Intro by John R. Houk, Editor
By Justin O. Smith
Posted March 26, 2018
After President Trump signed the 2,000-plus page HR 1625 omnibus bill, America’s
Conservative base screamed betrayal. For good reason: The bill appeared to give
the Marxist Dems everything they desired with the non-Establishment GOP receiving
scraps (or perhaps crumbs in Pelosi terminology).
This is good reasoning for Conservative outrage!
On a personal level though, despite the Leftists spoils
going to the Dems (and those the spoils are legion as you will read from
Justin Smith), the YUGE Omnibus Bill was also the largest military budget
Bill in American history. The military spending purpose was more than merely
reversing Obama’s military dismemberment. The money was needed to modernize the
American military to regain steps over the leaps taken by Russian and Chinese military
modernizations to overcome current American weapons technology. This is
ESSENTIAL!
Due to the purpose of military spending I’m not quite as hot
against President Trump as many – perhaps most – of my fellow Conservatives. In
a Congress that has no super majority for the GOP (especially the Senate), the
only way to get and keep government moving on a Conservative agenda is to make
some painful concessions. The problem with HR 1625 way too many concessions
were made that give the appearance of Conservative diminishment.
Justin sent this insightful post on the Omnibus package on
March 24. I have since come across some info that may temper Justin’s and
Conservatives’ anger a bit. The President has hinted via his favorite path to
communicate with Americans – a tweet – that he will build The Wall with the Defense
Budget allocation. Thomas Lifson at the American Thinker
illustrates how this is possible.
Unfortunately, the President hasn’t addressed some of the
other Omnibus egregious pork such as funding ungodly Planned Parenthood is one
of probably many examples.
Without further ado, here is Justin’s very valid reasons for
displeasure with President Trump’s signature on HR 1625.
JRH 3/26/18
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By Justin O. Smith
Sent: 3/24/2018 3:01 PM
As I listen to President Trump on his action of signing the
current Omnibus bill, I am left with no other conclusion than he is really not
as strong a leader as many seem to believe him to be. He signed this terrible
$1.3 trillion bill for all the wrong reasons and lamented its exclusion of
terrible other items, like DACA, but nowhere did he castigate these do-nothing "leaders"
for adding a bad gun control act called "NICS"; this Omnibus bill
is all smoke and mirrors and the 33 miles of added funding for border fencing
is just that - a fence [barely], not a wall.
This bill continues to fund Planned Parenthood too. -- Oh --
And Sanctuary Cities Too. Really? What happened to all Trump's talk about
"defunding" sanctuary cities?
And how many more times are we going to provide border wall
funding only to see a lesser plan offered and implemented for less money and
the appropriated money simply disappear? Into someone's pockets? Especially now
that we see this bill provides funding to secure the borders of Afghanistan and
Iraq.
Trump should have refused to sign this bill and let the
chips fall where they may, but he's terrible when it comes to policy on funding
government and many other items. If Trump had not signed the bill, any
government shutdown would not have stopped the military from functioning. Since
the military is considered an “essential” function, i.e. halting its operations
could result in fatalities or impede national security, it will continue to
operate regardless of whether or not the government shuts down; military spending
would have been addressed soon enough, once Congress returned with a cleaner
bill.
Whose side is the GOP really on and when are they going to
start keeping their promises? This is not REPRESENTATION. THIS Is A PERPETUAL
CON GAME BEING RUN ON THE U.S. TAXPAYER AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Trump says, “I'll Never Sign
Another Bill Like This One” ... Wanna bet?
It still doesn't assuage or change the fact that some other
very bad permanent pieces of legislation rode in on the tail end of
this bill. That's what happens when the Senate reverts back to pork
spending legislation and why Trump is now asking for line-by-line veto
authority from Congress, which was “ruled” unconstitutional in 1998,
by the Supreme Court during the
Clinton presidency.
This is also the same sort of bill that allows for funds to
be easily shifted and misappropriated in the most corrupt fashion, just like
Obama, because there is No Budget and these are only "spending
suggestions". This makes this entire thing end up as one great big $1.3
trillion slush fund (the largest in U.S. history)---
more abuse of the U.S. taxpayer.
Who's going to account for it? The GAO? The Big Govt. commie
Democrats and statist RINOS? HA!
Whatever the structure of this bill, it is certain and known
that bills were attached, like the NICS Act [Blog Editor: See Heritage
post subsection “Includes the Fix NICS Act”], a piece of leftist gun
control, that Did Become PERMANENT U.S. Law now to be fully employed and
implemented against U.S. Citizens. Congress even gave itself a raise and that's
Permanent and doesn't go away in six months.
This was 2,232 pages that NOT ONE SENATOR READ, except for
Senator Rand Paul. This is the stuff that SWAMPS ARE MADE OF and the very sort
of thing that Trump was elected to END.
If this is what we are paying for folks, You'd be better off
to break out the axes, knives and pitchforks on the front steps of the Capitol
Building in DC and have a good tar and feather party for the criminal pigs and
traitors to their oaths to the Constitution and America.
Trump called this a matter of national security because of
the military spending involved, which is just wrong. The real national security
issue at hand is that this takes us one step closer to another massive economic
collapse, greater than 1929 or 2008 either one. What are they
going to do when this actually happens, because they refuse to control the
federal government's out-of-control spending?
Daniel Horowitz of 'Conservative Review' writes: “Taken in totality,
this bill validates, legitimizes, and codifies the world view of the Democrats,
only with slightly less enthusiasm. Which is why the Democrats are crushing
Republicans in turnout so far this election season. This bill will essentially
end Republican control of Congress.”
This bill is conclusive evidence that House and Senate
Republicans are whistling by the political graveyard, because they seem to be
unaware that the content and means they used to pass this bill will turn off
their base.
This is the bottom line: If you are a conservative voter and
your party just passed a bill that funds a number of liberal priorities while
busting the budget, would you bother to knock on doors for them this fall?
Nope.
This Omnibus bill doesn't bode well for the future of
America. It appears conservative values are dead in our government, as all the
GOP pays them lip service and then promptly ignores them in their votes. This
is pushing middle America into an untenable position where rebellion, in some
form or fashion, in the not too distant future, begins to look like an appealing
choice, unless Americans start electing real conservative Constitutional
minded Statesmen of honor, who will restore traditional American principles and
values, and the American Heritage, under the Original Intent of Our Founders.
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By Justin O. Smith
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Intro to ‘If This Is
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Intro by John R. Houk, Editor
By Justin O. Smith
Posted March 26, 2018
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If This Is
"Representation" Give Me Rebellion
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