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America can survive 23 more days without a budget

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  December 14th, 2010 at 11:48 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

There is absolutely no reason to capitulate to the illegitimate Democrat majority and their golden parachute continuing resolution

The first few days would be tough as the networks show pictures of “suffering” national park workers that may not be paid for 23 more days. But notice that number, 23. Only 23 days.

Many Americans who work get paid once per month. Twenty-three days is only nine days more than 14 and only 16 days more than seven. Nearly 18% of Americans are underemployed and over 9% haven’t been paid in over 6 months.

But is it really 23 days that government workers would have to survive if no continuing resolution were passed by the Lame Duck Dems? Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) vowed to keep the Senate in session until the New Year, so maybe it is only five days that bureaucrats would have to sacrifice for Americans to learn that we need not yield to blackmail.

The GOP could score a huge political victory and help change the culture of government spending if they were to refuse to allow the Losers to take a final slap at America with a porked up final budget supplement to cover the first days and months of 2011.

Yes, the media attacks on how we hate the poor would be 24/7.

But guess what, the 25 or 6 to 4 days would pass, and Chicago would still be playing on the radio in Illinois, and America would learn how much they don’t need for government to always have their lips on our money bottle.

Tell Nancy, Harry and Obama to go to Hawaii and leave the Lower 48  and a partridge in a pear tree alone for 23 days of Christmas. Who needs them? Not We the People. I have been back and forth in my support of the Obama-McConnell tax bill alternating between fear of the consequences of a tax hike, when the pornographic Democrat spending bill is revealed and then it dawned on me. Its only 23 days until the new House convenes.

23 days.

Pass nothing. No bill of any kind, and we just might wake up to a new America with less adults as dependent children of Uncle Sam. An America prepared to persevere thru this recession ready to cut government out of our lives and get back to work.

Mike DeVine

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

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  • izoneguy

    GC that’s the spirit!!!! – Now how many Republicans can “man up”?

    You are 110% correct….

    Pass nothing. No bill of any kind, and we just might wake up to a new America with less adults as dependent children of Uncle Sam. An America prepared to persevere thru this recession ready to cut government out of our lives and get back to work.

  • speciallist

    23 days is nothing…imagine trying to stay away from RS for 23 days

    undoubtedly improbable..

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    really just 5 days of “suffering”! Better that than suffer one more attack on the poor and middle class from a Dem Party on their way out.

    Let’s march them out of town on our terms. Its 5 days people.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    great to watch a rooster think out loud and in public?

  • pilgrim

    Never more should a US Congress have a lame duck session like this one. You and I have discussed the sunset language added to bills. You are Ok with the language more than me. If that language has to be in the bill then set January 31 instead of December 31 for the sunset. Never more should lame ducks have the opportunity to be so lame.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    I have heard Senators say that doing nothing is not an option as with the Stimulus and ObamaCare and really a mantra for decades. Yes, government doing nothing is an option even with respect to operations budgets for a limited period of time. And we hold all the cards because we will open the purse strings on January 5, 2011.

    I would couch the public argument as how we must all sacrifice to get the defeated army of liberals frisked for weapons and marched out of town back to their home countries…eh ah states.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    the alternative is a $1T blackmail bill.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    rears his lovely head. Next thing you know it’ll be Harry Reid as the Celebrate Jumping Frog of Calaveras County…

  • speciallist

    all the Lamest duckbills of the last two years, came prior to donning the snuggie and overdosing on football and tryptophan

    and un-bipartisanly passed after threats of the end of times…

    it doesn’t leave much time for christmas shopping or much money for same..

  • ladyimpactohio
  • Mary Beth
  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    as the current GOP, GC
    Every time they visit they men’s room they’re being tested. Some will flunk out before they are even re-sworn.

  • Scope

    If more people were addicted to or dependent on Redstate, we’d have a lot less addicted to and dependent on the government.

  • JadedByPolitics

    SPENDING! The Democrats need a 12 step program to come down off the high of spending other people’s money to boost their own self esteem. They are the worst kind of addict, the one that is in denial!

  • Scope

    and before even being sworn in the first time has supported the porked out, larded up, ethanol subdizing, Tax Bill from a distance. Hopefully it was a rookie mistake, but, still deserving of an ankle monitor.

  • Jim Tomasik

    …

  • Scope

    This puts it into perfect perspective. The country will not fall off a cliff in 23 days. Hell, we’ve not fallen off the cliff in the past 23 months of this regime.

  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    For many newbies, it’ll be be one strike and you’re out. The Rules have changed.

    This Omnibus bill is as much a test by Dem’s to see how many GOP’s are still wanting to hold onto Ruling Class status. All we can do is take names for the time being, but in Congress, the 2012 campaign begins this week.

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    They need a new motto. Kfuc the hostages, take down the terrorists!!

  • Jim Tomasik

    And how many days/years will it take to pay all that pork back.

    I can imagine some bean counter ten years from now saying, “Oh good! We are almost half way there. I’m sure glad we didn’t let that 23 day shut down happen back in 2010.”

  • Jim Tomasik

    Scope mentioned an incoming freshman.

  • Kyle-MI

    At what point is it appropriate to go over the heads of Congress and take matters into our own hands (nonviolently, of course)? I am serious here, no talk of uncivil disobedience or the so-called 2nd amendment solution. Besides which, we do not have to retake the government, merely stall the current Congress until the new one is seated.

    While what they are doing is legal, it is highly immoral, unethical, and goes against the democratic representative principles on which this country was founded. We had a vote and now they are acting as if that vote never occurred.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    when Bush was President after the Dems repeatedly restricted our right to make a living and use our resources back when gas was $4/gal. And if the new House makes one wrong step, I think we have no choice to go all MLK on their heads if we want to save America. If they don’t respond to this wave election message, then we have lost self government, imho.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    Kyle-MI, I can understand why you are frustrated.

    The only “civil disobedience” that matters to the current officeholders is what happens in their primary election and then their general election contest back home.

    If you want to organize “civil disobedience” demonstrations, try this one on for size: how about organizing all of your conservative friends, family members and other conservatives in the grass roots conservative organizations where you live join you at the next meeting of your local Republican Party committee?

    Imagine if the two million or so people who showed up at the Mall in DC on 9.12.2009 had all gone back home and done this? There’s about 200,000 vacancies in the PC ranks in the Republican Party. So, if only 10 per cent of those 2 million did this, we’d have the Party at full strength and with a 75 per cent conservative majority. And all those conservatives inside the Party as precinct committeemen would be able to flex their new found Get Out The Vote muscles and actually have a great shot at having constitutional conservatives beat RINO incumbents in the primary elections. And after the 2012 general elections, be in a position to elect new, conservative Party leaders.

    We need to relearn how to “do politics;” that is, party politics. Instead of standing on the sidelines and shouting at the ball players, we need to become ball players. The ball players in politics are the “card carrying members” of the parties in the individual precincts. Collectively, the precinct committeemen ARE the Party. And if a majority of them are principled conservatives, then the party will have principled, conservative leadership and constiutional conservative candidates much more likely will win the all-important, traditionally-very-low-turnout primary elections because the precinct committeemen can vote to endorse those candidates and then help get out the vote for them in the precincts.

    Trust me, if thousands and thousands of conservative Republican Redstate readers would, individually (as I have), go find conservatives and convince them to get to their local Republican Party committee meetings, we could duplicate the successes we’ve had here in AZ, and the successes the grass roots conservatives have had in Utah (“Uh, Sen. Bob Bennett, you won’t be on the primary ballot. Sorry.”), and in Nevada, and elsewhere.

    I believe we should take our “protesting” indoors where it matters — at our respective local Republican Party committee meetings. And then, send a fax, letter and e-mail to your congresscritter telling them, “I’m a constitutional conservative and have just applied to become a Republican Party precinct committeeman, and I am dragging every conservative I know to my local committee meetings to join me, and we’re going to unite politically inside the Republican Party so we can elect conservative Republicans in the next primary elections who will follow the Constitution — and that probably means, based on your past and current performance, that you will not survive the primary election.”

    Thank you.

    For Liberty,

    ColdWarrior

  • eastbaylarry

    Harry would be wise to stay away. They have guns there and know what to do with varmints.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    that some that were just elected and many that are incumbents didn’t get the message or don’t care if they lose in 2012, based on their actual behavior AFTER we elected them and/or sent the election message! They seem to have their golden parachutes in place of think we will forget their transgressions before they next face us.

    It causes we worry about the state of self government by representatives. If all we can do is go grassroots and get the right folks elected, then it won’t be enough, because if they don;t get their minds right AFTER the biggest wave election in history, other steps will be required to save America.

    Kirk already acts like establishment. McConnell let the Food Bill go to the floor.

    Who is to say that if we got 100 Rubios in the senate within 6 years, that the first batch of 33 wouldn’t already have been co-opted by the system and planned their revolving door as they give us the finger.

    No, clearly just getting the like-minded isn’t enough anymore.

  • pilgrim
  • Scope

    and he hasn’t disappointed. It is Kristi Noem, who made public statements in support of the larded up tax bill, probably mostly because of the ethanol subsidies, which she supports. She is from a corn growing state, and in fact was a farmer herself. She is hoping for a spot on the agriculture committee.

    One of the things that our DC elected people need to understand, is that while it is good to take care of and look out for your constituients, earmarks and subsidies are paid for by all taxpayers, in every state. Isn’t that why we the people want earmarks and subsidies stopped?

    That’s why I said she will need to wear an ankle monitor for the next two years.

  • Scope

    where she says that ethanol subsidies are economic stimulus.

    http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-news/2641228/posts?page=54

  • earlgrey

    I posted my confab with Benedict’s office on another comment section, but the staffer informed me that the subsidies would save jobs.

    I then said “so you and the Senator feel like govt. should decide which industries thrive and which do not?”

    He pivoted back to my orignial complaint about health care. I call his offie anytime I have anyone I know have issues with health care that can be tied into this horrible Obamadecideswhocares bill.

    I know this is a bit off topic, but I thought somoene might be interested.

  • acat
  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    It doesn’t increase the supply fo energy. Rather, it raises the price of food and gasoline for the purpose of keeping farmers at work that should be selling corn on the open and free unsubsidized market.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    the poor and lower income families by raising food and alcohol costs. Moreover, the tax hikes won’t hurt the poor and lower income because they don’t oat fed taxes anyway.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    would offset the new House majority.

    What we do NOW in the Lame Duck can greatly reduce the power of the new House.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • acat

    Mexico was complaining about the increases in corn prices due to ethanol a year or three ago .. made corn tortillas rather costly.

    There’s no reason why Mexico can’t grow its’ own corn…

    Mew

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • Scope

    I should have added “yet” to the end of my post. Meant to. Isn’t it the purpose of the Libs right now to render the new Republican majorities useless? They know that the R’s are going after cutting funding for their social transformation projects, and are determined to fund them now, and then some. I’ll bet that at least some of those pork monies are for the O’s re-election campaign. It will cost a little more than a cigarette or a beer to buy a vote for the O next time. They learned from Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln that it’s worth it to hold out for the big bucks.

  • Scope

    that the Food Safety Bill was added to the Omnibus correct? It also includes much funding for the healthcare bill. That would mean that trying to defund as much of Ocare by the new House would be a moot point.

    http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2010/12/15/senate-omnibus-bill-includes-food-safety-other-health-measures.aspx

  • streetwise

    as the fates have decreed the lawyers ALWAYS get theirs.

    :)

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    to be shocking. We simply must now not let this pass nor the tax cut-raise food prices via ethanol Bill.For the GOP to vote for allow either of these bills is to emasculate the power of the new House next year as it will embolden Reid and Obama that they can roll Boehner and McConnell in 2011-2.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    it would be short and allow us to end it in victory in Jan, rather than in a defeat in 2011.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • Common_Cents

    WTF, isn’t that govt is supposed to do? That invisible hand sure can slap hard and strangle the economy! Time to make it invisible again.

  • oblio

    were laid of from the Federal Government? Not counting temp (e.g. census) workers. My guess is that it’s time for them to pull their fair share of 0bamas created misery.

  • Scope

    discriptive (sp) word than livid to how I am feeling right now. I expect these kinds of actions from the Libs. I am truly shocked at the number of Republicans that are supporting the bills of this broken leg duck congress. It doesn’t bode well for the incomings. They are under the fist of those that are the rulers.

  • Scope

    for the Republicans, even before the newbies get there. This is a longer term display of resounding defeat. God help us all.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • E Pluribus Unum

    Bingo

  • E Pluribus Unum

    Bank on it. They want us to feel bad about shutting down operations so union hacks can keep their mouths on the government teat.

  • The_Gadfly

    continue to collect my paycheck (contractors don’t get back pay if the govt shuts down and three month on unemployment in 2009 was more than enough for me thanks), but if that’s the sacrifice I need to make to save the country from 0bamacare, so be it.

  • The_Gadfly

    employees will be treating it as a vacation not a job loss. Because, well, it is. They can’t be fired, and their contract requires that they get paid even if the government shuts down because that was a circumstance beyond the employee’s control. And yes, I have the vacation statement straight from a fed who was working for the government during the Clinton shutdown. And no, that doesn’t mean they are using annual leave for it either. He noted that was the best part.

  • acat

    and clearly we all survived that, right?

    Mew

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    if we will just stay strong during it.

  • earlgrey

    Is this the same thing?

    do the rules every change?

    When do conservatives get to control the debate/message?

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    waiting a few weeks for a pay check that will include back pay.

    If we can’t stand up to that now, then we should have no expectation they could propose significant budget cuts since that would entail firing many thousands of those non-essential employees.

    I just don’t think the crying kid at a closed-on-Christmas Yosemite ad is going to move most Americans that are suffering directly and indirectly from this recession to get worried about government employees and minor irritant just now.

  • JSobieski

    than it is for a Congressional caucus to stay unified when there is a lot of pressure.

    It is easier for liberal side to get better press.

    Conservatives get to control the debate when they can take control of the debate.

    It makes little sense to complain about gravity when planning a flight. You simply have to factor in the applicable variables and implement the best debate/message plan you that you can.

  • antisocial

    On track to do that. BTW… Congratulations.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • E Pluribus Unum
  • E Pluribus Unum

    Well, assuming that when Dirty Harry pulled the Pork Bill, that he’s going for the 60-day CR.

    Didn’t know that about contractors.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    That gravity thing is a be-yotch, but it’s the current prevailing rules. So be it. Le’ts get that plane in the air, and start strafing targets.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    I think the defeat of the Omnibus and DREAM overrides my complaints about ethanol, DADT and allowing lame duck votes on non-emergency votes in the first place.

    The tea partier rise up and quick McConnell response on the Omnibus middle finger was the most important event of the Lame Duck.

    agree?

  • gekster

    I wish it would have been a single item bill.
    The tax rates by themselves.
    Over all, good.
    Maybe the new congress can dismantle the rest of it.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    the excesses of the 2010 Lame Duck. We need to dig back to at least 1965.

    One reason I wanted to have shut down till Jan 5 was to soften Americans up for what must happen if we are to ever reduce the size of Government and that is to FIRE 10s of thousands of federal govt employees.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    the hard facts, rather than wait for the MSM to portray us as heartless. It is liberal ObamaDem policies that produced and sustained the heard times we live in now. We can have ads on that fact.

  • gekster
  • The_Gadfly

    Technically I can use accumulated leave to cover the days the government is closed, but when you’ve only just been hired, you tend not to have accumulated leave to use. Same thing applies to days the government is closed for bad weather. The reason is that the contract is with a private company, which sets its own rules for dealing with those issues. But since most private companies can’t just shakedown the taxpayers and still have to return a profit to their investors, they have to set logical rules for compensation. The feds on the other hand just get a free day off.