Written by Samuel Lawrence
As a Christian Conservative (socially and fiscally Conservative), the past two years have been very frustrating for me to bear under this Liberal/Progressive President and his never ceasing barage of Socialism. I think that a fun way to start off the new year is to look at his agenda through the lens of political humor and satire. A long time friend and fellow believer told me about the comedy impressionist Steve Bridges, who performs in prosthetic makeup as Barack Obama. Bridges has been impersonating presidents since the Bill Clinton era, but his routine of Obama captures the idiocy coming from the Oval Office in a magnificently humerous way. Watch Steve Bridges as President Barack Obama…
America’s slide however, down the path to bankruptcy of our nation, financially, morally and spiritually, began long ago. Unfortunately, it must be noted too that the blame for this slide can be laid on both major political parties. And with the 2006 election, we handed the reins of nation’s Federal Government (and as a result of that election we sacrificed our economy as well) to one of the most hard core, left-leaning, bunch of Liberal/Progressives in the history of our nation.
After President Obama took office in January of 2009, national “main stream” media outlets persistently babbled about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Sadly, a lot of people swallowed this nonsense. So, as the new 2011 Congress is set to take office in a few days with a lot of presumed “Conservatives,” here is a short civics lesson to consider.
Federal Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party. They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009. Let’s remember what the deficits looked like during that period:
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.
So, in a nutshell, what Obama has been saying is, “I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit well over four-fold since January 20th of 2009.”
Well, Republicans get back control of the US House of Representatives in 2011. They have the opportunity to lead our nation back to some economic sanity. Plus, they can shut down or stiffle the socialistic garbage that Harry Reid and the Democrats, who still control the Senate, can attempt to churn out because their ability to filibuster has been given back in the 2010 election. The question is this: will Republican listen to the voters? Or will this Congress of 2011 continue down the same path of the statist/elitist “let them eat cake” arrogance of the past 4 years.
Tim Hawkins has a song to put it all in the right perspective. I got to see Christian comedian Tim Hawkins at a youth conference a few years ago and I really like his style. I have posted this video by Tim before, but as we enter a new year, with the opportunity for some real “Hope and Change,” I want to share his video again…
(See more of Tim’s videos at http://www.timhawkins.net)
Happy New Year! And I pray the newly elected Conservatives will stand tall and true to the voters who sent them to Washington to fight for less spending, fewer Federal Government social experiments like promoting homosexuality in public education and in the military. and hopefully turn back the takeover of our nation’s health care.
A woman in a hot-air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
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