It amazes me that Senator Rand Paul is courageous enough to stand up and stand out attempting to stop persecution of Christians when the ELCA, the Wisconsin Synod Lutheran Church and the Missouri Synod are silent. Maybe America based Lutherans don’t care about the welfare or fate of other Christians. The silence of the Churches further weakens their moral authority in an age where it is almost non existent anyway. However, Senator Rand Paul, who is unrecognized by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and March Levin, is a brave, honest and outstanding political leader who is not beholding to the talk show pundits. Seems, Rush, Sean and Marc prefer Ted Cruz to anyone else. Yet, it has been rand Paul who had led the fight for fairness in government. I believe it was Rand Paul who not only was an inspiration for Ted Cruz’ speech, but also an advisor, mentor and supporter. Yet not a word of recognition by the major conservative radio hosts. I guess, Senator Rand Paul does not EXACTLY fit their definition of Republican or conservative. And that is their downfall they define too narrowly the people with whom they are willing to work.
Category: Obamacare
Are all Liberals Prejudiced? One Wonders!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-15/boehner-to-tea-party-shut-yourself-down.html?cmpid=yhoo
“…one-sided, overwhelmingly white, aging, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, science-denying districts want.” A person does not need to read any further than this in order to see that the author is herself a narrow-minded, prejudiced bigot with an amazing amount of self-righteous confidence who claims to be analyzing. However, this article is full of one-sided, myopic stereotypes which discredit her supposed analysis and reveal it to be nothing more than a rant.
Only Obama Can Cause Default
http://visiontoamerica.com/16051/house-republicans-schedule-obama-impeachment-hearings/
Marc Levin broadcast Monday Oct 14th that only Obama can cause a default. According to Levin, the US Constitution charges the President with the responsibility to pay all the debts of the USA. It seems that Congress has the power of the purse but the President is the actual writer of the check. Levin stated that under Article One of the USA Constitution the President is required to prioritize the accounts payable to assure that the government does not default. Therefore, Levin stated, it is President Obama and Obama alone who decides whether the USA defaults. Furthermore, Levin said that there is enough money presently in the USA checking account with billions coming in daily plus the end of year payments which can easily fund payments to our creditors.
The President, however, is constantly stating that it is the House of Representatives who will cause the USA to default. Obama has broadcast again and again that Congress, namely, the House of Representatives, that is causing default and should be held responsible. Levin, however, said that the Congress is powerless over default because the Constitution specifically states that the payment of our accounts payable is solely the duty of the President. If the President refuses to pay the debts of the USA he is not carrying out his legal responsibilities, and he is not keeping his oath to support and defend the Constitution of the USA.
Levin made one power filled comment during his three hour program, namely, that the only job of the President of the USA is to uphold and defend the Constitution of the USA against its enemies, both foreign and domestic. That is it. Nothing else, at least in this matter of the credit of the USA, matters!
Marc Levin went on to say that he believes the Obama government is trying to usurp the power of the House of Representatives by insisting on seizing for the President the power of the purse and of passing laws and of raising taxes. These explicitly enumerated powers are given exclusively to the Congress by the Constitution. If the President tries to seize these powers for himself, he is acting against the Constitution and his oath of office and should be indicted by the House of Representatives by articles of impeachment.
Levin’s comments are very informative. Unlike the above citied news article which accuses Obama of all sorts of egregious behavior, the Levin argument is based solely on the Constitution and the potential accusation that the President is not upholding, defending and protecting the Constitution.
Additionally, the present actions of Obama put him in the position of antagonist and enemy of the House of Representatives and by his many statements that the House is hostage to the so-called Tea Party adherents, who Obama claims are to be rejected, the President positions himself to illegally seize the powers of the House for himself, thereby abolishing the House and becoming a ruler. This kind of ruler would not be checked or balanced by the House of Representative and would be ruling by presidential directive also called a dictate. Obama would then be a dictator.
This writer is not putting this before you because I have any desire impeach Obama. However, if Marc Levin’s interpretations are correct, and if future days play out a scenario such as he envisions, I also would strongly state that the House is required by the Constitution to present articles of impeachment against such a seizure of power by the President.
Listen to Obama and He Tells You What He is Doing
http://news.yahoo.com/emerging-senate-proposal-focus-budget-battle-140124033–politics.html
When Obama complains about the House of Representatives he is telling you what HE is doing and not necessarily what the House is doing.
He starts his radio talk by saying that the lack of communication does not need to be this way. Translation in reality: Please ignore that I have repeatedly refused and still refuse to negotiate with the people’s elected representative. Instead, blame them because they have insistently asked me to have a conversation with them which I have insistently refused to do.
Then Obama goes on to say that the demands of the people’s elected representatives is extortion and he will not bow to their demands. Translation in reality: I will not allow them to do what is their constitutional duty unless they agree in advance to give me what I want. Please ignore my repeated threat of veto and ignore my Senate spokesman Harry Reid’s refusal to allow the House to pass legislation. Instead blame the Republicans in the House who are hostages some bogeyman called the Tea Party Movement.
Lastly, Obama prefers to deal with his democrat party majority in the Senate for a budget resolution. That is because he is confident that Harry Reid will continue to force every bill sent over by the House is Dead on Arrival. That is if Harry even allows the House bills to be entered into the Senate agenda and not thrown into the garbage as soon as the papers arrive.
Not it does not have to be this way. As Obama says, the branches of Government should not be antagonists and shout each other. Translation: Please ignore that I constantly used negative names for the House leaders and elected representatives. Ignore that I always blame them and former President Bush for all the problems I have created. Ignore that I have run up a seven trillion dollars deficit in four years. Forget that I bribed Senators Nelson and Landrieu with federal funds in order to get Obama Care to pass. And forget that on every vote in the Senate all, that is 100 percent, of the Democrat Senators always vote for Obama, against the House in order to stop all legislation from being enacted.
So the lesson learned is that we should listen to Obama. But not to look at those he accuses. Rather, to take his accusations and look directly at him because his accusations tell us what HE is doing.
Health Care Law should be Separate
I note the inherent prejudice of the report, namely, that the reporter states that the Republicans refused to fund the government and then the reporter modifies the statement that “does not also repeal or delay the implementation of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reform bill,…” the reporter also notes that the House majority is Republican while he does not note that the Senate majority is Democrat. Words are inportant and the word order used in a sentence influences the perceptions of the reader. The reporter does not state the fact that the House has passed four funding resolutions that will keep workers working and keep government open. All of house funding bills were rejected by the Senate. As the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid said, “…the bills passed in the House which do not fund Obamacare are dead on arrival (DOA) in the Senate.” Harry Reid is a Democrat. Yesterday, the House passed another funding bill which would keep open all agencies closed by the shutdown. However, because the house bill did not fund Obamacare, the Senate rejected it. The House is repeatedly funding the government and keeping it open. The Senate is repeatedly defunding the government and closing it. Hey, Obamacare is not functional yet. It is planned to go into effect but the15 thousand pages of regulations need review and modifications. History shows that taxes once inplemented and collected are never repealed. Let’s take more time with the health care overhaul. Let’s fund the government while we realistically approach this problem. Please remember that it took a lot of bribery in the Senate such as the Nebraska bribe, the Louisiana bribe and the threats against incumbent Representative to get the health care law passed. It also took Chief Justice John Robert’s extraordinary expansion, even rewrite of the law, to declare it constitutional. We the people should demand that we separate from the current budget the health care law with it’s massive taxes, fees, fines and exemptions. The health care law is too massive and too important to be lumped into normal congressional business. It needs to be treated bipartisan .
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