About Me

In writing the "About Me" portion of this blog I thought about the purpose of the blog - namely, preventing the growth of Socialism & stopping the Death Of Democracy in the American Republic & returning her to the "liberty to abundance" stage of our history. One word descriptions of people's philosophies or purposes are quite often inadequate. I feel that I am "liberal" meaning that I am broad minded, independent, generous, hospitable, & magnanimous. Under these terms "liberal" is a perfectly good word that has been corrupted over the years to mean the person is a left-winger or as Mark Levin more accurately wrote in his book "Liberty & Tyranny" a "statist" - someone looking for government or state control of society. I am certainly not that & have dedicated the blog to fighting this. I believe that I find what I am when I consider whether or not I am a "conservative" & specifically when I ask what is it that I am trying to conserve? It is the libertarian principles that America was founded upon & originally followed. That is the Return To Excellence that this blog is named for & is all about.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

House CR Vote - A Slow But Getting Faster Burn

Former NJ Tea Party congressional candidate Richard Luzzi recently sent me a note pointing out that the Republicans gained the majority in the House based on the collective promise to the voters that they would repeal ObamaCare. And if they couldn't repeal it they would defund it. Well this afternoon was the time for the House majority to put their votes where their mouths were during the campaign. Sadly three quarters of the freshman Republicans voted the wrong way including James Lankford, Tim Scott, & Rob Woodall who voted with the establishment old-guard Republican leadership headed by the detestable John Boehner, Eric Cantor, & Paul Ryan.

The actual House vote was for another new extension of the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government for fiscal year 2011 that is now almost six months old.

Representatives Steve King & Michele Bachmann had warned that Boehner would not include a provision in the CR to rescind the $105 billion of appropriations that was surreptitiously inserted by the Democrats in the ObamaCare legislation.

So even with all of the unequivocal promises to take a stand for America & the return to excellence of our founding libertarian principles only 54 Republicans voted as the party collectively had promised - the rest have already abandoned the principles they ran on. See if your congressman is on the list below & if he is I suggest working against him with all of your might. As usual Rodney Frelinghuysen, Leonard Lance, Frank LoBiondo, & Jon Runyan voted for the status quo - a slow but getting faster burn of the ruination of America.


FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 179
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

H J RES 48 RECORDED VOTE 15-Mar-2011 3:32 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes

AyesNoesPRESNV
Republican18654
Democratic851043
Independent
TOTALS2711583


---- AYES 271 ---

Adams
Aderholt
Alexander
Altmire
Austria
Baca
Bachus
Barletta
Barrow
Bass (NH)
Berg
Berkley
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Cardoza
Carney
Carson (IN)
Carter
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (CA)
Davis (KY)
DeFazio
DeGette
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Emerson
Engel
Farenthold
Fattah
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gardner
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gosar
Granger
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Harper
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Heinrich
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Holden
Hoyer
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Keating
Kelly
Kildee
Kind
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kline
Lance
Langevin
Lankford
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Luján
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Pascrell
Paulsen
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Platts
Polis
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Quayle
Quigley
Rahall
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Royce
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Ryan (WI)
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schiff
Schilling
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Stivers
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Turner
Upton
Van Hollen
Visclosky
Walden
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Webster
Welch
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Wu
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)


---- NOT VOTING 3 ---

Conyers
Giffords
Sanchez, Loretta

1 comment:

  1. Doug,

    Rob Woodall, really? What can he be thinking? This is a big disappointment...

    54 Republicans out of 240, Am I reading that correctly?
    There were 104 Democrats that voted NO...50 more than the Republicans...

    Something has got to change here...this is just not working...

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