Category Archives: Harry Reid

An Outbreak of Lawlessness

2013_11 No rules

EXCERPTED FROM: An Outbreak of Lawlessness By Charles Krauthammer – November 28, 2013

If a bare majority can change the fundamental rules that govern an institution, then there are no rules. … As of today, the Senate effectively has no rules. Congratulations, Harry Reid. Finally, something you will be remembered for.

Barack Obama may be remembered for something similar. … Desperate to deflect the opprobrium heaped upon him for the false promise that you could keep your health plan if you wanted to, [he called] a hasty news conference urging both insurers and the states to reinstate millions of such plans. …

The law remains unchanged. The regulations governing that law remain unchanged. Nothing is changed except for a president proposing to unilaterally change his own law from the White House pressroom.

That’s banana-republic stuff.

And worse. When Congress tried to make Obama’s “fix” legal — i.e., through legislation — he opposed it. He even said he would veto it. Imagine: vetoing the very bill that would legally enact his own illegal fix.

One day, when a few bottled-up judicial nominees and a malfunctioning health-care website are barely a memory, we will still be dealing with the toxic residue of this outbreak of authoritative lawlessness.

Read the rest @ http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365101/outbreak-lawlessness-charles-krauthammer

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Good Intentions vs Good Results

Good intentions vs Good results

“Delay” is only a terrible idea when Republicans want it.

A few weeks ago, the White House and Senate Democrats flatly refused a Republican emergency spending bill that would have kept the government open but delayed ObamaCare’s requirement that individuals purchase health insurance by March 31 or face a fine. Reid said Republicans had “lost their minds.”

But now with healthcare.gov having been such a Big Fat Failure, people are facing a fine for being UNABLE to sign up. This includes tens of thousands of Americans who HAD INSURANCE … until Obamacare’s ridiculously expensive regulations forced the companies to cancel their coverage. Suddenly, Democrats are warming up to the idea that “delay” might not be a sign of tinfoilhatitis, but rather a smashing good idea that is Good For America. Or something.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked if the administration is looking for flexibility in applying the mandate. Carney indicated that a delay was not just possible, but that it may already be allowed by the law. Right. That would be the “wiggle room” clause Obambi ALREADY used to give his union buds a delay he was not willing to give to Republican voters and Tea Party whack jobs. Cuz, you know … Obama is not the President of all of us. He’s just the President of his fan club.

A new ABC/WaPo poll finds 54 percent of respondents believe the problems plaguing ObamaCare’s Web site reflect a larger problem with President Obama’s signature entitlement program.

IMHO, that number is not 89% only because the MSM has got its head up so far up Obama’s bum.

President Obama’s announced a “tech surge” to repair the ObamaCare Web site.

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart commented, “Your website is so f***ed we have use the same strategy that we used to salvage the Iraq war?”

WaPo reported: “Days before the launch of President Obama’s online health ­insurance marketplace, government officials and contractors tested a key part of the Web site to see whether it could handle tens of thousands of consumers at the same time. It crashed after a simulation in which just a few hundred people tried to log on simultaneously. Despite the failed test, federal health officials plowed ahead.” Also, “anonymous developers” told the wire service that they raised doubts over whether the site would be ready in time, complaining openly to each other about “unrealistic deadlines.”

Oh my aching sides! This was a government contract … anonymous and unrealistic, my Aunt Fanny. “Politically protected” is more like it. Probably because the Losers who were given the Half A Billion Dollar contract YEARS ago (a contract which they subbed out to India for an unknown, but no doubt much lower sum) were the idiot nephews of some major Democrat Donors whose mothers were desperate to get them the hell out of their basement Bat Caves and thought that surely they could write a silly little web program, seeing as all they ever did was play on their computers anyway and didn’t they take a computer class in college … or something?

2013_10 22 Healthcare dot gov flaw by Terrell

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My Fox News First email update

http://terrellaftermath.com/

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Filed under Democrats, Harry Reid, Jay Carney, Media Bias, Obamacare, Republicans, Unions

Obama’s DoD informed military “no death benefits” by TWITTER

These people really have NO SHAME.

This video should be on your Must View ASAP list. Please set aside 16 minutes to listen. No need to watch. It’s just a talking head. But do listen. And if you can, get your favorite Obama Apologist to listen too.

Majority Leader Harry Reid Objects to Funding the VA. Again. [16:10]

Republican Senator Cruz: Veterans are an American issue, not a partisan issue. Refusing death benefits is an abomination. Eight bills have come from the House to fund parts of the government. The Democrats have not allowed any of them to come to the floor.

Democrat Senator Reid: Blah blah blah

REID SHORT TRANSLATION: No, I will not allow the Senate to vote on funding death benefits.

LONG TRANSLATION: I’m in charge of the Senate and I’m Obama’s lapdog. So no, we are NOT voting on any “piecemeal” funding of anything, because we want everybody to HURT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE so we can get Obamacare funded without any negotiation whatsoever and never mind that half of all Americans hate it and that Obama Democrats are the ONLY people refusing to fund the Veterans Administration or open the parks or allow chaplains to VOLUNTEER their services on military bases because DEMOCRATS CARE. You can be sure of this because we keep telling you. Also, (with respect to my dear friend and colleague Senator Cruz) REPUBLICANS SUCK.

Democrat Lackeys: We don’t need to vote on your stupid Republican piecemeal bills, because we are happy to vote on complete (with Obamacare) funding.

Republican Senator Cruz: Veterans should not be held hostage by partisan political issues like whether or not we fund Obamacare. Democrats are holding veterans hostage by refusing to even vote on veteran funding and demanding all or nothing funding.

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Crimes and Misdemeanors

2013_10 08 How about some dignity and respect for us

We The People own the National Mall

Not Obama. Not Obama Democrats.

But Obama and his Bully Democrats led by Senate-majority leader Harry Reid have chosen to maximize the pain of the government “shut down” by Barry-cading all national parks, memorials and monuments.

This includes the National Mall.

October 8, 2013: During the Camino Americano protest on the (closed except for them) National Mall, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi made a point to thank President Obama personally for allowing the illegal alien protest to take place as scheduled … on the CLOSED National Mall.

Among the many pre-planned events for the National Mall that were cancelled because of the Democrat Embargo on We the People:

  • The Kicking for Kids Who Can’t Kick-a-thon sponsored by the Amputee Coalition
  • The Children’s National Medical Center’s 5k Race for Every Child.

POINT ONE: Obama restricted the use of publicly-owned national property to serve his personal political agenda.

The national parks etc. are closed because Obama Democrats refuse to negotiate with Republicans about the budget. If they can’t have Obamacare fully funded without discussion, then nobody can use national property. (Nyah. Nyah.)

POINT TWO: Obama lifted the restriction on the use of publicly-owned national property to serve his personal political agenda.

“We are not going to ship back 12 million people, we’re not going to do it as a practical matter. We would have to take all our law enforcement that we have available and we would have to use it and put people on buses, and rip families apart, and that’s not who we are, that’s not what America is about. So what I’ve proposed… is you say we’re going to bring these folks out of the shadows. We’re going to make them pay a fine, they are going to have to learn English, they are going to have to go to the back of the line…but they will have a pathway to citizenship over the course of 10 years.” (Obama – http://www.usamnesty.org/)

President Obama has knowingly converted the National Mall (owned by We the People) to his personal use. That is a crime punishable by a fine and/or up to ten years imprisonment.

18 USC § 641 – Public money, property or records

Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or the use of another, or without authority, sells, conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, or any property made or being made under contract for the United States or any department or agency thereof; or Whoever receives, conceals, or retains the same with intent to convert it to his use or gain, knowing it to have been embezzled, stolen, purloined or converted— (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/641).

If the President breaks a law, abuses his power, violates the public trust and/or employs the power of his office for an improper purpose or for personal gain, he commits an impeachable offense.

Article 2 Section 4 addresses impeachment. “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

“High Crimes and Misdemeanors” are:

1. Real criminality — breaking a law
2. Abuses of power
3. Violation of public trust — defined by Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers
4. Behavior grossly incompatible with the proper function and purpose of the office
5. Employing the power of the office for an improper purpose or for personal gain — personal gain does not have to be material or monetary

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October 10: Dems still blocking military chaplains

2013_10 10 No action on contract chaplains

Home of the Brave 2: Chaplain Paul Shaughnessy Prays During Iraqi Battle [3:18]

Boykin - Religious freedom in military

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Goa-Obama

Goa-Obama

ObamaCare never has and never will be about helping the poor. If they’d ever given a toot about actual people, they’d have reformed health care in the practical ways the GOP proposed, ways that WORK.

  1. Allow citizens to buy insurance plans anywhere, not just within their own states.
  2. Switch tax subsidies from employers to individuals so everyone gets insurance as individuals, regardless of where they work.
  • These two changes alone would’ve opened up a huge market of health insurance plans of all shapes, sizes and premium levels.
  • These two changes would’ve freed people trapped in jobs they hate because they don’t dare lose their employer-based insurance plan.
  • These two changes would’ve created low-cost catastrophic coverage options that uninsured people in low-paying service industry jobs where insurance isn’t included could afford.

Instead, they shoved ZeroCare down our throats, something that has a proven track record in many countries, including here (Medicare, Medicaid) of providing least care for most money. Why? Because it provides the most POWER and CONTROL and that’s what it was and is about.

The PTBs in DC rake in the bucks, then use them to pay off cronies and punish enemies. Case in point: Abortion.

ObamaCare mandates everybody pay directly into a fund that does nothing except buy abortions. IOW, they extort money from Pro-Lifers (mostly Republicans) and give it to abortionists who turn around and donate it to Pro-Abortion Democrat campaign coffers to ensure their right to kill goes unimpeded.

Do you think if Dems cared about actual people, Harry Reid could have EVER said what he did about kids with cancer? They don’t care who gets hurt during this government shut down, just so long as they hang on to their POWER.

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Democrats: Stop holding America hostage

2013_10 02 Govt shut down photo

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) released the following statement on the Senate’s refusal to take up House-passed continuing resolutions:

“This morning, disability payments for wounded veterans would be fully funded if not for Harry Reid.

“This morning, our National Guard and reservists would be fully funded if not for Harry Reid.

“This morning, our national parks and war memorials would be open and fully funded if not for Harry Reid.

“This morning, the National Institutes of Health would be fully funded if not for Harry Reid.

“Harry Reid and President Obama should stop playing partisan games; they believe that the shutdown benefits them politically, and so they are cynically trying to make it as painful as possible for the American people.

“None of these limited CRs implicates or even mentions Obamacare; Harry Reid and President Obama shouldn’t be holding veterans hostage simply to force Obamacare on the American people.

“The House of Representatives has passed bipartisan funding for all these government functions; Senate Republicans are united in support of these vital funding bills. It is only because Harry Reid and Senate Democrats continue to object that these are not today on the President’s desk.”

Source:

http://www.cruz.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=345856

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“Caring” Democrats?

Yesterday, the Senate voted down a House joint resolution entitled Honoring our Promise to America’s Veterans Act.

Today, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said they will also vote down the bill to provide funding to NIH which helps children with cancer:

Reporter: But if you could help one child who has cancer, why wouldn’t you do it?

Reid: Why would we want to do that?

Please keep in mind that:

A. Democrats have flatly refused to negotiate in any way whatsoever, despite the Republican “obsession” with this bill that a majority of Americans did not want WHEN IT WAS PASSED and which a BIGGER majority of Americans do not want NOW.

B. Ever since Obama first took office in January 2009, Democrats have blocked every attempt by Republicans in Congress to fulfill the ONE JOB the Congress is legally required to do … PASS A BUDGET.

C. All this haggling over Continuing Resolutions is about keeping the money (debting) flowing at the ridiculous rate that Democrats established in 2009, a rate that is very rapidly sending the United States of America into bankruptcy.

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Yet another reason why I never click on HuffPo

And why I stopped using my AOL email account. AOL bought HuffPo in February 2011 and began pushing it as their Go To News site.

Googling “AOL buys HuffPo” got me these two statements:

  • AOL said, “AOL is buying Huffington Post, the news and culture website, in a deal that catapults AOL into a new stratosphere of a genuine media company.”
  • The Wall Street Journals said, “AOL Buys Huffington Post: Is It Crazy?”

So about that claim that Huffington Post is a “news” website …

HuffPo filibuster coverage

June 2013: The Filibuster Heard ‘Round the World

Texas State Senator Wendy Davis became a national darling of the left when she filibustered against a Texas State law that would halt the dismemberment and poisoning of pain-capable fetuses (i.e., post 20 weeks gestation).

HuffPo was among the many “news” media that declared Davis a hero … despite the fact that her filibuster accomplished nothing more than to catapult her and her pink running shoes into the national limelight. After she shut up, the law passed.

Sept 2013: Cruz Hijacks Senate ‘Til I’m Unable to Stand’

Texas Senator Ted Cruz was ridiculed and dismissed by the left when he filibustered in favor of the House bill to fund everything in the federal government, except Obamacare. They sneeringly called it just a “long speech” and a “fauxlibuster” because his time on the floor wouldn’t delay any votes.

They neglected to mention that Democrat Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid was contemptuously refusing to even permit a vote on the House bill. The only vote Reid wants to come to the floor is to vote to fund EVERYTHING or NOTHING.

The House bill approved funding for everything EXCEPT Obamacare.

2013_09 26 Obamacare by Terrell - bears

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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2013/09/25/huffpo-wendy-davis-was-filibuster-heard-round-world-now-its-cruz-hijacks

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Filed under Abortion, Harry Reid, Media Bias, Obamacare, Ted Cruz, U.S. Senate, Wendy Davis

Defund Obamacare!

IF the government gets shut down over this, it will be because OBAMA and REID force it. The majority in the House voted to fund all government activities EXCEPT OBAMACARE. The Senate was NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE because DEMOCRAT MAJORITY LEADER SENATOR HARRY REID would not PERMIT IT. When Obama says Republicans want to shut down government, he’s LYING.

September 23, 2013 RASMUSSEN Poll on Obamacare

Do you believe this law will improve, worsen or have no impact on the nation’s health care system?

Improve 30% vs. Worsen 51% vs. Same 11% vs. Don’t know 8%

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/health_care_law

Sen. Cruz Reading a Few Letters from Those Impacted by Obamacare to #MakeDCListen [7:26]

Defund it

He exempted his buds

THIS next one is long, but it’s SO GOOD. You don’t need to watch, just listen. So clean or something. And listen.

Sen. Paul Joins Sen. Cruz on Defunding Obamacare- September 24, 2013 [15:05]

Cruz DC doesn't listen

Congress should pay

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