Now that Omnipork Is Dead, What Happens Next?
Hart said one of the problems with passing the spending bill is it sets in stone the financial year 2011 spending levels. Passing a continuing resolution now would allow the Republican House to pass a second continuing resolution in February freezing spending at 2008 levels.
Hart noted that not only did the WSJ poll show that 80 percent of the American public support a spending freeze, but 70 percent would support ending all earmarks.
“The American people are solidly behind our position on this,” Hart said.
McConnell said on the floor the reason Reid yanked the bill back was simple — he didn’t have the votes:
The reason he doesn’t have the votes is because members on this side of the aisle increasingly felt concerned about the way we do business. And for many of our members it was not so much the substance of the bill but the process.
For Coburn it wasn’t the process, it was the substance.
“If members have an earmark in the bill they’re more likely to support spending levels they wouldn’t otherwise support,” Hart said. “Certain members want to protect their earmarks. This way of doing business is under siege and they want to grab all they can while they can.”
Proving of course that he still doesn’t get it, Reid is continuing to slam forward with unpopular legislation, saying as he pulled back the omnibus bill he would be scheduling cloture votes on a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the DREAM act for Saturday.
Stay tuned, we’re in for a bumpy ride.
I fascinate at what appears the Republicans are not as smart on the Constitution as The devil in the White House and therefore can not protect the American People and the devil has an open track taking us to hell.
This metrosexual twerp president will never drag ME to hell.
How odd that so many in Congress have forgotten how much trouble and strife they cause just by even getting into office; especially since it is still very little trouble to get them out — ultimately, removal by any means possible may just amount to a 27¢ each FMJ.
The fast-talkers don’t seem to be listening to what they are saying, or see the growing rage, being blind to earnest protests: there can no longer be reason to think that people will be crushed by multiple crises meant to divide them.
In the real America, oppression brings Unity not fear — our Constitution is not just the law of the land, it is a warning to all petty despots at home and abroad. What happens next will not be from the plans of the likes of Alinskys or the Kennedys.
Now is not the time to recycle garbage but to finally throw it out.
We need spending cuts, not a spending freeze. The Feds spend too much which is causing the inflation they say does not exist. Have you seen food and gas prices?
The repubs , in the new year,need to set up a constitution committee.It’s job would be FIRSTLY to look at all Bills before any voting, and assess if they are allowable under the constitution of America.If not,then it doesn’t go forward. SIMPLE.
I somehow get the feeling that Congressmen and women don’t really know about the Constitution, and its meaning. Perhaps a bit of training is needed.This would only elevate those who took it in the eyes of general Americans.