Bi-Partisanship
Bi-Schmartisanmanship. Politico:
In a statement sure to rile Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday dismissed calls for bipartisanship as “process” arguments extraneous to passing a stimulus bill — and warned Senate Democrats against slashing proposed increases to education spending.
In fairness, she isn’t the one who got elected promising to do a reach across, and it is nice to see her be honest about something. That guy tossed it out the window a couple of weeks ago. It was change!
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February 7th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Honest? Pelosi? Feh.
Will no one (I’m lookin’ at you, SF voters) rid us of this troublesome biyotch?
February 7th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
An Open Response to one of the Harpy Harridan’s faithful creatures in Congress:
o Representative Ron Kind (D-Wi) Third Congressional District in response to your e-mail of February 6, 2009 @ 02:58.
Our country is facing an unprecedented economic crisis that requires equally unprecedented action.
Guess you missed the economic ‘hiccup’ in 1929 that lead to a slight economic crisis in the 1930s. Certain knowledgeable economists lay the blame for the depth and duration of the Great Depression on policies driven by the Democrat Party President, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Economic conditions in western Wisconsin and across the country are quickly deteriorating.
Thank you for noticing. A sizable chunk of Western Wisconsin’s livelihood stems from companies manufacturing parts for US made automobiles. Another sizable fraction of this area’s economy is based upon that part of the American Dream of owning property. In both cases, inept and troglodyte-style Congressional mis-management or, in the case of housing, outright lies are the reason we’re in this deteriorating economic situation. Sounds to me like Democrat Rahm Emanuel’s statement “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” is very prescient, don’t you?
The nation’s unemployment is at 7.2 percent, and many working families are at serious financial risk.
It’s actually 7.6% on average and growing. Some States more, some less. Perhaps the Congressional Budget Office can give you the facts. Since you mention ‘working families’ you certainly do not include yourself given your recent pay raise and other Congressional perks.
Although there may be disagreements about how we address this crisis, there is overwhelming consensus that we must act.</b?
If, by saying there is ‘overwhelming consensus’ in the House you are correct. The Democrat Party has an ‘overwhelming’ majority. However, popularity for this Bill has shrunk to less than 50% of the American public and still falling.
An economic crisis of this magnitude requires bold and fast action.
‘Bold and fast action’ means get the bill passed before the American people have a chance to actually read the contents and voice their concerns. Another way of saying ‘bold and fast’ is “Chiggers! It’s the cops!”
That is why I joined a majority of my colleagues in the House to pass The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, H.R. 1. I believe this legislation strikes the right balance by including:
oTax cuts to give relief and spending power to 95 percent of American families;
What ‘tax cuts’? Your Dear Leader, Nancy Pelosi, is on record as wanting to rescind President Bush’s tax cuts. She also believes in raising taxes and the Vice-President is on record equating patriotism with paying taxes.
Currently, the top 10% of American earners pay around 80% of the total tax revenue collected each year. There are many people that, like certain Democrat appointees, don’t pay taxes at all. What you’re saying is the Democrat Majority has zero problem transferring wealth from those who earn to those who don’t. Sound familiar?
oCreation and preservation of three to four million jobs;
Again, HOW??!! Many Americans out of work don’t work in construction trades. Quite a few of us unemployed are well past the prime of our lives and ill suited to manual labor. WHAT sort of jobs? WHEN will the people of this country see these new jobs? WHAT new bureaucracies will be created to govern projects?
oHelp for men and women hit the hardest by this recession;
For sure those hardest hit by Democrat Party screw ups (i.e., current and past recessions) are not employed by Congress. After all, you just accepted yet another automatic pay raise when others in your District are losing their jobs. Your Congressional Retirement Plan is safe and secure while working men and women have lost virtually their entire retirement savings due to the financial market collapse spawned by Congressional lies regarding ‘Fannie Mae’ and ‘Freddie Mac’ You still haven’t provided ONE piece of evidence supporting your contention; if this were one of your trial cases, the evidence suggests you’d lose.(/i>
oAid to state and local governments; and
Sure, Wisconsin has to beg the Federal Government for money to pay unemployment benefits.
oInvestment in infrastructure and new industries that will create jobs now.
Which, according to most experts won’t reach voters until NEXT YEAR! Coincidently right on time for the next election cycle. How interesting.
This recovery package works to put the middle class back on the path to success by creating jobs and repairing and improving our long-term economy.
This is the fourth time in this letter alone where you make the same specious claim without providing any concrete supporting evidence. Do you honestly believe this country is great because of Government? How do you think this country became the economic powerhouse it is? Ever hear of American Exceptionalism? I can only conclude from this you firmly believe that your constituents are just too dumb to understand or fawningly believe the Keynesian claptrap pushed by the Democrat Party ‘Leadership’.
Seventy-five percent of this plan will pay out in the first 18 months, providing the swift investment that our economy desperately needs.
Just in time for the next Congressional election cycle.
Further, this legislation does not include earmarks and has strong oversight and historic transparency provisions to ensure that the funds are spent in a fiscally responsible manner.
You’re living in a different galaxy bub! If you had bothered to actually READ the 600+ pages of this Bill, you would KNOW is is nothing BUT pork. Even the Congressional Budget Office is on record as stating:
“… the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing.”
As regards ‘historic transparency’ provisions – why was the crafting of this Bill done behind the closed doors of the Speaker’s Offices? Why were there no Republicans included in drafting H.R. 1? Why were Amendments severely restricted and damn little debate? I guess those are just some of the reasons, beyond the obvious, that 0 Republican and 11 Democrat Party ‘representatives’ voted NO.
As the Senate debates and amends this legislation and the House and Senate confer on a final version, I am confident there will be an even stronger final product.</b<
If by ‘…stronger final product’ you mean bigger, more costly, and stuffed with even more pork, you’re correct. Again, I’ll wager the Republicans will make up a very small number of the ‘conferees’.
Although the seriousness of the economic crisis calls for an immediate influx of emergency spending, I believe more strongly now than ever that we must undertake serious budget reform to cut out wasteful government spending, eliminate unnecessary tax expenditures, and address our $57 trillion in long-term unfunded obligations.
Serious budget reform? Cut wasteful government spending? Eliminate unnecessary tax expenditures? Address the $57 trillion in long-term unfunded obligations? Good Lord man! CONGRESS wrote the bills that CREATED each and every wasteful government spending program and unfunded obligation in the first place! In case you missed it, CONGRESS is in the process of creating a debt load my yet to be born great-great-grandchildren won’t be able to pay down.
Paying down the nation’s deficit will be critical to our country’s long-term economic solvency, and I remain committed to ensuring that our children and grandchildren are not stuck paying the tab for this recovery plan.
Since you’ve not provided any details regarding HOW, and since the total for this Bill is approaching TRILLIONS of dollars, you ’speak with forked tongue’ to use the old Holy-wood movie phrase. Generations to come will be paying this abomination’s debt while this Country’s economy is reduced to Socialist shambles. Russia tried this experiment and failed miserably.
Government does not create jobs (except for the favored few staffers) and the targeted spending on infrastructure and roads cannot employ all of the currently unemployed people. Business and markets create jobs but this Bill stifles the very capital investment incentives and tax cuts necessary for business to prosper.
In the coming weeks, I will continue to push for a budget summit or creation of an oversight board that will determine the appropriate steps we need to take to pay down our nation’s growing deficit.
Translated: what you said four (4) sentences ago was bogus! There ain’t no oversight except by Congress and this obscene spending program is nothing but payoff to Congressional favorites.
First ‘appropriate step’: fire (for cause) each and every member of the US Congress AND their staffs. Then hire competent experts from commercial sectors to do the job right.
Again, thank you for contacting me. Please do not hesitate to be in touch with additional comments or questions.
Rest assured, you WILL be hearing from me in the future.
I also encourage you to visit my website, http://www.house.gov/kind, where you can find updated information, sign up to receive my e-newsletter, and send me e-mail.
The chances of that happening are significantly less than the entire Jupiter planetary system becoming a tropical paradise next week.
Oh, a copy of this letter is being sent to the Wisconsin Republican and Libertarian Parties. Should make the upcoming election cycle interesting.
February 7th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Great letter, SeniorD.
Obama’s problem is that he’s only a couple of weeks in and already reneging on his campaign promises, which were run ad-nauseum for months in battleground states. I had this very argument with some friends and relatives who planned to vote for Obama based on his tax cut commercials, and at the time they were incredulous at the suggestion that Obama was not being truthful in his commercials.
I wonder what they’re thinking now?
February 10th, 2009 at 12:27 am
“I wonder what they’re thinking now?”
Whitney Houston’s back!!!!!
Cheers