On Sept. 8, Barack Obama made yet another speech to a joint session of Congress. In it, he demanded that they pass his latest $447 billion “jobs” bill (i.e., Stimulus Jr.) “right away.” It took weeks to write an actual bill and bring it to a vote, and, on Oct. 11, more than a month later, it went down in flames. While on the campaign trail, Obama defiantly declared that neither he nor “the American people” would “take ‘no’ for an answer.” He chided Republicans for obstruction and challenged them to explain why they didn’t want to create jobs. The Leftmedia happily repeated the charge that Republicans were to blame. The inconvenient truth, however, was that the Democrat-controlled Senate shot down his bill.
I guess the big news this morning is that the White House intends to present a specific plan before the first meeting of the supercommittee that reduces the deficit “by much more that its mandate of $1.5 trillion” and includes “new measures to stimulate the lagging economy.”
But I’m not particularly interested in plans. We’ve had plenty of those. I’m interested in process. The Democrats made a puzzling mistake when they didn’t insist that the supercommittee’s mandate included a requirement to put forward proposals to create, say, two million new jobs. Perhaps the Republicans would have said no and allowed the country to default because they opposed even a vague effort to look into job creation measures. But somehow, I doubt it. It was just one more lost opportunity for Democrats to use leverage, rather than speeches, to act on unemployment. They got so wrapped up trying to look more serious about deficit reduction than the Republicans that they forgot they were supposed to be doing something about jobs.
It’s been around, but it’s worth reminding yourself…
“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” – Barack Obama, candidate, September 12, 2008.
I have much to write about the recent repeal by Obama and congress of “Dont ask, Don’t tell.” (DADT). I will be writing from personal experience with homos and will explain things which will definitely happen if and when they cab serve openly.
There is plenty of time for input from interested parties to our elected officials, who could rescind the repeal law just passed and signed by Obama, when the new congress convenes in January!
In all things, there exists a ‘point of balance’; a line that, if crossed, results in the sudden and expedient loss of our self-determinism and makes us subservient to the fickle whims of social, political, and physical gravity. We are “thrown” into the air, as it were, and the landing is rarely ever pleasant. The U.S. Constitution and the civil liberties it outlines is itself one of these historic points of balance. Its original purpose was to temper the most epic of grappling matches ever ignited; between the relentless constructs of government, and the individual freedoms of the common man. The ultimate problem inherent in this struggle is one of consistency, vigilance, and labor…
The Senate is set to vote on a controversial immigration bill. If it fails, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez tells Bryan Curtis he’s prepared to ditch Obama and the Democrats and take the movement to the streets.
It’s zero hour for the DREAM Act, a bit of immigration legislation that has taken on a hulking importance among Hispanic leaders. For two years, Barack Obama failed or, if you prefer, refused to nudge along a major immigration bill. The last-ditch hope is that departing Democrats, and a few Republicans, somehow band together in the lame-duck session and pass a law allowing illegal immigrants who came to the United States as minors to gain citizenship. Harry Reid promised to bring up the bill for a Senate cloture vote this week. Republicans vowed to scuttle it, just as they did in September.
The campaign ads are silent, most votes are counted and, but for a few election cliffhangers, the results are in. The Republican Party has taken control of the House of Representatives with a pick up of over 60 seats, at least 10 governorships have switched from Democrat to Republican and at this writing a minimum of six U.S. Senate seats are in the Republican column.
Snippet: Kagan’s conspiracy to defraud the Supreme Court, in order to defy the expressed will of the American people banning partial birth abortion, made our nation needlessly complicit in these heinous acts. Kagan’s actions rise to the level of criminality.
Kagan’s deception of the Supreme Court has led to the brutal killings of countless innocent unborn babies over ten years who otherwise would have had the protection of American law.
How a Republican Congress could begin the process of repealing this unpopular law.
If Republicans take control of one or both houses of Congress this fall, many will have been elected with a promise to “repeal and replace” ObamaCare. But what are their options, really? There likely will be an initial showdown, but President Obama will surely veto any challenge to the law, and it would be hard to imagine mustering the votes to overturn it.
