More than 350 bills were signed into law by the most partisan president in modern history. Not a single Republican in either the House or the Senate signed onto ObamaCare. All refused to approve the 1.2 trillion dollar Omnibus Bill during the Lame Duck session. And only a handful of Republicans accepted the disgraceful Stimulus bill of February, 2009 -- a bill that proved to be little more than a series of paybacks to union and private corporate institutions supportive of the Socialist Democrat agenda over the years.
With the elections of November, 2010, 22 state legislatures flipped to "Republican." A record setting 682 state congressional figures moved into the GOP column. A Republican record of 6 new Senators were moved into the Upper House [the Senate] and a historic 63 Republicans were swept into office in the Lower House, giving House Republicans a super majority.
The future for the GOP must not be about "pay back." Rather, it must be about reasonable reform, the undoing of poorly written legislation and the institution of serious solutions. If the GOP is eventually successful in the repeal of ObamaCare, it must deal with the continuing problem that is healthcare cost. Offering "tax credits," as the McCain contingency has proposed in the past, will not be the end all to this problem. Honestly, we need real solutions.
There is much to be done by our first bipartisan congress in years.
Our borders remain unprotected. That needs resolution . . . . and to hell with "sanctuary cities."
Homeland Security is a joke and we all know it. Understand that not a single arrest has been made by TSA since its inception, back in 2001. The Obama interrogation strategy that is the HIG (High value Interrogation Groups) have never been finalized. We have no effective interrogation teams in the works, as I write this post. None. We are not safer than before this congress took office.
The use of the nonGovernment insitution, the United States Federal Reserve, needs a serious case of transparency. Understand that this is not a Federal institution, despite its name. It is private and its books are closed to public or outside review. It manages all monetary issues with regard to the setting of interest rates, the supply of paper currency, and much of the national lending policy. The Federal Reserve System was created by Congress in 1913 "to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes." Again, it is private and its policies, as such, are not reviewed by anyone in the Federal Government. There needs to change. We are not talking about a major overhaul of the Fed at this writing. We have in mind an annual audit of the Federal Reserve by committee members at some level of Congress. After all, we are talking about our money, the people's money. And we should know what is going on with it. Those who object are numerous and powerful and using the Fed to accomplish their own agendas, both personal and political. That needs to stop.
TARP needs to come to an end. It has been used by the Democrat congress as a slush fund for the past two years. It was a 700 billion dollar allocation to be used for Toxic Asset Relief. Not a penny went to that purpose. The TARP legislation was written by one man, Henry Paulson, and was instituted without legislative reviews and with no monetary boundaries. As a result, we believe that more than 24 trillion dollars flowed through TARP to the banking industry.
The whole mess that is Fannie and Freddie needs serious attention, as well. Was money from either mortgage institution used to pay back the GM debt of 6.2 billion dollars in January of 2010? The bill was paid. Where in the world did GM get the money, an interesting question in view of the fact that GM had not made a profit in any quarter of the previous year (2009). When Darrell Issa, the new financial Sheriff in the House, commented on the "corruption" of the Obama administration, is this part of what he had in mind? Time will tell. Certainly, we need to know.
It would be nice if we had an actual document called "the budget." The Dems refused to write a budget for the fiscal year of 2010. It was due, by law, last March. Not so much as an outline of the budget was drafted. None of the 13 appropriation bills used to fund the government were ever brought up in committee. Nothing was done as relates to the 2010 budget and we are four months into the new 2010 fiscal year. Understand that this failure was a Democrat election strategy to avoid criticism during the midterm elections. You know what this means, right? That the Dems have known since the beginning of 2010, they were in for a major butt kicking come the November elections. Again, the failure to write a budget was by design, an election strategy, to avoid their lust for spending from becoming an election issues. We are thinking that this strategy did not work out so well for the Dems. Turns out their spending excesses were no secret.
Point of post: the new 112th congress has much to do in its first six months, things that should have been done months and even years ago.
It is pretty incredible. 350 bills were passed in two years and yet, it feels like nothing was done.
We hope that is about to change.
Update: End notes
1. Cf. This Nation and its discussion on the issue of the Federal Reserve.
2. Here is an awesome site explaining the Federal Reserve. Note the name of the site and bookmark it: Federal Reserve, Kids Page.
3. And this site gives a short answer to the question,
What does the Federal Reserve do anyway?
4. Related references confirming the 24 trillion dollar price tag we mentioned in our article"
MSNBC gives us this number here.
Washington Times confirms with this article.
Marketplace.org confirms 23.7 trillion in this article.
And why have you not heard of this news before? Midknight Review has been way ahead of the pack on this one and have been reporting this excess since March of 2009.
5. With regard to the special interrogation unts known as HIG.
Obama prohibited CIA interrogations in April of 2009 and
installed HIG units as policy in August of '09.
Rather than going with CIA units, the new system of interrogations will include the FBI, primarily, along with the DOD and the CIA. cf Brightbart.
Time.com has reported the failure of the Administration in the forming of these interrogation units. None of the terrorists captured during the first two years of Obama have been interrogated by a HIG unit -- we believe this is because Obama has not yet put these units in place, after a year and a half of promising to do so.
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