promises, promises, but fast-forward to the present and McCain flip-flops just when things start to matter; he sides with Democrats, blames the Tea Party, savages Ted Cruz and has to have Harry Reid come to his assistance.
The genius—not, Karl Rove, chief Republican strategist and beltway good-ol’-boy, has imposed ‘powerful’ presidential candidates like McCain and Romney, who went down in smoldering defeat. Yet, we’re still supposed to accept Rove’s declaration that any political strategy must be framed in moderation—the Tea Party shouldn’t be rocking the boat.
This is the real problem with the GOP and Rep. Peter King provides an excellent example of RINO elitism.
“He’s not standing on principle,” Mr. King told CNN. “I don’t know what he’s standing on. But he’s standing for a strategy that can’t work. It’s going to personally help him as far as his political status, but it’s going to be bad for the country, bad for the Republican Party. I’ve never seen anyone as unpopular in Republican circles as Ted Cruz.”
No, Mr. King, YOU are bad for the country. YOU are bad for the Republican Party. YOU and your spineless, beltway, RINO buds have hung the American people out to dry and you are only concerned with how to preserve your luxuries as a member of the ruling class by keeping the status quo.
Rep. Peter King: Sen. Ted Cruz tapped into ‘dark strain in the American political psyche’
Peter King: “Ted Cruz is a fraud”
Fox’s Wallace on ObamaCare Fight: GOP ‘Made it Too Easy for Democrats’
Then there is the ugly … ‘ObamaCare is the law of the land’ … a mantra parroted by the Left and the propagandist media repeatedly.
The amenable Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), who explained on Friday that the reason behind Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s request for the vote on cloture to be moved from Thursday to the following afternoon, was because he wanted his “tea bagger” buddies to watch.
“The reason Ted Cruz stood up and asked for a delay is so that he could have a vote during today when the ‘tea baggers’ in his Tea Party were going to watch,” said Mikulski, the Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea know-it-all Mitchell.
“That’s why I’ve repeatedly said: the greatest deliberative body in the world has become the greatest delay body in the world,” she continued—a ranking member of the greatest deliberative body in the world can now address a legitimate, thinking number of voting citizens with an obscenity?
“Tea bagger” defined: Note: obscene definition here.
Top Dem. Actually Refers to Ted Cruz Supporters as “Teabaggers”
Is Mikulski related to Barney Frank? They look and ‘thound ‘justh alike … but I digress …
Speaking of ugly, Mrs. Nancy moon-bat Pelosi had to weigh in … from an article at the Washington Post:
“It is impossible for Democrats to negotiate with Republicans because they can’t even negotiate with themselves,” the California Democrat said. “Instead of legislating responsibly, they want to live dangerously.”
“This is silly,” Mrs. Pellosi said. “Maybe they did not get some orientation on how serious the work is that we do here. Clearly they are a manifestation of what President Washington cautioned against when he left office, which is political parties at war with their own government, and that is what we have: the tail wagging the dog of the Republican party.”
“It is two different subjects,” Mrs. Pelosi told reporters, alluding to the two legislative fights. “Yes, they are all about budget, but one is the full faith and credit of the United States of America and the other is a priorities debate on spending and saving and growth.”
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned Congress this week that the nation would exhaust its borrowing limit no later than Oct. 17 – setting the stage for another legislative battle on the debt limit.
Mrs. Pelosi said that 186 House Democrats have signed a letter in support of raising the debt ceiling without conditions.
Republicans, meanwhile, are seeking additional spending cuts.
“They’re holding the entire economy hostage, and their tea party ransom demands come at a significant cost to our economic security,” Mrs. Pelosi said.
The President said he would NOT negotiate with Republicans, Nancy dear—but he will negotiate with Iran. The American people are not being held hostage by the Tea Party, they are being held hostage by ObamaCare. And, we aren’t “teabaggers,” you Botox bloated nitwit. There are no testicles resting on Tea Party chins and I am damn tired of being badmouthed by erudite felons who are politically fleecing the American people to death and slandering them with their own tax dollars!
The name calling begins as soon as the people begin to close in on the truth. We don’t have any economic security! Obama has spent us far beyond anything G.W. Bush ever imagined and yet they still blame him for everything that is Obama’s responsibility. Nothing these cretins say is valid and the GOP won’t even call them on it!
Mark Levin explained it all quite well …
Mark Levin on CNN w/ Jake Tapper Bashes ‘Serial Liar’ Obama’s ‘Scare Tactics’ Over Gov’t Shutdown
ObamaCare is a genuine disaster. It is a job killing, liberty stealing, bureaucracy-bloating, socialist, power grab and the American people do not want it! The GOP’s failure to lead in defeating its implementation is akin to Obama’s ‘leading from behind’ … it only underscores the dysfunctional state of American politics. The GOP has become a fowl breath of hot flatulence … it’s not nice to break wind with your face.
A Republicrat
ObamaCare: America Held Hostage
UpChuck Schumer contends that Republicans are holding the American people hostage with their threats to de-fund ObamaCare, except that it is ObamaCare itself that has taken the country hostage. This legislative train wreck did not receive a single Republican vote when it was “passed” by the Democrat dominated congress during Obama’s first term in office. ObamaCare is not even fully deployed and it is destroying jobs by the thousands, inflating the cost of healthcare insurance and the cost of medical procedures. This disaster royal was the invention of the Progressive Left (Socialist Democrats) and yet it is, according to Democrats, ALL the fault of Republicans!
However, conservatives can’t seem to convince the ruling class Republican leadership, boneless Johnny Boehner, to bring the de-funding of ObamaCare to a vote on the floor of the House! This is causing a level of frustration that, in addition to all of Obama’s other “phony scandals,” is wearing thin on almost every American that is paying attention.
Why This Doctor Fears Obamacare
Sen. Lee: Obamacare Provisions ‘Morally Unacceptable’
CNN Poll: Support for Obamacare Drops Below 40%
If ObamaCare is such a damn good thing, then WHY is Obama handing out exemptions to it like candy?
OTJ: Sen. Lee on Obamacare
Boehner is in charge of the purse strings—just pull the plug on this economic calamity NOW!
From the Heritage Foundation’s Morning Bell:
One of the disillusioning facts about Washington is that Congress can vote on something and that vote won’t mean a thing.
It would seem that a congressional vote should be a meaningful occasion, with Members weighing the costs and benefits of voting for the particular measure at hand. Unfortunately, political gamesmanship often leads them to create voting opportunities that have no real impact, but will allow them to tell constituents, “I voted for this” or “I voted against that.”
The House of Representatives was heading in that direction—considering a proposal that purported to defund Obamacare but wouldn’t actually achieve that goal. This is what voters have come to expect from Capitol Hill and why Congress has such low standing with the American people.
Heritage President Jim DeMint called for an end to these “pretend votes” and “gimmicks.”
We don’t need empty show votes to pull the wool over the American people’s eyes; we need our elected representatives to fight for the American people.
Thankfully, there are other alternatives to defund Obamacare and fund the government, including a proposal introduced yesterday by Representative Tom Graves (R-GA) and 42 of his colleagues. This approach will force lawmakers to have a real debate and make the tough choices when they vote—so that their votes will mean something.
Time is of the essence to defund Obamacare. We’re just 17 days out from Obamacare’s insurance exchanges opening and the overhaul of our health care system taking root.
If you needed proof that Obamacare isn’t working, look no further than President Obama himself. As The Washington Times reported this week:
President Obama has already signed 14 laws that amend, rescind or otherwise change parts of his health care law, and he’s taken five independent steps to delay the Affordable Care Act on his own.
Public support for Obamacare has dropped below 40 percent. It’s unfair, unworkable, and unaffordable. You could lose your current health coverage, see your hours cut at work, and end up with bureaucrats coming between you and your doctor.
Congress should take its responsibility seriously and defund Obamacare now.
Slandering the Tea Party
Harry Reid has a hissy fit on the Senate floor
Opinion by AAABTonto:
Once again Harry Reid has taken to the Senate floor to blather incessantly about that horrible contagion of America—-the Tea Party:
“We’re diverted totally from what this bill is about. Why? Because the anarchists have taken over,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “They’ve taken over the House and now they’ve taken over the Senate. People who don’t believe in government — and that’s what the Tea Party is all about — are winning, and that’s a shame. It’s defund ObamaCare, and I guess as the fiscal year comes to and end that’s what it’s all about.”
Poor old Harry Reid couldn’t find a bear in phone booth. The Tea Party Movement has never called for anarchy. The Tea Party stands for limited government, the Founder’s original vision of our republic, a restoration of our constitutional principles and respect for the law.
Anarchism disdains the existence of government in any form. Now, we all know this and I suspect Harry knows it as well, but he can’t find anything else of substance to deride those who believe in the core principles of the Tea Party as stated above. He is out of ammunition … and probably out of his mind.
This latest deranged episode from Reid resulted from Republican Senator David Vitter’s promise to block votes on the ‘energy bill’ until he can be assured a vote on his amendment calling for congressional and executive staff to enroll in Obamacare. Senator Mitch McConnell also introduced an amendment to the energy bill delaying the implementation of Obamacare.
“Let’s delay ObamaCare mandates for families right now,” McConnell said. “Then let’s work together to repeal the bill.”
Reid has oft pissed and moaned when Tea Party leaders have taken advantage of the Senate’s complicated procedural process to their own advantage. Reid can dish it out, but seems unable to take it when it goes against his agenda. Leading Democrats, along with Reid, have accused Republicans—specifically conservatives, with being obstructionist. Why shouldn’t they obstruct what goes against their core principles?
Harry believes that government can do no wrong and that any argument against his genius socialist agenda is unpatriotic. There is just one problem, Harry; you and the Obama administration have no authority to fundamentally transform America. You swore an oath to uphold the law, to defend Constitution, but you have done everything you can to erode and defile it!
No one wanted this damnable legislation when you forced it down our throats to begin with and now you expect us to believe that the people we elected to defend us from it, and you, are some how responsible for all its perverted side effects? If the Tea Party would just shut up and let you do your bidding everything would be okay? ObamaCare is a job-killing, economic suicide pact and we are NOT required go along with your insanity just because you want us to.
Then, of course, there is the rabid, spray-foam, pabulum-puking, angry gerbil, Chris ‘Tingles’ Matthews, whom we simply cannot forget to include as a co-slanderer:
Outrageous: Chris Matthews Snarls: Ted Cruz Is a ‘Terrorist’
The final straw is that the IRS, who blatantly persecuted Tea Party 501C3 applicants after the 2010 elections, is going to be in charge of administering and enforcing ObamaCare. It seems ironic that something called “care” has to be imposed against one’s will, but I wouldn’t want liberty to take a back seat to the genius of Harry Reid and the Progressive agenda.
Rush-“The Anarchist”-2012 HQ
It already does ….
Syrian Quagmire and Obama’s Silence on Persecution of the Church
“He did not speak loud for this and shame on him if he is a Christian”
Opinion by AAABTonto:
Obama feigns concern about chemical weapons use in Syria but he has almost nothing about the Muslim persecution of Christians in Egypt and throughout the Muslim world. The Republicans have said nothing about the Muslim persecution of Christians in Egypt and throughout the Muslim world. The UN has said nothing about the Muslim persecution of Christians in Egypt and throughout the Muslim world.
Did you know this happened—that American Copts demonstrated at the White House and in front of CNN? You probably didn’t hear anything about it on the MSM because they didn’t want you to know about it and besides, its just a bunch stupid Christians anyway. They believe in the Bible, so they are irrelevant.
Michael Coren & Robert Spencer – Jihad Watch – Aug 22, 2013
“Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.”
– Muhammad
… as opposed to:
“And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.”
– Jesus Christ
Egypt: Muslims take over a Christian town
The ‘whistling past the graveyard’ regarding the persecution of Christians and non-Muslims must be addressed, but it as if non-Muslims are non-existent. An Indian author, whose account of her dramatic escape from the Taliban became a Bollywood movie was shot dead by militants according to Afghan police. Her body was riddled with some 20 bullets.
Indian Author Sushmita Banerjee Killed by Taliban
Qur’an 3:32 – Say: Obey Allah and the Apostle; but if they turn back, then surely Allah does not love the unbelievers.
Qur’an 9:123 – O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).
Meanwhile, in Syria, similar groups of militant Islamists (Syrian rebels) are committing similar atrocities and the likes of John McCain and Lyndsey Graham, in league with Obama, are demanding that we join forces with them in order to topple Bashar Assad. Why?
These elitist demagogues cannot argue that it is for human rights while they allow these same people to continue their persecution of Christians. There have already been over 100,000 victims in the Syrian conflict. Suddenly 1400 are gassed and Obama is outraged? Dead is dead. It doesn’t really matter how one achieved room temperature. Chemical weapons have been used prior to this instance in Syria and nothing was said. How does a limited strike inhibit their future deployment?
Another problem with this idea is that Russia has thousands of operatives within Syria advising the Assad regime. What happens if this strike gets some of them killed? Would Russia then find a need to retaliate? We haven’t been shown proof that Assad was even responsible for this latest attack or was it an accident? It is possible that the Syrian rebels were responsible.
Gassed Children in Syria Identified as Rebel Kidnapping Victims
I previously wrote that in May, a UN Commission Of Inquiry found strong evidence that the “rebels” had used sarin gas and this has been utterly ignored. There is no justification for our involvement in Syria. Syria is but a symptom of the cancer that is Islamic supremacy—Iran is the problem.
Gassed Children in Syria Identified as Rebel Kidnapping Victims – See more at: http://www.therightplanet.com/#sthash.Ks3ExceZ.dpuf
Obama has gone far out of his way to avoid calling the terrorist attack on Fort Hood an act of “terrorism.” Why? Obama’s Muslim sympathies have not only endanger America, it has gotten Americans killed! Benghazi is a prime example and there are many more; yet, no one says anything remotely critical of his flagrant negligence!
Shouldn’t the victims of this heinous act of “workplace violence” be entitled to this animal’s salary? Hell, these soldiers, who were victims of Nidal Hasan, can’t get medical benefits, can’t get combat pay benefits and can’t even get awarded Purple Hearts!
“I was elected to end wars, not start them,” Obama recently said regarding the situation in Syria. “I spent the last four-and-a-half years doing everything I can to reduce our reliance on military power as a means of meeting our international obligations and protecting the American people. But what I also know is that there are times when we have to make hard choice if we’re going to stand up for the things we care about. I believe this is one of those times.”
No you haven’t, Mr. President—you’ve spent the past four and half years playing golf and vacationing on the American taxpayer’s dime!
Obama has diluted our military strength, devastated their readiness, eviscerated the moral of our troops and now he wants to risk provoking yet another Middle East entanglement because he couldn’t think before he ran off at the mouth!
Allen West w/ Tucker Carlson – Fox & Friends Sunday Interview, Questions About Syria – 9/8/13
Rand Paul: Ally To Al Qaeda & Juan Williams and Karl Rove Clash Over Benghazi Scandal
Rand Paul: Ally To Al Qaeda FULL Fox News Sunday Interview 9/8/2013
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Juan Williams and Karl Rove Clash Over Benghazi Scandal – Fox News Sunday – 9/8/13
Opinion by AAABTonto:
Jaun Williams is a disgusting partisan hypocrite … “In your head, baby”? As much as I detest Karl Rove he was certainly on the right side of history in this debate. Everything Williams said was an affront to reality and an insult to the intelligent. The President didn’t do a damn thing for his own people in Benghazi, but some 1400 Syrians are gassed and he wants to go to war. What about the other 100,000 victims of this heinous conflict? Dead is dead; I don’t care how they died. Then there is the Muslim persecution of Christians and non-Muslims throughout the Middle East, Africa and Indonesia—crickets.
Additionally, Russia has thousands of personnel stationed in Syria. If we strike and any of them are killed wouldn’t Russia be within their rights to counterstrike? Syria is not the problem—it is the symptom. Iran is the problem and if Obama would grow some balls and deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Syrian issue would take care of itself.
The President has made this predicament and he is attempting to save himself from embarrassment. This has NOTHING to do with America’s credibility, it is about Obama’s credibility.
