We hold a veto on spending which we refuse to use. We just A) approved a business-as-usual increase in spending, and B) funded ObamaCare for the duration by not forcing this prick to make choices. He gets everything he wants–we just wrote him a blank check for it. The supposed cuts amount to trying to slow your father’s Oldsmobile by cupping your hand out the window. It’s crap.
The reason all revenue bills must start in the House is to grant an “opposite end” veto as a check on the size of government. It is of course a fact that we only hold “one half of one third of the government”, but it’s the portion that really matters when it comes to choking this pig. We own the neck.
The GOP is like a boxer that just took a dive AGAIN because the corrupt management said to. These RINOs do not get it, and I want them gone. Their campaign against the very people who returned them to power is an utter repudiation of the flowery speeches they made upon regaining the majority and their chairmanships. Please compare those speeches with their recent conduct. They may have meant what they said when they said it; they certainly do not mean that now.
Boehner and McConnell might as well put “Obama 2012” bumper stickers on their cars.
Frankly, I’m back to where I started, which is that “if Hal Rogers retains the chair of the House Approps Committee, then Boehner is not serious about cutting spending.” Well, looky looky. It turns out that Boehner is not serious about cutting spending.
[pullquote]The damned GOP leadership has now successfully disarmed the Tea Party.[/pullquote]
The damned GOP leadership has now successfully disarmed the Tea Party. We have no more weapons to wield against the Democrats. Fine. We accept. War with the GOP it is, then. We are going to replace as many of these jerks as possible, and may mount a coup in the meantime. If nothing else, it will serve notice to the GOP that business as usual is no longer acceptable (despite that / because it keeps succeeding among the entrenched structure), and to the electorate that our freshmen and affiliated conservative vets in the House have not forgotten why they are there. because it was certainly not this. As Newt likes to say, “Real Change requires Real Change”.
Out with all of them. We don’t need a majority just so we can get our asses kicked, and our majority has produced nothing but excuses and counterfactual explanations of minor relative differences for which we are supposed to be grateful.
Out. Out. Out.
