DEBT CEILINGS AND THOSE DANGED OLE BUDGET THINGS

 A lot of talk about "We want to see the Presidents budget" or "Where is Harry Reids budget?", but we have that rascally thing called the Constitution. While the members in the House are being hampered with their budget proposals, they keep crying for the Senate to offer one, and one day, the House will make themselves so irrelevant that the Senate will take over that responsibility, willingly.

Even though there are over 80 Tea Party members in the House, someone forgot to tell them that Article I Section 7 of the Constitution says, "All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may PROPOSE or CONCUR with the amendments as on other bills".

No one is responsible for revenue bills other than the House, not even the President. The fact that the Senate and the President have promised to kill or veto the bill that comes out of the House is their prerogative. The House is not obligated to do anything more than present a bill. If the Senate kills it, and offers no amendments than the business of establishing revenue expenditures is over. The country comes to a halt!  Or does it?

The XIVth Amendment, Section 4 says, "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law,.............shall not be questioned". What this means is that when the Democratically controlled House and Senate passed TARP, and the bailout packages, and directed Mr. Geithner to spend it any way he thought was best, AND the Republicans agreed to that concept.....Those acts became authorized by law, and the XIVth Amendment is the constitutionally governing edict when we run into a scenario like we have now; the Senate cannot see their way to agreeing with the Repubs on the "presented" budget, er-go there has to be a fall-back position whereby the United States does not come to a standstill.

The founders, remember, were citizens of Monarchies and oppressive rulers so they decided ways to make free people able to function, collectively as a Nation (13 states at the time), even when additional states were added to the Union. These additional states were obligated to whatever action had been taken in the past. It was a way to keep the Nation growing, while assuring the other states and other nations in the world, that the Constitution that binds us together, is perpetual and no one needs to be concerned if the American Nation will meet its obligations made with past representatives, at least until, by law, one bill or rule is superseded by the newer one.

See, that's where the Progressives have it all over the rest of us. They have a working knowledge of the Constitution; the rest of us want to play act within the Constitution and are ignorant of the ways of our opponents. We keep trying to work within the sometimes altered, sometimes amended Constitution while the opposite party applies the Constitution as they go along. To not have a budget for over 810 days, means the Progressives already had an idea what they were doing. If per chance the repubs took over the House, the Progressives had a fall-back position; the XIVth amendment. The Senate does not have to agree with the House on anything, much less a budget, and if the President is backing the Senate up with a veto threat that cannot be over-ridden, you have a stale-mate. So the President has a "no-budget, budget" he can continue to apply until after the next election, or even longer if the Progressives maintain control of the Senate. And if they regain the House, then you might as well understand that this country will devolve into a dictatorship, it is one election away from that happening. (A good reason to repeal the XVIIth amendment).

So what can be done? Nothing!

Citizens can only affect change through elections, and this country NEEDS a new Senate, but that is 1 year away. The 2 party system in this country has got to be changed, even if Rush doesn't think so. We can't continue our freedoms and liberties with a 2 party system, because of what is now happening in the Senate and the Presidency. Party affiliation is the a boondoggle that chokes this nation at every turn.

We need a restoration in many areas of our lives, but we need people who will campaign, and run on the notion that they will do what they can to bring a repeal of the XVIIth amendment to the citizenry as soon as possible.

IT'S A DONE DEAL, ALWAYS HAS BEEN, WE WERE TO DUMB TO SEE IT.

Pelosi has stated "we have to save the world", and the Democratic US Senate cannot find a compromise it can accept from the House of Representatives, which can only lead you to one conclusion.....Obama will use the XIVth Amendment to raise the debt ceiling, but he'll include "shared sacrifices" and add the taxes he thinks are needed.

Bill Clinton recently alluded to this to Alisyn Camerota, but while Bill is a Progressive first, I think he is trying to pave the way for Hilary to enter the Primary race with a tone of civility for the Democrats and Liberals to vote for.

Obama has been losing support for some time, and this will push him over the edge, but there will also be a lot of democrats who will follow him like Lemmings. This time, I don't know if Bill is as clever as he thinks he is, or I could be totally wrong and Bill is setting up the dictorial workings of the Progressive movement.

This is their last hoorah, because if the Senate loses this fight, the Tea Party people will come out like never before to "overthrow", by election, the Democrats who now hold power in the Senate. But dictorial powers will not only "save" the budget, but they can try to enforce some policies America is not ready for.

 This is not going to end good. George Soros stands to become the first trillionaire, and America stands to fall into the ashes of history; a place she may never come out of.

THERE IS A SIMPLE WAY TO FIX THIS MESS

There they go again; he said, she said, they're immature, no you are blah blah blah.
The debt ceiling sounds like it should be important to America, but for the last umpteen years, almost every six months the debt ceiling is raised. It doesn't matter who the President is. So how is it the case that this needs to be done so often? GIVEAWAYS!! Yup, those good ole entitlements everyone loves to get but no one wants to pay for. They range from earned income tax credit, to mortgage interest right-offs, to education, free lunch programs, head start programs, illegal aliens going to college programs, national healthcare, farm subsidies, and all other sorts of subsidies, food stamps, and all of these have got to be paid for. First, the politicians "give" them to you, now you'll re-elect them into power because the opponent doesn't have the clout or party behind him to do the same thing then they have to borrow more money to pay for these, so they have to raise the limit which they can borrow .... it's the "good ole boy's" system, and that all started back in 1913.

Here's how we got there and it is also the simple way of getting out of this eternal mess: America has to repeal the XVIIth Amendment. It is that rascally amendment that made electing US Senators by popular vote instead of the Constitutional way of having the states send representatives to DC.

Citizens have control over their state elections to the extent they can oust a politician very easily, every election cycle. It is the Legislators we elect that elect US representatives for us....they are in DC to make certain each state is represented, and not a political party, but THAT no longer happens.

Think about this, why is there only a 2 party system. If fact, why is there a party of any kind? It's because lobbyists and big money people can get votes the way they want them, citizens be damned. Rules in each state make it almost impossible to get someone elected who is not endorsed by one of the 2 major parties. If they do get elected, they cannot get a good committee seat. Maybe they can't get their bills presented for a vote. AND If they have a good bill, they will have to agree to vote for something else, even if they are opposed to it, or their bill doesn't get presented. You see where I'm going. And all of this can be changed so our state representatives can once again represent us and not those people or companies that can donate large sums of money to their campaign (and then whom do you think they will vote to represent?).

A lot of things will change with the repealing of the XVIIth Amendment because rules will have to be changed in both DC houses. I seriously doubt that pork barrel will ever be what it is today. There are over 50,000 lobbyists, oh yeah, a lot of them are X-politicians in DC, and K-Street will have to send those people packing. Remember, popularly elected party politicians do not have your best interest at heart. They reach out to their old friends, they give themselves raises and medical and retirement packages for merely "serving" just 10 years in office (the DC Congress has increased its wealth by over 3,690% this year....how are you doing?) and they argue over the debt ceiling they cause to have to be raised. It's not you or me that makes this happen. The politicians enact programs they do not have the Constitutional authority to enact, then they raise the debt ceiling to borrow more money to administer these programs, and down the road either raise taxes to pay for them or they increase fees, or enact pay-go as if it is our gluttony they are trying to solve.

Read what the XVIIth Amendment says, then look at what Article 1. section 3 says; the Amendment changed just 4 words but it polluted the process immeasurably. Now look at your US Senate and tell me if that gang of 100, 90 year men can be stopped by repeal. Restore the power to the people by way of the Constitution. A revolution was fought to give it to us; men lost their wealth and fortunes to give it to us; can you find it in your heart to give up your entitlements and restore the power of DC back to the people?

Call or write your state representatives and seek to have the XVIIth Amendment repealed so Article 1. section 3. can once again, be the law of the Constitution. Send those vultures packing. They've profited from our ignorance and complacency for too long.

THERE'LL BE A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN SOON

You remember Hilary, don't you; the other democratic presidential candidate in the last election?

Well, you can expect her to cause a primary election to occur in 2012 because Obama has hit a wall.


 He is losing his base and cannot get enough support for his next intended tax hike.

What Hilary will do is offer an alternative to the Progressive party that is not so obviously extreme. Remember Bill Clinton was able to move to the center, when he had to; Obama does not have the capacity to move to the center, and his rhetoric can no longer make you think he has. He has a history as President, and all the teleprompter talk cannot persuade people he is not an extreme Progressive, maybe even an outright Socialist or Marxist. That scares people. Democrats want to "take from the rich and give to the poor" but they still want some sort of system that allows them to think they matter; Obama takes all that away from them. He hasn't paid their mortgage or given them a car as the voters understood him to say he would do, if elected. Instead, what he has done has made things worse, and people have actually lost their homes, jobs and cars.

Hilary, will campaign in the "middle of the road". She will (with Bill's help) say and make you think she cares about this country falling into decline, and she will "offer" a better way of getting things done. She will place herself in the middle of the consumer, unemployed and taxpayer where she will "feel your pain". Hilary will demonstrate that she can get along with the opposition and while not capitulalting, she will be able to reach a consensus. She will incorporate some Conservative ideas, to not sound as extreme as Obama. Election and power will be her guiding light, because she cannot do anything unless she is in the Oval Office, and Obama sent her out into the world as the Secretary of State, to get shed of her, but she turned that lemon into lemonade and has made some friends in the world; some who prefer her to Obama.

It was "her turn" in 2008, but somehow, Obama "stole" the election from her. She will attack his ideas of taxation during a depression, and show the Progressives that his bullying and demands only worked when the 2 Houses of Government were controlled by like-minded Progressives who never offered a budget to manage or control Obama's crazy spending habits.

She will point to his appointments, some of whom are communists, and show their ideas are merely academic and do not work in the real world. Hilary will show that some of the problems arose from the thinking of these people who have never had, or managed a business, and who espouse ideas that history has proven do not work, and that these very ideas do not have the best interest of the country in mind, but rather an ideology that is rooted in a dictatorship.

Already, there have been a large number of Senators abandoning the good ship Obama who will not run for re-election (currently 8) and there appears to be 23 Democratic seats up for election in 2012. Hilary HAS to offer an alternative in order to get herself elected AND try to not lose the majority in the Senate, which leans slightly to the Democrats with a 53 to 47 margin.

But even if she wins, there is a very good chance the Conservatives will win the Senate and retain the House, which will make Hilary, Obama, or any other candidate, impotent, save a Conservative President like perhaps Christie or Ron Paul.

The additional bad news is that those Senators leaving office feel they can enact anything they want since they do not have to get re-elected (a good reason the XIIth amendment should be repealed; the Nations' Senators were never intended to be popularly elected and you can see why).

But the upcoming Primary should be a lollapaloozer, especially if the Repubs can nudge Romney back into obscurity. What a potential, historical event; Hilary and whom ever her VP might be (at least we know it will not be Weiner), then Michelle Bachman, Ron Paul, Christie, and will one of these pick a primary loser for VP or select another person who is not running?

It's all up for grabs. So start making time for yourself to attend some of these campaign meetings and get your fingers ready to email the candidate of your choice. You might even want to get on one of the campaign committees...it will be historical.

HEY BOEHNER, WHERE'D YOU GET YOUR BACKBONE?

This is great.

Folks, remember, for over 800 days, the Democrats did not present a budget and are required to according to the Constitution Article I, section 7, and now that the House is controlled by the Republicans, everyone wants the other guy to present a budget. Well, the House did, as they are required and if the Senate doesn't like it, they can vote against it, then try to work out differences between the 2 Houses.

The Senate does not have any other choice, Constitutionally. It can only accept, are reject what the House sends it as a budget. The Senate is NOT required to submit their own budget, but is required to vote on what the House sends it. The Constitution allows the Senate to offer suggestions, but the Senate MUST vote on what the House sends it.

So now we have the proverbial stand-off. If there is any harm done to our country because of this debate, it lies entirely on the Democratically controlled Senate. They do not have the option to get things their way anymore. The grownups have moved in and presented the first budget in over 810 days, and the Senate is required to vote on THAT budget, not offer their own. If it is possible, the 2 Houses can work out a compromise, BUT remember, the Senate HAS to vote on what the House sends it. If they don't, they are in violation of the Constitution, and are responsible for whatever happens to the faith and credit of this great country.

Is this a gamble for the House? YES, but this country has a 2 party system and the differences between the 2 parties is now on display. When both Houses were run by the Democrats, the Democratic President got just about everything he wanted; now this country is ready to default on its debt, because of that reckless spending, unhampered by a Constitutional budget.

Today, is a new day. Republicans have nothing to lose. If the Senate and the President can manage to persuade some Republican Senators to vote their way, it would make no difference to Americans. The Democrats have had their way for a long time, and such a compromise will just allow things to go on as if Republicans do not matter.

So, Republican Conservatives, stand your ground. If in the end, the Democrats get what they want, well, they have had their way for a long time. On the other hand, if Conservatives can stand strong against the status quo, we might be able to put this country back on solid footing, with so much more to come, especially after the next Senatorial election.

I implore my readers to read their copy of the Constitution. IT IS the document that has been abused for far too long and needs to be restored in the thinking and functioning of our politicians. If they cannot abide by it, then they need to be voted out of office so someone who wants to represent this country, the Constitution and the people of America, can run for office and get elected to that end.