So...according to my Grandma Rose, "What else is new?" She came from that area in Poland that bordered Russia. Sha was used to privation. When she came to the USA she loved it. Her man could make a living. She saved up and bought a 2 family flat and rented out not only the downstairs flat but one of the bedrooms in her upstairs flat. She was a great money manager and she saved as much as possible. Her only indulgence was a rubber plant that she would admonish me to not even come close to.If you had tried to explain the Omnibus Bill to her, I'm sure she would never believe you. She became a citizen with an almost incomprehensible accent
and would never believe that the inheritors of the founders could possibly be that stupid. She is long gone now, but I'd be wiling to bet that she would have the budget straightened out and USA out of debt by the end of the new president's term. And so would many other new citizens appalled at the way America dissipates its wealth.

"these days politician is just another word for untrustworthy"

Up to you. I'm willing to give anyone - even a politician - a chance to show me their mettle.

"Republican voters are tired of getting left holding the bag."
What gives you that idea? It's not like there has been a big change in the GOP recently. They have been doing the same thing for 50 years: lying to get elected and voting like leftists after the election.
"Republican voters" will show they are fed up when they stop being "Republican" voters, and not one second before. You vote for evil, you must take responsibility for it. Especially when you have done it over and over again against all rationality.
"Republican" voters are insane. "Democrat" voters are insane.
If insane people can't be trusted with firearms, why trust them with a more powerful weapon?

http://www.redstate.com/2015/12/16/re...

You appear to have a very jaundiced view of Republicans in general - especially if you lump Rand Paul (a libertarian) in there as well. You ignore all the times they have bucked their own party to vote, such as on TPP/TPA and many others. I'd recommend a broader view and especially to take a look at the legislation Cruz offers and puts before the Senate. That's where you'll find the measure of the man - not whether or not he goes along with someone else's bill.

No one is going to claim that any politician currently in office is an Objectivist! But of all the Senators in Congress, I can only name two (Cruz and Mike Lee) who constantly cite the Constitution in their arguments before Congress against or for specific bills. I only wish more of the real RINO's like McCain and McConnell did the same.

Some would claim that it is only an expression of their own self-interest, the problem is that it is an extremely short-sighted and delusional form of self-interest. Yes, they are going to seek their own enlargement. The problem is that they misidentify the source of their enlargement: instead of the welfare of the people leading to the need for more services, they view their own enlargement as leading to the need for more services. What they fail to understand is that they are quite literally putting the cart before the horse. To make things worse, they are taking the money that would be used to feed the horse and using it to build a bigger cart!

LOL.

Dave Barry once made a similar joke in his book "Dave Barry Slept Here" when he talks about the new mandates on conserving water in flush toilets. He appropriately labels them "acts of Congress"!

We already knew McConnell was in the bag for Obama. The question was whether or not Ryan would capitulate as well and follow Boehner down the path of spinelessness, and it appears he has.

It's that time of year again – when the Republican leadership in Congress betrays everything they claim to stand for and helps the Democrats pass another 2,000-page, trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill.

Once again, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is going to completely surrender the power of the purse and give the Democrats everything they want and more.

Later today, the Senate will begin voting on this omnibus bill and Senator McConnell, like Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) before him, will block every conservative effort to slow this bill down or amend it.

The bill was negotiated behind closed doors and now it will be rammed through the Senate with minimum debate.

This is why so many Americans dislike Washington.

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) said the process is "an affront to the Constitution – the very idea of constitutionalism – and an insult to the American people."

The omnibus bill itself not only busts the budget caps and increases deficit spending, it does nothing to defund Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, executive amnesty, or the president's reckless nuclear deal with Iran.

Instead, it fully funds the resettling of refugees from nations with large areas controlled by terrorists, it quadruples the number of visas the president wants for foreign workers, it allows the president to fund the Green Climate Fund, and it gives Obamacare cover by delaying the worst aspects of the law.

This is happening in part because Senator McConnell thought it was wise to unilaterally surrender to President Obama, vowing to never do anything that might lead to a government shutdown. As a result, Democrats can now demand whatever they want in every budget debate and they will get it.

But it's also happening because Senator McConnell believes this is good for America. He calls this "governing" and brags about how he has cut deals with the Democrats to get the Senate "working again."

You're going to have to back that one up. The Republican Establishment doesn't and has never liked Cruz. The recent reports are that the Republican Establishment has actually opened up a criminal investigation of Cruz to try to force him to drop out of the race. If he's part of the problem, why would they do that?

That already happened when the FCC decided to take over the DNS servers rather than allow them to remain in private hands. And a bill was passed to end the NSA's wiretapping, but we'll probably never know if it really stopped.

What continues to astound me is that when evaluating foreigners for entry visas, the State Department had a policy upheld by Obama and Jeh Johnson prohibiting the examination of Facebook pages of potential immigrants. This was highlighted in the recent San Bernardino shootings when it was discovered that the wife - the real jihadi - had been posting her plans to wage holy war for several years prior to her falsified entry into the US. And at the same time, the US government is busy gathering US Citizen's private information via Facebook, Twitter, etc. for political targeting.

Paul Ryan just gave into Obama. What an ass. I am so disgusted by what our government takes my money for that I am close to shrugging. At this point, I think the government actually wants to destroy the currency by printing more of it. They figure the national debt will never be paid back, so it might as well be paid off by wrecking the currency value (along with my savings). If all the politicians from both parties that vote for these things were on a ship and it happened to sink, I would rejoice. Unfortunately, they are being elected by people who no longer think that freedom is a good thing, so they would be promptly be replaced by another similar group.

I have read that this bill will give the government new, unheard of authority over the Internet. Is that true? If so, how can this be stopped TODAY ( since that's when this bill is going to be passed )?

The biggest problem is that it now includes a cybersecurity bill that shares your online data with government agencies. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/20...

It seems to me that many of you on this site have not learned enough from Ayn Rand or are not taking it to heart. Those who work with in the government system i.e. are paid with tax dollars have ABSOLUTELY no concern as to how much money is spent or where. They only know they want more and more so they can spend more and more. You would think that they would want to rein in 0 but as you can now see they have no intention of doing so. What I heard which is the most annoying is the millions set aside to be used for the resettlement of the syrians. Did they ever give thought to the future once here if they will ever work towards self support, or where they will live in the first place the answer is an unequivocal NO. Do you think that even one of them cares about the future people that are being born into our world, your children and grand children having to pay more and more taxes so the loan can be paid, not paid off ever, to the lenders NO! Just view all of what they are doing with respect to reality such as A=A and realize that what these government employed people are interested in is only how they can benefit. Is there a difference between what they do and what the communists did from lenin on until this day, is putin different, NO just more sophisticated. welcome to the new america!

These days the best work in the Capitol building is performed in its rest rooms.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Senators Cruz and (recently) Sessions have pointed this out several times. Republican voters are tired of getting left holding the bag.

Any patriots in the Dark Center?
If so, they will just vote no.
Anyone who votes in favor of this should be arrested, tried for economic treason, unconstitutional violation of their oath, and executed on the capitol steps.
Sorry, no funding to clean up the mess.

I agree. I still can't believe anyone thinks this is the way to win an election. Personally I won't vote for anyone who caves on a regular basis, in fact depending on the circumstances, they may only get 1 chance.