Spending Bills and Politics

Opinion by George McClellan:Rom. 13:12: The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.…Okay, How?

Where do we begin? How do we don the armor of truth, justice and common sense (light) by re-electing Tea party conservatives like we have in Georgia’s 9th and 14th districts who vote “yea” against our wishes? I’m having my doubt’s. Where did we go wrong? I thought we got rid of our RiNO Reps. with the defeat of Mr.’s. Gingrey, Kingston and Broun? Only Paul Broun, of all of Georgia’s congressional delegation voted “No” but that was a safe vote because he’s on his way out. How does that explain the “Yea” vote of Tom Graves and Doug Collins? What else can be done to make them understand?

Well, we can first start by urging the removal of Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader McConnell from their leadership roles, but don’t hold your breath. Like our alleged president, they apparently have no leadership skills. By so doing, hopefully, the weaker personalities of new the Congressional representatives will be less susceptible to leadership pressure to vote for stupid bills demonstrably inimical to the best interests of America’s middle class, and that’s who we have to resurrect.

Where is that trillion dollars coming from? The Chinese? How do we spend money we don’t have on illegal people we don’t need, if our congress doesn’t even include Obama’s amnesty plan in discussions for this obscene spending bill? Why would they cheat our newly elected senators and House Representatives, from having their say in how tax payers money is to be spent? Who thinks this stuff up?

That Obamacare was a total fraudulent deception foisted upon Americans entirely by the Democrat party is no longer a secret, thank you Jonathan Gruber. It is to be hoped that the new congress, especially our new conservative Senate, will move rapidly to, among other things, collapse and eliminate this job killing, economically harmful program before any more damage can be done to America’s once prosperous middle class. This cannot be accomplished by voting for an Omnibus spending bill that does not even address the Unaffordable, No Care Act, aka: Obamacare.

What am I missing here? I acknowledge that the Congress, for a few more days, still remains Harry Reid’s creature to thwart common sense programs submitted by Republicans that would make America functional again but, still, the word “capitulation” by Republicans creeps into the discourse about the GOP leadership, and damned if it’s not true. Boehner apparently threw away our November victory.

What will it take for the GOP to make the base happy? How about at least a gesture? We know Harry will shelve it, but let him shelve it. At least a vote for a short term bill would allow the next Congress, including all the new ones we sent up there to deal with it. What kind of dumb-ass leadership are we getting from Boehner? I’ll tell you. Boehner wants immigration including illegals. He’s not opposed to Obama on this point. He has said so, often. The National Chamber of Commerce also wants it and so does Wall Street and large contributors to re-election campaigns everywhere. If you can’t beat the Union’s, bring in illegal workers to do the job’s American’s don’t want, which are: ????.

The first vote on Mr. Boehner’s Omnibus Spending atrocity was a tie and was not allowed to proceed. It clearly showed that Mr. Boehner does not wield the clout a House Speaker should have. One congressman, Martin Stutzman, who changed his vote from “nay” to “yea”, did so because Boehner and the whip lied to him. Does one believe that Congressman Stutzman will stand up for Boehner again? At the moment, I’ll cut both Tom Graves and Doug Collins a little slack until I have heard from them personally why they voted to spend another trillion dollars we don’t have by voting for this particular bill when a short term extension would have worked better.

Apparently we still have to “cast off the works of darkness.” I guess some in the GOP didn’t get the message: “WE WON!”
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now go contact ‘em! Tell ‘em of your displeasure. (12 Dec 2014)