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The Impudence Of The DC Aristocracy

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  August 5th, 2010 at 11:00 AM  | 

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For wholly different reasons, I suggest you first have a reading (if you haven’t already) of Erick’s piece this morning about the Elites vs. “we, the People.” It sets the stage nicely for a review of several other little tidbits of news in recent days.

First, we have Harry Reid being praised for slicing through GOP resistance to a State aid bill (with the help of the Maine cupcakes, of course) which “promises cash-strapped governors $16.1 billion to help meet Medicaid payments next year, and $10 billion would go to state and local school boards to preserve teacher jobs.” There’s a slight problem though..well, ok – several slight problems.

This bill is called the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act, and I’d note there is nothing in this title about Teachers Unions or Medicaid. And, there most certainly is nothing in there about taking food off the tables of the poor in order to pay for it. It takes the Politico piece for us to find out what the crooks and hobgoblins in the Senate are up to:

The sudden turnaround followed twin 61-38 Senate votes in which Maine Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe joined in support of the $26.1 billion measure after Democrats agreed to pay for the costs with cuts from their own priorities, including food stamps for the poor.

Paying for teacher jobs (kickbacks to the Unions for their 2008 campaign donations, and in anticipation of getting more for ’10) on the backs of poor people in desperate need of help putting food on their tables to feed their children is no way to govern. It IS a decent way to rule though. The arrogance and impudence our ruling class of elites in Washington continues to display…at the very time when more people than ever are in need of the very thing Democrats have just cut in order to write those kickback checks…bears remembering in the near future.

Erick aptly points out what little concern our Government seems to have for the people it is supposed to represent. I would add that allowing minorities to overrule majorities in what has become a system of corrupt checks and broken balances will destroy this country, and will lead us to one of two ultimate conclusions.

Allowing Government to enrich one group of lives at the expense of another will either stop by way of voting out the ruling class…or the backs of the American people will be sufficiently broken that there will be nothing left for the Government to take.

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  • Achance

    We need a committment from every Republican that when we get control of a body will enact a rule and legislation if possible limiting bill titles to a single subject and requiring all amendments to fit within the title. That will dampen, though not completely stop, the Christmas Tree bills and all this business of putting Democrat payoffs in defense bills and the like.

    • Joliphant

      We have had Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and the Budget Enforcement Act since the 80s they were just ignored by congress.

      The only thing that is going reign in congress is if the public starts being willing to take offenders out office. I just don’t see that happening when we have people like William Jefferson, Barney Frank or Marion Barry being returned to office

      • Achance

        but I’m becoming unable to see a peaceful end to this irrepressible conflict between statists/collectivists and those who believe in individual liberty as our founders saw it.

    • romeg

      as far back as I can recall. It is the absence of such a rule that has allowed the CPC (the Congressional Porker Caucus) to grow and prosper.

      But, as with every rule in a parliamentary body, someone’s ox will get gored.

      I fear that we will go through a Second Constitutional Convention before it is done and that is, in many ways, a fearful prospect.

  • Scope

    and their defections are getting more and more frequent. Just recently they voted for the disastrous Fin, Reform bill, they are voting for Kagan and now they are voting for more teacher union payoffs. I don’t give them long until they declare themselves Democrats. They are almost there.

    From what I read, the Maine idiots were bribed into voting for the teacher union payoffs by being promised that cuts to the Maine Navy Shipyard funds would not be cut. There’s something really wrong with that because back on July 7, there was an article in The Press Herald, a Maine newspaper where they were celebrating the fact that Maine Bath Works, a unionized company, was awarded a $105.3 million dollar contract to build a new Navy Destroyer, and plans are in the works for another one.

    http://www.pressherald.com/news/maines-bath-iron-works-shipyard-wins-destroyer-contract.html

    I guess you could say that the Maine Jerks are looking out for workers in their state, through bribes, but, what about the massive amounts of unemployment in the rest of the country, which their votes affect. There are other shipyards in the country, military and private, that I am sure need their jobs also.

    I also guess that there may be something in believing that any Republican is better than any Democrat, but, I am having a hard time accepting that with these two. What will they help the Democrats with next, Cap and Trade, Card Check, Immigration? No amount of phone calls to these two make any difference at all.They are as deaf as the Democrats. And this is the best you can get out of the entire state of Maine?

  • http://IdahoFrank.blogspot.com idahofrank

    are a great idea. Unfortunately, both parties have been guilty of stuffing bills with pork for many years, I hope for change I can believe in. It is time to clean house completely.

  • nutmegger
  • jomo2009

    When Olympia Snowe comes for re-election in 2012, and Susan Collins in 2014 (should they decide to run) they must be primaried by a conservatives. Some will argue that this increases the chances of two more liberal Democrats to take their places. I say, at the very least, it will strike a blow for political truth in advertising.

    • renny

      someone ought to be able to launch a campaign in MN against one of the Gold Dust twins.

      Whatever happened to New England down-East conviction and resolution?

      Have so many displaced Greenwich Village escapees moved to MN that the entire habit of mind and culture of a couple hundred years has been turned into mush?

      If they came from NJ, I would have no questions. But MN?

  • http://www.scragged.com petrarch

    “Allowing Government to enrich one group of lives at the expense of another will either stop by way of voting out the ruling class?or the backs of the American people will be sufficiently broken that there will be nothing left for the Government to take.”

    Nope, there’s one more option. Not one I endorse or encourage, but one which I fear more and more will be what actually happens – the option our Founders chose.

  • Scope

    sees the bright side in November: Difficult Democrats won’t be back. He said he won’t miss those that have been the “toughest to pull into line.” Democrats are not elected to represent their constituients, they are bought, paid for, promised to be elected, by hook or by crook, literally, and become a part of a body that is no longer relevant. They gave Congressional powers away to the Executive branch.

    Every single last Democrat, up for election re-election this year must be defeated.

  • lorendd

    It occurs to me that the Ways and Means Committee might be responsible for crafting these obnoxious bills.

    Why is there no attempt to hold the members of the Ways & Means Committee personally responsible for their work product?

    And also why is there never, I mean NEVER, criticism of Sen. Dan Inouye of HI as Way & Means Committee Chair?

    Is he not personally responsible for the work product of his committee?