Yup, the number of politicians who continue to make the claim that there is no such thing as a spending problem just seem to keep crawling out of the woodwork. And they all seem to belong to the same political party, the party that’s been behind a majority of the spending. The latest senile old fart to make the claim, adding his name to a list that already includes such luminaries as Steny "Gasbag" Hoyer, Tom "Better Red than Dead" Harkin and Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi, is none other than John "The Crook" Conyers, the ranking member, and I do mean RANK, of the House Judiciary Committee. This guy is as corrupt as he is stupid!
It was on Thursday that this moron actually made the statement that our nation’s current debt of $16 Trillion is "not endangering" the country, adding that "some debt is not a bad idea" and that he and other congressional Democrats "don’t think there’s a problem." Ok, so maybe "some debt" may not a bad idea, but what we have here is not just "some debt" we have a lot of debt. Debt that equals roughly $56,000 for every man, woman and child in this country. Is that just "some debt"? Apparently that's what this dope Conyers and his fellow Democrats seem to think. In fact they seem quite comfortable with adding to that amount.
This jerk-off Conyers and other liberal Democrats spoke at a Capitol Hill press conference about their supposed initiative to compel Congress to cancel the across-the-board budget cuts (sequester) of $1.2 trillion over 10 years, which are actually really nothing more than reductions in the rate of increase in federal spending and amount to $44 billion for this year. These sequestration reductions, as anyone who has been paying attention would know, were triggered by the Budget Control Act of 201, and despite what's been said by the Democrats, were the grand idea that had as it's source the Barry White House, not the Republicans in Congress.
On Thursday Conyers was asked, "Republicans say if we don’t make cuts to reduce the deficit soon that sequester cuts will actually be small compared with cuts we would need to make if we continue on this track [of spending]. Meanwhile, Leader Pelosi has said she doesn’t think that we have a spending problem and the White House has recently said that we shouldn’t balance the budget just for the sake of balancing the budget. That said, by canceling sequester would we then be manufacturing a larger crisis in the future and, if so, how would you justify those more severe cuts to the American people?"
Conyers, in demonstrating all the intelligence of your average, garden variety housefly, said, "Let me let you understand, first of all, that the debt is not endangering us a bit -- not at all. Our economists say we’re in debt but it’s not endangering everything. As a matter of fact, there are economists that say some debt is not a bad idea at all." He then went on to say, "So all those ideas about the ceiling falling, the walls caving in because of that, you can sleep more comfortably in your bed at night when you realize that we don’t think there’s a problem." So because Johnny and all of his friends say there's no need to worry, we shouldn't. Well gee, I feel better already. How about you?
Demonstrating what is very plainly a lack of seriousness on the part of Democrats about the need to cut spending, it was back on March 6 Conyers introduced what he called "Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013," in an effort to reverse sequester cuts, which amount to 1.2 percent ($44 billion) of the federal budget this year, and started to go into effect on Mar. 1. But, pretty much at the same time tax rates are still being described as being too low, with a current proposal flying around that would raise taxes further by another $1 Trillion. That's just NUTS!
Look, the federal budget deficit for the last four fiscal years has not fallen below $1 trillion. The total national debt currently stands at $16,700,634,854,470.52. It was $10.6 trillion when Barack Hussein Obama became president in January 2009. How can any responsible individual look at that amount and not think that maybe, just maybe, things have gotten a little outta hand here? Also, how is it that those who have it within their power to at least slow things down a bit, remain content to simply look the other way and justify their irresponsible behavior with all manner of lame excuses. And I'm tired of excuses, we're going over the cliff here!
Because at the same time, over on the other side of the political aisle, we have our rather gutless Speaker of the House, John "Boner" Boehner who has now said he would not include language to defund Obamacare in the continuing resolution bill when it returns to the House, stating, "our goal" is "not to shut down the government." Why not? So what's the alternative, there, John? To keep on spending like we have a limitless amount of money? This is insane. If Boehner hasn't got the stomach to do what we all know needs to be done, then we need to get him the Hell outta there! He' of no use to us.
It's all pretty simple, really, under the Constitution, the Executive Branch cannot spend any money from the Treasury unless it is appropriated by a law passed by Congress. The government is now spending money under a CR that expires on March 27. For the government to spend money after that date, Congress needs to pass a new CR appropriating the money. If that CR prohibits the administration from spending money to implement Obamacare, Barry "Almighty" cannot spend money implementing the disaster that is Obamacare.
Were the House to pass a CR prohibiting funding of Obamacare the only way the president or Democrat-controlled Senate could get money to implement Obamacare would be to refuse to pass the CR and thus shut down government funding for everything else until the Republican House relented and agreed to fund Obamacare. If the House refused to fund Obamacare, it could not be implemented. So I'm just not getting what the problem is here. It would seem to be a no brainer, and yet our stellar leadership just can't bring themselves to do what we all know is needed!
During his weekly press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Boehner was asked if he agreed with Sen. Ted Cruz's suggestion that the Republican House should put language in the CR defunding Obamacare when the Senate version of the CR comes back to the House. "We have voted many times over the last 2 years that we've been in the majority to defund Obamacare, to repeal Obamacare, and we will do so again here in the House in the coming months." Boehner said. "Our goal here is to cut spending." Adding, "It’s not to shut down the government."
He went on, "I believe that trying to put Obamacare on this vehicle risks shutting down the government," Boehner said. Adding again, "That’s not what our goal is. Our goal here is to reduce spending." So instead of seizing the opportunity, our gutless wonder, here, takes a pass. He essentially simply follow the lead of Barry "Almighty" in deciding to just vote 'present'. He's presented with a prime opportunity to do that which he claims he WANTS to do, and instead does absolutely nothing. How Boehner-like.
And you know, I guess what really pisses me off is the fact that House Republicans have symbolically voted to repeal Obamacare over 30 times in legislation that did not need to pass. And yet, every time they have enacted legislation that must-pass to keep the government funded, they have declined to include the necessary language that would, in effect, repeal all or any part of Obamacare or that would withhold funding for all or any part of Obamacare. Which makes them as useless to us as the Democrats. If they are not going to follow through, then maybe it's time for some new blood.
So I guess what I'm getting at here is that between the Democrats who continue to claim that no spending problem exists, and the Republicans refusing to do anything about the spending problem that they all seem to agree does exist, we, the American people, are stuck in the middle and once again get screwed. So somehow we're going to have to figure out how to take matters into our own hands if we are to have any hope of salvaging what's left of our country. If we are not going to be able to convince Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy to do the right thing, then they'll just need to be replaced.
And since I'm pretty sure none of them will go willingly, we'll then be forced into the position of having to find suitable replacement candidates for their respective districts as well as finding those already in the House and who possess the necessary 'balls' to lead , and who are actually willing to do so. This is all likely to be very time consuming, but if our current 'leaders' are going to refuse to do what so obviously needs to be done, the only other option that we have is to work to replace them. They need to be shown that either they listen to us, or they will be made to face the consequences.
Look, the days of letting these guys go off to Washington and play at being someone important and to do pretty much whatever they want to do, are over. We've been way too lax in our supervision when it comes to members of Congress. They now seem to be under the impression that are free to do whatever they can garner enough votes to do. They seem to have forgotten that little aspect of our arrangement that says they work for US. We simply can no longer afford their foolishness, and either they're going to start listening to us or they're going to have to be made to lose their cushy little 'jobs' as well as their titles. WE run things, and we need to start doing a much better job!
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