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Why One Congressman Voted "NO" On The Massive, Wasteful Omnibus Bill

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Paul Anthony Gosar is an American Republican politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from Arizona since 2011, representing Arizona's 4th congressional district.

Yesterday, Gosar took to his Facebook page to expose the reality of the massive Omnibus Spending Bill... and who is to blame... Why I Am Voting NO on the Massive Omnibus Spending Bill:

Once again I find myself shaking my head at the wasteful spending in DC and a flawed process that drops thousands of pages of text on us with 48 hours to “read” and understand. I wish I could put all the blame on big spending Democrats, liberals who seek to bankrupt our nation and others who are ignorant of the fiscal crisis within which we live. But I can’t. Congress is controlled by Republicans. So, this massive and wasteful spending bill is on Republican leadership—who continues the pattern I have seen for 5 years now.

 

If I sound disappointed, it’s because I am. Republicans have been elected around the country on the simple promise of reducing spending and the size of the federal government. To rein in a lawless and dangerously incompetent Obama administration. We know what the American people want. They have made that clear in the last three election cycles. Except for the sequester vote in August 2011 (a law I proudly voted for and that actually reduced spending 3 years in a row), no other law has been enacted that makes meaningful cuts to spending. I am disappointed but I refuse to give up.

 

There are some items in the Omnibus that I support and fought to have included such as eliminating taxpayers bailouts of the Obamacare “risk corridor” program and delaying the “Cadillac tax” which puts 2 more nails in the Obamacare coffin, funding for PILT and SCAAP, as well as lifting the crude oil export ban which I have taken a lead role in accomplishing. Additionally, the Omnibus bill includes the House-passed language that reforms the VISA Waiver Program.

 

But the bad far outweighs the good, and overall, this bill misses so many opportunities. A bill with 2242 pages of legislative text and over 1000 pages of explanatory material was first released at 1:34 AM today and we will vote on it this Friday. I am not Nancy Pelosi. I will not vote to pass a bill just to find out later what is in it. That is irresponsible and silly. Bottom line: this is a big spending bill. It spends more ($50 billion) than is authorized and agreed to under the Budget Control Act of 2011. This alone is reason to reject this bill. We set limits that are intended to implement our campaign promises.

 

This Omnibus does not defund the president’s executive amnesty orders and fails to prevent funds for sanctuary cities, both abdications of the power of the purse. The bill failed to defund Obamacare. This bill failed to include a provision blocking refugees from Syria from being resettled in this country until we have a system that can properly vet them. Worse yet, the bill allows the president to bring in as many refugees as he wants and allows access for these refugees to welfare and entitlements at taxpayer expense.

 

The bill failed to block the EPA's new WOTUS, Clean Power Plan and Ozone regulations. It also failed to block the administration's new AFFH rule, to block the new Stream Protection Rule and to block the BLM's new fracking rule, do anything to limit massive designations of new national monuments under the Antiquities Act by Obama and to block the new Central American Minors (CAM) program.

 

It increases IRS spending by over $200 million and includes a $500 million increase for the wasteful and inefficient Head Start program. The bill increases funding for the EPA $717.73 million above the House passed bill.

 

The bill fails to block funding for Planned Parenthood and will allow hundreds of millions to continue to flow to the organization's coffers ($528.4 million in federal funding last year alone).

 

The bill egregiously extends the Wind PTC for five years and extends LWCF for three years with no meaningful reforms even though the program is now unauthorized. The bill includes $226.8 million for new land acquisition and to lock-up more land, even though the federal government can't even manage the land it currently owns.

 

The bill bails out the International Monetary Fund by increasing the U.S. quota. This IMF will now have access to even more taxpayer dollars in order to fund bailouts of other irresponsible governments like Greece.

 

To make matters worse, there were tons of great riders that passed both Houses and were even included in base bills that somehow failed to make it into the final bill.

 

The fact that extremist environmental groups are pleased and that Obama hasn't threatened a veto tells you everything you need to know about this fundamentally-flawed bill.

 

I refuse to go along with the status quo of more wasteful and abusive government spending. It doesn't have to be this way. We must have the courage to fix our broken budget process and return to regular order. As long as I represent hard-working Arizonans, I will never stop fighting to end this madness. This is my line in the sand and I refuse to back down.

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Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:34 | 6935451 SethDealer
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Gosar for President!

 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:35 | 6935458 quintago
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Just look at some of the pork. 7 year depreciation on motor sports facilities. 15 year depreciation on retail buildings. 0% capital gain on sale of small business stock up to $10M (encourages people to start businesses!).

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:41 | 6935487 Ghost of PartysOver
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So, who is going to be the next Speaker of the House?  Paul Ryan may get his facial hair ripped out.  One by one. 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:09 | 6935596 Dick Gazinia
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I smell John McCain

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:23 | 6935668 EINSILVERGUY
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Uh, I think he would need to resign his Senate seat and then run for the House seat and then challenge Ryan.  That might take a little time

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:48 | 6935767 Dadburnitpa
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Hello! That's Flounder you're talking to!  He has his own ideas about things.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 19:42 | 6937476 The Alarmist
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Wasn't that Senator Bluto Blutarsky?

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:08 | 6936136 Dolar in a vortex
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You don't have to be a house member to be speaker.

And I'm not sure that he'd have to quit the Senate.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 19:43 | 6937479 The Alarmist
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But do you need to be a US citizen?  I'd gladly make Betty Boothroyd, former Speaker of the House of Commons, speaker of the House.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:40 | 6935736 Pooper Popper
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I smell Revolution!

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:49 | 6935772 Bilderberg Member
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Planned Parenthood funding kept in the budget. AMERICA WILL BE JUDGED

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 22:52 | 6938046 armageddon addahere
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Don't worry if he hasn't sent a hailstorm of 10 ton fireballs on Washington  he's never going to.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:42 | 6936034 ShorTed
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Ryan is a younger version of John Boehner, total sellout establishment guy, just without all the tears.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:42 | 6935455 RockRiver
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I appreciate his "no" vote....

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:23 | 6935939 Ain't No Sunshine
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A "No" vot is easy peasy when you know it's going to pass.

All the fuckers take turns voting "NO"...

 

 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:44 | 6936047 ShorTed
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In this case they all want to vote "Yes" so the lobbyists who dropped all the cash persuading them know they got their money's worth.  This just goes to show that most of team red is the same as team blue...

Carry on, nothing to see here.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:35 | 6935459 jcaz
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Got my vote....

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:36 | 6935461 MFL8240
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Ryan needs to be removed before any further damage is done!

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:38 | 6935477 The Spanish Amb...
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Ryan is no bueno.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:47 | 6935519 kralizec
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Most politicians are no bueno.

Hearing no shots means the rebellion hasn't begun yet...hit the snooze button.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:42 | 6935493 cafe sua da
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I still don't understand how Ryan became Speaker.  I thought he was unpopular, no?

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:56 | 6935558 Buckaroo Banzai
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The Republican Party is the Designated Losing Wing of the DemoPublican Party. They play the role of Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters.

Being a member "in good standing" of the Losing Wing is a great job-- you are set for life, so long as you don't rock the boat.

Members not in good standing -- like this guy Gosar, or your average "Tea Party" guy-- are kept on the outside looking in.

The Losing Wing has many powerful propaganda arms, like The Weekly Standard and the National Review, so they control the message, just as the leadership of the Losing Wing controls the congressional votes.

The Republican electorate is slowly waking up to the bullshit. Trump is helping unmask the fraud.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:32 | 6935703 EINSILVERGUY
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Agree BB.

I woke up from watching this Kabuki theatre about 2 election cycles ago. The light went off when I saw George Carlin's bit on "The American Dream".  We are fucked and nothing short of another revolution is going to change things. If we get to May and Trump is still leading, then they better get him a "Pope Mobile" otherwise the summer of 2016 is going to look like 1968 all over again

 

Fri, 12/18/2015 - 16:33 | 6940568 mkhs
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No worries.  A bit of hydrogen peroxide and sodium carbonate, "super soda", removes the blood stains.  Goldman sachsuckers, it works on clown suits, too.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:49 | 6935533 boattrash
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I'm reposting this one from last night. The bottom link is another one that opposed the bill.

Well thanks to the Cocksuckers Up In Yankton and their owned media, Americans are now crying for protection from the ISIS boogeyman. Take a look at the shit these bastards are doing while the sheople are distracted.

See the link below, for a pic of the current Captagon Addicted Jihadist that the Agency NEEDS to Neutralize. FFS He's out of his mind.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/12/paul_ry...

Think I'll get another alphabet soup agency visit in the morning?

For an added bonus, here's a clip of Sen. Jeff Sessions railing against it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBqrWL3h9-g

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:58 | 6935563 GeezerGeek
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Ryan = Boehner minus the orange tint and with facial hair added. Who does he think he is, Aaron Rodgers?

 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:05 | 6935589 BullyBearish
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Anybody given that job is guaranteed to "go along" with the promise of a shot at the presidency if they "perform"...

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:37 | 6935470 DontFollowMyAdv...
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this guy should switch to Libertarian and run for POTUS

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:44 | 6935501 RockRiver
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I would vote for him....of course, I vote Libretarian every election anyhow....

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:37 | 6935471 ebworthen
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Washington D.C. = Bansksta' paradise!

"Wretched hive of scum and villainy" comes to mind.

Fri, 12/18/2015 - 13:40 | 6939779 Kobe Beef
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as does "nuke it from orbit."

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:42 | 6935494 SoDamnMad
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There is so much to be rejected.  Use time (2 days) as your weapon to ram it through.  Ryan is our worst nightmare.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:02 | 6935578 Arnold
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Paul 'Home for  the Holidays' Ryan?

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:43 | 6935495 City_Of_Champyinz
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Fuck the GOP establishment, they only do what they do to benefit themselves and their crony campaign donors.  JESUS FUCKING CHRIST this is beyond disgustingly corrupt.  Not a single member of Congress will read one page of this monstrosity.

And the idiot establishment pro politicians and hack consultants wonder why Trump, Carson, and Cruz are kicking the living shit out of Jeb and the rest of the GOP LOSERS Reince & the establishment douchebags support.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:01 | 6935574 Bring the Gold
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Wtf? Cruz and Carson both carry water for the oligarchs. I find Trumps rhetoric to be horrifying at times, but he and Rand Paul are the only ones running as republicans that aren't establishment puppets. They might both be part of the establishment in their own ways, but they don't twitch when a string is pulled like Cruz (current chosen one), Carson and Rubio. Obviously Bush is a Bush, 'nuff said there.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:12 | 6936146 Dolar in a vortex
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The establishment right and left both hate Cruz, the right especially. Rubio is the love of the GOPe.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:44 | 6935498 agNau
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Theatre.
Entertaining.
Bravo!

Now back to reality.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:45 | 6935512 matinee55
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There is nothing else to say, nothing else to discuss. These rino progressives along with the demonrats & leftist media (one party triad) have sealed the final destruction of the USA to make way for the Bank Cartel NWO. Time to move or R e b e LLL

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:17 | 6935634 GeezerGeek
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"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

I doubt that the Declaration of Independence would win approval on most college campuses these days.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:36 | 6936002 matinee55
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Frig, they just voted to repeal the 1st - stupid shit head kidtards!

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:45 | 6935515 LawsofPhysics
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"We must have the courage to fix our broken budget process and return to regular order." ---

 

Don't worry, you fucking scmuck, the real producers and creditors of the world will make this happen anyway.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:47 | 6935517 undercover brother
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Definitely a congressman worth watching in the future.  Thanks for looking out for us Rep. Gosar.  Hope others will mimic your strength of conviction very soon.  

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:49 | 6935532 buzzardsluck
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you forgot the /sarc tag

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:52 | 6935543 undercover brother
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i wasn't being sarcastic, but i can see how one could misconstrue it as such.         /sarc

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:06 | 6935590 Arnold
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Paul Anthony Gosar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gosar

 

Seems like a normal guy, foot in mouth  enough to be real, not over massaged by handlers.

Spelling and acceptable grammar.

Trade to fall back on. (dentist)

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:31 | 6936242 Squid Viscous
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terrible bowl cut and just for men dye job, he fits right in on the Hill

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:48 | 6935521 QQQBall
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I wonder how much of the on- and off-balance sheet DC spending actually is productive?  The USA was a nice expirement; now we are back to taxation w/o representation.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:54 | 6935548 kenny500c
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I hope the Republicans understand that many Democrats in contested districts will vote against this and then run to the right of the Republican candidate in 2016.

Similar to 2006 when the Dems won back the house, running on "fiscal responsibility."  Hard to believe but the voters bought it.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:54 | 6935552 CHoward
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This government is fucking disgusting.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:56 | 6935557 ArgentDawn
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Gosar the Gosarian?

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:00 | 6935570 Buckaroo Banzai
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Wait for a sign from Gosar the Traveller; he will come in one of the pre-chosen forms.
During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveller came as a large and moving Torb.
Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex Supplicants, they chose a new form for him -- that of a Giant Sloar!
Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you!

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:22 | 6936201 PTR
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The walls in the 53rd Precinct were bleeding.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 19:35 | 6937448 MisterMousePotato
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Hey, Banzai ... did you do that from memory? (Sign of a misspent youth.)

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:57 | 6935560 cooperbry
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Well, at least there's one representative anyhow that reads bills...

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 12:58 | 6935562 csmith
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Wait a second...Paul Ryan was praising this bill as "regular order"? What gives?

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:05 | 6935588 the grateful un...
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they draw straws and one of them gets to No vote the project, just like they select one of their own to answer the potus SOUA. next week he'll vote FOR and everyone will say WTF?

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:02 | 6935576 Agent P
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I sure hope he doesn't meet with any unfortunate accidents over this.  At minimum, I'm sure they'll run him through the scandal wringer....watch for future stories of this guy and drugs, or bribes, or underage hookers, or underage hookers on drugs taking bribes. 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:02 | 6935579 Seasmoke
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Paul Ryan is a fraud. Always has been. His fucking wife a Democratic Comrade. That's where he gets his orders from.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 17:58 | 6937050 prymythirdeye
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I thought it was this asshole's wife that worked for Goldman.  It's actually Ted Cruz and she's also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and since I looked it up....

http://www.hangthebankers.com/ted-cruzs-wife-is-a-goldman-sachs-vp-and-c...

NOT ONE MOTHERFUCKER IN CONGRESS HAS YOUR, MY OR ANYONE ELSE'S BEST INTERESTS IN MIND.  NEVER FORGET THAT!

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:02 | 6935580 Colonel Klink
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Lyin Ryan is no different from Obama bootlicker Boner.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:09 | 6935599 ToSoft4Truth
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Paul Ryan is the Great Hope.  Like Boehner, he just needs a little more time. 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:10 | 6935603 roadhazard
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It was an Omnibus Bill that overturned Glass-Steagall. Omnibus bills hide all the dirt. Always be afraid when one gets signed off on.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:12 | 6935609 the grateful un...
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if the Jr Congressman thinks the primary fault in the US having a seat on the IMF is loaning a few million dollars to countries like Greece he must be part of the NWO. then Republicans used to call for us to get out of the UN, until our prescence became a front for neoconservative global  hegemony. The GOP doesn't complain about the UN much anymore.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:20 | 6935610 firstdivision
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What a god damn two faced liar.  If he were for the 'people', why would he co-sponser this https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/h333 and vote for the TPA?

 

This guy is a piece of shit working on his re-election campaign.  Fuck this guy.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 17:55 | 6937030 prymythirdeye
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+1000 Thanks for looking this up.  I really appreciate thoughtful comments like yours!

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:14 | 6935612 SillySalesmanQu...
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The battle cry of DC, "hurry up and pass it, before anyone finds out what is really in it..."

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:14 | 6935620 HoserF16
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A Pilgram in an Unholy Land...

 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:15 | 6935628 Fuku Ben
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No doubt this comprehensive bill is just another comprehensive screwing of Americans. Isn't it amazing how taxpayers fund the IMF but receive no benefits. Just one more layer of the global criminal fraud.

It appears CISA was also included in the bill. ZH should have included that little gem. Look it up and try not to laugh at the fraudulent persisting myth that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are still in effect. They aren't and haven't for a long time. The cowards at the top are just too afraid to come out and tell everyone because they know what will happen to them. Pussies.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:26 | 6935678 Argenta
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Given current debt levels and the complete inability of elected officials to touch this "third rail", it doesn't matter anymore.  I appreciate this guy's stance and beliefs but honestly, does it even matter who we vote for anymore? These people are going to have hell to answer to at some point.

-Argenta

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:28 | 6935686 MorningWood
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I'd like to think he's sincere but he's a politician and can’t be trusted.  I’d trust Joel Osteen before I trusted an elected official.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 13:51 | 6935781 GhostOfDiogenes
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Ha! What bullshit!

"I will not vote to pass a bill just to find out later what is in it. That is irresponsible and silly"

No its not. Its treason. I cannot think of a single congressman who 'gets it'.

The fact that pelosi is still breathing, is due to the fact that the usa is the most brainwashed and feminine nation on the planet.

This is how rome fell. Team vagina.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:34 | 6935997 Vin
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I wonder why Paul Ryan grew the beard.  Hmmm, maybe he's a terrorist!  Nah, just a camel sucking prick.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:37 | 6936013 NoWayJose
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Forty Republican Congressmen and ten Republican Senators are powerless to stop the One Party led by Ryan, Pelosi, McConnell and Reid. They should do a recall vote on Ryan the same way they got Boehner.

All this, of course, just helps Trump. Other than Trump or Cruz - no other candidates have a hope of changing anything against the One Party.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:39 | 6936022 overmedicatedun...
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look with the FED moving up on interest, the fiscal side has to come pump pump it up..DC understands they have to spend to get money to main street..after 7 yrs of feeding banksters and wall st and jew boys for face book and google & amazon..however if you live on main street, the money truck will miss most of you,  as graft and payoffs take the meat ,and you get the crumbs.

alot  (of our cash) will go off shore where it can be stolen without close inspection. wadda think Clinton's foundation gets a major cash injection along with the criminal co called planned parenthood. high priced management likes this very much.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:23 | 6936209 PTR
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To the truly awake, he didn't have to write all those words of explination.  Just saying "I voted no" suffices.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 16:26 | 6936573 Eahudimac
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I think on April 15, 2016, I will be taking a shit in an envelope and mailing it to the IRS. 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 16:30 | 6936600 dizzyfingers
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Mr. Gosar, surely you knew before you ran for office that home districts endorse candidates whom someone "big" in the district wants to see in Washington in order to do favors. We all know that. Thanks for voting NO but even if you're one of the good guys, any mitigating actions are useless.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 22:42 | 6938016 tritumi
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