Hypocrisy Abounds Part II

Do any of you remember how the Democrats in Congress gave all of us a lesson in The Constitution, the Founding Fathers and the traditions of the Senate back in 2005 when the Republicans in the Senate threatened "the nuclear option" in order to get some of Bush's judicial nominees appointed (who the Dems had blocked for months on end)?

Then-Senators Obama and Biden, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Christopher Dodd, Max Baucus, et al lamented about how unfair it was that the Republicans were going to side-step the Democrats' prolonged obstruction of the nominee's up-or-down-vote. They took to the microphones and talked about how:

• Then Senator Obama (without a teleprompter) said this, "A change in the Senate rules that really, uh, I think would change the character of the Senate, uh, forever. [snip] Uhhh, and what I worry about would be th-th-that you essentially still have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply majoritarian, uhhh, absolute power on either side, and that's just not what the Founders intended."
  
• Then Senator Biden had this classic line, "

-->I say to my friends on the Republican side: You may own the field right now, but you won't own it forever, and I pray [to] God when the Democrats take back control we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are doing." Who 'owns the field' now and how are they handling it?

And then he said this, "-->This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power. It is a fundamental power grab."

Hillary Clinton said this, "So this president has come to the majority here in the Senate and basically said "Change the rules! Do it the way I want it done," and I guess there just weren't very many voices on the other side of the aisle that acted the way previous generations of senators have acted and said "Mr. President, we are with you, we support you, but that's a bridge too far. We can't go there. You have to restrain yourself, Mr. President."

And then she said, "The Senate is being asked to turn itself inside out -- to ignore the precedent, to ignore the way our system has worked, the delicate balance that we have obtained that has kept this constitutional system going -- for immediate gratification of the present president."

• Chuck Schumer said this, "We are on the precipice of a crisis, a constitutional crisis. The checks and balances which have been at the core of this republic are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances which say that if you get 51% of the vote you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing. It's almost a temper tantrum."
  
  And then he said this, "

-->They want their way (banging podium) every single time! And they will change the rules, break the rules, misread the Constitution, so that they will get their way." [sound familiar?????]

• Harry Reid said this, "Mr. President, the right to extended debate is never more important than the one party controls Congress and the White House. In these cases the filibuster serves as a check on power and preserves our limited government."
  
• Senator Feinstein said this, "The nuclear option, if successful, will turn the Senate into a body that could have its rules broken at any time by a majority of senators unhappy with any position taken by the minority. It begins with judicial nomination, next will be executive appointments, and then legislation."
  
  And then she said, "

-->If the Republican leadership insists on forcing the nuclear option, the Senate becomes, ipso facto, the House of Representatives where the majority rules supreme and the party in power can dominate and control the agenda with absolute power."

Senator Dodd said this, "

-->Why have two chambers? What were the framers thinking about 218 years ago? They understood, Mr. President, that there is a tyranny of the majority."

Senator Max Baucus said this, "This is the way democracy ends. Not with a bomb but with a gavel."

Fast forward five years and what do you find? The Democrats in Congress trying to take control of one-sixth of the economy through the "budget" reconciliation process which will allow them to . . . . . circumvent the Senate rules (i.e. the filibuster).

Anyone with half a brain would ask, "what the hell does a health care bill have to do with a budget procedure?" or "Given everything the Dems said in 2005, shouldn't they back off in 2010?" Good questions! Why don't you call or email your Democrat Senator's office and ask?

Ram it down the American people's throat at all costs! That is the motto of the liberals and progressives in Washington. Sad, sad, sad!

Why the Filibuster is Important

Great post today on RedState - http://bit.ly/bRKofH

The Senate is designed to ensure that no great and complex changes can come to the law, but by operation of the great majority of the people in the several states. The Framers designed it that way. We should be rightly suspicious of those who always want to change the rules when they cannot get their way.

Quoting James Madison in Federalist Paper #62:

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 to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow.

Sound familiar??

The Democrats have no scruples. They don't care about The Constitution or the rule of law. They are only interested in power. The Republicans are a bunch of wimps who are afraid to step too far outside of the message from The Left for fear of getting The Palin Treatment from the lamestream media. Grow a pair!

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The Founding Fathers were geniuses. We just need to yield to their wisdom and stop thinking we are smarter, more sophisticated, more evolved, less bigoted and whatever other derogatory connotation that people on The Left want to label them with.

Climate Change

I just want to bring to your attention two articles highlighted on Drudge recently the lie formally known as "global warming" and currently being parroted as "climate change".

http://bit.ly/cLiKs8 and http://bit.ly/am6qeP

Please note the country of origin for both stories!!!!! Neither are American. I wonder why that is????????? Could it be that the mainstream American media is in the tank for Democrats?????? It is pretty obvious for anyone with half a brain that they are willing to go down with the ship given their circulation rates and TV ratings.

As always, I encourage you to think for yourself and do your own research.

Economic Ignorance

Is it just me or is anyone else bothered by Obama's repeated phrase, "tax cuts that were not paid for"?

How can a man with no understanding of basic economics be our president? Or does he have an understanding of basic economics but it does not serve his agenda? I choose the latter. He wants to build a large, powerful federal government, period, end of story. He has stated that he wants to "fundamentally change America" and he has talked contemptuously about the Constitution on more than one occasion - even chastising the Supreme Court during the State of the Union (like an immature teenage blaming others for their lack of accomplishment).

I encourage all of you to study the JFK, Reagan and Bush tax cuts; specifically look at revenue. What happened to revenue to the federal government when these tax cuts were implemented?