What Democrats Want, Day 5 Countdown to Oblivion, the DC SWAMP (Part 2)

As of today, there is less than a week, 5 days until the most consequential election in American history. This is what they say about many past elections, but this is really it. For if the Democrats seize power – control of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate and the Presidency – and doing it by hook or by crook (the justifies the means, you know) America as we know it will be forever changed. America envisioned and created by the Founding Fathers will disappear into the shadows of history.

The ungodly secular-humanists/Marxists slow march through America’s institutions over the last 100 years or so will have reached a crescendo – fulfilling Mr. Obama’s fundamental transformation of control of the masses.

Envision with me what a Socialist Democratic Party, takeover, a bloodless coup, a regime change, would look like. This is one in a series of daily articles leading up to the 2020 General Election.

THE DC Swamp is real. Money is the root of the evil and corruption. The Swamp has its tentacles in every facet of the culture. The elite seek to control the people. The people exist to serve the Swamp.

Culture of Corruption in Washington, DC                                                                   

U.S. Representative Ken Buck in a 2017 Newsmax article wrote, “Money rules in Washington. Most Americans don't realize that influence in Congress comes with a price tag. Members are required to pay for committee assignments. Chairmen are required to pay for their chairmanships. The speaker, leader, and Whip compete for the leadership position and then must pay millions of dollars for the honor of holding the office. Lobbyists, corporations, and wealthy individuals who need something from Congress raise the money.  

Rep. Buck continues, “For Republicans, all the money raised by these charges goes to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), supposedly to help get members elected. The reality is that NRCC funds are used to coerce members to vote with the leadership. When members don't vote the "right way," the funding dries up from the donor class, members are pressured to step down from their committee assignments, and the NRCC refuses to help finance their campaigns..." 

Corruption is a bipartisan issue both the Republicans and the Democrats do much of the same thing.

Drain the Swamp

The following is an excerpt from a WesternJournal.com article, "How to Effectively 'Drain the Swamp' in Washington DC": "A substantial number of Americans heartily support efforts to “drain the swamp” in Washington, DC. The term “drain the swamp” means to drastically reduce the number of self-serving, power-hungry politicians (Republicans and Democrats alike), lobbyists, and government workers in and around Washington, DC, who strive (live!) for self-enrichment to the detriment of America and the nation as a whole." The article addresses some ways to drain the swamp. 

Term Limits

The first way to drain the swamp is to institute term-limits for Congress. Some states like Ohio already have term limits. Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to get Congress to pass any Amendments to the Constitution because many current members of Congress would have to give up their personal golden goose.

One possible solution is to call a Convention of States Convention, which is being undertaken right now. This is dangerous because it could jeopardize the Constitution itself.

Balanced Budget

Another way to drain the swamp would be balancing the federal budget. Yeah, right. This is necessary, but both the Democrats and the Republican lack the courage to do the right thing, which is to limit spending to revenue or taxes received. Balancing the budget would mean taking a hard look at every expenditure and saying "no" to your favorite outlay. Making decisions and prioritizing expenditures is hard. No one wants to say no. It is too easy to go with the flow, the status quo.

In addition to lack of courage, there is a great amount of influence by lobbyists of all sorts that back up their requests for certain legislation with oodles of cash for campaigns and for personal enrichment of Congressional members.

Limit Lobbying by Former Members of Congress

What has become lucrative for some former Congresspersons is a job as a lobbyist. Jason Strauss wrote, "During the 2016 presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump proposed a series of ethics measures, including several lobbying-related provisions. They are: 

Ø  extending "cooling off" periods on lobbying the government for five years after government service; 

Ø  instituting a five-year ban on lobbying by former Members of Congress and their staffs"; 

Ø  expanding the definition of a lobbyist to cover former government officials who engage in strategic consulting; and 

Ø  issuing a "lifetime ban against senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government."

Exposing and Deconstructing the DC Swamp

We must do all we can to expose the DC Swamp. We must do all we can to educate the public about the DC Swamp and to return the power back to the people. President Trump is doing all he can to clean house. But he has had only 4 years to try to turn back 80 years or more of what the DC Swamp wrestled control incrementally away from the people and our elected representatives.

Supporting legal organizations like Judicial Watch, who are actively working to expose the Deep State and the DC Swamp is important, especially since Congress lacks the will to do it.

Relentlessly presenting, petitioning, and pressing our representatives with our grievances and demands to do something about the DC Swamp.

The people need to demand that the alleged crimes of key Deep State operatives like Hillary Clinton, James Comey, John Brennan, etc. And those funding, ignoring, and covering for the rioters, all be brought to light and justice.

Reducing the size and scope of the government is sorely needed. Getting the federal budget under control is a must.

It all starts with giving President Trump three things:  re-election for 4 more years, Republican House and Senate majorities. These are the essential outcomes of the 2020 General Election.

What Democrats Want, Day 81, Countdown to Oblivion? Taxes

As of today, there are 81 days until the most consequential election in American history. This is what they say about many past elections, but this is really it. For if the Democrats seize power – control of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate and the Presidency – and doing it by hook or by crook (the justifies the means, you know) America as we know it will be forever changed. America envisioned and created by the Founding Fathers will disappear into the shadows of history.

The ungodly secular-humanists/Marxists slow march through America’s institutions over the last 100 years or so will have reached a crescendo – fulfilling Mr. Obama’s fundamental transformation of America. Never again will the demonic Democratic Party relinquish its grip on political power and control of the masses.

Envision with me what a Socialist Democratic Party, takeover, a bloodless coup, a regime change, would look like. This is the first of a series of daily articles leading up to the 2020 General Election scheduled for November 3, 2020.

The Only Sure Things in Life are Death and Taxes

The communistic Democratic Party of 2020 have embraced death and taxes. Abortion is their “holy” sacrament. Taxes is how they support their spending addiction.  Today we will focus on taxes, previously we discussed abortion here and here. It seems that the solution to every problem for the Democrats is more money. And what is the source of the money? More taxation is the solution – property taxes, sales taxes, user taxes, income taxes an even estate or death taxes.

Balanced Budget is Anathema to Democrats

To live within ones means is foolishness to Democrats and an increasing number of Republicans as well. There have been moves within Congress to legislate a balanced budget requirement. There is also a move outside of government called the Convention of States, which calls for a constitutional convention, which supposed has the prime purpose of mandating that government adhere to a balanced budget. Making a balanced budget an amendment to the U.S. Constitution would be a great idea, but all these efforts there is no will in Congress or among the people to make this happen. The Democrats would never support a balanced budget.

Riding on the Omnibus

In recent years both the Democrats and Republicans in Congress have failed to do the necessary work to pass a federal budget as well as the corresponding appropriation bills. They settle for deficit and debt driving Omnibus Spending Bills which include many bloated and unnecessary expenditures that could not be by Congress, but due to expediency they pass. Congress waits to the last minute and must adopt humongous bills that include many wasteful expenditures.

The bottom line that the cowardly, lazy members of Congress shirk their responsibility in creating and living by a budget. Families could not operate this way for very long. The government has the power to borrow and print money out of thin air. This practice will eventually catch up and cause financial ruin.

The Fair Tax or Flat Tax

Two ideas that may work but would be vigorously resisted by the Democrats and big government defenders are the Fair Tax and the Flat Tax ideas.

According to the  www.TheBalance.com description:  “The Fair Tax Plan is a sales tax proposal to replace the current U.S. income tax structure. It abolishes all federal personal and corporate income taxes, and ends all taxes on gifts, estates, capital gains, alternative minimums, Social Security, Medicare, and self-employment.The plan replaces them with a federal retail sales tax of 23% to be administered by state sales tax authorities.”

The same website states, “A flat tax is an income tax system that applies the same tax rate to everyone regardless of income. Most flat tax systems also allow exemptions for those living below the poverty line, so each proposal for a flat tax must be evaluated carefully to assess its true revenue-producing potential.”

The flat tax would be considered unfair because the rich or the one percenters and corporations because they would be not paying, ironically, their fair share. Ingenuity, hard work, investment, and risk are not considered by the Democrats as worthwhile ideals that should be supported and encourage for the overall benefit of society.  Democrats consider that it is big government which knows best.  The Fair Tax Plan would be opposed because Congress and its various agencies would have to work within a set amount of money and make tough priority choices and limit the pay to play schemes so prevalent today.

Conclusion

Isn’t it funny (obscene, really) that Democrats change the language by calling taxes, “investments”?  Yes, they are investments all right, but investments in big, obtrusive government, not an investment in helping the American people. Expect a huge increase in taxation if the communistic Democratic Party wins the presidency and both houses of Congress this fall. The have promises to keep and voters to keep on the Democratic plantation. The debt will raise, but with it the nation will fall.

Give Us a Balanced Budget, or We Get Economic Death

There was an article today that I saw from the Alternet.org website, “Why America Doesn't Want "Bipartisan" Budget Agreements.” I thought a more apropos title for an article on the budget would be either, “Why President Obama Doesn't Want 'Bipartisan' Budget Agreement” or “Why the Democrats Don't Want Any Budget At All!”

Low Information Voters, the Democratic Party and a number of miserably moderate Republicans may not want "Bipartisan" budget agreements, but many Americans do. They want a budget. They want a balanced budget. Most rational, thinking Americans want to put a leash on the wildly expanding wayward government and a governor on its wanton spending.

President Barack Obama wants no budget cuts. He has done everything he can to create, to manufacture another crisis using the agreed upon Sequestration. He has deliberately engineered those measly cuts (2.5% in rate of spending) to hurt the most people. He wants to be sure that when any fecal material resulting from the Sequester reductions hits the fan he wants to be sure the GOP to take the hit.

Pure and simple, Dear Leader wants a Democratic House in 2014 and wants to place Politburo Princess Pelosi, San Fran Nan, back in the cat bird seat. He wants to finish what he started.

He wants to complete the unraveling of the foundations that built America. Plainly, the Great Campaigner is playing politics with the economy. This is not good for the economy. Not only that, but his failed socialistic economic policies are contributing to the snail paced barely discernible economic ''recovery.'

Senate Leader Harry Reid wants no part of submitting any kind of budget. The shyster Senator Reid has avoided providing a budget as if it were leprosy. He hasn't submitted a budget for four years. To submit a budget would require making hard choices that will affect some program or some Democratic constituent.

No, the Democrats are happy with the baseline budgeting that is ratcheting up the deficit. They want more taxes, they want more spending, they want more government, period, end of the story. They want no part of making choices ... except, of course, for allowing women to choose to abort their children! That is the only choice that matters to the Democrat Party elite.

Support the 'Prioritize Spending Act of 2013' (H.R. 149)

Both H.R. 149, introduced earlier this month in the House of Representative by Representative Daniel Webster of Florida, and a similar bill introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senator Pat Toomey, are a good first step in the upcoming and newest "DEBT CEILING CRISIS" battle. This idea of prioritizing key government expenditures will force the current regime in Washington to deal once and for all with its long-term, grievious, uncontrolled addiction to spending beyond its means.

Every effort should be made in both the House and Senate to pass this bill. In the likely event that the debt ceiling is not approved at the last minute again, this bill clearly outlines what items should be paid with the funds that come in each month.

Here is a letter I recently wrote to my representative in support of this legislation:

Re: H.R. 149: To specify the priority of the obligations of the United States Government if the debt ceiling is reached.

Dear Representative:

I strongly support Rep. Daniel Webster's bill, H.R. 149, because I do not to see America in the position of having to accept more debt, increasing the Debt Ceiling, without any reductions or curbing of the current spending. I would rather see the government shut down after these priorities are taken care of each month:

(1) Payments of interest owed to creditors

(2) Social Security Payments to Seniors

(3) Payments to Active Military Personnel

Further priorities of remaining funds should be a joint effort of Congress and the President...

We must start to live within our means. The President and Congress REFUSE to address the problem of OVERSPENDING, so something drastic must be done - like saying NO to increasing the debt ceiling without SUBSTANTIAL, CONCURRENT reductions in 2013 SPENDING not the PROMISE of spending reductions on Tuesday, the first week in January in 2023, the next decade!

In addition we must move away from base line budgeting and implement a real across-the-board spending reduction plan such as the Mack Penny Plan, where spending is reduced by 1% each year until the budget is balanced.

We demand that Congress submit and approve a budget before any debt ceiling is even considered!

Ron Paul Announces Budget Plan

Here it is.  A plan to balance the budget:

http://www.ronpaul.com/media/RestoreAmericaPlan.pdf

Cicero, Then and Now

Hat tip goes to the Seatle Tea Party Patriots who included the following historical news item in their recent email:

Cicero, 55 BC -- We as a nation would do well to heed this sage advice provided some 2060 plus years ago...

*  The budget should be balanced
*  The Treasury should be refilled
*  Public debt should be reduced
*  The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled
*  The assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt
*  People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance

Cicero could just as easily be talking about the United States of America in 2011, could he not?

Ron Paul Votes Against Cut, Cap, and Balance

Here is his speech:

Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak against HR 2560, the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act. This bill only serves to sanction the status quo by putting forth a $1 trillion budget deficit and authorizing a $2.4 trillion increase in the debt limit.

When I say this bill sanctions the status quo, I mean it quite literally.

First, it purports to eventually balance the budget without cutting military spending, Social Security, or Medicare. This is impossible. These three budget items already cost nearly $1 trillion apiece annually. This means we can cut every other area of federal spending to zero and still have a $3 trillion budget. Since annual federal tax revenues almost certainly will not exceed $2.5 trillion for several years, this Act cannot balance the budget under any plausible scenario.

Second, it further entrenches the ludicrous beltway concept of discretionary vs. nondiscretionary spending. America faces a fiscal crisis, and we must seize the opportunity once and for all to slay Washington's sacred cows-- including defense contractors and entitlements. All spending must be deemed discretionary and reexamined by Congress each year. To allow otherwise is pure cowardice.

Third, the Act applies the nonsensical narrative about a "Global War on Terror" to justify exceptions to its spending caps. Since this war is undeclared, has no definite enemies, no clear objectives, and no metric to determine victory, it is by definition endless. Congress will never balance the budget until we reject the concept of endless wars.

Finally, and most egregiously, this Act ignores the real issue: total spending by government.

As Milton Friedman famously argued, what we really need is a constitutional amendment to limit taxes and spending, not simply to balance the budget. What we need is a dramatically smaller federal government; if we achieve this a balanced budget will take care of itself.

We do need to cut spending, and by a significant amount. Going back to 2008 levels of spending is not enough. We need to cut back at least to where spending was a decade ago. A recent news article stated that we pay 35 percent more for our military today than we did 10 years ago, for the exact same capabilities. The same could be said for the rest of the government. Why has our budget doubled in 10 years? This country doesn't have double the population, or double the land area, or double anything that would require the federal government to grow by such an obscene amount.

We need to cap spending, and then continue decreasing that cap so that the federal government grows smaller and smaller. Allowing government to spend up to a certain percentage of GDP is insufficient. It doesn't matter that the recent historical average of government outlays is 18 percent of GDP, because in recent history the government has way overstepped its constitutional mandates. All we need to know about spending caps is that they need to decrease year after year.

We need to balance the budget, but a balanced budget amendment by itself will not do the trick. A $4 trillion balanced budget is most certainly worse than a $2 trillion unbalanced budget. Again, we should focus on the total size of the budget more than outlays vs. revenues.

What we have been asked to do here is support a budget that only cuts relative to the President's proposed budget. It still maintains a $1 trillion budget deficit for FY 2012, and spends even more money over the next 10 years than the Paul Ryan budget which already passed the House.

By capping spending at a certain constant percentage of GDP, it allows for federal spending to continue to grow. Tying spending to GDP creates an incentive to manipulate the GDP figure, especially since the bill delegates the calculation of this figure to the Office of Management and Budget, an agency which is responsible to the President and not to Congress. In the worst case, it would even reward further inflation of the money supply, as increases in nominal GDP through pure inflation would allow for larger federal budgets.

Finally, this bill authorizes a $2.4 trillion rise in the debt limit. I have never voted for a debt ceiling increase and I never will. Increasing the debt ceiling is an endorsement of business as usual in Washington. It delays the inevitable, the day that one day will come when we cannot continue to run up enormous deficits and will be forced to pay our bills.

In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, while I sympathize with the aims of this bill's sponsors, I must vote against HR 2560. It is my hope, however, that the looming debt ceiling deadline and the discussion surrounding the budget will further motivate us to consider legislation in the near future that will make meaningful cuts and long-lasting reforms.

Ohio Governor Kasich Emcees Budget Town Hall Meeting

Today was the day that Gov. John Kasich released his 2012/2013 budget. He held a Town Hall Meeting beginning at 6:00 p.m. It lasted three hours. I watched it online at www.KasichForOhio.org. He had several of his administration key team members make presentations of their particular areas of responsibility. He then asked them questions in a very informal manner, sitting on a row of chairs on stage. You could tell he had experience in the TV industry, having had a regular weekend show on the Fox News channel.

Unlike America’s President, Gov. Kasich seemed to be well prepared to lead Ohio. He faced head on the challenge of an $8 billion dollar budget deficit. Our President continues to spend and continues to ignore the massive deficit and debt he helped to significantly increase. 

Much of the shortfall facing Ohio and other states was the fact that Washington, D.C. sent boatloads of stimulus bucks to prop up schools and government. This stimulus money was supposed to have been for infrastructure projects, but ended up being sent to support teacher unions and government workers.

Kasich presented a balanced budget. He and his team made difficult decisions. From what I could gather they trimmed quite a bit from revenue that was previously shared with local governments. The local government will now need to fix their own budget deficits caused by the absence of stimulus monies.

The Kasich team trimmed Medicaid dollars provided to hospitals and nursing homes. Instead they emphasized funding of home care and providing for choice of placement and servies. They are selling five state owned prisons to private firms. They slightly increased funding of education both K-12 and higher education.

In regard to education it was pointed out that Ohio ranks 47^th in spending for students in the classroom, but ranks 7^th in spending for administration among the states. This is something they want to change. They favor giving parents increased choice in where they send their children.

Overall, my impression is that this new governor means business. He has the knowledge, experience, and team to do the job. He will be fought all the way by various special interest groups who will want their piece of the pie restored. The teachers unions will fight him. The big city mayors will go after him. The ACLU and progressive lawyers will battle his privatizing of some of Ohio prisons. The health care provider associations will fight him on his reduction and redistribution of Medicaid funding.

Ohio is better off because Kasich is governor, then another six years of the liberal stimulus driven spendthrift Democrat Governor Ted Strickland. Now if we could just survive the current regime in Washington until the 2012 Fall Election ...

Can a people be free and equal?

“… We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” The Declaration of Independence establishes the American ideal. We are beings who have been created – beings on whom the Creator bestows rights – and we cannot legitimately be separated from those rights by acts of government or of other men .

“The nature of government is to accumulate power, always at the expense of individual freedom … Within the United States, a soft revolution of the left against the Constitution has been underway for 80 years. Its goal is the equality of outcomes. Is means is the accumulation of power through the growth of government. (The great irony of liberalism is that, when government becomes all-powerful, all power is concentrated in the hands of those who run the government … which is the least equal outcome of all.)

--- Bart Fleming, “Is it liberty and equality, or liberty VERSUS equality?” Tea Party Review, March 2011, Vol. 1, No. 1

Amazingly, the first and preeminent right enumerated in the Declaration of Independence is LIFE. In 1973, 38 years ago, this right to life was willfully and wrongly “revoked” by the government, the so-called Supreme Court. The liberty, the freedom of the unborn, the most vulnerable in society was stolen. All of our remaining rights stem from that most vital right of all. ObamaCare is not healthcare reform, it is healthcare control! It is a symptom of what the author above says is its unquenchable thirst for more power.

One by one big government is stripping us from our freedoms in the name of equal outcomes for all. This is socialist utopian fantasy. Government does not determine our rights, God does. The Left is at war with God. Under “Dear Leader” Chairman Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama we are becoming more and more like the Soviet Union each passing day.

Budget Deficit Made With Red Chinese Ink!

Furthermore, our government is in need of extensive bariatric surgery. Now it waddles badly, barely able to hold itself up. The Chinese are enabling its feeding and its spending frenzy. It needs to be knocked down to size several notches. We need to stop feeding this bloated monster. The past 4+ years it has acted like a bloodsucking leech that has attached itself to American taxpayers and it won’t let go.  

Essentially, the government has far too much power. It is doing and meddling in affairs it has no business getting into such as healthcare or education.

We need to put our federal and state governments on a strict diet. We need major spending cuts. Not the namby pamby nicks that the President or even the House have proposed. We need to get serious. I for one am for shutting down the government until we can get serious about fiscal responsibility.

There are two examples of government expenditures that can be trimmed right off hand that would save us a bundle of money. One is the complete elimination of the nearly worthless, even destructive U.S. Department of Education. The other is the equally useless Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Yes, ket’s get serious and put the government on a starvation diet, a real budget balancing diet, and sooner rather than later! Let’s start now in the current Continuing Resolution for 2011.

Draw a line in the sand. Say “No” to the raising the debt ceiling. Since the President has audaciously sent a budget containing a $1 ½ trillion deficit, let’s adopt a new slogan. “Trim a trillion here and there, until we are debt-free.”

$ TRIM A TRILLION OR TWO $ 

Senator Jim DeMint Proposes Balanced Budget Amendment

Robert Romano wrote an article, "DeMint Proposes Balanced Budget Amendment," for the Americans for Limited Government blog. He reported that "Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) proposed tying an upcoming vote to raise the $14.294 trillion national debt ceiling to a balanced budget amendment. Not a bad idea." I, too, agree this is a great idea.

Romano continues, "After all, why tie an increase in the debt ceiling to a single year’s budget cuts, when it could be tied to a requirement that all budgets be balanced? The DeMint proposal would require future Congresses to live within their means, and would be the first ever constitutional limit on Congress’ power of the purse."

Romano further states, "The proposal still appears to be in a rough draft form, but the email gives some basic details. The amendment would “Require Congress to balance the federal budget each year… [p]revent Congress from spending more than 20 percent of GDP… [and] [r]equire a 2/3 super-majority vote to raise taxes."

You can read Mr. Romano's entire article here.

The uncontrolled, reckless, wasteful spending must end. It must start now. It can't wait for next year or the next decade. We must put a rein on the spending with the budget we should have had in place October 1, 2009. Shamefully, the Pelosi-led Congress apparently did not feel it was necessary to have a budget. I think this is one of the big reasons that there is now a Republican, and hopefully, a conservative majority in place today. We must take the credit card out of the hands of the Congressional spendthrifts. We must start paying off the debt and reducing the deficit. 

We must say "No" very loudly and very often to President Soetoro aka Obama and those in Congress who have no respect for the dollar, nor for the people of America, past, present or future. This spending reduction must be the highest priority of our nation at this time. Otherwise, it will be America's Armageddon! 

Hopefully the Congressional Conservative Tea Party leaders will head this fight in a relentless, focused attack. They need to have greater tenacity than even the Leftists and Socialists who rammed ObamaCare down the throats of America last year. Anything less is unacceptable.

Sign the http://StopTheDebtPledge.com

For a Conservative Congress

“…For too many years, Congress has ignored or exacerbated the looming fiscal crisis created by overspending. Last fall's elections were largely a call to finally deal with this imminent threat, and the vote on the debt ceiling is Congress's opportunity to begin making real progress. We can do so without jeopardizing the full faith and credit of our country—and we should.”  - Senator Pat Toomey, R-PA

Hat tip goes to Senator Jim DeMint, who sent me an email containing his timely letter to America’s conservative voters. See the letter below.

Dear Fellow Conservative:

I'm writing to share an important Wall Street Journal op-ed written by newly-elected Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA), which outlines how we can freeze the debt ceiling without defaulting on our debt obligations. Senator Toomey's argument is nothing short of a game changer in the debt limit debate.

Senator Toomey correctly points out that if the debt limit is reached later this year, the government will still have plenty of money to service the national debt. He writes,

"In fact, if Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, the federal government will still have far more than enough money to fully service our debt. Next year, for instance, about 6.5% of all projected federal government expenditures will go to interest on our debt, and tax revenue is projected to cover about 67% of all government expenditures. With roughly 10 times more income than needed to honor our debt obligations, why would we ever default?"

Click Here to Read Toomey's Op-Ed 

Americans should reject the sky-is-falling-hysteria coming from President Obama and demand that Congress stop the debt and balance the budget. You can add your voice to this effort by signing the "Stop the Debt" pledge at http://StopTheDebtPledge.com. 

Now is the time to make fundamental, long-term budget reforms that will stop the spending and save our country from fiscal ruin. 

When the Senate considers the debt limit next month, Republicans must do everything they can to block an increase in the debt limit. Senator Toomey has presented the facts they need to fight back when they're accused of threatening to put the nation in default.  

I want to thank each of you who helped elect Senator Toomey last year by supporting the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF). Without your support, he wouldn't be in a place to influence this critical debate.

Respectfully,

  

Jim DeMint

United States Senator

Chairman, Senate Conservatives Fund

P.S. Senator Toomey's leadership on this issue is an important reminder of why we must continue to elect true conservatives to the Senate. Please help us build the resources we need to win races in 2012 by making a contribution to SCF today at http://SenateConservatives.com. 

Tax Cut Compromise is a Misappropriation!

Hat tip goes to http://twitter.com/#!/GretaWire and http://GretaWire.blogs.foxnews.com/ where I first saw a link to Greta Van Susterens’ excellent interview of Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) regarding the (Soetoro aka) Obama-GOP tax cut compromise.

Here is an excerpt of a recent WashingtonPost.com article regarding Congressman Flake:

  

Arizona Republican Rep. Jeff Flake, a strident foe of Congress' earmarking process, has won a spot on the House Appropriations Committee.

 The House GOP transition office announced Friday that Flake was selected by the House Republican Steering Committee to join the spending committee.

 House Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-Ohio) got behind Flake's bid earlier this week, in an overture to fiscal conservatives who have vowed to slash spending in the new Congress.

The announcement sets up an all-but-certain clash between Flake and Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), who was tapped on Tuesday to serve as the committee's next chairman. Rogers is a longtime earmarking proponent whose support for the pet projects earned him the nickname "Prince of Pork." …

 Read more of Felicia Sonmez’s WashingtonPost.com article, “Earmark opponent Flake gets spot on House Appropriations.”

 

Hopefully people like Rep. Flake will keep questionable conservatives like Hal “King of Pork” Rogers on track to get government spending under control. Otherwise, the American people will dismiss many members of Congress as they did in ’06, ’08 and again this year, regardless of party affiliation.  

Freezing the Pay of Government Workers?

Isn't that what Democrat Representative William 'cold cash' Jefferson of Louisiana, did, by stashing his cash in his freezer? Is that what the President means by freezing the pay of government workers? No, maybe not.


But, why stop at freezing the bloated salaries of the government worker? Why not a serious pay cut across the board, say 20-25% until the budget is balanced. That may be a good start. "Freezing their salaries," when I heard it, caused me to think, "Big deal, is that all you got, Mr. President?" What a sacrifice!


Oh, and Mr. President, what about eliminating 20 or 30 of your unconfirmed, unaccountable czars? That alone would save the taxpayer a cool $3 mill!