A more positive conservative take on the budget deal
Link here. I think Lambo nails it. The deal might not be ideal, but it is only the beginning, and was written when Republicans only control one house of Congress, and still pushes back at many Democratic-passed initiatives.
Next year that changes. If we do not see significant cuts in the budget from Republicans when they control both houses of Congress I will then join the many conservatives who justly distrust the Republican leadership and want their heads.
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Link here. I think Lambo nails it. The deal might not be ideal, but it is only the beginning, and was written when Republicans only control one house of Congress, and still pushes back at many Democratic-passed initiatives.
Next year that changes. If we do not see significant cuts in the budget from Republicans when they control both houses of Congress I will then join the many conservatives who justly distrust the Republican leadership and want their heads.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
“Next year that changes. If we do not see significant cuts in the budget from Republicans when they control both houses of Congress I will then join the many conservatives who justly distrust the Republican leadership and want their heads.”
Next year, nothing changes. The current excuse is, “We only hold one of the two houses, so we can’t get anything done.” So, why does that prevent the House of Representatives from pushing back at the tyranny and injustices against the American people? If the Democrats want to fund their tyranny, then they have to either compromise with the Republicans (not the other way around) or declare that the presidency is now a dictatorship (which Obama did with his post-election speeches declaring that he is listening to those who didn’t vote (How is he listening to them? Well they must be voices in his head, because to not vote is to not send a message. Why is he listening to them? Well because those who voted didn’t say what he wanted to hear) and that he is presenting illegal aliens with work documents).
So, next year the Republicans hold both houses. What changes? Only the argument for inaction: “We don’t hold the presidency, so we can’t get anything done.”
How does anything change when the Republicans just gave away all the leverage that they have over anything? All they have as leverage is the power of the purse, and they just handed the purse over to Obama.
When the leadership is the same group who tried to fool us by passing a bill in 2013 that both defunded and funded Obamacare, just so that they could make sure that it remained funded yet claim that they voted to defund it, then you know that they are not on the side of ridding us of the tyrannical yoke that is closing around our necks with each passing bill or each signed executive order (or other presidential action).
Robert, last year the Republican leadership demonstrated that next year will only be more of the same. They are the same as the Democrats, except that they are following four years behind them. The 2014 Republican leadership is indistinguishable from the 2010 Democrat leadership. The 2013 Republicans didn’t listen to We the People, just as the 2009 Democrats didn’t listen to us during their own town hall meetings. For next year, the Republican leadership ensured that virtually every newly elected Republican in Congress is loyal to that leadership, not independent of it.
Edward,
You might be right, but I think you are too pessimistic. The times they are a’changin’, and I think they are heading in the right direction. The problem in Congress is that these kind of changes always take longer than they should.
The Republican leadership is not the same as the Democrats, and to think they are is to simplify things for your convenience. It is more complicated than that.
Holding the line on spending through sequestration has had a positive effect on the economy. A similar thing is happening in Britain and counters all the left wing economists who insanely believe that government spending adds to the economy. The problem, though, is that for the Republicans to make real progress in the budget to avoid a crisis, entitlement spending will have to be addressed and that looks like it will never be done.
Complicated or not, the results have been the same, so far. You are advocating a distinction without a difference, and they keep trying to pull fast ones on us (successfully, in too many cases). The Republican party has yet to give me reason to be optimistic, so I am claiming that I am being realistic, not pessimistic.
As for your phrase: “The times they are a’changin’,” — yeah, I’ll say! They changed right into the government telling us that we *must* by law spend our own money as they (not we) see fit. We changed from a free people in a democracy into a tyranny in which our representatives no longer care how we wish to be represented. They now listen to the people who didn’t vote — who didn’t say anything.
Where am I wrong?