Comments on: Remember how Senate Dems rushed through Obamacare on Christmas Eve 2009?

By: Henry Hawkins

Henry Hawkins — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:28:34 +0000

You are such a boring, predictable idiot.

By: Estragon

Estragon — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 00:08:13 +0000

The agreement was to bring up the Cromnibus on Monday, but Cruz and Lee forced the Senate to stay in session.

Not only did this NOT stop the bill, it gave Reid the chance to rush through a few more nominees who would have not been confirmed without the weekend session, and who would have been rejected by the new Senate.

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When you act rashly with no plan and without consulting colleagues, you not only fail but also invite the unintended consequences.

Cruz admitted he had no plan after the shutdown last year and obviously hasn’t come up with one since, either. Yet some people talk about him as if he were a serious candidate for President despite his lack of accomplishments and resume thinner than Obama’s in 2008.

They don’t call us The Stupid Party for nothing, eh?

By: gasper

gasper — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:31:29 +0000

It will sound alright if you change, “The rush to pass coupled with the size of the bills is disgusting:. . .” to “The rush to pass coupled with the size of their balls is appropriate.”

By: Subotai Bahadur

Subotai Bahadur — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:17:54 +0000

The way CRomnibus was pushed through brings back bad memories, and this time Republicans were part of the problem.

No, this time the Republicans WERE the problem. In the exact same way, with the exact same contempt for the country and Constitution.

A quote from a commenter elsewhere:

When the Democrats control a House of Congress, they break rules as needed to get passed what Obama wants. When the Republicans control a House of Congress, they break promises as needed to get passed what Obama wants.

We live in a one-Party state; with neither an opposition party nor any representation of the interests of the people. Both wings of that party are enemies of the country and Constitution.

Which is a strong indicator of where we are headed.

By: gettimothy

gettimothy — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:14:59 +0000

compare their behavior with the GOP’s 2010 Pledge To America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_to_America

By: Henry Hawkins

Henry Hawkins — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 18:10:03 +0000

Well, what else do you expect Republicans to do? If they fight against their political opponents it might offend someone – and someone votes! They cannot risk the someone vote, can they?

I’d love to see a collection of the campaign promises some of these GOP yes voters made during the 2014 midterm primaries and general. I suspect they might conflict with their approval and support of CRomnibus.

By: gasper

gasper — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:57:54 +0000

We really need to form a second party in this country. This one is destroying us.

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:30:50 +0000

The rush to pass coupled with the size of the bills is disgusting: Together they constitute a clear signal that the “leadership” does not want the public to know what is about to happen.

By: MaggotAtBroadAndWall

MaggotAtBroadAndWall — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:26:40 +0000

American history for the past 100 years has proven that the word everybody in Washington loves – compromise – is code for enlarging the state. There’s been a one way ratchet, uninterrupted since the advent of the administrative bureaucratic welfare state, toward expanding state power at the expense of individual liberty. The special interests are so entrenched there is no way to stop it. It is a runaway train.

We have a far left party and a center left party. The hard part is deciding which is which. As Bruce Bartlett has pointed out, at least the Democrats TRY to raise taxes to partially pay for their social engineering adventures when they get power. Republicans in the GWB years expanded government and cut taxes.

By: jennifer a johnson

jennifer a johnson — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:24:14 +0000

The “Junior Senator from Texas” is…”Right! Right! Right!

I voted “No” in head and in my heart and with my vote this past election. I will continue to vote “No” in the next election and all subsequent elections. I have become the person of “No!, enough is enough.”

The stench of Washington reaches into Illinois – Rep Peter Roskam voted FOR the bill.

Don’t get me started on IL Senator Mark “Democrat” Kirk
http://republicannewswatch.com/wp/?p=30

Goodbye guys.