SEN. BYRD SINGLE-HANDEDLY STOPPED PRESIDENT CLINTON FROM USING RECONCILIATION
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How times have changed. Senator Byrd (D), 4/5/2001 (video), transcript:
The Democratic Leadership pleaded with me at length to agree to support the idea that the Clinton Health Care Bill should be included in that year’s reconciliation package.
They came to my office on the floor below. President Clinton got on the phone and called me also and pressed me to allow his massive health care bill to be insulated by reconciliations protection. He called me on the telephone.
I felt that changes as dramatic as the Clinton health care package which would affect every man, woman, and child in the United States should be subject to scrutiny. I said Mr. President I can not in good conscience turn my face the other way. That’s why we have a Senate, to amend and debate freely. That health bill, as important as it is, is so complex, so far reaching that the people of the country need to know what’s in it. And moreover Mr. President, we Senator’s need to know what’s in it before we vote.
And he accepted that. He accepted that and thanked me and we said goodbye.
I could not, I would not, and I did not allow that package to be handled in such a cavalier manner. It was the threat of the use of the Byrd rule. Reconciliation was never, never, never intended to be shield, to be used as a shield, for controversial legislation.
Even ignoring the un-Constitutionality of the bill – which the
Pelosi Telling Pandora to open the box “so that you can find out what is in it”
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Pelosi urging Pandora to open the box of H.R. 3200 “so that you can find out what is in it”:
Pelosi urging Pandora on H.R. 3200
When the parasites can vote themselves a bigger bite from the host…
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President Obama has proposed a 1.4 % pay increase for active duty military in 2011. This is the LOWEST since 1973. Nice to know that during a time of rampant inflation, while a war is fought in 2 theatres, our men and women in uniform get a LOWER PAY INCREASE THAN WELFARE RECIPIENTS. – from K.P.L.
When the parasites can vote themselves a bigger bite from the host, they will do so. The law is supposed to protect you and your life from being voted into subservience, but when the law is used instead to steal from a disarmed population, the law has been perverted. Today many people believe the concept of personal responsibility means expecting someone else to pay for you and what you believe you “need.”
Today, the parasites are in control and the parasites have realized they can vote themselves a bigger bite from the host. And the chief parasites in Washington want to maintain control by directing where the rest of the parasites can take their bite based on how you are favored – from the filet portion or the keister.
Dan Rather – Obama couldn’t “sell watermelons on highway if a state trooper…”
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Check out Racist Democrat, former CBS anchor Dan Rather saying that Obama couldn’t “sell watermelons on highway if a state trooper was flagging down traffic.”
Notice that he echoes Joe Biden’s comment about President Obama being “articulate.” Was Chris Matthews’ leg tingling then? Talk about out of touch! Notice how quickly Chris Matthews tries to change the topic and get Rather off the “watermelons” comment?
…independents will buy this argument, he just hasn’t been leading. Look at the health care bill, his number one priority and it took him for everything through and he had to compromise it to death. And a version of listen, he’s a nice person and very articulate, this is what’s going to be used against him, but he couldn’t sell watermelons on highway if a state trooper was flagging down traffic.”
Reid-Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today which is really good.
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“Today is a big day in America. O-only 36,000 people lost their jobs today which is really good.
Racist Democrat Senator Harry “no Negro dialect” Reid stated March 5, 2010
And then he said “If we socialize medicine, only 270 million people will lost the worlds best health care system, which is really good for our power over you.” Oh wait, he just thinks that.
Does that mean if roughly half are men that we have 18,000 more “men, [who] when they’re out of work, tend to become abusive?” (As Reid said Feb 23, 2010).
Racist PBS host Tavis Smiley calls for “black agenda”
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Racist PBS host Tavis Smiley calls for a “black agenda.” Somehow I always thought people were people and that judging and grouping people by the color of their skin was overt racism. At least we have more confirmation that PBS host Tavis Smiley is an avowed, unapologetic racist.
Obama ends “leave internet alone” policy
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“The US government’s policy of leaving the Internet alone is over, according to Obama’s top official at the Department of Commerce.” Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, The Register and see the NTIA presentation.
The internet is too powerful for governments that want to control the thoughts of their population to leave alone. Along with the extension of the Patriot Act (WashingtonPost.com), the Obama Administration arguing in Federal Court that there is no “reasonable expectation of privacy” on cell phones – funny, we missed the ACLU, EFF, and the press having conniptions about the Democrat controlled Congress and Democrat President signing the extension – Washington has a nice tight grip on the communications of the country.
But, it is nice to have “government oversight” over everything – you wouldn’t want to do something without permission would you?
Obama on why Democrats had twice as much time to speak-”Because I’m the President…I didn’t count my time in terms of dividing it evenly.”
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You’re right, uh, there was an imbalance on the opening statements because I’m the President and so I made, uh, I didn’t, I didn’t count my time in terms of dividing it evenly. President Obama, February 25, 2010, 11:43am EST.
Parasites vs Freedom debate today in Washington
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The televised debate today between the parasites and those who want freedom will be taking place to day in Washington, DC. One can only hope that freedom prevails. If the “center” is between freedom and statism then who wants to be in the center? There is no “middle ground” between you and your enslavers. There is no middle ground between you and your destroyers.
One wonders why these people don’t want to take responsibility for themselves and expect to be treated as children who need to be taken care of by someone else.
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, I am an ardent believer in the free market- Obama
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“Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, I am an ardent believer in the free market.” February 24, 2010, President Obama
Sure, and contrary to the claims of his critics, Hitler was an ardent believer in Judaism. Actions speak louder than words, and freedom and the policies espoused by this administration go together as well as oil and water.
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream–the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, “The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.”
The Founding Fathers knew a government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and