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Senate Democrats Unveil $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill
It is obvious the Congressional Democrats did NOT understand the last election and/or they will do as they damn well please anyway – voters be damned.Senate Democrats have filed a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that would fund the government through fiscal year 2011, according to Senate GOP sources.
The 1,924-page bill includes funding to implement the sweeping healthcare reform bill Congress passed earlier this year as well as additional funds for Internal Revenue Service agents, according to a senior GOP aide familiar with the legislation.The package drew a swift rebuke from Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee.
“The attempt by Democrat leadership to rush through a nearly 2,000-page spending bill in the final days of the lame-duck session ignores the clear will expressed by the voters this past election,” Thune said in a statement. “This bill is loaded up with pork projects and should not get a vote. Congress should listen to the American people and stop this reckless spending.”
Thune has called for a short-term funding measure free of earmarks to keep the government operating beyond Dec. 18, when the current continuing resolution expires.
Despite strong opposition from Thune and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), several Senate Republicans are considering voting for the bill.Well, retiring GOP Senator Bob Bennett of Utah who was thrown out of office by Republican Mike Lee who was supported by the Tea Party will be the TURD in the punch bowl and vote for it, maybe the retiring Ohio Senator Voinovich and perhaps will the Maine RINO sisters. The alternative to voting for the Omnibus Bill as Reid has submitted is to either filibuster it or substitute a temporary short-term measure stripped of the massive spending and earmarks.
I don’t think the GOP Senate leadership or the Tea Party will go away very quietly on this massive display of PORKULUS type spending.
Senator Jim DeMint also has an idea.Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, chairman of the Senate Steering Committee and member of the Joint Economic Committee, made the following statement after Senate Democrats released a 1,924 page omnibus spending bill with thousands of earmarks attached.
“President Obama and Democrats have apparently learned nothing from this November’s election. This nearly 2,000-page omnibus filled with thousands of earmarks shows they are still determined to ram through as much big-government spending as they can in this lame duck session. Americans loudly demanded an end to the runaway spending, but Democrats are intent on raiding every taxpayer dollar that they can grab from the Treasury on their way out of power. This bill also funds the unconstitutional Obamacare law that Americans oppose and have asked Congress to fully repeal. Democrats haven’t given Republicans or the American people time to read the bill, but I’ll join with other Republican colleagues to force them to read it on the Senate floor.”
Stay tuned……
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President 2012 Ohio Poll Watch: Obama 45% Vs. Huckabee 44% and Obama 44% Vs. Romney 42%
Ohio always a battleground state (at least in the past few Presidential cycles) is looking for a change. In the latest PPP poll, President Obama has two key contenders, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney within the margin of error.
Public Policy Polling (D)
12/10-12/10; 510 likely voters, 4.3% margin of error
Mode: Automated phone
PPP releaseOhio
2012 President
47% Obama, 41% Gingrich
45% Obama, 44% Huckabee
49% Obama, 42% Palin
44% Obama, 42% RomneyThe full poll is here in pdf format.
This is NOT good news for the incumbent President.
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Day By Day December 14, 2010 – Cops
Day By Day by Chris MuirMichael Copps of the Federal Communications Commission is indeed a threat to “free speech” and liberty. What is this crapola about a “public value test?”American journalism is in “grave peril,” FCC Commissioner Michael Copps says, and to bolster “traditional media,” he said the Federal Communications Commission should conduct a “public value test” of every commercial broadcast station at relicensing time.
In a speech at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York on Thursday, Copps also said station relicensing should happen every four years instead of the current eight.
“If a station passes the Public Value Test, it of course keeps the license it has earned to use the people’s airwaves,” Copps said. “If not, it goes on probation for a year, renewable for an additional year if it demonstrates measurable progress. If the station fails again, give the license to someone who will use it to serve the public interest.”
Ever since Barack Obama became president, prominent conservatives have warned about liberal efforts to squelch conservative and Christian talk-radio.
Although Copps has said the FCC will not reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, his prescription for “testing” commercial broadcast stations (see below) will alarm defenders of free speech and free enterprise.
According to Copps, the FCC’s Public Value Test would include seven areas — and most of the following text is taken verbatim from his speech:
Now, I see. Michael Copps wants to regulate speech – HIS WAY.
Pretty standard for the FAR LEFT = say one thing, do another and mean your ideology.
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