08/1/11

Debt Limit Bill Passed House UPDATE Roll Call Votes Added

From: Patriot Action Network

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S 365 RECORDED VOTE 1-Aug-2011 7:09 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: To make a technical amendment to the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002

Ayes Noes PRES NV
Republican Ayes: 174 Noes: 66
Democratic Ayes: 95 Noes: 95 NV: 3
Independent
TOTALS Ayes: 269 Noes: 161 NV: 3

—- AYES 269 —

Adams
Aderholt
Alexander
Altmire
Andrews
Austria
Bachus
Barletta
Barrow
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA)
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berg
Berkley
Berman
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Black
Blackburn
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Carnahan
Carney
Carter
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chabot
Chandler
Cicilline
Clay
Clyburn
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Connolly (VA)
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Denham
Dent
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Emerson
Eshoo
Farenthold
Fattah
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flores
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garamendi
Gardner
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Giffords
Goodlatte
Gosar
Granger
Graves (MO)
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Hanna
Harper
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Heinrich
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Hoyer
Huizenga (MI)
Hurt
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Keating
Kelly
Kildee
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Lance
Langevin
Lankford
Larsen (WA)
LaTourette
Latta
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Long
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McCotter
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Meeks
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Noem
Nugent
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Pascrell
Paulsen
Pelosi
Pence
Perlmutter
Peterson
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Polis
Pompeo
Price (GA)
Quigley
Rahall
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Richmond
Rigell
Rivera
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Royce
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (WI)
Sanchez, Loretta
Schiff
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sewell
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Speier
Stivers
Sullivan
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tsongas
Upton
Van Hollen
Walberg
Walden
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Webster
West
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Wu
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)

—- NOES 161 —

Ackerman
Akin
Amash
Bachmann
Baldwin
Becerra
Bishop (UT)
Blumenauer
Boswell
Braley (IA)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Brown (FL)
Buerkle
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Capuano
Cardoza
Carson (IN)
Chaffetz
Chu
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Cohen
Conyers
Cravaack
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (KY)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DesJarlais
Doyle
Duncan (SC)
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Farr
Filner
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Forbes
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Fudge
Garrett
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Green, Al
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Hahn
Hall
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Holt
Honda
Huelskamp
Hultgren
Hunter
Jackson (IL)
Johnson (IL)
Jones
Jordan
Kaptur
King (IA)
Kingston
Kissell
Kucinich
Labrador
Lamborn
Landry
Larson (CT)
Latham
Lee (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Luján
Mack
Maloney
Markey
Matsui
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moran
Mulvaney
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neugebauer
Nunes
Olver
Pallone
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Payne
Pearce
Peters
Pingree (ME)
Poe (TX)
Posey
Price (NC)
Quayle
Rangel
Rehberg
Reyes
Richardson
Roby
Rokita
Ross (FL)
Roybal-Allard
Ryan (OH)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Serrano
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Southerland
Stark
Stearns
Stutzman
Sutton
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tipton
Tonko
Towns
Turner
Velázquez
Visclosky
Walsh (IL)
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Westmoreland
Wilson (SC)
Woolsey
Yarmuth
Yoder

—- NOT VOTING 3 —

Baca
Hinchey
Moore

08/1/11

An American Suicide

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Hat Tip: Brian B.

John Boehner’s betrayal of Conservatives is complete, he pushed through the bill that is the death knell of America and all we have stood for. Promises were broken left and right. By raising the debt ceiling by trillions, he has given Obama and the Progressives a blank check to finish killing off the American way of life and our freedoms. No cuts in expenditures will ever materialize and the Cloward and Piven strategy will at long last be realized. Every politician who voted for this treachery needs to be voted out – if we even see another election that is. This bill is a farce – a complete horrific joke.

I would just like to ask Boehner, Cantor and the Republicans if it was worth it? I mean, I hope they paid you well for your betrayal of America. I really hope it was worth it because you will have to answer for it one way or the other at some point. I think you “misunderestimate” just how angry America is at you right now. But I’m sure you will figure it out.

Not one of you miscreants in DC has any courage or honor whatsoever. You are cowards and traitors. You are an embarrassment to America and to your forefathers. You are disgusting to us – you are hated, despised, reviled… I just wanted to make sure you knew that in case you had any doubts.

I am sure you feel smug. You feel that you are above it all. You might have even kidded yourself into believing you did the right and moral thing. But you are nothing more than elitist fools who will be culled with the masses in the end. Tyranny always ends that way. Oh yes, it is equal in the end. Equal in death. Equal in suffering. Equal in horror.

You have handed a dictatorship to Obama. Not only does he have the blank check I mentioned, but he will have the power to massively increase taxes and finish gutting our military. You have neutered our protectors and have doomed us as a super power. I weep today as I watch my country ending before my eyes. You could have stopped it, but instead you drove that car right over the cliff by hitting the gas pedal today. And you even had Tea Party Congressmen behind the steering wheel. Well done.

Don’t you know when you’ve been played? Really? This was Obama’s plan all along. Of course, if you hadn’t betrayed America (which was just a delicious bonus for the Progressives), Obama would have gone ahead and done it any way using an Executive Order to finish the job. We have been thoroughly infiltrated and a soft coup is now almost complete.

And now that you have totally trashed our ratings and currency, a crash is a foregone conclusion with hyperinflation for desert. Hello Weimar Republic, here we come… We are Greece. We are no longer America.

America deliberately put a Marxist/Communist in the White House. And now, his fondest dreams will come to fruition. An American suicide to the tune of thunderous applause as liberty dies a senseless death that has been planned for 100 years or more. The Progressives have fought brilliantly, I’ll give them that. How can any of you write this off to good intentions or incompetency? It is neither – it is a well-conceived and carried out battle plan. Sure, they let us win little battles here and there, but what they care about is the war. And I hate to break it to you guys, we are losing.

My family and I are preparing. We know what is coming. I pray that each and every one of you has the sense to prepare as best you can. Time is short. The fight is at hand. Stand together and take care of your families, loved ones, friends and neighbors. Show the bastards what real Americans are made of.


08/1/11

This Was Not a Win for the Tea Party

Rush Limbaugh Seems Very Skeptical Of Calling The Tea Party The Winner Of Debt Crisis Deal

This was not a win for the Tea Party. The left is twisting that rhetoric – as far as I know, all of us that are true to the Tea Party movement were very much against this. And there will be some Congress critters who get a very abrupt surprise come the next election if we make it that far. It is a bald faced lie to claim this as a win for the Tea Party.

08/1/11

Government at the Abyss

By: Henry Lamb
Gulag Bound

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There is a direct correlation between America’s downward spiral and the nation’s departure from adherence to the U.S. Constitution. During the first hundred years, America experienced growth and prosperity never before imagined by people who never knew what freedom was. It was a rough-and-tumble century; not everyone prospered. Many people were victimized by profit-hungry capitalists. The answer to this inequity, according to some of the 19th century philosophers, was government management of the affairs of people and their business activities. Proponents of these ideas claimed the name “progressives.”

Col. Edward M. House in "An Onlooker in France"

Col. Edward M. House in "An Onlooker in France" 1917-19, by Sir William Orpen, K.B.E., R.A., (c) 1921, published by Williams & Norgate, London. USA public domain

Progressives prevailed at the dawn of the 20th century when Woodrow Wilson won the presidency, guided by master progressive Col. Edward Mandell House. With few notable exceptions, progressives have dominated government since the Wilson era.

The single most apparent characteristic of progressive influence is a complete disregard for the U.S. Constitution. The founders designed the government of the United States to share and balance sovereign power between the states and the new federal government. The new Senate was chosen by state legislatures to ensure that the states would have a decisive voice in the federal government. No legislation could become law, nor could any treaty be ratified, nor could any Supreme Court justice or Cabinet-level official be appointed, without approval of the states. This state-held power in the new federal government held the new government in check for the first century.

So effective was this check and balance, progressives were not able to advance their agenda. So they launched a well-calculated campaign to amend the Constitution to prohibit the states from any participation at all in the federal government. The 17th Amendment achieved this result by denying state legislatures the constitutional right to elect their senators.

Originally, the Constitution required all taxes to by levied “…uniformly throughout the United States.” The 16th Amendment changed that and allowed the progressive income tax. The Constitution gave Congress alone the authority to coin money “… and set the value thereof.” Progressives did not like this limitation, so they contrived the Federal Reserve, and now Congress has virtually no say in the coinage of money or the value thereof.

These are just a few of the departures from the Constitution caused by progressives. One of the most consequential departures from the Constitution came at the hands of the Supreme Court in the 1954 Berman vs. Parker decision, which re-interpreted the term “public use” in the Fifth Amendment to mean “public benefit.” Six of the judges were appointed by Progressive in Chief Franklin Roosevelt. Since this decision, the federal government has joined state and local governments in erasing the notion that private property is sacred in the United States.

The idea that governments, not private owners, should control the use of land gained great momentum in 1976, when the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, declared:

Land… cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice…. Public control of land is therefore indispensable….

Both William K. Reilly, future administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Carla A. Hills, future U.S. trade representative who negotiated the World Trade Organization, signed this document for the United States.

Five years later, in 1981, the city of Detroit took 1,500 privately owned homes, not for public use, but for what the city said was a public benefit: the construction of a new General Motors plant.

Six years later, in 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development declared that development should be “sustainable,” defined to be:

…development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The Commission’s final report, “Our Common Future,” declared that in order for development to be “sustainable,” government must manage development to ensure that it is socially equitable, and environmentally safe. The key words here are “government must manage.”

Five years later, in 1992, the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development produced Agenda 21, signed by 179 nations, including the United States. This document spells out in 40 chapters of very specific recommendations just how government must manage development to ensure that it is socially equitable and environmentally safe.

Bottomless Pit from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

From the Henry Altemus edition of John Bunyan's *Pilgrim's Progress,* USA public domain

Neither private property rights, nor the U.S. Constitution is given any respect in Agenda 21. Nevertheless, since the creation by execution order of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in 1993, the federal government, and state and local governments, have been focused on implementing the policy recommendations contained in Agenda 21, disguised as “Smart Growth,” implemented at the local level through “Comprehensive Land Use Plans.”

Freedom cannot survive government management. The U.S. Constitution designed a government managed by the people; Progressives have disregarded the Constitution and fundamentally transformed government – to manage the people.

Since the post-war peak of American productivity in the 1950s, the U.S. Constitution, and consequently, individual freedom, have been consistently and deliberately eroded by the progressive influence in society, and especially in government. The tidal wave of progressivism that washed over Washington in 2008 drowned the nation in debt, in its search for “social equity” and “environmental safety.”

It should now be abundantly clear that without the U.S. Constitution, and the freedom from government management it guarantees, the American experiment in self-government stands at the edge of a cliff, about to fall into the abyss of history.