Good start was not my words, it was Paul Ryan's. My definition of a good start is quit different from his. IMHO, you just summed up Ryan's definition very well.

He's only got a certain amount of time and this is an issue which is resonating with voters right now - and probably with those in his home state. If he goes off on a bunch of tangents instead of sticking to one point, he loses people.

I don't disagree with you: there are a lot of things in the bill to be concerned about. Unfortunately, death by a thousand cuts doesn't apply to politicians trying to get a bill killed. :(

I agree. Great harm is done by both wings of the statist party. An objectivist rejects both forms of evil.

Define "Good Start"! Does that mean continuing Boehner's giving Obama and D's everything they ask for hoping that people will like the R's more? This guy is as bad as Boehner, perhaps even worse!

When will we get someone with intelligence and guts that will go to the mat to save this country?

I think that the Republican party is worse than the D's because they continuously fool us with the rhetoric and then just pull the rug from underneath us come time for the "vote". Bait and switch (at least the dippy D's stick to their rhetoric)!

Independence Day would be the perfect day for that.
Well, the stock market would be closed but the 3rd or the 5th would be close enough.

Yeah, way to go, big government!
For increased spending IS the way to go!
Yay!

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

The video of Sen. Sessions objecting is almost all on immigration, including a big emphasis on his protectionist opposition to legal foreign workers.

Where is his concern for the rest? There is a lot in the omnibus bill that is objectionable besides funding Obama's illegal immigration policies and subsidizing illegal immigrants with "tax credits".

One big item almost no one is mentioning is extending the controversial anti-private property rights Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) first authorized in 1965 in Lyndon's Johnson "Great Society" and which expired a few months ago. It was last re-authorized in 1990 and the latest re-authorization had been held up.

Federal and state land is now about 40% of the land in the country and LWCF is used to fund eminent domain for expansion of the National Park Service and other Federal and state land agencies. The viro lobby has been pushing to make LWCF permanent, with no future authorizations required, as a step towards its agenda to turn it into an entitlement for government land acquisition of at least $1 billion per year. The viros want to bypass the annual Congressional appropriations process with a permanent entitlement in perpetuity, with no protection against eminent domain. Republicans in the House have been attempting to turn it into a primarily state subsidy and funding for maintenance while continuing annual appropriations, which would at least weaken it, even though the states have used it to fund eminent domain, too.

As usual, "deals were made" and LWCF was extended in another "compromise" for four years with funding appropriated for the next year, including Federal acquisition by the National Park Service. The seizing of private property trapped in Federal areas was cynically described in hearings last summer as "in fill" to remove inholders and "edge fill' for expansions.

These omnibus bills, usually lame duck at the end of the session, are always dangerous and are not restricted to funding. There are often attempts to slip through controversial new land acquisition programs that could not be passed in the regular session. A huge omnibus bill containing all kinds of controversial pressure group bills that could not previously pass on their own are lumped together so that each Congressman has an incentive to vote for it for his own political purposes without regard to the rest. Some are not coming back and have no accountability to voters at all. A lot of innocent Americans have been shafted by this process.

allosaur,
I don't understand why people are so concerned about the election cycle since there is quite obviously absolutely zero difference between any of the parties. They all know one direction and that is down hill and they are accelerating the farther down they get so when they hit bottom the entire country simply crashes and explodes. it will be one of the best light shows you can imagine and should happen on the 4th of July.

Of course not ;^)
Its similar to the phrase "with all due respect."

Back in the 70s we visited D,C. and toured the White House among other sights. A docent took a shine to my wife and gave her a White House ash tray. Pity I don't smoke or I'd be viciously grinding cigars into it several times a day. Symbolism is not reality, though, unless you're a liberal.

Hillary is a joke. Anyone can beat her, but the GOP has you brainwashed.
Vote for evil. Be a pawn. Be a slave.

"If I were an Olympian God,"
the RNC and DNC would be toast, and the lawn of the White House would have a warning for all future party leaders burned into it that could not be obliterated or covered up.
Not that those fool mortals would heed it.
I still want one of those cool saucers from Independence Day.
Power corrupts.

its either him or Hillary. no one else can beat her with her immense liberal support
At this point I would rather have Sanders Hillary. At least the whole thing will be over faster. I will give up on the United States until it crashes. I plan on shrugging in practice and will live out my life without getting engaged.

Supporting Trump is still agreeing to be enslaved and manipulated. Trump is Donald Sidious.

If I were an Olympian God, I would laugh ("What fools these mortals be"). But as a resident of the planet, I can only angrily cry.

making government work means that both the republicans and the democrats win increased spending from the citizens of the country.

I think the government has decided the national debt will never be repaid, so its best just to spend the wealth contained in the US dollar and let it crash.

Cry. He sold us all out by increasing the deficit. The so called tax loopholes have been in the system for years now- extending them didnt increase the deficit. It was the OTHER increases in actual spending that did it.

Absolutely !! The two parties are the same. This is why even the GOP is against Trump. At least he tells us when the emperor has no clothes, and he has my vote.

In my present state of disability, the worse I could do is beat the crap out of a pillow. As Sessions spoke, I found it difficult to control my anger. I thought that I couldn't possibly get more upset than with the Yale students petitioning against the 1st Amendment. To my surprise, I found that I could.I knew in the back of my mind that we had a one party system, but up until now, I refused to admit it to myself. Well, I cannot deny it any longer. It is even worse than the shameless one party systems found under totalitarian regimes in that it pretends to give you a choice. I guess I'm moving to the "dark side" because that's the only side left. It's hell to get old, because I can remember when this country hadn't fallen over the cliff into the abyss of totalitarianism.

Following the Goldwater loss in 1964 and the takeover of the Dems in 1968 by the Alinsky radicals, government looting became a full time profession. The Republicans had no answer to the Dems promise of free stuff for votes before a population not interested in ethics, history or morality, so they compromised. The cancer will only be cured when the patient is dead.

I'm sure RINO Ryan was pleased as punch.
(A punch called Kool-Aid).
I'm also sure RINO Ryan was high-fiving other RINOs and even some Dems over his wonderful subservient leadership achievement.
Now what was it GOP candidates were promising the voters?
Aw, what the heck! That hurdle lies behind them now.