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I'm a libertarian/conservative who believes the first precept of good government should be "Do no harm!" That said I recognize that, as distasteful as it is, sometimes government is necessary and can do good. I'll be talking mainly about national politics, with the occasional odd foray into local issue.

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An extraordinary evening in the house

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Contributed by: John Newman on 8/4/2007

Thursday night in the House of Representatives, Republicans walked out after the Democratic majority literally stole a vote they shouldn't have had to steal. Democratic Congressman Michael McNulty, who had the chair at the time, gaveled to a close a vote on a Republican motion to re-commit the agriculture appropriations bill back to committee, when the vote was 215-213 in the Republicans favor. When the majority party gavels a vote closed, the vote is what it is and can't be changed. When the Democrats realized what McNulty had done, they cried, "Oh, this was all a mistake, he didn't mean to gavel close the vote just then, we still had a couple of members who wanted to switch."

Well, so whats the big deal about all of this?

The big deal is that Republicans submitted the motion to re-commit with the provision that bill be written to exclude illegal immigrants from welfare benefits. While most Democrats personally would be totally willing to throw taxpayer money in the form of welfare benefits at illegal immigrants, along with the right to vote, so that they could build another permanently poor, permanently underclass of voters that permanently vote Democratic like they've managed to do with inner city African Americans, most Democrats realize that the vast majority of Americans are against giving welfare benefits to illegal immigrants.

So yet again, like partial birth abortion, like gun control, like belonging to a church, Democrats have to act and/or vote against their beliefs to maintain their grip on power.

Democrats lie, and they've been lying so long they've gotten extraordinarily good at it. And the mainstream media helps them perpetuate their lies. Challenge the NY Times to name a Democratic Senator that's a champion for public schools, and you'll usually get the name Teddy Kennedy back. How can Kennedy be a champion for public schools? Did he ever attend one? Did he ever send his kids to one? He's not a champion for public schools, he's a champion for teacher's unions.

Hillary Clinton lied the other day when she said, "she was sorry that when she lived in the White House that she couldn't send Chelsea Clinton to a DC public school." Why? "The secret service said it was too dangerous." Ha. Jimmy Carter sent Amy to a DC public school when he was president. (I think Jimmy Carter is a senile drooling idiot, but you got to admit the man practiced what he preached for the most part.)

Besides, can you honestly name one person on the face of the planet that would be overjoyed that their child was in the DC Public School System? This is a system that spends $13,000 per student in return for a 41% high school graduation rate and an 8th grade class of which over 70% of students test out substandard in both English and Math. This is a school system rife with drugs and violence. And Hillary Clinton was sorry she couldn't send Chelsea to that hell? Then she either hates her daughter or she's a bald-faced liar.

I don't care if a politician sends his or her children to a expensive private school. But don't do that, then spout off about how important public schools are to you, and do the bidding of the teacher's unions. Another big lie is that teacher's unions care about children. No, they'd be called children's unions then and and would be agitating for longer recesses and less teacher oversight.

So back to the point of this story, the Republicans forced the Democrats to vote in a way that makes them accountable to their constituents. You are either for giving welfare benefits to illegal aliens or you are against it. Shouldn't we have a right to know where our elected representatives stand on that issue?

Shouldn't we have a right to know where our representatives stand on every issue?

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