{"id":2506,"date":"2010-12-15T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2010-12-15T12:43:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:43:37","slug":"hell_hath_no_fury_like_a_voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2506","title":{"rendered":"Hell Hath No Fury Like A Voter Scorned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is based on two sources, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/peanut-research-pig-waste-pork-laden-spe\">CNS News<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/12\/15\/morning-bell-call-reids-bluff\/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell\">Heritage.org<\/a>.&nbsp; It is an understatement to say that I am furious at the proposed $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill.&nbsp; Last Christmas Congress voted on&nbsp;a very unpopular healthcare reform bill based on the theory that the voters would forget about the vote by November.&nbsp; The voters didn&#8217;t forget, and the voters sent many of the Congressmen who voted for the healthcare reform bill packing.&nbsp; Well, they evidently did not learn from their mistake&#8211;now they want to pass this pork-laden spending bill in a lame-duck session.&nbsp; Please remember that Congress had the option of passing a continuing resolution to fund the government at current levels&#8211;there was no reason to introduce this spending bill instead.&nbsp; Also keep in mind that this bill could not have been written overnight&#8211;it had to be in the works for some time.&nbsp; Maybe that&#8217;s why the Democrats were not concerned about not having passed a budget resolution&#8211;they had this up their sleeve.<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Foundation points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;But as bad as the earmarks are the spending increases are even worse. The bill adds $5.4 billion in new labor, education, and health spending including money for the failed Head Start program, the failed Race to the Top program, Pell Grants, and <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1210\/46383.html\"><em>$1.25 billion in spending on Obamacare<\/em><\/a><em>. No conservative who promised to repeal Obamacare can possibly support this bill.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article at CNS News reports the comments of Senator John McCain:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&#8220;McCain said if Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid insisting to moving ahead with &#8220;this monstrosity,&#8221; Republicans would ensu Americans are made aware of what it contains.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&#8220;&#8221;I&#8217;ll be joined by many of my colleagues on this side of the aisle to ensure that every single word of this bill is read aloud here on the Senate floor.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&#8220;He urged Democrats to &#8220;rethink their strategy&#8221; &#8211; to drop the spending bill designed to fund the government through 2011 in favor of a continuing resolution that will keep the government operating for 45 days, enabling the next Congress to take up the matter in the new year.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not a fan of John McCain, but he is absolutely right on this.<\/p>\n<p>Please take note of any Congressman&nbsp;who supports this bill.&nbsp; He needs to be voted out of office as soon as he comes up for re-election.&nbsp; This is what the election in November was about.&nbsp; Obviously, we will have to restate the same principles in 2012.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is based on two sources, CNS News&nbsp;and Heritage.org.&nbsp; It is an understatement to say that I am furious at the proposed $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill.&nbsp; Last Christmas Congress voted on&nbsp;a very unpopular healthcare reform bill based on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}