U.S. House of Representatives passed Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s landmark budget proposal

[Patricia M. McBride]

I just got this and thought I would share it with you all.  This appears to be some good news, so let's hope the senate gives it serious consideration.  It will bend the spending curse down and save us!  It isn't a sharp a down turn as I might like to see, but it certainly moves things in the right direction

Dear Patricia, Great news!  Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s landmark budget proposal. This budget is both audacious and responsible.  It slashes $4 trillion in government spending while saving Medicare.  It completely defunds Obamacare and puts America back on the path to a balanced budget. It will save our economy. Thank you for all you have done to help elect good, principled conservatives to Congress.  Today’s vote could not have been possible without you. However, our work is still not done.  Not even close. Now the budget battle switches over to the U.S. Senate. Please call your U.S. Senators right away at [phone] and urge them to back the House’s budget plan. Once again, thank you for all your help. Sincerely, Patrick McHenry United States Congressman Honorary Chairman, House Conservatives Fund

[J.R.]

How could Fox News Channel possibly have information that Tea Party numbers are down from last year? That was a general election year. We're working on local elections now and they don't cover those much at all. Just because they don't see and hear as much about us, doesn't mean there are fewer of us, when actually the reverse is true.  First Coast Tea Party numbers have almost doubled in the past year and we are adding members all the time. Whoever did the fact checking on that piece of information should be required to produce documentation of it.

[J.R.]

Roma, if that came from Chris Wallace's Sunday News on FNC, remember Wallace is a Democrat. So, he wouldn't push the budget plans of two Tea Party favorites, Michelle Bachman and Rand Paul, both of whom support the Tea Party movement.  

Last week, Bill O'Reilly was trying to explain away the fact that Obama has a Social Security card issued to a much older man from Connecticut who is now deceased, by saying (with no proof whatsoever) that Obama's father had lived in Connecticut while attending Harvard. What difference would that make?  Obama's father was never an American citizen and his mother wasn't old enough at the time of his birth to confer citizenship.  I can't understand why O'Reilly is so soft on Obama.  Who knows, maybe at Fox they're following Rupert Murdoch's wishes on that subject.

[J.R.]

That's the problem with omnibus spending bills, in which they incorporate the Defense Dept. authorizations.  Not many on any side of the fence want to be caught voting against defense appropriations.  The defense bill should be a stand alone bill.  All the other appropriations should have to stand on their own merits as well and, in my opinion, be stand alone bills. That way, many of them would die on the vine, as they should.  Omnibus bills generate more spending and that's just what we don't need.  It is a sort of shell game and it's intended to confuse, confound and deceive the American people. Plus, it's just more of the same old, same old way of doing business in Washington that makes us all cringe.  We should make a high profile issue of this and demand that they get back to taking the Constitution and the jobs we sent them there to do seriously, or we'll give them their walking papers in the 2012 election.

[J.R.]

Patricia, I didn't even know there was a conservative, Restore the Republic, social media out there.  Thanks for the information.  I haven't joined FaceBook and don't care to provide personal information on liberal-controlled webpages. If they can censor, they can also gather and track information.  If they are so anti-Christian that they will delete the word "Amen," who would want to post there anyway? The only good point I can see is that you can still get across concepts without using particular identifying words. They would have to spend an enormous amount of time to read everything posted to censor concepts and generalities.

There are things I don't like about Paul Ryan's budget and his voting record either, but it's better than what Obama's administration prepared and proposed to Congress.  I agree that Michelle Bachman's, in the House, and Rand Paul's, in the Senate, were infinitely better proposals and actually provided a way to attain needed objectives. If Bachman had won the race for Speaker of the House, we would surely have had a better outcome regarding the budget.

Another thing about the budget, is that Obama intruded unconstitutionally into the legislative budget process in Congress. The Constitution does not provide that role for the Executive Branch, ie. for the president to demand a command performance and negotiation anywhere for him to bully and control the budget process and outcome.  That is Congress' job alone,  The president can propose a budget to Congress and he can veto a Congress-approved budget.  Those are the only two options he has. The Congress can override a veto if they have the votes to do so.   

2012 is going to be a game-changer and the good old boy career politicians in the House and Senate need to get the message that they are to put the rights and preferences of the people first and protect us and our country from liberal progressive assaults on our religion, our freedoms, and our moral climate and our financial future or we will throw them out at the ballot box.  Business as usual is unacceptable and we won't tolerate it.

We also need to do whatever we can to widely expose the censorship going on at FaceBook.  Patricia, that would be a good blog, in which to post a warning to our membership.  Are they also censoring on the other social media sites?

[Patricia M. McBride]

I don't know Roma, but I will move over to Restore the Republic social network if they start removing all my political posts.  I am not going to read the Obama rhetoric and propaganda while having my voice taken away period.

[Patricia M. McBride]

PS the words are socialist and communist............so much for freedom of speech on the internet!

[Patricia M. McBride]

I agree and like Rand Paul's idea of cutting whole departments which is what I heard an economist say was the only way we were going to get out of this.  I am not cheering about this bill passing, but I am glad they at least did something.  Some of these folks like Boehner need to go as they have been there far too long and think they truly believe we are appeased by their tiny cut and have something to cheer about when we certainly do not cause it didn't even slow Obama down.  Another side note......look our if you are a big facebook person as facebook is now disallowing you using certain works.  Either your article is blocked or they will not allow you comments to print on the site.  This is quite apparently part of the Obama campaign to control the message and Facebook owners are his friends and supporters.  So be warned you must use the number 1 for the i and the zero for the o :)

[J.R.]

Thanks for posting this information, Patricia.  I thought it was disgraceful the way Obama pulled the same trick on Rep. Paul Ryan, and a few others invited to sit in the front row for the speech, that he pulled on the U.S. Supreme Court Justices at the 2009 State of the Union.  Obama arrogantly and maliciously denigrated Ryan and his budget, in a manner intended to demean and humiliate.

In Obama, we see a low man in a high position of power... one who doesn't have a presidential bone in his body or thought in his head.  We're going to have to double down on our efforts from now until the 2012 election.

I just read that a member of Congress has now brought up trying to repeal the "birther" natural born citizen requirement for President.  He must know what Obama has spent over $2M to hide from the American people.  And he must not know that what he seeks will require an Amendment to the Constitution and that is a process that takes many years and would likely not be ratified by the requisite number of states, anyway.  Especially in this political environment, with the "birther" issue (problem for Obama) now polling over 50% who believe he is not a natural born citizen. Plus, now he has another reason to hate Arizona, since they just passed a law requiring proof of natural born citizenship to get on the general election ballot in AZ and Gov. Jan Brewer is certain to sign it into law if she hasn't already done so. And, other states are looking into doing the same.