{"id":28550,"date":"2014-12-18T19:31:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=28550"},"modified":"2014-12-18T19:36:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:36:44","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-december-17th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=28550","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, December 17th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Wednesday, December 17th, 2014, and there are only 7<\/em><\/span> shopping days left until Christmas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up, courtesy of Townhall.com<\/em>, Conn Carroll recounts the…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three Things We Learned From The CRomnibus<\/span><\/h1>\n

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\"John<\/a><\/p>\n

After a week of passionate debate and late night votes,\u00a0the Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill this Saturday\u00a0that will keep the entire federal government, except the Department of Homeland Security, funded through September 2015.<\/p>\n

Here are three lessons conservatives should take away from the ordeal:<\/p>\n

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  1. Corporatism is King<\/strong><\/em><\/span> – Money talks and activists walk. That is the sad lesson from a $1.1 trillion spending bill that included huge payoffs to\u00a0Blue Cross\/Blue Shield<\/a>,\u00a0Citibank<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0corporations that use taxpayer subsidized loans to invest overseas<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. Meanwhile, House leaders did nothing to stop President Obama’s executive amnesty other than\u00a0offer up a show vote on a separate piece of legislation that had no chance of even being voted on in the Senate.<\/li>\n
  2. Republican Leaders Want To Cave On Amnesty<\/strong><\/em><\/span> – Not only did Republican leaders not even allow a vote on an amendment to defund Obama’s amnesty,\u00a0even though they included plenty of other restrictions on federal spending in the omnibus<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, but they even included more than a billion in spending on programs to clean up Obama’s last amnesty,\u00a0including\u00a0$948 million for the Department of Health and Human Service’s unaccompanied children program and\u00a0$260 million for the State to Department to spend on Central American countries<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/li>\n
  3. Republican Leaders Lie<\/strong><\/em><\/span> – Not only did\u00a0Republican leaders lie about Congress’s ability to defund the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services office<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>, the agency in charge of implementing Obama’s amnesty, but\u00a0they also lied to Rep.\u00a0Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) in order to get his vote on an early procedural matter<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, and they\u00a0falsely claimed<\/a><\/strong><\/em> that Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX)\u00a0and Mike Lee (R-UT) empowered Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to sneak more Obama nominees past the Senate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    None<\/em><\/span> of these lessons are good news for conservatives.<\/strong> If anything they show that with Reid out of the way in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) are going to be very eager to cut big deals with Obama so they can prove to Washington elites that they can “govern.”<\/strong><\/span><\/span> These deals will all benefit large corporations\u00a0almost always at the expense of small businesses and middle class Americans.<\/p>\n

    We’d go one giant leap further and suggest none of these lessons are good for the country<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0As our old friend The Bossman observed earlier, the national debt just hit $18 trillion, and we’re still running annual budget deficits in excess of $500 billion. \u00a0This despite the fact the U.S. Treasury just took in a record level of tax receipts.<\/b><\/p>\n

    At the current rate of debt accumulation, by the time The Dear Misleader leaves office, he’ll not only have saddled America with a $20 trillion<\/em><\/span>\u00a0IOU, but when interest rates inevitably climb, the interest on the debt alone<\/em><\/span> will consume approximately 1\/3 of the total budget. \u00a0<\/b>If Republicans don’t recognize both the necessity and opportunity to curtail spending now<\/em><\/span>, then when<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Consider this: absent millions of voters, all of whom voted in 2008 for the lackluster John McCain, staying home because Mitt Romney excited them about as much as drying paint, the former Bay State governor would have been President. \u00a0Had George H.W. Bush not lied to the American people and broken his solemn promise…<\/b><\/p>\n

    \"Read<\/a><\/p>\n

    …Ross Perot would never have mounted a third party campaign which siphoned off 19% of the Republican vote, and the world would have never heard of Monica Lewinsky…or<\/em><\/span> Hillary Clinton.<\/b><\/p>\n

    If the GOP leadership believes they can lie to Conservatives’ faces and history won’t repeat itself, they need to think again. \u00a0If this part of some carefully considered plan, they need to communicate it<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0Otherwise, they need to complete the tasks voters assigned them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Next up, courtesy of our old buddy Breeze and Fred on Everything<\/em>,\u00a0in a column written back on October 30th, Fred Reed holds nothing back in an accurate assessment of the inordinate deference paid a certain segment of the American electorate:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Black Power<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

    A Done Deal<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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    “As I write America waits, again, to see whether blacks will riot, this time in Ferguson. Will they loot, burn, kill, and rape? The usual? <\/em>The police in Ferguson prepare to protect stores from looters, as rioters seem to regard their insurrections as shopping opportunities. Will it come, we wonder tensely? Will the destruction get out of hand, spread to other cities?<\/p>\n

    It is curious that blacks, the least educated thirteen percent of the population<\/em><\/span>,<\/em> the least productive<\/em><\/span>,<\/em> most criminal, and most dependent on governmental charity<\/em><\/span>, should dominate national politics. Yet they do<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Virtually everything<\/em><\/span> revolves around what blacks want, demand, do, or can\u2019t do. Their power seems without limit<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Courses of instruction in the schools, academic rigor, codes of dress, rules regarding unceasing obscenity, all must be set to suit them, as must be examinations for promotion in fire departments, the military, and police forces. Blacks must be admitted to universities for which they are not remotely qualified, where departments of Black Studies must be established to please them. Corporate work forces, federal departments, and elite high-schools must be judged not on whether they perform their functions but on whether they have the right number of blacks.<\/p>\n

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    Do laws requiring identification to vote threaten to end multiple voting? The laws must go. Do blacks not like Confederate flags? Adieu, flags. Does Huckleberry Finn go down the Mississippi with the Nigger Jim, or Conrad write The Nigger of the Narcissus<\/em>? These must be banned or expurgated to please blacks who haven\u2019t read them or, usually, heard of them. Do we want to prevent people coming from regions infested with Ebola from entering the United States? We cannot. It would offend blacks.<\/p>\n

    We must never, ever say or do anything that might upset them, as virtually everything does. It is positively astonishing.<\/span> One expects the rich and smart to have disproportionate power. But America is dominated from the slums<\/span><\/strong>…”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Case in point:<\/strong><\/p>\n