Boehner needed 57 Democrats.  Have no idea what deals have been made that will end up biting we taxpayers in the wallet and how much regulation will now be applied.  Or effectively, if “earmarks” have been applied.  Yeah, the Republicans are acting like they are still in the minority – afraid of their own political shadows.  Instead, the base is having a raised blood pressure.  Once again, what the Elites have failed to do (regular order, pass individual bills in regular time instead of a rushed “kitchen sink” at the last second).

Illegal amnesty fully funded in a lot of cases.  Obamacare fully funded. Money for the EPA.  Money for abortions.  Money for lots of the Democrat Agenda. Yet it is the Republican House that controls the Constitutional Purse.  A tool is of no use when it simply hangs on the wall. 

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One of the first things President Obama did in 2009 was sign an executive order to allow full government funding of any and all embryonic stem cell research.  At the time, newly elected Senator Jeanne Shaheen remarked of the event that…

Today, President Obama took a major step in restoring America’s role as a leader in science and medicine by lifting the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. For the millions of patients and families impacted by conditions such as diabetes, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injuries, among many others, there is now greater hope for breakthrough treatments and even cures.

(Here is some YouTube of Shaheen on the floor of the Senate in 2009 [which always looks empty when she’s speaking…] advocating the effort and praising Obama.)

So how  is that working out?

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Yesterday, I was reminded of a piece of music I have not listened to in a while.  So this morning I figured I’d put it on while catching up with things.  I sat down at my desk, logged on and searched to find out about the results last nights bill.  Who knew how apropos the music was to be.  It was Mozart’s Requiem—Mass for the dead.

We’re doomed.

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There is no bigger “Big Lie” than the lie by big government advocates and beneficiaries, repeated by E. Scott Cracraft in his November 25^th op-ed in the Laconia Daily Sun (laconiadailysun.com) that the TEA Party is “fascist”, racist, and/or extremist.

The real TEA Party (there are progressive and party establishment imposters) is millions of everyday Americans (of all ages, races, sexes, ethnic origins, income levels, etc.) in thousands of mostly local groups striving to return to constitutionally limited government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”.  TEA Party members want no privilege or special treatment for themselves that is not available to all American citizens.

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We have been warning the Republican (voters) about its RINO infestation for some time now.  We said they needed to be dealt with.  They were not and now we’ve got RINOTOPIA.  But look on the bright side, we can blame Democrats for all of it – they elected Shawn J’ass’per, so no matter what he does, it’s their fault.

So about that RINOTOPIA.

Democrat elected speaker of the NH House Shawn Ja’ss’per didn’t just line them up in parade formation for us, he put them in charge of committees where they’d be easier to see, and hear, and yes–ridicule.  Not all of them but quite a few, and we’ve got a list.

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Brief snippet from the text accompanying the above graph (Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics paper here) (emphasis mine below):

1. Among full-time workers (those working 35 hours or more per week), men were more likely than women to work a greater number of hours (see Table 5). For example, 25.5% of men working full-time worked 41 or more hours per week in 2013, compared with only 14.3% of women who worked those hours, …

2. The BLS reports that for full-time single workers who have never married, women earned 95.2% of men’s earnings in 2013, which is a wage gap of only 4.8% (see Table 1 and chart above), compared to an overall unadjusted pay gap of 17.9% for workers in that group. When controlling for marital status and comparing the earnings of unmarried men and unmarried women, almost 75% of the unadjusted 17.9% wage gap is explained by just one variable (among many): marital status.

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This is either a complete waste of our money, another example of entitled government workers (like, why can’t they buy their OWN stuff??), or a real serious question: is something about to happen (or could happen) and they won’t tell us? From the Washington Free Beacon (reformatted, emphasis mine)

The Department of Treasury is seeking to order survival kits for all of its employees who oversee the federal banking system, according to a new solicitation. The emergency supplies would be for every employee at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which conducts on-site reviews of banks throughout the country. The survival kit includes everything from water purification tablets to solar blankets.

The government is willing to spend up to $200,000 on the kits, according to the solicitation released on Dec. 4.  The survival kits must come in a fanny-pack or backpack that can fit all of the items, including a 33-piece personal first aid kit with “decongestant tablets,” a variety of bandages, and medicines. The kits must also include a “reusable solar blanket” 52 by 84 inches long, a 2,400-calorie food bar, “50 water purification tablets,” a “dust mask,” “one-size fits all poncho with hood,” a rechargeable lantern with built-in radio, and an “Air-Aid emergency mask” for protection against airborne viruses.  Survival kits will be delivered to every major bank in the United States including Bank of America, American Express Bank, BMO Financial Corp., Capitol One Financial Corporation, Citigroup, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Company, and Wells Fargo.

Why can’t these banks buy their own durn kits – just another 

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It is less than 2 hours before the Feds run out of money (though it could be said that with an $18 Trillion debt, that happened a long time ago).  Frankly, I am ticked that the Republicans that won HUGE just last month have been caving in on what the Dems have wanted.  But, since the Dems are not getting EVERYTHING they want in this CRomnibus (even as it was their leadership that helped to draw it up), there are things on which they cannot allow.  One such thing being US Senator Elizabeth Warren (Uber-Progressive from MA) is seems to be acting like a Progressive version of Ted Cruz who WILL NOT allow one iota of her baby, the Federal Consumer Protection Bureau, be touched.  She is willing to burn down the entire Government than allow a single hair of that entity be mussed and has done all she can to rally the HOUSE Dems to vote this thing down.

Remember this line from her during the shutdown that the Dems blamed on the Rs: “Hostage taking is all they have left. A last gasp for those that can’t face reality“.  How those words hitting you now, Senator Fauxcahontus? 

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Simply to pass the CRomnibus so that these R wusses wouldn’t get a drop of political mud on themselves – and spitting in the faces of voters that just gave them the biggest R majorities since Prez Hoover.  From The Corner (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Retiring Representative Jim Moran (D., Va.) said that Democrats got “virtually everything” they wanted in the cromnibus package, as he praised the bill in terms that could double as the conservative critique of the legislation. Moran said that “the Republicans are indicating they need 80 Democrats” and he’s frustrated that Democrats won’t provide the votes.

Right – the House doesn’t have to wait until January to have a Republican majority to pass a good bill.  It is ONLY because so many Conservative CongressCritters see this as an abject caving into the Democrat agenda simply to “get things done” that Boehner needs the Democrats.  That in itself says much – and how bad this is.  Look, if MORAN IS PRAISING this crap load waste of paper (which was released to late to really understand what’s in those 1,000 plus pages).  And Boehner doesn’t understand why he has to be groveling for votes (and what is THAT gonna cost us in real taxmonies afterwards with this dealmaking?). 

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When Salvo Magazine first came out a few years ago I subscribed.  For whatever reason I let that lapse for a few years, and have just come back to it.  Here is what they say about themselves as a publication.

A publication of The Fellowship of St. James (www.fsj.org), Salvo is dedicated to debunking the cultural myths that have undercut human dignity, all but destroyed the notions of virtue and morality, and slowly eroded our appetite for transcendence.

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This mirrors pretty much every poll I’ve seen here in the US – the only people that seem to care about global cooling / global warming / climate change / climate disruption are those that see a way to show their true Watermelonese (Green on the outside, Red on the inside (the FORMER meaning of the color Red) by their insistence that Governments must exert greater controls (in putting in more and more limitations) on their citizens.  And of course, they have the PERFECT plan that all others should follow.  So few Governments want more control badly than the UN and…

Thanks to the blog of the irrepressible Hilary Ostrov, a long-time WUWT commenter, I found out about a poll gone either horribly wrong or totally predictably depending on your point of view. It’s a global poll done by the United Nations, with over six million responses from all over the planet, and guess what?

 

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