Last Friday both houses of Congress passed "a bill to extend the payroll tax holiday, unemployment compensation, Medicare physician payment, provide for the consideration of the Keystone XL pipeline, and for other purposes." Of course this is just another bill with no fiscal responsibility for those who voted for it like NJ's Frelinghuysen, Lance, Runyan, & LoBiondo. Republicans once again showed they are Democrat–lite amateurs in the give away game.
The biggest disappointment on the Senate side is FL Senator Marco Rubio who voted for the bill. The many who are touting Rubio as a VP candidate should ask what is he thinking here? – or ask themselves what are they thinking endorsing Rubio who has several other suspicious votes I have exposed.
In summary the bill will extend a cut in workers' payroll taxes through the end of calendar year 2012 (& most likely forever as the Social Security funding problem grows worse), renews expiring unemployment benefits, & once again stops a drop in doctors Medicare compensation. The bill does not follow one sound economic principle but surely panders for votes from the weak who will be more than happy to take from the strong for as long as the gravy train lasts for them.
Below are the lists of "nay" votes in both the House & Senate lead by the usual people we can count on including Michele Bachmann whose voting record of consistency we can only wish we had with Mitt, Newt, or Rick. Michele joins Sarah Palin as the two most dangerous people in America that the statists have to destroy. These two marvelous women exude life as bestowed by our Creator & that is why the statists have to destroy them.
| Ackerman Adams Aderholt Akin Amash Bachmann Bachus Barton (TX) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner Boustany Brooks Broun (GA) Buerkle Burgess Burton (IN) Capuano Cardoza Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Connolly (VA) Cooper Costello Cummings Davis (IL) DeFazio DesJarlais Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Edwards Ellison Farenthold Farr Filner Flake Fleming Forbes | Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Fudge Gallegly Gardner Garrett Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffith (VA) Gutierrez Hall Harris Hastings (FL) Hoyer Johnson (GA) Johnson (IL) Johnson, E. B. Jordan Kind King (IA) Kingston Labrador Lamborn Landry Lankford Lee (CA) Lummis Lynch McClintock McCotter McDermott McKinley Mica Miller (FL) Moran Mulvaney Neugebauer Noem | Nugent Olson Pearce Peterson Petri Pingree (ME) Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Quayle Reyes Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rohrabacher Rokita Ross (FL) Royce Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Sarbanes Schmidt Schrader Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Simpson Smith (WA) Sullivan Terry Thompson (CA) Thornberry Van Hollen Visclosky Walberg Welch West Whitfield Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Wolf Woodall Woolsey |
| Bono Mack Brown (FL) Campbell | Gosar Paul Payne | Rangel Shuler |
| NAYs ---36 | ||
| Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Burr (R-NC) Cardin (D-MD) Chambliss (R-GA) Coats (R-IN) Coburn (R-OK) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) | DeMint (R-SC) Enzi (R-WY) Harkin (D-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Johnson (R-WI) Kyl (R-AZ) Lee (R-UT) Manchin (D-WV) | McCain (R-AZ) Mikulski (D-MD) Moran (R-KS) Paul (R-KY) Portman (R-OH) Risch (R-ID) Sanders (I-VT) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Toomey (R-PA) Warner (D-VA) |
| Not Voting - 4 | ||
| Bingaman (D-NM) Kirk (R-IL) | Roberts (R-KS) Vitter (R-LA) | |
Many Republicans who voted for payroll tax holiday likely feared vicious Dem and media attacks. These include attacking conservatives as heartless, hating poor and elderly, as racist, immoral. In essence these attacks are against an "alleged" ideology.
ReplyDeleteConservatives must strongly argue the merits of free markets. This is lacking now. But even it were ramped up few notches, it likely would not suffice. Why? The current US mindset is economically illiterate, with limited understanding of debt dangers, but with high expectations of freebies and a Nanny state that the rich should support.
What to do?
Dems "allege" our ideology is racist, anti poor, anti elderly but with no proof. Conservatives have a strong counterattack. We can do more than "allege" BO'S ideology. I hypothesize that BO and some key Dems are Marxist. We have strong facts to back this up. These include ObamaCare, Dodd Frank, Cap n Trade, continued Freddie and Fannie support, blocking virtually all new private initiatives, ordering companies where to expand, insurance companies what to provide for "free", snatching parents lunches from kids in school.
So we should passionately and relentlessly educate our populace as to what a Marxist USA will look like in several years left unchecked. Then watch BO body language trying to refute.
Yes - call him a Marxist and provide facts to back it up.
One misses all shots one does not take. Lets take our best shots and beat BO.