Truth To PowerAnd he is right, Obama talking about guidelines for earmarks or banning pork are laughable as they are clearly in the authority of the Congress. I suppose he could threaten to veto democrat budget, but this is the path of least resistance presidency and the money is being used to elect democrats anyway.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer declared Tuesday that Congress, not President Obama, will decide whether to put more limits on earmarks in upcoming spending billsAsked about White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' statement Monday that the Obama administration was formulating guidelines for earmark reform, Hoyer said flatly, "I don't think the White House has the ability to tell us what to do."
He paused deliberately and quipped to reporters in the room, "I hope you all got that down."
Earmarks are unrelated pet projects that members of Congress insert in unrelated spending bills....
Even more amazing Hoyer implies Obama is a hypocrite:
Hoyer also said that even though Obama, then a senator, did not request any earmarks in last year's spending bill, he did request projects for Illinois in prior years he served in the Senate.
First Mr. Hoyer, President Obama may not have the authority to tell Congress to stop the ear mark abuse in Congress, but he sure has the ability to veto bills laden with pork.
ReplyDeleteSecond, President Obama also has the bully-pulpit to highlight some of these obscene expenditures that Congress sneaks into unrelated bills because Congress doesn't have the balls to let these bills stand on their own merit.
Wake up and smell the coffee Hoyer.
anonymous,
ReplyDeleteObama will not politically undercut any democrat going into the 2010 midterm, that is reality.
Stenny Hoyer is showing why Obama will not be able to keep his promises!! Because the Dems want their Pork. Guys like Stenny have earned it. Our taxes are flowing to his control and he is in the right to spend them to get him and the others reelected. Which is exactly what Obama needs - to get a full 4 years of Dem control in. So why did we ever believe his change agenda? If we had any sense we would have made him talk specifics during the election campaign!!!!!
ReplyDeleteStick it Hoyer! You're what's wrong with America; it's people like you that are bringing America down. You and that other Congressman that came out immediately and told Obama that it's not in the President's place. You know what, maybe it's not, but you suck. You suck like a crappy Kirby vacuum cleaner!!
ReplyDeletegreg,
ReplyDeleteIt is checks and balances, even with a unified government.
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ReplyDeleteRon Paul Helps Glenn Beck Debunk FEMA Camps
Published on 03-04-2009 Email To Friend Print Version
Source: www.roguegovernment.com
By - Lee Rogers
A new operation appears to have been launched in the mass media mind control complex to make people believe that FEMA camps do not exist. Talking head stooge and former drug addict Glenn Beck who gets paid millions of dollars to lie to people on his radio show and on Fox News, actually began talking about FEMA camps recently. Beck promised that his research team would get to the bottom of what’s really going on with these FEMA camps. This is funny, because news of detention facilities being preserved and built in this country for large groups of people is 100% documented and is really nothing new. Of course, it is doubtful that Beck will actually reveal the truth about government detention facilities when his research team finishes their work. It appears as if the only reason why he’s mentioning FEMA camps is so that he can setup phony arguments as to why they don’t exist. Strangely enough, Ron Paul made an appearance on his program and actually told him that the camps don’t exist. Dr. Paul is right on many issues, but he is wrong about the FEMA camps. In fact, it is amazing to see how Dr. Paul has now been turned into a media darling as the corporate media’s old paradigms are being traded for new paradigms to keep people watching their fake news broadcasts. The fact that Dr. Paul won’t expose the phony terror war fraud, the lies about 9/11 and is now claiming that FEMA camps don’t exist is ridiculous. It is time to call a spade a spade.
Beck Mentions FEMA Camps On Fox & Friends
Beck Backs Off Of FEMA Camp Report w/ help From Ron Paul
Let’s look at some of the evidence that there are detention facilities in place that could be used to hold large quantities of people for whatever reason the government deems to be necessary.
First in the 1980s, it was reported by the Miami Herald, the Akron Beacon Journal and other publications on and after July 5th 1987 that Oliver North had assisted FEMA in drafting plans for civil defense. These plans included the suspension of the U.S. Constitution, the imposition of martial law, internment camps and turning control of state and local governments to military commanders and providing FEMA dictator like powers during catastrophic events including times of widespread political dissent. North himself was even asked about these reports during the Iran-Contra scandal by Congressman Jack Brooks but was stopped by the committee Chairman because it touched upon classified information.
We have George W. Bush signing into law a bill that allocated money to preserve Japanese internment camps that were used during World War II.
We have KBR the engineering arm of Halliburton being awarded a $385 million contract to build detention facilities under the guise that they would be used to house illegal aliens.
There is a declassified U.S. Army document posted on the U.S. Army’s official web site outlining U.S. Army Regulation 210-35 which describes standard operating procedures on how to setup a Civilian Inmate Labor Program.
The Associated Press ran a report describing how FEMA is looking for ways to transport large quantities of people via trains during an emergency, much like the Nazis did with Jews back during World War II.
There is also ample anecdotal evidence of people who have reported facilities that appear to be built for the purpose of detaining large quantities of people around the country.
There is also a new bill entitled HR 645 the National Emergency Centers Establishment Act that was proposed by Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) which would authorize and legalize FEMA camp facilities on open and closed military reservations.
It is impossible to dismiss all of this information and say that FEMA camps flat out don’t exist. There is too much anecdotal evidence and mainstream news to say that it is just a wild conspiracy theory. We know there are Japanese internment camps and we know that KBR was given a huge contract to build detention facilities that are not being used to house any illegal aliens at this point in time.
With that said, we have to face the facts that there are detention facilities in existence today and that they are pushing to expand and legalize this insane FEMA camp program. It is pretty sad when there is literally nobody in Washington DC including Dr. Paul that is providing the full truth on anything. Even though Dr. Paul’s campaign for President began as a positive resistance movement it was clearly infiltrated and steered in the wrong direction to ensure its eventual defeat. The globalists plan to get rid of the Federal Reserve, so they don’t really mind the fact that Dr. Paul is over TV speaking out against it. They are just going to replace the Fed with the phony solution of a new central bank and a new debt based currency when the Federal Reserve Note currency collapses.
The entire political process is a joke and there doesn’t appear to be any way to salvage it. The government is a criminal enterprise on every possible level and should be recognized as such. If Glenn Beck actually tells the truth about FEMA’s role in continuity of government operations coupled with what's really happening with these camps, it will be an enormous surprise. It appears as if Dr. Paul’s appearance was setup for Beck to later debunk this FEMA camp information with his bought and paid for research team cronies. Even though it is possible Dr. Paul might not have full access to all of the information about government run detention centers, his stance on other issues such as the phony threat of Al-Qaeda and the false flag terror attacks of 9/11 raises a number of questions. Who out there is providing the full truth about anything in Washington DC? The answer is simple, and that is nobody.
Paul Supporter,
ReplyDeleteThere is no vast conspiracy, reality is always more dangerous and your wasting time. Government can be wrong, but that does not make the whole enterprise criminal.