According to Michele Bachmann and Steve King, appearing on Mark Levin’s show this evening, the House Republican leadership is getting ready to announce a deal for a new CR that will not cut one red cent of the $105 billion in funding for ObamaCare the Democrats snuck into an authorization bill to guarantee that socialized medicine would be funded regardless of who won the 2010 midterm elections.
That is, the GOP leadership is set to cut a deal for a CR that won’t cut Obamacare. And so Bachmann and King are urging us all to call members of the House GOP and tell them to VOTE NO on this and any new CR deal the House Republican leadership announces that doesn’t cut funding for ObamaCare.
The TEA Party gave the House a huge majority — and the message was clear: repeal ObamaCare, and if you can’t do that, defund it — and yet the House leadership is using a rules issue as a figleaf to pretend that they can’t go after the funding Pelosi, Reid, Obama, et al., stuck in the ObamaCare authorization bill to get around the irritating constraints of a two party representative republic. Voting to repeal was a symbolic gesture. That was easy. And took virtually no courage.
The House GOP members need to be reminded why we elected them. The freshman class of TEA Party candidates need to break from “our” feckless leadership and demand that we cut this funding.
If it isn’t cut now, it won’t be. We have about a week. I beg of you each and every one: call a House GOP member and make your voice heard. Call any one. Call every one. But be particularly forceful (but civil) with the TEA Party candidates / caucus members.
Congressional switchboard phone number: 202-224-3121
Levin is speculating that the House GOP leadership is going to get its $61 billion in cuts in exchange for agreeing to raise the debt ceiling. Meanwhile, they will leave untouched the $105 billion that will then be used to set the roots down for socialized medicine in this country — a move that will forever and fundamentally change our nation.
Having cut about 2% of a budget proposal that adds another $1.6 trillion in deficit spending, the GOP leadership will declare victory and then go to work on the next budget.
Not good enough. We need to cut ObamaCare spending now. Any CR should include such language. Otherwise, let the Democrats shut down the government.
This isn’t about elections. It’s about the very future of our country.
The time is now.
Please, call.
WTF!
win the future!!11!!
Related: I shot an AR-15 for the first time on Sunday. Sweet, sweet action.
Will do tomorrow am. I’ll call my own rep and pass this along to some of my pals down south.
This is ridiculously low hanging fruit! Make that 161 billion in cuts.
I sent out my emails to Congress. I encourage you all to do the same for your representatives. Even if they suck.
$500 billion in cuts, like Rand Paul said, should be a starting point. Feckless is as good a word as any to describe them. Nutless would be another.
Waiting for a response from Mr Ryan. I’m really curious what he thinks about it.
Yup. I’ll be banging other people’s monkeys in the morning. Mine’s useless.
Leave my monkey alone, you damn dirty . . . er, bunny with a pancake on your head.
Ah-ha. I have tomorrow off. I think calling DC offices first thing in the morning is on my agenda.
I promise to report what I find out.
we need more doom on this thread: for the children!
I doomed it up as best I could.
My monkey is looking forward to a change of scenery, actually. Pablo, just be sure you give him bus fare home. And don’t let him drink too much coffee. Nobody likes a strung-out primate.
…also, I am going directly from this post to http://westmoreland.house.gov/ to lean on my congressman. Donald, feel free to use that link to do the same.
um does anyone have any ideas on how to shut down the fed. machine in an orderly manner? might be fun to discuss?
Done. My message to Westmoreland in part:
Okay, I’ll call tomorrow and pass this info along to others by email.
@15 is the restore point 1927, 1945, 1968, 1980, 1996, 2002? i’m not with rep. bachmann that this is d-day. d-day happens when you confront the entire structure.
Please rescue Frank Sinatra from the spam filter.
For the whatchamacallits.
If you want to bang my monkey, he’s probably OK with that.
Very well, then.
how do you go to dc and do scott walker x $100,000,000,000,000?
Francis Albert
How?
Find those people willing to do it and then get enough of them elected. After ’10, it’s conceivably one election cycle away. We just have to put the work in.
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Once that money goes through, trying to wrench it back out is going to be near impossible.
Hell, we can’t even get people who ran on cutting funding to vote to cut funding. You think they’re going to ever have the political will to grab money back once it is financing entire bureaucracies? Have you been watching what’s happening in WI?
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“Our Motto”
My congressperson is Lois Capps. She rarely thinks for herself, and certainly never thinks about deviating from whatever Nancy Pelosi tells her to think.
So I have to call someone from someplace else to represent me….
bh,
Can I get in on that e-mail, please?
rmblam yahoo
Thanks.
I was just going to email a link to this post, Mr. B. Don’t have any other info to add or anything.
Oh, sorry. I thought you meant you would be reporting info back (via email to others) from your Rep. I suspected you might get a quicker response than I. Are you in Ryan’s district?
Sensenbrenner.
I’ll email the post to other people but I’ll call his office. They take the calls more seriously.
“Have you been watching what’s happening in WI?”
yes great theater, let’s do moore nationwide. ps i just told sect 8 folks to stuff it about “their” client . freedom!
my sect. 8 “client” just bought $1000.00 treadmill and all i wanted was $20/month for trash pick up. we got lots of bridges in this town!!11!!
Burning Bridges – Kelly’s Heroes
Wouldn’t do a damned bit of good around these parts.
Chambless’ office gets the honor of my presence in the morning. Woodall, too. Chambless is in the new gang of 6, 8 or whatever the fuck the number is now and is showing signs of licking Lindsay’s ass. They aren’t gonna like what I will be dishing.
I realize that you are talking House issues, but Chambless is wandering off the reservation and needs a swift kick. Woodall should be a much easier fish. He’s a newbie and between the tea party and Anystreet.org he’s gonna feel the heat. Alerts have been sent.
Since my Congresscritter is Emmanuel “That racist teabagger spit on me, honestly, he did” Cleaver, you can guess for yourself how effective it would be for me to call or write…
Like pissin’ in the wind.
Compromising with liberals incrementally inches us toward a more perfect socialist utopia.
Just sent off an email to my rep (Ken Calvert, CA 44th district).
I am fortunate to have one of the few real conservative Republicans in CA representing me. This is a good opportunity to see if he’s willing to back up his talk about being against ObamaCare and irresponsible gov’t spending.
Thanks for the heads up, Jeff!
Just in case anyone cares.
Please note that I swiped and paraphrased a key sentence from McGehee.