Yesterday the House and Senate each passed the huge $1.2 trillion ‘Porkasbord’. If there’s a bright side to any of this, it’s that House Republicans seem to have rediscovered their core values and stood solidly against the non-stimulus measure, even though their meager numbers were predictably outvoted 246-183. The Senate tally was 60-38 with three traitorous RINOs voting with the Amerikan Socialist Party.
Twice, Arlen Specter [of Pennsylvania], Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins [both of Maine] had a chance to stop this giant obscenity in its tracks, sending it back to the drawing board for a realistic rewrite. Twice, with their votes for the original Senate bill and last night voting for the revised House version, all three stood with their backs firmly turned against their country, their party and the vast majority of the American people.
To have drafted the final bill without permitting Republican input was irresponsible; to have voted on it before anyone had a chance to read it was unconscionable; to ignore the will of the people, begin changing our system of government into something alien to The Founders and mortgage the fortunes and liberty of future generations simply defies description! From what anyone actually knows about the ‘Porkasbord’, there is little stimulus in it for the economy but plenty of payback for special interests and funding for growing government.
You expect destructive behavior from demagogues like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank or ‘Bama himself: they’re flagrantly far-Left, arrogantly radical and plainly incompetent. It is fools like Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, who continue to confound by declaring themselves as Republicans but vote, more often than not, with the Socialists. Their punishment is mandatory; voting out of office is too good for such un-American behavior but it’s all we have in what, at least for the time being, is still a democracy.
There is no comfort in knowing that this spending legislation, and that which follows, is doomed to failure or that it’s failure falls squarely upon the shoulders of the former Democrat Party. Historically, spending in a down economy has never worked — on the other hand tax cuts have never failed but the dark forces crafting this boondoggle managed to remove what few actual tax cuts there were.
There is no comfort because, even more important than the cost of this measure in dollars and cents, is the cost in liberty. So distracting is the financial aspect of the ‘Porkasbord’ that most people have overlooked where their money is going and what it is doing. As well as the single greatest transfer of wealth in history from the private sector to government, it is also the single greatest transfer in history of freedom from the individual to the state. The Constitution has been cast aside and we are now entering an era of government without limits — huge, unrestrained and tyrannical. Nowhere does the Constitution authorize this kind of spending, mandates about to be imposed upon the private sector, or restrictions placed upon the individual. Rather, the Constitution was designed to restrict government and protect against exactly the kind of abuses occurring right now.
Thank you Mr. Specter, thank you Ms. Snowe, thank you Ms. Collins for selling out the free Republic of America and helping to reverse more than 200 years of sacrifice and hard-won liberty. Thanks to you and your Stalinist comrades, God-given rights are fast becoming government-granted privileges and “Government of the people, by the people and for the people” which “shall not perish from the earth” — just did!
R.S.F.
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