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Tag: Failure to Lead

Stabenow And Levin Help Obama Fail

By JGillman, Section Multimedia
Posted on Wed Jan 25, 2012 at 08:47:40 AM EST
Tags: Michigan, Carl Levin, Debbie Stabenow, Budget, Failure to Lead, Obama, 1000 Days (all tags)

By golly, by May 26th 2011, Michigan had a new budget. In fact it was done in only 140 plus days!

The prevaricator in chief's SOTU pandering last night marked 1000 days since Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin helped the US Senate pass a budget. 1000 days since considerations for the limited resources that government is supposed to operate under have been made. Debbie Stabenow, and Carl Levin, fully 5% or one twentieth of the problem that is Democrats controlling the US senate, have made no attempts to demonstrate the leadership necessary for good government.

I'll give Michigan's two US senators some credit. They certainly cannot be blind to the fact that failure to pass a 'limiting' budget means escalating debt and loss of control with federal spending. They could not be THAT inane. However, even Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow know the government under a bureaucracy growing president like Obama cannot operate within a budget. Its why they don't bother.

This severe lack of leadership foretells great misery for our future generations. For Michigan, and the Nation's future, they really need to go.

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Michigan's Super Sabbatical Crew

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Thu Aug 04, 2011 at 11:27:42 AM EST
Tags: Michigan, Congress, Constitution, Shame, Failure to Lead, Super Congress, Committee, Adbicating Responsibility, Rome, Caesar, Obama (all tags)

(and the new Roman senate)

Even the moderates in Michigan should be filling their drawers with the end result of the debt solution. The "solution" provided by our castrated leadership demonstrates a complete ignorance of the constitution in the face of the elements which desire the destruction of said document. They poured on the gasoline, and our delegation lit it.

No congressman from Michigan should have voted for the debt ceiling increase without fully understanding what he or she was doing. Even then, to do so, was to retire from the obligation of the office held.

And this is not about money.

How can a committee created to craft legislation that is composed from members in both houses exist? Though the 17th amendment destroyed the separation of people and state representation as planned by our founders already, it still did not change that the houses would be separate. This "super congress" committee of 6 from each house is a blasphemy to those who still believe in the protections afforded by our founders with the TRUE law of the land; our constitution.

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

Generally A Bad Day

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Tue Aug 02, 2011 at 08:40:06 AM EST
Tags: Michigan, Debt, Failure to Lead, Bad Day (all tags)

Al lot of things could be said for Monday. It was hot (up here) and the news cycle was on full tilt boogey. But no good news as far as I could tell.

Some lowlights:

Kwame is free.
Tea Partiers are now "terrorists" according to our VP.
The balanced budget amendment no closer to reality.
Unchecked US debt further cemented
Republicans have once again lost credibility
And the credit rating will now be worsened BECAUSE the congress cannot stop itself.
Obama is one step closer to his goal of wrecking this country.
And candidates supported by those aforementioned "terrorists", in the one vote that probably mattered most so far, blew it.

And I am considered to be over-reaching in my analysis of the situation as it relates to the debt. Some "extreme" "moderates" might think that saving 1 penny per every 43 overspent (adding to debt) is a winning result. Those out of there "terrorist" instincts fostered by a deep respect for the constitution and its purpose surely get the hackles up on some who think that losing is winning.

"Its ok billy, its not if you win, but rather how you lose."

One wall of shame coming up.

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