Sipsey Street Irregulars: John Boehner actually has a good idea. Making it easier to defund the ATF.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

John Boehner actually has a good idea. Making it easier to defund the ATF.

Your tax dollars at work. ATF flip-flops handed out at the IACP convention.

John Boehner set to slice up spending bills. Maybe they'll get around to investigating the stuffed child's toy the ATF has been chasing.

House Republicans are devising a plan to simplify spending decisions by considering government funding bills on a department-by-department basis in the new Congress, according to Republican insiders.

The move would facilitate cutbacks in government programs and, GOP aides say, enhance oversight and accountability for individual agencies, fulfilling promises made by Republicans on the campaign trail and in their Pledge to America.

5 comments:

jdege said...: "But it would also threaten to complicate an already tattered appropriations process on the House floor and in negotiations with the Senate, ..."

In this area, the House can tell the Senate to pound sand. All tax bills must originate in the House. The Senate can amend them, but it can't originate them. It has to take them in the form that the House created them.; December 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Mark Matis said...: Why would you pretend to believe that the Senate gives a damn about what the Constitution says? Any more than this country's god damned pigs care about THEIR oath to "...preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution..."?

The stench is overwhelming. May the filthy bastards rot in hell for what they've done to this country!; December 1, 2010 at 1:54 PM
Anonymous said...: Now's the time to stand on the gas and defund as much as possible.

Make the leftists justify every dang piece of the leviathon.

But will the R's have the spine and stamina to follow through?

We shall see, as the Republic is in tatters, we don't have long left to effect repairs.

Bob Katt; December 1, 2010 at 7:25 PM
Bad Cyborg said...: All who believe that Boehner's eyes are naturally brown (as opposed to being that way 'cause he is so full of shit) please raise your hands.

C'mon, c'mon. Surely SOMEbody believes him.

Somebody?

Anybody?

Pollyanna? Don't YOU believe him?

Me neither.

Bad Cyborg X; December 2, 2010 at 7:08 AM
Pat H. said...: Boehner will sell us out just like Newt Gingrich did in 1995, it's already started.

Lots of lip service, shit for action.

I'll apologize to him in writing if I see him abolish the BATFAE, DoEd, DoEn, FDA, DoAg, and all of the US government police agencies.

Let me know if I miss it.; December 2, 2010 at 9:17 AM

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"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

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"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

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And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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