The Liberals must be so proud of their leader.
Obama’s ground transportation costs in So. Africa for the Mandela funeral: $8.3million.
Obama’s lodging costs in So. Africa for the Mandela funeral: $3.2million.
Air Force One flight costs to and from So. Africa: unknown.
Total costs (so far) for what amounts to an Obama selfie: $11.5million.
But hey, why not…otherwise, funerals can be so…somber and reverent.
Say you want a truck. But the dealer forces you to take a concept vehicle. It won’t start at first…when it finally does, the wheels fall off and engine dies before leaving the lot.
And the dealer says it’s your responsibility to fix it. Who in their right mind would agree?
ONLY the truly spineless!
So, file this under ‘not seeing the forest for the trees’…
Normally respectable politicians are sinking into deep weeds, so busy over-analyzing disastrous consequences of bad policy, they can’t see the answer right in front of them.
Replacing a functioning machine with a non-functioning one MAKES.NO.SENSE.
Any adult with common sense would return the non-functioning equipment, demand a refund, and immediately put the (existing) functioning machine back in operation.
Obama himself has revealed the answer to fixing problems inherent with Obamacare… he’s gone back to what was working, pre-Obamacare…EVERY TIME.
He has exempted, waived, delayed, and scrapped every broken piece of this disastrous law since ‘implementation’…selectively repealing healthcare law at his whim.
(Except, of course, for the Individual Mandate, forcing us to buy their broken product.)
If selective repeal works for Obama and Democrats when faced with ‘bad law’ reality… why isn’t a ‘repeal’ solution okay when Republicans suggest it? The GOP was locked out of the law’s creation, and not one Republican voted for it. Why should they ‘fix’ it?
Besides, if something has NEVER worked…do you ever really know when its fixed?
And, just as importantly, guess who gets the blame for the ‘fixes’?
To be fair, the Examiner article makes some very good points, but needs to give the GOP some spine. One solution should have been its headline, changed to read…
“GOP should not be trapped by Democrat demands to fix Obamacare”.
(Then, throw in our truck-buying analogy at the start…we don’t mind.)
Why are the GOP leaders so afraid of Obama and Democrats?
Today we see news that a new Gallup poll shows fear of big gov’t at an all-time high.
Sub-title of the article:
“…72% say (big govt) is greater threat than big business or big labor”
A Gallup graph shows “..a steady increase in concern about big gov’t since 2009.”
Obama and his Democrat zealots have run amuck in Washington DC, and the GOP has the power to stop their unconstitutional activities – impeachment. It can be done.
Democrats, led by the ‘You-Can-Keep-Your-Health-Plan’-in Chief, committed fraud by uttering that lie, and remaining quiet knowing it was a lie, before O’care became law.
Fraud is a felony. Democrat Senators can be impeached for felonies. And when that group of Senators are impeached, they cannot sit in judgment on their own trial.
RESULT – Balance of Senate power shifts to the Republicans. Democrat Senators and their ‘Liar-in-Chief’ can be impeached, and Obamacare can be repealed. Obama can be forced to honor the Rule of Law, and honor the Constitution he’s so busy trampling now.
Gallup, never conservative-friendly, polls a steady rise of anti-big gov’t feeling. Obama’s approval rating is at an all-time low. Obamacare’s failings will be spot-lighted all year.
Republicans will finally have a Party that stands for something. And being the stewards of America’s greatness, they can set aside Obama’s impeachment in exchange for iron-clad guarantees from The One that the Rule of Law will be reinstated, and honored.
And the GOP turnout in Nov 2014 elections would be at an all-time high.
Americans want smaller gov’t; the Rule of Law & Constitution are on their side; millions being hurt by Obamacare deserve protecting; Democrat politicians are trying to hide…
What is the GOP leadership waiting for?
Michigan Teamster unions claim they’re being enslaved by state ‘right-to-work’ laws.
Under that law, a worker can’t be forced to join a union, or forced to pay dues. But if a worker files a grievance against an employer, they must go through the union to do it.
Unions want to charge non-dues-paying workers for that service, claiming it otherwise puts them in a position of involuntary servitude, to the non-union ‘slavemaster’ worker.
But union negotiators always demand employer-contracts which agree that unions will be the sole employee representative in all matters. Now, remember, unions don’t have to force that language into their contract negotiations, but they do it anyway.
Their contracts force them into the involuntary servitude they’re complaining about!
Unions (1) chambered the bullet, (2) aimed at their foot, (3) pulled the trigger…
…then blame the gun?
Hiding from their failures, Democrat candidates will play their ‘get-a-vote’ games.
Remind your disenchanted Democrat friends that it doesn’t matter if their candidate says they’re ‘Pro-Life’, ‘pro-2nd Amendment gun rights’, or ‘pro-small government’…
…’cuz once that candidate gets to Washington, they’re in lockstep with Party line.
And over the past 6 years, that Democrat Party line has given us Obamacare, out-of-control unemployment, sub-par economic growth, and a food stamp culture that will take years, if not decades, for America to recover from if the GOP can regain control.
The failed policies that have devastated cities like Detroit and states like Louisiana have always been Liberal. The only policies that enable growth are Republican policies.
But Liberals don’t care, and they have a strangle-hold on the Democrat Party.
What’s a disappointed Democrat – who wants what’s best for America – to do?
Remind your disenchanted Democrat friend/s their vote is a secret ballot…
…they can vote GOP secretly…then tell their friends they voted Democrat.
House GOP members claim the budget deal just passed was the best they could do.
BCP has a tendency to trust the instincts of Paul Ryan, even if we don’t agree.
A popular conservative talk radio host believes the only way to deal with Liberals is to attack them and their policies relentlessly…BlueCollar strongly agrees with this tactic.
Past blogs have made a strong case for impeaching the Democrat Senate & Obama, for the fraudulent nature of their assurances about keeping health plans and doctors, as well as the lawless and unconstitutional acts of this Democrat Party as a whole.
Ryan and his colleagues don’t see that as an option, and are hoping for the election of November 2014 to win back the Senate before pushing the GOP agenda.
To that end, they took the best deal available to get a budget deal behind them, & keep O’care front-and-center as the big issue between now and November 2014 elections.
Willing to trust Congressman Ryan’s instincts, we would issue one note of caution…
…when you kick a can, you never know which way it will go…or where it will end up.
Using executive orders to create law is unconstitutional, but Obama’s doing it.
BlueCollar predicted it would get worse if unchecked…stacking the DC Circuit Court guarantees that reality, as this article from the Washington Examiner reveals.
Podesta confirms more executive orders skirting Congress are on the way.
The House of Representatives must either dry up funding of the departments Obama will rely on to carry out his lawless activities, or impeach as noted previously.
Nothing less will halt his lawless activities.
Some may note the Constitution, Article 2, Section 4, calls for ‘removal from office’.
But the pertinent section above reads “…impeachment for, and Conviction of…”
This president is a narcissist. If the impeachment proceedings are going against him, he will not want, as his legacy, to be known as the first ‘impeached’ black president.
Congress can force him to cease his lawless activities, in exchange for no conviction.
And, if he’s not convicted after impeachment…he won’t be removed from office.
Senate impeachment requires 2/3 voting ‘for’ (Article 1, Section 3). And, if the deceitful Democrat Senate cohort are sitting on trial next to Obama, the GOP has that majority.
Better legal minds can work out the details, but ’twere best done quickly…
…because with this president, there’s not a lie that can’t be spoken…
…and there’s not a law that can’t be broken.
De-fang him (but, don’t let the Democrat Senate off the hook).
While the DC chattering class warns impeachment is not an option, consider…
If Congress fails to check Obama’s trampling of the Rule of Law, he has every right to interpret that as condoning of such activities…and sees no reason to curtail them.
Silence implies consent.
The House has two controls in our checks-&-balances system…
1) cutting back on funding (where ‘Obama-overreach’ occurs);
2) impeachment.
Cutting funding provides Democrats with a ‘government shutdown’ blame-game, and, when aided by a duplicitous media, manages to foment anti-GOP sentiment.
Impeachment carries with it a certain ‘racial’ hysteria, and the usual lap-dog media will carry that water for Democrats enthusiastically, energetically, and endlessly.
But the alternative is… Silence Implies Consent (and invites more of the same).
An earlier blog noted that impeachment doesn’t necessitate ‘removal from office’. We Americans are fair-minded, and sentiment is growing against government overreach.
Americans also (finally) recognize they were subjected to a slew of Obamacare lies. They see the overreach, and don’t like the way this administration is operating.
Impeachment as a due process ensures the Rule of Law is honored. Those involved get their day in court, and have an opportunity to defend their actions, if they can.
GOP leaders must choose their path, or understand inaction begets more tyranny.
In the presence of Executive lawlessness, doing nothing may be politically expedient…
…but it’s morally, legally, (and Constitutionally) wrong.
Members of Congress swear to ‘support and defend’ the Constitution.
Inaction when its being trampled violates that oath.
In eulogizing Nelson Mandela, Obama says we should follow Mandela’s examples.
Does the ‘Eulogizer-in-Chief’ know South Africa requires a photo ID for voting?
Somebody in the administration better tell Attorney General Holder it looks like now his boss supports voter photo ID laws…so he can stop suits against states that have them.