Comments on: House votes to reaffirm DOMA in defense spending bill

By: Peter the saint

Peter the saint — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:12:10 +0000

Obviously, our lawmakers have been crying out for help recently: they need much more guidance from the American people regarding what they can and can NOT do — should and should not do. i.e. they need more stop signs… speed limits… green lights, yellow lights, red lights.

We need a simple constitutional amendment banning ANY amendments to very large ticket-item budgets, especially such as the yearly defense budget. Year after year, lefties and righties alike attach way too much to the defense bill.

Make this a big STOP! stop sign… no more, no longer. You want a law? Write it up and submit it for approval, like any other. The children in congress need much more discipline than we have been giving them— capiche?

By: facefur

facefur — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:28:31 +0000

We have an appropriations bill to define how much money is set aside for various parts of the budget. We have an authorization bill to grant permission to spend it. There is nothing redundant about it. Perhaps before you rant, you should read.

By: Victor

Victor — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:50:50 +0000

@Will – The government has been redundantly fucking us for decades. How about income tax, state tax, sales tax, property tax, gas tax, road tax, etc. it’s ridiculous how much these a-holes are screwing us while enjoying their golden parachutes and free medical. I say, get rid of the golden parachutes, have congress pay for their own medical and have voters decide their salaries. And most of all, term limits. It’s time to take back government from the criminals.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:14:50 +0000

OK, so, tell me again, in this time of government overspending and huge deficit, why do we have a defense “appropriations” bill, which is separate and distinct from a defense “authorizations” bill, for EVERY SINGLE DEFENSE MEASURE (now the single LARGEST departmental drain on our economy, EVER, in HISTORY!) that is presented to the legislature as a bill? Am I just an idiot, or does this really not make any sense (at taxpayers expense)? WAKE UP, PEOPLE! DURING YOUR NAP, THE GOVERNMENT HAS LEARNED HOW TO REDUNDANTLY FUCK US !!!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:58:44 +0000

Obviously, the gay-bashing “Blue Dog” Democrats who betrayed the LGBT community need to be replaced with Progressive Democrats who will be supportive. Its important to beat these clowns in primaries before the general election, because if you can deny them the nominations they will obviously be going away, regardless of how the vote goes in a general election. The actions of the GOP members who voted to screw us over is no surprise and we should always be voting against the GOP’s rotten candidates anyway. The six Republicans who voted on our side didn’t surprise me either, as they all represent fairly liberal districts and could be replaced in the next election if they vote like the other Republicans. Now its up to the spineless members of the U.S. Senate to remove the rotten additions that the GOP added to the unrelated defense bill, and if that fails there is always the small chance that Obama would veto the tainted bill.