An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Has Senator Corker Forgotten?
It might do the folks in D.C. a whole lot of good if they would remember who are their bosses. Perhaps I should clue them in? Ok, here goes….. Representatives work for their respective districts. Senators work for their states. If that is too complicated for some of them to grasp, perhaps this will help? Example: Marsha Blackburn by the citizens of Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District. See? Wasn’t that easy? So, when I say that Bob Corker was hired by the people in the state of Tennessee to reflect their best interest, I don’t think I’m being out of line, am I?
The Bob Corker Bailout Sellout
While the media and most of the public are consumed by the health care death march, the Senate is deep in negotiations to pass a sweeping re-regulation of the financial sector. As the public knows, ObamaCare is an attempt to regulate 1/6th of the US economy. The financial ‘reform’ proposal, though, will impact the other 5/6ths of the economy. In many respects, the financial services ‘reform’ is much more damaging to the economy and our future competitiveness. Worse, its passage is being aided by Bob Corker.
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Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with his complete capitulation and total surrender on the Financial Services bill. The bill, passed by the House with a $4 trillion bailout provision, making bailouts the permanent policy of the United States government, was on it’s last legs until Corker came to the rescue. Now the Washington Post and other are reporting that Corker and ethically-challenged, retiring Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) are on the verge of a deal to breathe life back into the regulatory and bailout scheme.
Has Corker just signed his own defeat, IF he is allowed to run for re-election? Why would a Senator, who, I thought was the more ‘conservative’ of our two, basically conspire with the likes of Chris Dodd, to shove even more bailout BS down our throats?
See the rest at Big Government.com. I’m more than just a tad disgusted.
Bob Corker is one of the few in Tennessee who actually thinks. He tries to represent all of us. Marsha Blackburn, on the other hand, is an extremist. I mean what do you call someone who the 7th most conservative of a 435 member body? It is really sad that she only represents big oil and gas and big pharma. She’s forgotten about us–i.e. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. What woman would vote against her own best interests? One who does not listen to her constituents and is more interested in staying in power and not in what’s best for us. Greg Rabidoux gets my vote this year. At least he will listen to both sides.
Corker represents the best interest of Tennesseans by crawling in bed with feckless weasels? Yeah…ok.
Do you happen to know what was attached to this bill? I’m sure you are aware that there are many bills she has voted against, if they stood alone, she would have supported. Unfortunately, Congress likes to throw in money spending crap which is totally irrelevant to the issue.
And yeah….I’d say if someone was ranked as the7th most conservative, she IS looking out for the best interest of the district. Do YOU want the government to take over your life? I don’t know many who do, unless they have socialist leanings.
You don’t even know the meaning of the word “socialist”, just as you don’t know the meaning of the word “conservative”. 7th most conservative is no badge of honor–what it says is that Marsha is for Marsha and doesn’t take into account that the majority of her constitutency is not made up of the radical anarchist fringes she panders to. Do I want the government to run my life. Obviously, I do not. But, it is not the size of government that we need to be arguing about, it is the effectiveness of government. Some things absolutely need government intervention and regulation for our safety or education, or the infrastructure of the country. But, the government needs to stay out of my personal life—I can make my own reproductive choices and I decide who I sleep with.
Oh, that’s right….I’m just an ignorant no account right winger, without a lick a sense, right?
Don’t piss me off, you won’t like me when I am angry!
I would already be pissed off if someone called me ignorant, or a radical anarchist fringe… just saying.
So if healthscare is 1/6th and this bailout law is 5/6ths that pretty much ties it all up.
I wonder, what would happen if the Government cut back on spending and bailouts, and let the American people KEEP more of the money we earn and then, just maybe we would spend and save, bringing jobs and money in the banks?? They create the crisis and then want us to send tax dollars to bailout the very businesses that their regulations put in dire straights. We have to get these people who have NO concept of what their mandates and regulations do to our industries and companies out of office.
I would just like to add, where in the Constitution does Senator Corker and the rest get their authority to make a law to Bailout financial institutions! Looks like Tennessee will have 2 new Senators, 1 in 2012 and one in 2014. GOOD!
@Paula Oh, I try to be patience with the trolls. I guess it’s just my nature. However, that being said, for some recently, I don’t have the patience I use to. Just can’t figure it out.
Ok, the body….whole body, is there a head attached, with some gray matter available?
Info I shared with him, and I even provided links for both of your convenience.
Read, first, the Declaration of Independence. I think you’ll find all sorts of useful information. Second, get a copy of the U.S. Constitution, and study it. Read it through, then go back and read it again, this time with your two brains rubbing together. Then, read it a fourth, fight and sixth time, if need by, until you are capable of comprehending the words, how they were put together. It’s a rather symbol booklet, you can get one free from Heritage. Carry it with you every where you go. Then, once you are starting to grasp the meanings of the words, and the document as a whole,. pick yourself up a copy of The 5000 Year Leap. You can get it from Amazon for $13.57 plus shipping. There is also quite a selection of ‘used’ copies. I’m also sure you’ll be able to find a copy at a quality bookstore in your area of Las Vegas suburbia.
Then, grab a history book. I don’t mean the type of history book they are teaching in schools these days. Those aren’t history, they’re pap! I’d suggest A Patriot’s History. The hardback is out the question, so I linked the paperback version for you.
Now, when you have been properly education, feel free to come back and discuss the merits of traditional conservatism, and the need for the U.S. Constitution to stay just as it is, and if we intend to survive, why we need to learn it, love it, live it.
And yes, 7th ranked conservative out of 435, I would say was REAL good, for the district, the state, and the country. She’s not perfect, but compared to what else in the Swamp……
Would like to add to the reading list, a copy of The Federalist Papers, this gives you REAL meaning of the aforementioned Documents
Oh yeah. Well, at 3 in the morning, the gray cells don’t work all that great y’know. LOL
No matter what Blackburn tells you is the reason she voted against something, the real answer is that it might decrease big business, big oil, or big pharma’s profits and that it was introduced by Democrats. You really can’t in good conscience defend the record of the congresswoman who wants to be called a “congressman”. Good government is neither far left or far right, so when one has a 12% approval rating on human and civil right issues, is the 7th most conservative member of a 435 member body, has NEVER written a single piece of legislation that passed, wants to privatize social security and give vouchers for medicare (which was defeated by a majority during Bush term), ad infinitum…..what else can you say but that she “panders to the radical anarchist fringes”? BTW, don’t wear the shoe unless it fits. The body didn’t call you that, just said that is who Blackburn panders to, which is true, i.e. the birther bill. Come on, Marsha, get real. How about addressing the real problems we face–lack of affordable healthcare, the looming national debt, rising costs of education, JOBS, the exportation of our jobs overseas. Where were you when your party was in power and you could have really done something to address these things? Oh, excuse me, I forget you voted for CAFTA (which just passed by about 5 votes), and within months Selmer Apparel closed and 200 jobs went to Central America. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Folks, don’t let Marsha fool you. She’s as worthless as the tits on a boar hog.
What is it about the lefties that they just hate business? I don’t get it! Who provides REAL lasting jobs? Why, that would be those evil corporate businesses, wouldn’t it. Why do corporations move their operations overseas? Well, that would be those wonderful unions that wants to suck the life out of any profit margin.
Birther bill? Are you referring to the bill that would require all FUTURE presidential candidates to provide PROOF they are eligible to run for the highest office in the land? You got a problem with this? It’s already in the Constitution, but evidently, that very important document just isn’t enough for some folks, so yeah, I think it’s a REAL good idea to provide incontrovertible proof.
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
No, I am NOT a “birther”, I just don’t want ANY doubts in the future. I would, however, like to see his school records. President of the Law Review at Harvard? Did he publish anything? Other than, possibly, some obscure piece that is not attributed to him?
“Radical anarchist fringe’? ROFLMAO You’re funny. Yep, us ol’ believers in the U.S. CONSTITUTION sure are radical anarchist fringey types, aren’t we.
Oh, and if you are directing a statement towards someone other than me, please do so, using their name. Otherwise, I’ll just think you are making stuff up.
I could have been rude, and said if ‘the body’ wants to be a slut, and murder the unborn baby that results, then that’s her business. But I didn’t. I do try to be civil. Doesn’t always work though.
Good grief, old broad, get your panties in a wad! NOBODY has a problem with Business or Corporations. It’s the CEO’s that make 350 times more than their employees that EVERYBODY ought to have a problem with. In the 60′s they made about 35 times more. That I can see. But later in the late 80′s and 90′s things really got out of control. And, that’s while they accuse unions of “sucking the life out of any profit margins”. Well, I know a lot of union workers and a lot of union bosses personally, and I don’t know any of them that make more than $250,000 a year, and that goes all the way up to the President of the United Steel Workers. And I grant you, none of them have gold-plated toilets. In fact, most of the union workers I know are sacking your groceries at Kroger, teaching your children, or working in the cafeteria. Of course, others fly your plane, check your baggage, and build space shuttles and military equipment. I really don’t know why anybody should have a problem with a movement that has advocated for and is responsible for fair labor standards that ALL of us enjoy–a 40 hr. workweek, workplace safety standards, unemployment insurance, FMLA, vacation and sick leave, workmen’s compensation, etc.
As for the birther bill–it was all about pandering to the folks that wanted to de-legitimize Barack Obama’s presidency. Marsha knows as well as the other sponsors that the President is a natural-born citizen–why do you think she said it was about “future presidents”. Nevertheless, she wanted to be seen as doing something to appease the birthers.
Now about the “radical anarchist fringe”. What would you call the 5% of gun-toting, government-stay-out-of-my-life, kill social- security and medicare, far to the right of the Republican Party, hate-mongers waving “Obama joker” signs at these Tea Party rallies? Granted they are not all like that, but those that are, certainly give the movement a bad name. Now, those are the people, I believe the body was referring to. There was a group of them in Selmer a few months ago and the signs and the speeches certainly led me to believe they were radical, anarchists, and fringe. And, BTW, the local Republican Party provided the refreshments. These are the people Marsha panders to, although pandering is all. She certainly doesn’t vote in their or our best interest. She definitely deserves to go home to spend more time with her grandbabies.
First off, that’s ol’ broad. Get it straight. Second, my panties are not your problem, capice?
The fact that Obama was never 100% vetted doesn’t bother you? No, guess not. He’s sitting in the White House, for the moment, and that’s that. ALL future presidents should leave NO doubt about their eligibility.
An FYI, I know a few folks too. One happens to be a relative who was a lawyer for the Teamsters. I don’t come by my opinions about unions lightly. I’ve known many who were FORCED to join unions, who found them offensive to every fiber of their beings.
Dang! I wasn’t aware that I was a “radical anarchist fringe”. Learn something new every day. I tote a gun. I want the government out of my life. I want to see Social Security and Medicare fade into oblivion, where they belong. And, I attend Tea Parties, Gracious sakes! Question: Do you have ANY idea what the word anarchist means?
Oh, and I know a lot of those folks who have been at the Selmer Tea Parties. I was one of them! You might also be surprised to find out that a great many Republicans are actually EXTREMELY conservative, even if the national bunch aren’t.
I’ve met Marsha on a number of occasions, and I’ve never found her pandering in the least. She’s quite informed on a number of issues, and if she doesn’t know the answer, she’ll find out, and make sure you are notified.
BTW, Obama is a joker. The Clown in Chief! The biggest joke that’s been foisted on the American people in a very long time! You might be all for his socialist policies, but I, for one, am not. I remember what freedom looks like, and it ain’t what we’re seeing now!