After voting to raise the debt limit ceiling from 1.9 trillion to over 12 trillion dollars, Chet Edwards (D-TX17) now puts on his conservative hat with a vote for Pay as You Go.
Recent House Votes
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act – Vote Passed (233-187, 14 Not Voting)
The House passed this bill that would raise the federal debt limit to $13.029 trillion and enact pay-as-you-go budget enforcement rules aimed at cutting the government’s deficit. It now goes to the president for his signature. Rep. Chet Edwards voted YES
This is a Democrat Party ploy to sucker the electorate to accept higher taxes in accordance with the disrepute theory of Keynesian Economics. The time when Chet needed to worry about Pay As You Go was before he voted for the first bailout foisted upon George W. Bush in the last 6 months of his term.
Pay As You Go is as phoney as Social Security being secure. The principles of the Laffer Curve and Supply Side Economics are the only way to pay for a $12 Trillion debt plus interest. Trying to tax ourselves out of the hole Chet Edwards has voted for is the same wrong headed thinking that is driving California into bankruptcy.
Instead of representing our successful Texas economic plan – Texas is #1 in economic strength – even with our problems – Chet Edwards is trying to bring Detroit type economics to Texas. Don’t be fooled by this tactic. Chet is wrong about economics and he’s wrong for Texas District 17.
This is why we will be discussing the State Board of Education and the teaching of American Exceptionalism at our next pot luck dinner. Please plan on attending in order to find out what is happening in our Texas schools.
It will be as if the American Founding never happened.
According to Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the goal of this change is to teach what students will feel connected to, “where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day.”
By implication, nothing before 1877 has any meaning to students: the Declaration of Independence that proclaims the self evident truths of equality, natural rights, and consent of the governed; the Constitution that establishes the rule of law and the framework in which we exercise our liberty; the Civil War in which Abraham Lincoln defended the principles of the American Founding and ended the institution of slavery. These events are irrelevant for today’s students.
The events of 1776, 1789, and 1865 still inspire our nation. So, for the students across U.S. who have the opportunity to study the American prior to 1877, treasure the Founding documents and learn about America’s First Principles. For you high school students in North Carolina, don’t worry, the We Still Hold These Truths study guide is coming soon.
Not only is the United States not #1 in Economic Freedom, we are rapidly moving downwards on the list! This should be our rallying cry for our next April 15th Tax Day Tea Party.
This article written by American Majority’s, Austin James, quotes The Heritage Foundation’s article discussing jobs creation. If only government jobs are being created, then where are the marketable products to buy and sell?
Close the Floodgates
The Heritage Foundation today has a good good piece on the attempt for a second stimulus and the extreme growth of government taking place. Rather than recreate a similar article, I thought I would share some highlights:
Anticipating this bleak job news, the President announced in his State of the Union address last week: “That is why jobs must be our number one focus in 2010, and that is why I am calling for a new jobs bill tonight.” It is understandable why the President wants to call this new legislation a “jobs bill” instead of what it really is: his second stimulus. But that would mean admitting that his first stimulus completely failed, which both the objective evidence and the opinion of the American people show it has. …
There is one sector of the economy that is thriving under President Barack Obama: government. This week, the Obama administration announced that the number of government employees will grow to 2.15 million this year, topping two million for the first time since President Clinton declared that “the era of big government is over.” And today, USA Today reports “the lobbying industry is humming along in the nation’s capital” as the top 20 trade associations and companies increased their lobbying expenses by 20% in 2009. ConocoPhillips spent $18.1 million dollars lobbying Congress in 2009, up from $8.5 million the year before, while it also laid off 1,300 people.
This is a perfect example of what happens to an economy when government becomes “the focus” of job creation. Jonathan Rauch explains: “Economic thinkers have recognized for generations that every person has two ways to become wealthier. One is to produce more, the other is to capture more of what others produce. … Washington looks increasingly like a public-works jobs program for lawyers and lobbyists, a profit center for professionals who are in business for themselves.”
As Washington flourishes on the backs of the little man, I have to ask, “Where are the tea parties? Where are the 912 groups and the individuals outraged at both the lobbying increase and government expansion?” I have yet to hear a grassroots response to open floodgates in Washington, but I hold out hope that the people are listening, discussing, and preparing for 2010.
The Brazos County Republican Party is hosting a Reagan Days Dinner. The event is a fundraiser to raise money that is spent locally for their office and for Republican candidates.
The event is a chance to meet most of the local Republican candidates, enjoy a lasagna meal catered by home school students and hear from David Beamer, the father of Todd Beamer who died heroically on Flight 93 as part of the 9/11 attacks.
The Reagan Day dinner will be February 16 at 6 p.m. at the Brazos Center.
Tickets are $60 each and the money is used to keep the county Republican office open throughout the year and promote Republican candidates.
For more information or to buy tickets call the headquarters at 268-2308 or call Marla at 324-8068.
Calling all Tweeters!! Let’s use #STTX14 for coverage of tonight’s WTAW/The Eagle sponsored debate of the Republican Representatives for State District #14. I’ll be tweeting live. Hope to see you there on Tweet Deck or your favorite Twitter platform.
Isn’t it funny how Congress has a whole different concept of our money?
Chet Edwards (D-TX17) even with a Harvard MBA believes a tax cut – which lets the producer keep his own money – must be paid for, but a 1 Billion $$$ Stimulus of government spending is a wiser investment.
Hey everyone, Americans for Prosperity Texas has a great plan for fun way to watch President Obama’s upcoming State of the Union Speech this coming Wednesday night. Don’t watch alone! Attend AFP Texas’ Virtual Watch Party. Connect with friends across the state of Texas, the nation…possibly even the globe…through Facebook and Twitter – use the hashtag #sotuafp.
Get registered to participate at the above links and let’s have a virtual good time!!
Join the AFP Truth Squad in a live chat before and during Obama’s State of the Union Address.
Sign up now for free tickets to hear Sarah Palen speak at the Rick Perry for Governor Rally.
Gov. Rick Perry will be joined by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at a rally in support of his re-election campaign on Sunday, Feb. 7 in the Houston area.
“I look forward to standing with Sarah to promote our shared conservative values of limited government, low taxes and individual freedom,” said Gov. Perry. “Gov. Palin is a true conservative leader whose priorities and message resonate with Texans, and I am honored to have her in Texas supporting my campaign.”
Gov. Palin will campaign with Gov. Perry to highlight the positive momentum Texas is experiencing through conservative leadership that has cut taxes, created jobs, strengthened education and secured our border.
Where: South Side of the Texas Capitol Building – Austin Texas
What is it: A rally to voice our support across Texas. We are serious about nullification and want the governor to call a special session to protect us from the federal government. Don’t let your voice go unheard!
The site explains the concept of nullification here as the right of the states under the 10th Amendment “to undo legislation by the federal government that the federal government does not have the authority to pass.”
We’ll try to get some more information about this group and this event, but it sounds like a road trip!
“I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”
Where: The Bryan Office of Congressman Chet Edwards – The office location in Bryan/College is in the Amish Furniture shopping center at 4001 East 29th Street, Bryan or as long-time locals refer to it, “the old Winn-Dixie Shopping Center”.
The Health Care Bill keeps getting bigger and bigger and we need to ask Chet again, “What about NO! Don’t you understand?”
Also, ask Chet about voting on the discharge of H. 554 – a bill he co-sponsored but is letting languish in committee because Pelosi won’t allow it to the Floor of the House.
The House is expected to vote on the Health Care Bill Thursday or Friday of next week.
I will not be able to attend, but let’s make this a big group.
Could the cost of the global warming hysteria be our national sovereignty? The answer is, “Yes!”, according to British Climate Expert, Christopher Lord Monkton.
Friday, October 16, at 4:00 p.m. President Obama will give a speech at Rudder Auditorium. The speech event is by invitation only.
The Young Conservatives and College Republicans will be leading a protest at Spence Park on the A&M Campus. The protest will begin at 12:00 p.m. and end around 7:00 p.m. Obama will arrive on campus around 3:00 p.m.
Many of us have been feeling like circumstances around us are out of our control, and that our futures are being taken from us. As U.S. citizens, we have the ability to do this, but making it actually happen is both easy to explain and difficult to do.
So this article is just another way of looking at what each of us must do, with a few examples. It is stating what we’ve been saying all along—the key to restoring proper representation in our government is organized groups of conservative voters, in every district, choosing conservative candidates and holding them accountable at every turn.
Chet Edwards tells the members of District 17 “he is one of us” and that he “votes our values”. Well, we know different. If Chet voted our values, he would be pushing for other states to pass tort reform in order to drive down health care costs and to make their states business friendly. That’s what Texas did in Gov. Perry’s first year in office and Texas has experienced billion dollar surpluses over the years.
Of course the Federal Government has punished Texas for their productive actions by not sending us Federal dollars to cover the Federal Mandates forced upon us. The Feds say, “Since Texas is so financially prosperous, we are going to make you pay these Federal Mandates yourself and we are going to send your Fed money to some other state that is ’suffering’ more.”
The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy is a non-partisan, non-profit think tank generating the ideas that fuel the progressive movement. From releasing nationally recognized studies of our increasingly fragile middle class to showcasing progressive policies that have worked to advance social and economic justice, DMI has been on the leading edge of the public policy debate.
Drum Major Institute values are not Texas values of hard work, individual responsibility, and charity for those in need. We need a Representative to represent our values. The rest of the United States needs our Texas values. Therefore, it will be better for every American to send a real representative of District 17 values to Washington, D.C. in 2010.
Rep Chet Edwards (D-Waco) rolled out the red carpet for terror suspects today when he cast a vote against a measure requesting that his party leaders include language prohibiting the transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the United States from the 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations bill. With his stunning ‘no’ vote, Edwards not only voted to open the door to possible terrorists, but he also refused to request that all Guantanamo Bay detainees be added to Homeland Security’s “No Fly List” and shunned the idea of transparency by refusing to request that the bill be available to the public for 72 hours before receiving an up or down vote. (House Roll Call 746)
Not long ago, a senior member of Edwards’ own party objected to Democrat proposals to transfer Guantanamo prisoners to the United States. That didn’t stop Edwards from turning his back on Texas families who want to keep terror suspects out of their back yard.
“A senior Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday warned against sending detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas, saying it could endanger U.S. relations with Muslim countries.
“It was also another thorn in President Barack Obama’s effort to quickly close the controversial U.S. prison in Cuba.”
“Skelton is the first senior Democrat to raise issues with moving the Guantanamo detainees to Kansas, but follows a news conference last week in which Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback and Republican Representative Jerry Moran blasted suggestions of moving the detainees there.” (Jeremy Pelofsky, “Democrat opposes sending Guantanamo detainees to Leavenworth,” Reuters, 8/10/09)
“Chet Edwards’ refusal to stand up to his party’s reckless attempts to bring terrorists to the United States is a slap in the face to the Texas families who expect their representative to fight to keep them safe,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “Edwards has repeatedly refused to stand up for Texas families, but this time it’s a matter of national security. When will Edwards get the message that Americans’ safety is more important than his blind partisanship?”
@ManhattanInst Good article Why don't other states follow the Texas Model? The evidence is clear. TX can't have everyone moving to TX. 56 minutes ago
#TX17 Chet won't promote ideas keeping TX economy afloat to failing states but is determined to bring failing ideas to Texas. What's up? 59 minutes ago
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