Tag: Obama’s transparency

House “Deems and Passed” 1.1 Trillion Budget

House “Deems and Passed” 1.1 Trillion Budget

Did anyone notice this little magic trick that was pulled on the American people? I found this while checking out conservative blogs this morning:

From Nice Deb

This Congress is lawless….H Res 1500 passed 215-210, Thursday night, another insane, irresponsible spending measure, with no Republican votes.

Jane Jamisen at Uncoverage.net says they snuck it through while our attention was elsewhere….and nobody in the media but Human Events is talking about it:

In what has become the typical late Friday ”data-dump”, Obama/Democrat shellgame, Congress pulled yet another  fast one on us late last week.  This was also a week before a major holiday, with most of the nation fixated on summer “va-kay,” so the deception was even more likely to be ignored.  We have learned the hard way with this Obama administration that when you LEAST want something important to happen, is when it is most LIKELY to happen.

We were “told” by the president of the United States to “look over here” while he gave an “important” speech on his immigration policy.  Hearings on the most radical Marxist ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme court were wrapping up.  The oil was still spewing helter-skelter in the Gulf, and we discovered even less is being done than we thought.  Gen. Petraeus was getting ready to take over the (faulty) Afghanistan war, sanctions were locking into place on Iran.

In the midst of all that, has anyone noticed that there is NO federal budget for the United States but the House of Representatives is spending lots of money anyway?

Human Events reported on the 2nd, when most people were preparing their big  holiday weekend:

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Then there’s this explanation from Rep Paul Ryan:

The most transparent and ethical congress ever? 1.1 TRILLION dollars that the house can continue to spend by slipping it into another bill and considering it “Deemed and Passed”

Another wonderful part of this “Transparent” action was the vote totals.

The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux budget resolution passed.

Surprising Olympia Snowe and a few other RINO’s voted against it…38 Democrats are also starting to catch a clue.

Something else worth noting: There were eight “Congress Critters” that didn’t vote? IF they are dead or in the hospital forgive my comment…IDIOTS. Elected to do a job, and don’t stand and be counted? That’s a very OBAMA-Way to do business…

Here are the 8 slugs that didn’t think this was too important:

AL-5    Griffith, Parker [R]
AK-0    Young, Donald [R]
CA-6    Woolsey, Lynn [D]
MI-2    Hoekstra, Peter [R]
TN-3    Wamp, Zach [R]
TX-3    Johnson, Samuel [R]
TX-23    Rodriguez, Ciro [D]
WV-2    Capito, Shelley [R]

Come on November!

Transparency of our leadership?

Transparency of our leadership?

Obama campaigned on the “The most transparent administration ever” tagline….We have so far seen back room deals in Health Care, middle of the night passage of Cap and Tax, and then there is this:

Holder admits nine Obama Dept. of Justice officials worked for terrorist detainees, offers no details

Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported. And all the lawyers, according to Holder, are eligible to work on general detainee matters, even if there are specific parts of some cases they cannot be involved in.

Holder’s admission comes in the form of an answer to a question posed last November by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley. Noting that one Obama appointee, Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, formerly represented Osama bin Laden’s driver, and another appointee, Jennifer Daskal, previously advocated for detainees at Human Rights Watch, Grassley asked Holder to give the Senate Judiciary Committee “the names of political appointees in your department who represent detainees or who work for organizations advocating on their behalf…the cases or projects that these appointees work with respect to detainee prior to joining the Justice Department…and the cases or projects relating to detainees that have worked on since joining the Justice Department.”

In his response, Holder has given Grassley almost nothing. He says nine Obama political appointees at the Justice Department have advocated on behalf of detainees, but did not identify any of the nine other than the two, Katyal and Daskal, whose names Grassley already knew. “To the best of our knowledge,” Holder writes,

Evidently the transparency part of Obama’s campaign only includes items that can be firmly or loosely placed in GWB’s lap for blame. Obama will be transparent when it suits the liberal agenda but not when it suits the American people. The American people are you know, NOT liberals, we the PEOPLE are over 46% conservative, 34% moderate and 20% libturd…..I’m betting even a few LIBTURDS will see this as WRONG….