Lame-duck all-nighter watch: Open thread; Update: Reid relents, omniporkulus is dead; DREAM, DADT votes on Sat.; START debate tomorrow
If you’re a NORMAL, outside-the-Beltway American, you are up to your eyeballs in Christmas travel or family hosting plans, cookie baking, school and church activities, etc. etc. etc. In the grand tradition of manufactured crisis, the politicians in Washington are exploiting your preoccupation with other things to do their dirty deeds.
Some stalwarts in both the House and Senate are on guard duty tonight. Sen. Jim DeMint is planning to read the full omnibus spending bill tonight.
At this moment, the Senate is in a quorum call.
The House has just approved a first procedural vote on the tax deal. Vote was 230-186. House then voted 214-201 to approve another rule on the tax deal, opening up three hours of debate.
You can watch the livestreams on C-SPAN. I’ll try and update in between family duties, but please help pitch in via comments or e-mail.
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Update 7:30pm Eastern Harry Reid takes the floor. Invokes the Founding Fathers and asserts “I support the Constitution of the United States.” Segues immediately into a fear-mongering soliloquy about how children and seniors will be harmed if omniporkulus isn’t passed.
But announces that he will relent and work on a short-term continuing resolution to fund government. He doesn’t have the votes.
OMNIPORKULUS IS DEAD.
But our work is not over.
Reid announces he’s filing cloture on DREAM Act, DADT to be voted on Saturday. Debate on START tomorrow with amendments.
Reid, Durbin, and Patty Murray engage in a face-saving colloquy lamenting all the hard work they put into omniporkulus.
Reid bemoans the “deep, deep hole” they were faced with — translation: It’s BOOOOOOSH’s fault.
Update 7:50pm Eastern: Reid has filed cloture on DREAM and DADT — and used procedural moves to prevent amendments.
Reminder: Operation Buck Up to kill the DREAM is in force.
Update: 8:08pm Eastern Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill calls out pro-earmark Republicans. They deserve it.
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Reid droning on before the bill is read.
Daffy Duck: Now then, you’ve got it straight: You’re not gonna pay no more attention to no more signs! You’re just gonna listen to me, right?
Elmer Fudd: Wight.
Bugs: [disguised as a duck] Quack! Quack!
[moves his eyebrows up and down]
Daffy Duck: Oh, so that’s his little game is it? Shoot the duck! Shoot the duck!
Elmer Fudd: [shoots Daffy Duck]
Senate update – Via Amanda Carpenter – REID: “In reality we only have one choice and that is a short-term CR” more coming…
The wheels of the Omniporkubus go, THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
I’m tempted to breathe a sigh of relief, but they might hear me.
This is good news. However, what type of idiot would support START?
Michelle you are an American hero. Your unrelenting efforts are a fierce counter punch to the Marxist Left’s religion of failure and misery. (You are also very hot).
Merry Christmas, Malkin.
Maybe if you guys would work hard for the American People instead of trying to screw them out of their hard-earned money, things would go a lot smoother and you would all be home enjoying the holidays by now. But, I will not try to understand the workings of the lunatic mind.
Got to stop Amnesty!
Call! E-mail! CALL AGAIN!
This “Nightmare Act” would be the camel’s nose under the tent, they’d keep widening any opening we give them until citizenship is meaningless.
No mention of “the grand compromise”? I would think that that would be the top priority now. I really doubt DREAM or DADT will pass in the Senate. I don’t have any feel for START but I suppose DeMint can resurrect his threat to read the bill.
*DADT is small potatoes, the START treaty isn’t worth the paper it is written on, but the DREAM Act, my friends, spells “Death to America”; If it passes, we are done, so please continue to call, fax, and e-mail as I have done!
*The Grinch(Harry the Reid)could not ruin our Christmas with this insane porkulus bill, and I am well pleased with that!
*With the revelations on earmark sourcing, we have our work cut out for us; McConnell’s true colors come through again, painting himself as the lying, crying RINO rat bastard we knew him to be; The GOP cannot survive leadership such as that; He needs to be Deminted!
Le Grande Compromise is being debated in the House, with an amendment to kill it by raising the estate tax even more the only amendment to be allowed.
Those votes are expected to happen about 11 pm Eastern.
Good news! Thanks, Michelle.
I still keep thinking, “It’s a trick by the Demoncraps!” Head-fake. Do not blink, Senator DeMint.
And, yes, the GOP greedy-pork-spenders should be called out, along with Dems, neither who could possibly care for this country…only their future votes as they bring home the tainted bacon.
Holding breath that the pork will fail…If this kind of “governing” stops in DC it may be a very good thing. I am all for Bobby Jindal’s suggestion that these clowns become part-time to save a little money and angst as they pass bills we cannot sustain. Heaven knows we need a break from worry and “DREAMING.”
I really have to give Michelle a lot of credit. This seems to be the only place to go to rally in time to nip things in the bud. No floundering around wondering what to do. Names and phone numbers are always there and we can jump right into action. I seem to be spending half of my time on hold these days. And my typo count is getting out of hand.
“Cease fire on Omniporkulus. Reload and target Dream Act. Commence firing, commence firing, fire at will”.
Funnest thing I did so far. Upon hearing McCain calling for us Tea Partyers to “melt the phones” on omniporkulus, I called his office to hammer him on DREAM. How come I got through so easily? Caught me by surprise and almost blew it.
1 down, 2 to go
Fund the operations of the Government, do not increase our taxes, then go home. Sweet and simple. Merry Christmas.
Michelle,
Thank you for helping save the Republic.
The jury is still out on whether we have enough time to save the Republic.
The takeover is almost complete.
It’s going to take a melt down of the senate switchboards to stop the DREAM act amnesty! Go to NumbersUSA HERE and fax your senators, and tell them to vote no! Lame duck traitors and RINOs must be stopped.
I seriously believe we can’t win against both of the current parties. That’s why the GOP needs to go the way of the Whig. The upper echelon is never going to relinquish control.
The GOP nominee in 2012 will be amnesty friendly.
It’s being arranged now.
Again.
GOP-RIP
If reading the bill is all it takes to kill it, then all bills should be read from the floor.
Besides calling our representatives, can DeMint also insist on the Dream Act bill being read in its entirety??
By the way, I am not going to bother calling my senators. They are Amy Klobuchar and Al F’n Franken. Enough said.
Dear Rep. Weiner and other Congressional Idiots who supported this Pork-laden bill [is Weiner aptly named, or what?],
My rage is overflowing, you moronic jackasses. This is not YOUR money to spend, it is the American people’s money, paid by our damned taxes, to keep our country going, pay down our national TRILLION DOLLAR deficit (what part of that do you not understand on not spending??? Can you even balance a checkbook???), and pay for equipment for our great military. You, know, a DEFENSE BUDGET which you have not created, to protect this country that all you career politicians swore to protect? This is also not Obama’s freaking stash of money. THERE IS NO MONEY you pompous, preening, pansies, unless you are looking in your Monopoly boxes and using the pretty pretend money as you buy up Park Place and one of those railroads. There is no “get out of jail free” card nor a “spend money like you do on hookers card” that some of you carry. Speaking of jail, I hope someday some of you corrupt and arrogant Congressional crooks do go to jail for voting for the Obamacare and Pigford scandals (and God knows what else we don’t even know about in your transparent Congress).
What short buses are you clowns riding up there to keep spending money and flushing our country’s economy down the crapper? It is barely a month past November 2nd. Did you not get the message? Oh…I think some of you bitter clingers did: Bennett and others who got themselves voted out of the RINO club. You said, to hell with this country and your state, you were going down in a vindictive blaze, weren’t you, in voting for earmarks? And you, Scotty Brown, thanks for showing your true color (another aptly named Congressman, and a one-timer).
May you all forevermore be marked by the Tea Party curse of Elephantiasis (look it up, you morons…not MM readers, you rock even if you don’t know what this is). And GOP, man-up.
Signed,
Legal Taxpayer
I was wondering why this wasn’t done for the obamacare bill!! They should have required it be read!! I still don’t know why they didn’t!
Weeeener is the most arrogant, condescending SOB in Congress. I can’t stand to look at him or listen to his slobbering drivel.
Love it!!
*Speaking of that, Newt has already gone pro-amnesty(Americano website), as I predicted when he became Catholic, joining Huckabee as an advocacy pimp for illegal alien amnesty; They will never get my vote!
*Read the Victor David Hanson column, Two Californias, if you want to see how close we are to the Kenyan Utopia P-BO desires for us; I’ll take secession!
Anyone else notice the strange silence from Sarah Palin on the DREAM Act?
I am in favor of repealing DADT. I have friends who are gay who served our country in long distinguished careers in the US Military; one Navy and the other Marines. Both served honorably and both were in Operation Desert Storm and have my undying respect. Let’s move along, shall we?
Which is why he started this Spending bill in the Senate… just like the Constitution says he should…
Oh… wait… never mind…
Funny how they have no idea about what the document the SWORE to uphold, says.
On December 16th, 2010 at 10:27 pm, vickisoup said:
And as someone who spent LITTERALY YEARS at sea on US Naval Vessels… whose son is currently in the Navy???
Uh… no… you have NO idea of what living conditions are like… and this is one more distraction our military does not need in order to cater to the Political class.
Guys, guys, we have to repeal DADT. It’s the only way to prevent more nervous breakdowns among homosexual activists in the military.
Pat Buchanon sums up whats at stake -Rasputin Reid plans to vote on the Dream Act Saturday. If it passes this means War!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=240557
Bait and switch is what this is. Reid held out the Omnibus abomination until everyone was howling about it. Then he pulls it and instead we get DREAM Act, DADT and START, three disasters in the making.
channel suffering tonite, don’t watch Hannity often, I saw oh Newt once again pronouncing his Grand ol’ Pal’s, old country club repukes attitude…para phrasing “repukians did what was right on the tax bill”…NOT! and he will never get my vote. After this congress and what may yet be passed this congress it’s all over except for the shouting…as they say.
In the future elections in this country will be all for show and mean nothing as the Marxist that have run this country over the last 90 plus will have won.
I’ve noticed she has never said much about amnesty one way or the other other than she is big supporter of McAmnesty. It’s too bad, I like her for the most the part, but this amnesty crap turns me against her…where’s her love America on that one? Maybe she’s just another politician McShame found in the forest…the dark forest.
Gotta congratulate them when they do the right thing too. Good going GOP.
Thanks to those of the GOP who did stand up to Reid-and damn those of the GOP who are stabbing this country in the back. Be it omniporkulus, DREAM, DADT or START there are indeed Republicans who would sell this country’s best interest to the highest bidder. In times such as these Politics as Usual is all too close to Treason. Cowards serve no useful purpose.
I thought I heard on Special Report, from one of the commentators, that the Republican included pork was actually forgotten earmarks from long ago? The Democrats intentionally inserted them without the Republicans knowledge or consent… to push them into voting for the bill or to embarrass them.
Does this mean i don’t get my rum subsidies?
On December 17th, 2010 at 8:38 am, AmericaFirst said:
I heard this as well, AmericaFirst.
Over the last 40 years, Congressional Democrats and Democrat Presidents designed and implemented the crisis we are now in. Of that there is no doubt. The Statists’ incessant tampering with industry and free markets has effectively poisoned the well. An impartial financial post-mortem investigation will clearly document this and identify the players, both Wall Street and political, who perpetrated the crimes. They have effectively wrecked the housing market for at least the next 20 years. Their successful prosecution is critical to restoration of healthy government and the rule of law.
A central government dedicated to serving Marxist political goals rather than free commerce and individual liberty, dooms us to poverty and corruption. Even FDRs treasury secretary understood this. But the Left has kept the public and real policy makers blinded for the last 70 years while they implement their vision of Nirvana. At a minimum, we must create Constitutional firewalls. At this point they have effectively killed the golden goose and now they want to carve up what’s left of the carcass.
The one time I agree with Sen McCaskill.
The old “I was for it before I was against it” argument is running rampant in Washington.
She certainly doesn’t seem to want to say anything that contradicts him.