66% of Americans support HR 2560 “Cut, Cap, and Balance”. Senate Democrats reject.

By Oscar Y. Harward

Could it be President Obama’s strategy to demand more wasteful, out-of-control spending or force a US Government “shutdown” which may result to “rioting in the streets”?  With that, Obama may then order “Marshall Law” to suspend our Constitutional government.

Based on a CNN political poll http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110722052837.aspx, 66% of Americans support HR 2560, “Cut, Cap, and Balance”, deficit reduction legislation, and a Budget-Cutting Constitutional Amendment as supported by Republicans and ratified in the US House on July 19, 2011 http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll606.xml.  

66% of Democrats and 65% of independents said they would approve of such a plan that caps spending at 19.9% of GDP (not at 18%, as some, including numerous senators, have claimed), cuts $111 billion out of the fiscal 2012 budget, and requires a “balanced budget amendment” before Congress can raise the debt ceiling http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/21/cnn-poll-two-thirds-of-americans-support-cut-cap-and-balance-plan/.

During a short 2.5 years, President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats have increased our National Debt by nearly $4 trillion. In November 2010, Americans responded by rejecting the Democrats’ radical, ObamaCare and other wasteful, out-of-control spending; electing a 63 new added GOP majority in the US House, 6 new additional seats in the US Senate, and 680 additional seats in state legislatures granting the Republican Party as a majority party in 25 of the 50 state legislatures compared to Democrats in control of 15 state legislatures, with 10 states’ senate/house legislatures split.

On Vote Number 116  on July 22, 2011, a US Senate Democrat Party majority chose YEAs en route to “Table and/or Kill” legislation “Cut, Cap, and Balance” with the Balanced-Budget Constitutional Amendment http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00116 on a vote with 51 YEAs to 46 NAYs and with 3 Senators Not Voting. All 49 Democrats and 2 Independents chose to confirm YEAs en route to “Table and/or Kill” the legislation. 2 Democrats did not vote.

Of the 49 Democrats, or their Senate seats up for re-election in 2012, and who chose to confirm YEAs en route for “Table and/or Kill” “Cut, Cap, and Balance” with the Balanced-Budget Constitutional Amendment are: Akaka (D-HI), Bingaman (D-NM), Brown (D-OH), Cantwell D-WA, Cardin (D-MD), Carper (D-DE), Casey- (D-PA), Conrad (D-ND), Feinstein (D-CA), Klobuchar (D-MN), Kohl (D-WI), Manchin (D-WV), McCaskill (D-MO), Menendez (D-NJ), Nelson (D-FL), Nelson (D-NE), Stabenow (D-MI), Tester (D-MT), Webb (D-VA), Whitehouse (D-RI) http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?Class=1. 

2 Independents, or their Senate seats up for re-election in 2012, and who chose to confirm YEAs en route for “Table and/or Kill” “Cut, Cap, and Balance” with the Balanced-Budget Constitutional Amendment are: Lieberman (ID-CT) and Sanders (I-VT).

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the “Balanced-Budget Constitutional Amendment”, if ratified, would make it “virtually impossible” to raise taxes.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Thursday called it “some of the worst legislation in the history of this country.”

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) aptly summed up the left’s characterizations of the legislation, calling it “cruel, dangerous, and stupid.” http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/21/cnn-poll-two-thirds-of-americans-support-cut-cap-and-balance-plan/

For “Cut, Cap, and Balance” with the Balanced-Budget Constitutional Amendment, all 46 Republicans chose NAYs en route to authorize and legislate “Cut, Cap, and Balance”, with the Budget cutting Constitutional Amendment. 1 member did not vote.  The GOP is attempting to control President Obama’s and Capitol Hill Democrats’ irrational, wasteful, out-of-control spending at taxpayers’ expense.

Without instantaneous and severe limitations on our out-of-control government spending, expect an immediate S&P’s AAA down-grading of our USA credit rating.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said in a YouTube video he released last week, "Adoption of the balanced-budget amendment would help ensure such spending restraints are set in stone, and the certainty it provides will help create a better environment for job creation across the country," http://www.youtube.com/JohnBoehner

Will President Obama and Senate Democrats destroy our entire USA monetary structure by commanding more irrational, excessive, “out-of-control” spending of taxpayers’ monies? It appears President Obama and Capitol Hill Senate Democrats will stop at nothing short of “transforming America” from a free and open Constitutional government to a Socialistic/Communist government.