[This is a quick draft, but after listening to Harry Reid's spiteful blabbering I feel compelled to get the word out.]
YES, reconciliation has been used 20+ times before, as follows:
- Reagan = 8 times for a net effect on the deficit of -$428B.
- GHW Bush = 2 times for a net effect on the deficit of -$275B
- Clinton = 4 times for a net effect on the deficit of -$586B
- GW Bush = 5 times for a net effect on the deficit of +$925B
(just one of the reasons conservatives are so angry)
Harry Reid just said in this meeting “our bill cuts the deficit by $132 billion dollars.” He is referring to the most recent CBO report. But you have to remember that the CBO can only analyze and report on what is the proposal and cannot factor in actual legislative changes in the future. One of the claims in the current legislation is that the Senate will actually cut $330 billion from Medicare. Any one with a realistic perspective on the topic knows with almost 100% confidence that that cut will never, never, never happen. If this is true, Reid’s claim of $132B in budget savings now becomes a budget increase of $198B. That’s a little different, and there are billions if not trillions of dollars that are still not included in current legislation.
So Harry, while reconciliation has been used many times before, history has shown that it’s use was on issues having nothing close to the impact of the government takeover of health care. Millions will still remain uncovered, costs will skyrocket, and not having insurance will become a criminal offense. This bill is a pig, and in my humble opinion I think that doing the wrong thing quickly is far more damaging than starting over and getting it right. Tort reform. Purchasing insurance across state lines. Tax incentives for insurance companies to provide low-cost insurance for the needy.
Harry Reid is a stubborn old man, unwilling to listen to opinions other than his own. I hope this meeting serves as just another wake up call to the people of Nevada.
It seems that so many liberals have a serious memory disorder. Lately we have been hearing criticism of conservative angst and the frustration on display at town halls all across America. Liberals are simply shocked at such rude, horrific, hateful behavior. Nancy Pelosi dropped a Nazi reference while in Arkansas, and I would be dollars to doughnuts that anything resembling a swastika was planted by an SEIU or Acorn racist piece of crap thug. After all, it’s straight out of the Alinsky handbook. “No way,” our moderate and liberal friends, say. That’s just tinfoil hat talk. Sorry, but that’s the truth. Saul Alinsky was asked by college students at Tulane how to protest George HW Bush in 1972. He told them that instead of shouting Bush down, they should:
“go to hear the speech dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards reading, ‘The KKK supports Bush.’ And that is what they did, with very successful, attention-getting results.”
I am quite confident that this tactic is in play today.
So, as a reminder to the supposed high-road liberals out there, dissent is still patriotic, even when the opinions shouted are opposite of your own views.Here are some examples of the class liberals showed during the last eight years.
I’m really getting tired of hypocritical liberals telling me that my expression of free speech is offensive. I find political correctness offensive. I find Nancy Pelosi’s lies offensive. I find Joe Biden’s gaffes offensive. I find Barack Obama’s flip flopping and misleading offensive. I am waiting for the return of the days when free speech was supported by all Americans, especially liberals.
“Liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.” Lenny Bruce
Congress wants to vote on a more than thousand page bill that was handed over late last night. Assuming it will take one-minute per page to read, it will take more than 15 HOURS to go through the bill page by page. Yet we are told to trust that Congress is doing the right thing by voting today?
Here are some of the items in the bill:
- $100 million for the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program
- $200 million to the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program
- $300 million for “Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs”
- $900 million for the IRS for the “Limitation on Administrative Expenses”
- $1 million for the Railroad Retirement Board for administrative costs
- $2 billion for the Drinking Water State Revolving Act
- $50 million for Health and Human Services to carry out injury prevention programs
- $1.1 billion for studies on the effectiveness of different medical treatments — $200 million to upgrade labs and facilities for the Department of Agriculture “to improve workplace safety and mission-area efficiencies”
- $10 million for urban canal inspection
- $16 billion to pay for student financial aid
- $1 billion to pay for the U.S. Census
- $600 million to pay for a fuel-efficient federal auto fleet
- $650 million for the Digital Converter Box Program to help the constantly delayed transition from analog television
- $485 million to the Forest Service for “hazardous fuels reduction and hazard mitigation activities in areas at high risk of catastrophic wildfire”
- Up to $1 billion for “summer activities” for youths as old as 24
- $40 million for the occupational research agenda
- $3 billion for the Centers for Disease Control wellness programs and vaccinations
- $410 million for Indian health facilities
- $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstrations
This list makes up more than $30 BILLION in non-stimulus spending. There’s plenty more in there, but the point should be clear. Democrats, following the advice of President Whisperer Rahm Emanuel, is packing this urgent bill with pet projects and payback to constituents. (Remember, he’s the Obama staffer that said “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”) President Obama flat out lied to America earlier this week during his press conference when he said there was no pork in this bill. . (And no, hippy, Bush didn’t lie about the war. Bush AND Congress approved our military actions based on the information at hand at the time.) President Obama lied, lied, lied.
Making matters worse, Chuck Schumer had the umittigated gall to say that the “American people really don’t care” about all those “little tiny, yes, porky amendments” that the “chattering classes” have exposed. Oh, and Schumer wants to bring back the Un-Fairness Doctrine to silence the free speech flexing of the political right.
This is not a stimulus package, it is a wish list, and Nancy Pelosi should be ashamed.
