NO Continuing Appropriations Resolution

In May, we had the Ryan budget, which proposed sweeping changes that would set our nation on a more sustainable and prosperous course.  That was a TERRIFIC MISTAKE you made in supporting the Democratic proposal.  The usual hidden items in the Democratic budget was a DRAMATIC raise for the debt ceiling, and as you found out – the scare tactic that you were afraid of, HAPPENED ANYWAY and the world did not come to an end when our credit rating was downgraded.

WE MUST STOP THE OBAMA'S AGENDS'S OUT-OF-CONTROL FEDERAL SPENDING!

I faxed, wrote, and called advising you to stand strong on either the Ryan plan or the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act (which had already passed the House), because THOSE WERE THE ONLY OPTIONS WE HAD TO MAKE AN IMPACT ON GOVERNMENTAL SPENDING, AND MET THE MOODY CRITERIA TO AVOID A CREDIT RATING DOWNGRADE.  But you were scared, and caved to Obama.  IS YOUR INTENTION TO REPEAT THAT MISTAKE AGAIN WITH H.J.Res79?

You have seen Obama’s approval polls dropping consistently and we hope to sweep him from the White House in November, 2012.  THE QUESTION IS, WILL YOU BE SWEPT OUT WITH HIM?  We are watching now.

Obama is causing much suffering – stop him early, we suffer less – stop him later, we suffer MORE, and later means his agenda is more difficult to stop and portions of his agenda may have become permanent.

Obama is forcing us to suffer, but we choose to suffer LESS, NOT MORE, and certainly NOT PERMANENTLY.

We will not hold you responsible for our suffering, but WE WILL HOLD YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR SUFFERING MORE, OR SUFFERING PERMANENTLY.  We are watching now.

H.J.Res.79, the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, would fund the government through November 18, 2011 at an annual level of $24 BILLION ABOVE the House-passed Ryan budget.  THAT IS $24 BILLION TOO MUCH!

Now is NOT the time to increase spending levels, NOT EVEN SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE AGREED-TO BUDGET.  We MUST reduce the size of government and return to the 1990s level spending.  THAT ALONE WOULD WIPE OUT THE DEFICIT IN THREE YEARS!

We don’t need superfluous and duplicate federal agencies – we don’t need the corruption, we don’t need the “pork”, we don’t need the Chicago style “crony” payoffs, we don’t need the bloated federal payrolls, we don’t need the lobbyists, we don’t need the Union stranglehold, and we don’t need to spend TRILLIONS for remodeling foreign mosques and foreign aid to our enemies overseas.

Oppose H.J.Res 79; support spending discipline.  DO NOT FAIL US THIS TIME.

It would be a HUGE mistake to vote for anyone except the GOP candidate in November 2012.  Obama MUST be removed from office.  It would NOT BE A MISTAKE to look for a third party candidate in the 2016 Presidential election, if the GOP President continued “business as usual” after 2012.  We are watching now.

GOD BLESS YOU WITH THE STRENGTH OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS, AND IN THE ABSENCE OF THAT, GOD BLESS AMERICA – Both God, and We the People, are watching now.

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Possibly the Last Opportunity to Turn Lemons Into Lemonade

My opinion is that the Republicans lost the battle for the budget because of Boehner's lack of leadership.  The only real chance we had for REAL progress, was the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, and we stopped pushing for it after it passed the house, and Senator Reid refused to allow a vote on it in the Senate.  All other budget proposals and plans, with the singular exception of Representative Paul Ryan's plan, were "feel good" plans with no guaranteed controls to insure that they would do ANYTHING, except for the IMMEDIATE raise of the debt ceiling, and stopping the crisis discussions until after the 2012 elections, which was the only real bargaining power the Republicans had, in order to negotiate guarantees for Republican inclusions in the budget.  The so called "triggers" are simply "koolaid" for the Republicans who bought into the fake "fear factor" that they have caved in to, so many times before, from the Obama Democrats.  Triggers are simple "proposals" in a bill which guarantee NOTHING!  America would have been much better off if we had held tightly to our advantage, stood behind the Cut, Cap & Balance Act, and if the Democrats refused a voto, let the Democrats cause the budget default, and take the credit for it.  This would have been the Republican guarantee to win the November 2012 elections.  This is what Obama was fearing most and why he refused any plan which did not implement stop crisis talk until PAST the 2012 election date.  But the Republicans caved in.


So now we find ourselves in a horrible situation, having agreed to a budget which fails America while promoting Obama's re-election chances.  Once this bill passes, both the budget and the November election will be out of our control, and no guarantees from either.


ENTER DICK MORRIS WITH A PLAN THAT JUST MIGHT TURN LEMONS INTO LEMONADE


"If the Republicans, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, opt for a deal with the Democrats to aim for big spending cuts, in two phases, but to raise the debt limit so it is out of the way until after the 2012 elections, how do we make Obama agree to cuts?

The current discussions focus on triggers which would automatically impose cuts in programs near and dear to both party's hearts -- Medicare for the Democrats and Defense for the Republicans -- if the spending cuts are not realized.  But these triggers mean next to nothing.  What a Congress passes, another Congress can repeal.  One can easily see Congress not coming to agreement on the second wave of cuts and then passing a resolution to suspend the trigger-mandated cuts.

The blunt fact is that once the debt limit is raised until after the election, Obama can get out of town and not worry anymore.  He won't make any cuts.  We'll get the cuts we are implementing right now -- about a trillion OVER TEN YEARS -- and no more.

But there is a trigger which can work -- the budget itself.

If the Continuing Resolution passed in the spring was battle one (which Obama won) and the debt limit was battle two (which the GOP has won), the budget for 2011-12 is battle three.

The Republicans should refuse to pass a budget but just pass a new Continuing Resolution funding the government through January 1, 2012.  If the recommendations of the spending cut commission are not passed or some other cuts have not replaced them, the House should refuse to extend the Continuing Resolution and should trigger a government shutdown.

The looming threat of a shutdown will terrify Obama and will force his hand just as the debt limit has done.

We have gotten half a loaf in this current battle over the debt.  Let's not disarm until we win the rest of it.  What we haven't gotten in the debt deal, we can get in the budget deal.

That's the trigger which will work."


Thats the ONLY trigger with any teeth!  Dick Morris returns the power back to the Republicans, ensuring the return to budget crisis discussions for almost a whole year before the 2012 elections, and offers us what might be our last opportunity to stop this madness.  Now the question is, will Boehner just see this as another OPPORTUNITY to cave in to Obama/Democrats, or will he demonstrate the cajones necessary to turn this lemon into lemonade?  At some point we MUST say NO, and Boehner seems to prefer avoiding the fight now, and putting it off for someone else to handle.  Maybe he is thinking of retirement soon, or could it be just another mistake from him and he is NOT thinking of retiring soon?  No Boehner - No brainer.  Implement this plan with him if he has the cajones, or do it without him if he does NOT.


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Don't Vote For Boehner's Harry Reid "Clone"

Representatives, you must pass the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011.  Do not pass Speaker Boehner’s “clone” of Harry Reid’s plan!

Speaker Boehner’s proposal contains only modest differences from the one prepared by Senator Harry Reid.  Are you sure you want to join forces with the direction that Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are dragging our country?

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), scored the Boehner proposal and found the majority of "cuts" over the next ten years were “back-loaded”, meaning they aren't likely to EVER occur, whereas the debt ceiling would be raised by $1 trillion IMMEDIATELY.

Perhaps the MOST shocking aspect was the CBO found that Speaker Boehner's proposal only cut $1 BILLION in FY 2012!

That's right, a mere $1 billion dollars – ONE THOUSANTH of the debt ceiling raise Boehner proposes immediately!

The Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011 meets ALL requirements INCLUDING compromise to President Obama’s demand of a debt ceiling raise of $2.4 TRILLION.  It has passed the US HOUSE and only requires a US Senate vote, it meets the Moody criteria for avoiding American credit rating reduction, it compromises to allow Obama’s military budget reduction.  It provides for a Balanced Budget, and future spending cuts requiring OUR government to “live within OUR means”, because the federal government HAS NO MEANS other than taking more and more of our money as taxpayers!  Obama lies when he states that the Republican plan refuses to compromise!

Watch President Obama’s falling ratings in the polls, from all polls, and his constituents, and then decide if you want to become the “bug” with Obama, or choose to become the “windshield” by voting with we the people, for the ONLY current plan to reclaim our country back, the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011.

Pass the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011.  Do not pass Speaker Boehner’s “clone” of Harry Reid’s plan!

                    God Bless America


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Senator Reid, Choose the Right

Senator Reid,

 DO NOT BLOCK A VOTE IN THE SENATE ON CUT, CAP, & BALANCE. BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY PLAN THAT WILL PREVENT AN AMERICAN CREDIT DOWNGRADE, BECAUSE ALL OTHER PLANS WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF PAUL RYAN’S DO NOT MEET THE MOODY CRITERIA.

You have NO MORAL right to prevent ANY vote in the Senate, and interfere with the free agency of the American voters to choose the direction we want to go with OUR federal government.  Just because you have the POWER to take that free agency away from voters, does NOT mean it is moral for you to choose that course.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!

In this world, actions invariably have consequences as you saw in the November 2010 US House turnaround.  The only reason the same thing didn’t happen in the US Senate at that time, is because their tenure is longer.

Many rumors say that the reason you were re-elected in Nevada the last time, is because of a last minute influx of money from questionable sources.  If that is true, I hope that is the only criminal act used for your re-election.  You have been in my prayers for three years now, but I am going to modify my prayers to include hindering the illegal and immoral pressures in your life.  You seem not to realize or recognize them?  How can you stand against them if you no longer are able to recognize them?

Your mother may have taught you long ago – “You will become JUST LIKE the friends you surround yourself with, so choose wisely”.  Those are wise words if you understand them and HEED them.

I pray that you have the clarity of thought, sincerity of purpose, and willingness to change your vision for America into a vision desired by the patriotic Americans, many of which made it possible for you to hold public office.

God Bless America

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80% ? I Don't Think So !

80% of Americans sold on tax increases to avoid the budget crisis?  I don't think so Mr. Obama!


The following comments from President Obama are from his "meltdown" press conference at the end of compromise discussions with congressional leadership concerning the US debt ceiling.  

"The American people are sold," Obama said. "The problem is members of Congress are dug in ideologically."

80% of Americans sold on tax increases?  What planet are you on?  Mr Obama, show a single poll, no matter how obscure, that shows 80% of Americans are sold on tax increases.  This is another example of more lies from you with nothing to back it up.  A Rasmussen Poll this week on July 14, 2011 shows only 34% of Americans support a tax hike as part of a debt deal.   In the same Rasmussen Poll, only 58% of DEMOCRATS support higher taxes. A July 10, 2011 Gallup Poll also  points the spotlight on Obama's obvious lie.  Obama's claim that "poll after poll" show Americans want higher taxes as part of a debt ceiling deal is simply delusional. That's becoming par for the course from this President.

"This is not an issue of salesmanship to the American people," Obama said.

This  is NOTHING BUT "salesmanship" for your constituants, but your current 34% and dropping approval score against a "generic" Republican indicates that ALL of us are not buying it!

"I hope [Republicans are] not just listening to lobbyists and special interests ... I hope they're listening to the American people as well,"

I agree, and that might be good advice for you to consider following also?

Obama said, citing "poll after poll" showing Republican voters, as well as Democrats, believe in taking "a balanced approach" - including both increased revenues and spending cuts in a plan to cut the deficit.

Nice try Mr. Obama - trying to substitute the words "revenues" and "a balanced approach" instead of using the actual words "TAX INCREASES"!  How are you going to try to spin your obvious "desperation" and "delusion"?  Possibly renaming it  to "Community Organizer Mojo"?

Obama repeated his warning that the country is "running out of time" to avert a financial "Armageddon.  We should not even be this close on a deadline," Obama said. "This is something we should have accomplished earlier."

Right Mr. Obama - I was also wondering why there has been no budget since FY-2009, even though the Democrats controlled both houses since 2006 and you have controlled the presidency since 2008.  Looks like your feeling of "running out of time" is because your Democrats and you have been running away from responsibility for quite some time?
To understand the tremendous significance of the Obama/Democrat's negligence last year (FY-2010),  you have to know that it was the FIRST TIME in the history of the US federal government, when the party in power failed to pass a federal budget!  And Democrats were in TOTAL control of all three branches of government at the time!
Also notice that as soon as the NEW Republican House landslide took the House back,  in November 2010, they immediately went to work on the budget for this year (FY-2011), that Democrats had refused to bother with last year, which were the most basic part of their duties.  The new republican House sent their budget to the Democrat-controlled Senate.  And Harry Reid sat on it and did NOTHING.
The Democrat controlled Senate as of today, July 16, 2011, STILL have no budget vote nor budget proposal whatsoever!

Obama said he is still pushing for a "big" deal to raise the debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline despite the hardening of positions on Capitol Hill.   "I always have hope," Obama said. "Don't you remember my campaign?"

We have lost hope Mr. Obama, because your presidency has been SO different from your campaign.  Remember as a Senator you never voted for a budget and as the President you blame President Bush and Republicans for the neglect that is YOURS ALONE.

The president signaled he is opposed to the "Cut, Cap and Balance" proposal that House Republicans coalesced around Friday morning, and he challenged the GOP to "be ambitious" in proposing a package to cut the deficit.

Mr Obama, wou are an expert at TWISTING words!  Now you try to substitute "be ambitious" for "my way or the highway".  No one voted for a dictator in 2008.  You refuse "Cut" and you refuse "Cap", but you seem to be ok with "Balance" so long as you control the definition?

"If they show me a serious plan, I'm ready to move, even if it requires some tough sacrifices on my part," Obama said.

Republican Paul Ryan and the Republican controlled House have offered you two different budget plans.  Neither you (other than your unconstitutional attempt to raise the national debt ceiling by your executative orders only), nor any other Democrat, has proposed ANY budget.

"We asked the president to lead, we asked him to put forward a plan, not a speech - a real plan - and he hasn't. We will," Speaker John Boehner said (R-Ohio) before Obama's press conference.
The Republican plan would authorize a $2.4 trillion increase in the debt ceiling AFTER Congress passes a balanced-budget amendment.

The president admitted he had not studied the new Republican proposal, but said it "doesn't sound like a serious plan to me."

Mr Obama, if you haven't looked at it, how can you have ANY opinion of it?  Unless you are a subscriber to Senator Pelosi's bizarre approach of "We have to pass this bill to find out whats in it"?  According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the United States faces an unfunded liability of $200 TRILLION.  This is happening on your watch Mr Obama - leave Mr Bush OUT of it.

Obama also shot down GOP calls for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, saying "we don't need a constitutional amendment to do our jobs."

I guess the GOP feels safer using a constitutional amendment to ENSURE that you follow your inaugural oath to "…preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America."?  This would help to guarantee you don't pervert the Constitution by trying to take on SOLE responsibility to raise the debt ceiling with ONLY your executative order, and NO INPUT from the legislative branch as required by the Constitution?  The GOP is ACTUALLY only calling for a BALANCED budget amendment, but requiring your adherence to the Constitution would be an additional PLUS?

As he has done since last week, the president challenged Republicans to pursue the biggest plan possible, seizing an "opportunity to stabilize American's finances" for the next 10, 15 or 20 years.

Implementing programs to raise the deficit by HUNDREDS of TRILLIONS of dollars over the next 20 years is not my idea of the correct usage of the word "stabilize"?  Right now we are trying to prevent you and the Democrats from bumping it up to a RECORD $14.3 TRILLION  (that's 14,300 BILLION dollars, or 14,300,000 MILLION dollars)!  And since the government PRODUCES ZERO cash, I assume that you assume, that taxpayers will have to cover your agenda for the expansion of your socialist plan?

Noting the acknowledgment by Republican leaders that the debt ceiling has to be raised, Obama said that they should not stop at the "routine" decision to increase the government's borrowing authority.

Mr Obama, I think you left out the critical word when you noted the acknowledgement by the Republican leaders that the debt ceiling has to be raised TEMPORARILY?  Was that omission accidental, or did you just hope no one would notice?

"I'm glad the congressional leaders want to raise the debt ceiling, but I think the American people expect more," Obama said.  The president has repeatedly called for negotiators to put politics aside even as the negotiations have increasingly been framed through the lens of the 2012 election.


Oops, left out that pesky word TEMPORARILY again didn't we?  Two "accidents" in a row?

Obama said he was hopeful that the leaders would step back from trying to please their base constituencies and move on the debt ceiling, reducing the deficit and other economic agenda items.

Hold on, wait a second!  Isn't that what patriotic, constitutional legislators are SUPPOSED to be doing - carrying out the will of their constituents?  The US House of Representatives was originally created for the SOLE purpose to guarantee that the will of the people would always be represented in our government.  That's why the House has 435 members and six non-voting delegates representing the people, and the US Senate has only 100 senators representing the government.  IT WAS INTENTIONALLY DESIGNED THAT WAY BY OUR FOUNDERS TO ENSURE THE PEOPLE WOULD ALWAYS HAVE A VOICE IN OUR GOVERNMENT!

"Whatever Sen. [Mitch] McConnell [R-Ky.] says about me on the floor of the Senate is not going to be an impediment to us getting a deal done," Obama said. "You know, the question is going to be whether at any given moment we're willing to set politics aside at least briefly in order to get something done.

Mr Obama, what have you been wasting your time over the last two years, and the Democratic control legislatures been wasting their time over the last four years, FOR?  Put the blame where it ACTUALLY belongs.  PS, wherever Mr McConnell came up with the harebrained scheme to allow you to circumvent your responsibility to follow the Constitution, I don't know?  But we the people offer you no such "get-out-of-jail-free pass"!

Obama continued: "Surely we can come up with a compromise to solve those problems. So there will be huge differences between now and November 2012 between the parties. And whoever the Republican nominee is, you know, we're going to have a big, serious debate about what we believe is the right way to guide America forward and to win the future. And I'm confident that I will win that debate."

I sincerely hope & pray that the rising American voter understanding of your hidden agenda,  will erode your confidence and your constituency enough to elect a new presdent to help us return America to the people, starting in November, 2012.


"And I think increasingly the American people are going to say to themselves, you know what? If a party or a politician is constantly taking the position 'my way or the highway,' constantly being locked into, you know, ideologically rigid positions, that you know, we're going to remember at the polls," Obama said.

Mr Obama, I agree with you on this one, 100%!

Obama didn't rule out the fall-back plan proposed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that would give the president the power to raise the debt ceiling to avoid a national default.

I know Mr McConnell is working to place the blame for this "budget crisis" where it truthfull belongs - in the hands of the President and the Democrats, but CIRCUMVENTING THE CONSTITUTION is not the way to do it!  No President is allowed to change the federal debt ceiling - only Congress has that Constitutional right.  Shame on you Mr McConnell!

"It is constructive to say that if Washington operates as usual and can't get anything done, let's at least avert Armageddon," he said. However, Obama said he wanted to address the deeper debt issues.

Armageddon is easily averted by PRIORITIZING the necessary $2.4 trillion in cuts, and then cutting them!

"I have not seen a credible plan ... that would allow you to get to $2.4 trillion [in savings] without really hurting ordinary folks," he said.

Mr Obama, how can you "see a credible plan" when you publically admit that you have not looked at the only two plans that have been offered?

The president said voters are paying attention to "who seems to be trying to get something done" in the high-stakes negotiations over raising the debt ceiling.

I hope & pray you are right about this one.

"It's going to be in the interests of everybody who wants to serve in this town to make sure they are on the right side of that impression," he said.

Truthfully said by the MASTER of false impressions!