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Fellow Ohio patriot Nelson
Hack of the Morrow County Tea Party, had his letter published in The Morrow County Sentinel on Dec. 30:
To the Editor:
Last week our
representative to Congress answered critics who have been vocal about the
recently passed government funding bill – the so-called Cromnibus. I
would guess he included me since I copied to him and his staff my Letter to the
Editor of 12/17/14. I also let him know that I sent it to all the Morrow
County TEA Party members, the Morrow County TEA Party web page, Facebook, other
Tea Parties, and newspapers throughout his district and state.
Let me say
I like Pat Tiberi as a person. I believe he is a good man and has a
wonderful family and seems to be honest until it comes to politics. There
is a war in the Republican establishment against Constitutional Conservatives
within the party of which I am one. For over a hundred years the
progressives (liberals), both Republican and Democrat, have been doing their
best to destroy the Constitution. Did you ever wonder why, when a
so-called conservative is elected, he/she never tries or manages to undo the
legislation or programs the progressives and, most of the time they themselves,
voted to have enacted? Most of this legislation and these programs are
unconstitutional and no one says a word! After a long-enough
silence it stands as law.
Something Representative Tiberi did
not tell is the political earmark in the Cromnibus bill that INCREASES the
amount the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) can collect from
individual donors from $32,400 per year to $324,000 – a tenfold increase!
Since the NRSC takes sides in primaries, the new donation limit will help the
DC establishment do more to support liberal incumbents. It's an earmark for
RINOs (Republican In Name Only)! This bill was so bad that Republican
leaders had to rely on 57 Democrats to pass it. President Obama even
whipped up votes in support of the bill, and NOTE that Representative
Jim Jordon did NOT vote for it.
Let’s look at what
Representative Tiberi calls “things in this bill that conservatives can be
proud to have accomplished”:
1. “The agency that handles
immigration enforcement is only funded until February.” But
negotiators gave new money for immigration programs through OTHER
federal agencies. They gave $948 million to the Department of Health
and Human Service for an unaccompanied children program -- an $80 million
increase. That program provides health and education services to the young
migrants (MIGRANTS! I believe they mean illegals).
The department also gets an additional $14 million to help school districts
absorb new illegal students. And the State Department gets an additional $260
million to assist Central American countries from which the illegal children
are coming. Current funding for Department of Homeland Security
which oversees most immigration policy is scheduled to end in
February. If Congress fails to pass legislation to fund it for the
remainder of the year before the deadline there will be no pay for the Border
Guards. Wow, wouldn’t that be a real poke in the eye to Obama - no Border
Guards! That would surely put a stop to Obama’s illegal
executive overreach on immigration, wouldn’t it? Because the
Republican establishment in D.C. cannot figure out strategies that work they
will be made to look foolish and will cave in again. Once again they will
say this is not the right time for a fight - we will fight in September.
As someone on radio said, they are just like Lucy; they will once again yank
the football away just when Charlie Brown (the Constitutional Conservatives) is
ready to kick it.
2. “It doesn’t
provide new funding for Obamacare.” The key word is NEW. It
doesn’t stop any money that is already in place to fund whatever is already
authorized in Obamacare until October. Take that, Obamacare!
3. “Strengthens pro-life
provisions.” REALLY? Here is what this bill does: once again it
bans using federal funding to perform most abortions; blocks the use of local
and federal funding for abortions in the District of Columbia; and blocks
the use of federal dollars for abortions for federal prisoners. Republicans
say that there's also new language directing the Secretary of Health and Human
Services to ensure that consumers shopping for health-care coverage on the
federal exchange can see whether or not a plan covers abortion services.
These are only a few
examples of political speak our dear congressman learned from the years he has
been in Washington. I could go on but I think most will get the
point. Our Constitution does not guarantee anyone to be coddled and cared
for from cradle to grave. Socialism promises that, but it has failed
everywhere it has been tried. There have always been those who hate the
freedoms our Constitution protects. The only way our Republic will
survive is to elect Constitutional Conservatives in both parties (or in another
party) that may be on the ballot. For those that say they are
conservative but their voting record tells otherwise, hold their feet to the
fire, let them know how they failed, and remember it at the next election.
Term limits, anyone?
Nelson
Hack
Mount
Gilead
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