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To All Democrat Members of the House of Representatives:
After watching the December 13 vote on the extension of the payroll tax holiday, the extension (yet again) of the unemployment benefit payments, and the approval of the Keystone Pipeline, it is painfully obvious to “Main Street America” that the Democrats who voted against passage have sunk to all new low in moral depravity.
Forget for a moment the fact that a very large percentage of citizens oppose the tax holiday on its face because of the huge hole it will continue to blow into the Social Security Trust Fund; the same SSTF that is already bankrupt despite the contrary pronouncements repeatedly droned on by the Administration and the Democrats in both chambers. Most moderate and conservative Americans have reluctantly already accepted the fact that the payroll tax and unemployment extensions will be passed. Just as the Administration promised, in fact threatened, that they would.
Why then did 187 House Dems vote “NO” on the bill, and why will Harry Reid ensure that the House Bill will die in the Senate? While politically incorrect, the answer to that question is that they are traitors to the American People. Painfully obvious now, as if their prior actions didn’t confirm it, is that fact that these representatives do NOT represent their constituents. No sir, their role in a practical sense is to do whatever is necessary to ensure the re-election of Barack Obama, themselves, and the other left leaning members of the Congress.
The substantive reason for their opposition to the bill is now being touted as, “the Republicans are trying to tie the President’s hands concerning the pipeline project. They are holding American workers tax cut hostage in respect to an “extraneous” matter”. No, the Republicans are “giving” on the payroll and unemployment issues each of which is opposed by millions of Americans, and in exchange, they want the pipeline project approved. That is called negotiation and is a two way street. The Dems in Congress and in the White House will undoubtedly take the message to the press that the Republicans are impeding “the help that American workers need” for political reasons.
There are political reasons affecting this debate, but anyone with a modicum of intelligence and armed with the facts (not the Obama, Pelosi, and Reid misrepresentations) understands that the political motivation is coming from the Democrats, not from the Republicans. This is clearly borne out by the facts surrounding the Keystone Pipeline:
• The pipeline, when approved will create new construction jobs immediately in America. The numbers of new jobs are estimated to be between 20,000 (the lowest published total) and 40,000 (the highest published total) immediately. This would seem to be a boon for a President who “is focused like a laser on job creation”.
• The volume of Canadian sands oil that would be transported by the pipeline would be enough to eliminate the U.S. need for imported Middle Eastern oil within five years. Could there be a link between U.S. energy self-sufficiency and the failed vision of the Obama Administration that “alternative energy sources” could, at some future date, be produced in an economically, commercially viable way? Perhaps such a self-sufficient condition would make it much more difficult for the Obama Administration to siphon off trillions of taxpayer dollars of taxpayer monies to alternative energy investors who, coincidentally, I’m sure, are also huge Obama and Democratic campaign donors.
• Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has publicly stated that if the Keystone Pipeline Project is not completed, the oil producers in Western Canada plan to export their more than 500,000 barrels per day to China via a second pipeline alternative that is being considered by the Canadian government. It is impossible to conclude that such a result could possibly be in America’s interest.
Despite the significant benefits the pipeline would bring to America, its workers and its citizens, the Administration has decided to delay a decision on the pipeline’s approval…until after the 2012 elections. Make no mistake, such a decision is as politically motivated and patently cynical as any ever made. Obama doesn’t want to “lose” the support of the environmental left who oppose the pipeline; nor does he want to “lose” the support of union labor who favors the pipeline. Gone, seemingly, is the era of a president doing what is in the best interest of THE NATION.
To millions of Americans, the Administration repeatedly taking positions and making decisions NOT in the best interest of the Country is nothing new. They understand that this has been occurring for almost three years. But as for the Congress, this week’s vote made clear that the liberals in Congress are in total lockstep with the Obama White House. Many suspected that circumstance, and all the subject vote did was to confirm it unequivocally.
So to the Democrats in the House who voted against this bill, the same Democrats who are so addicted to standing in front of any TV camera they can find and parroting the Administration line that the “Republicans continue to put party and politics ahead of the Country”, perhaps they should perform a bit of introspection. There was no honorable justification in the eyes of the American People for voting against this measure. Clearly, though, there was a reason for opposing the bill, but it is light years removed from any aspect of honor. The Administration, for clearly political reasons, did not want the pipeline issue brought to light since it could hinder his re-election campaign; the mind-numbed robots in the Democratic caucus, upon receiving instruction from on high (much as Moses received the Ten Commandments) to defeat this bill with the pipeline provisions addressed, happily marched like good soldiers into the House chamber to register their NO votes.
In the military there is a chain of command and personnel are expected to, and do, obey orders from superiors without question. The Democrats on the Hill need to understand that they are NOT in the military and that the White House, the DNC, nor the left wing think tanks are their superior officers. They work for the American People! To cast a No vote for such repugnantly political reasons makes Americans wonder how these ideologues can even look at themselves in a mirror. Apparently that is quite possible if the image in the mirror is one of a person bereft of personal values, personal responsibility, moral principles, ethics, self- esteem, or dignity. The People pay their salary, and with more voter education, maybe the People will sign their pink slips.
Tim M (CPA, ret)
Independent Voter / Independent Thinker
Biloxi, MS
After watching the December 13 vote on the extension of the payroll tax holiday, the extension (yet again) of the unemployment benefit payments, and the approval of the Keystone Pipeline, it is painfully obvious to “Main Street America” that the Democrats who voted against passage have sunk to all new low in moral depravity.
Forget for a moment the fact that a very large percentage of citizens oppose the tax holiday on its face because of the huge hole it will continue to blow into the Social Security Trust Fund; the same SSTF that is already bankrupt despite the contrary pronouncements repeatedly droned on by the Administration and the Democrats in both chambers. Most moderate and conservative Americans have reluctantly already accepted the fact that the payroll tax and unemployment extensions will be passed. Just as the Administration promised, in fact threatened, that they would.
Why then did 187 House Dems vote “NO” on the bill, and why will Harry Reid ensure that the House Bill will die in the Senate? While politically incorrect, the answer to that question is that they are traitors to the American People. Painfully obvious now, as if their prior actions didn’t confirm it, is that fact that these representatives do NOT represent their constituents. No sir, their role in a practical sense is to do whatever is necessary to ensure the re-election of Barack Obama, themselves, and the other left leaning members of the Congress.
The substantive reason for their opposition to the bill is now being touted as, “the Republicans are trying to tie the President’s hands concerning the pipeline project. They are holding American workers tax cut hostage in respect to an “extraneous” matter”. No, the Republicans are “giving” on the payroll and unemployment issues each of which is opposed by millions of Americans, and in exchange, they want the pipeline project approved. That is called negotiation and is a two way street. The Dems in Congress and in the White House will undoubtedly take the message to the press that the Republicans are impeding “the help that American workers need” for political reasons.
There are political reasons affecting this debate, but anyone with a modicum of intelligence and armed with the facts (not the Obama, Pelosi, and Reid misrepresentations) understands that the political motivation is coming from the Democrats, not from the Republicans. This is clearly borne out by the facts surrounding the Keystone Pipeline:
• The pipeline, when approved will create new construction jobs immediately in America. The numbers of new jobs are estimated to be between 20,000 (the lowest published total) and 40,000 (the highest published total) immediately. This would seem to be a boon for a President who “is focused like a laser on job creation”.
• The volume of Canadian sands oil that would be transported by the pipeline would be enough to eliminate the U.S. need for imported Middle Eastern oil within five years. Could there be a link between U.S. energy self-sufficiency and the failed vision of the Obama Administration that “alternative energy sources” could, at some future date, be produced in an economically, commercially viable way? Perhaps such a self-sufficient condition would make it much more difficult for the Obama Administration to siphon off trillions of taxpayer dollars of taxpayer monies to alternative energy investors who, coincidentally, I’m sure, are also huge Obama and Democratic campaign donors.
• Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has publicly stated that if the Keystone Pipeline Project is not completed, the oil producers in Western Canada plan to export their more than 500,000 barrels per day to China via a second pipeline alternative that is being considered by the Canadian government. It is impossible to conclude that such a result could possibly be in America’s interest.
Despite the significant benefits the pipeline would bring to America, its workers and its citizens, the Administration has decided to delay a decision on the pipeline’s approval…until after the 2012 elections. Make no mistake, such a decision is as politically motivated and patently cynical as any ever made. Obama doesn’t want to “lose” the support of the environmental left who oppose the pipeline; nor does he want to “lose” the support of union labor who favors the pipeline. Gone, seemingly, is the era of a president doing what is in the best interest of THE NATION.
To millions of Americans, the Administration repeatedly taking positions and making decisions NOT in the best interest of the Country is nothing new. They understand that this has been occurring for almost three years. But as for the Congress, this week’s vote made clear that the liberals in Congress are in total lockstep with the Obama White House. Many suspected that circumstance, and all the subject vote did was to confirm it unequivocally.
So to the Democrats in the House who voted against this bill, the same Democrats who are so addicted to standing in front of any TV camera they can find and parroting the Administration line that the “Republicans continue to put party and politics ahead of the Country”, perhaps they should perform a bit of introspection. There was no honorable justification in the eyes of the American People for voting against this measure. Clearly, though, there was a reason for opposing the bill, but it is light years removed from any aspect of honor. The Administration, for clearly political reasons, did not want the pipeline issue brought to light since it could hinder his re-election campaign; the mind-numbed robots in the Democratic caucus, upon receiving instruction from on high (much as Moses received the Ten Commandments) to defeat this bill with the pipeline provisions addressed, happily marched like good soldiers into the House chamber to register their NO votes.
In the military there is a chain of command and personnel are expected to, and do, obey orders from superiors without question. The Democrats on the Hill need to understand that they are NOT in the military and that the White House, the DNC, nor the left wing think tanks are their superior officers. They work for the American People! To cast a No vote for such repugnantly political reasons makes Americans wonder how these ideologues can even look at themselves in a mirror. Apparently that is quite possible if the image in the mirror is one of a person bereft of personal values, personal responsibility, moral principles, ethics, self- esteem, or dignity. The People pay their salary, and with more voter education, maybe the People will sign their pink slips.
Tim M (CPA, ret)
Independent Voter / Independent Thinker
Biloxi, MS
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