Rep. Tom Price: Close the Door to a Dangerous Lame Duck Session

[acharylee77z]

This is one very "lopsided" video. =p

[elihuffman1229]

This video went viral on Abidjan



[JuneV26]

We are being cheated by our government-big time! The liberal Dems are playing games and it's about time we put an end to them. Please, get out there and vote and replace the Democrats with people we can trust to get the job done! We, the People, need to be in control of our government. We, the People, are the ones who are paying these clowns in Congress and in the Senate, but they fail to represent the majority of the people! This is very sad. Open your eyes, people-vote responsibly.

[ers586]

@JuneV26 Republicans turned the Clinton surplus into a deficit, cut taxes during wartime, spent more time investigating Clinton's sex life then determining whether Iraq actually had wmd, mandated No Child Left Behind w/o providing local schools with enough funding to comply, cut funding for stem cell research, tried to privatize social security, opposed extending unemployment benefits, blocked aid to the first responders of 9/11, and defied majority rule by their repeatedly fillibustering

[JudithMatta]

Sad news is: Dems have the quorum by themselves - requiring every one of them to be present. However, without any Repubs there, Dems would be only ones responsible for their frantic actions. Also, look at Weiner unravel - they tried to "rope" Repubs into their act even now. See how desperate they are to spread the blame?? Republicans need to stay away IMHO.

[JudithMatta]

Quorum: The Constitution requires a simple majority of senators (51) for a quorum. They would request a roll call vote or quorum call. Likewise, in the House of Representatives, a quorum is a simple majority of the members. When there are no vacancies in the membership, a quorum is 218. Any member may insist that a quorum be present. LACK OF QUORUM WOULD HALT ALL BUSINESS!!!

[arpeggio420]

The best solution to our government crisis is to freeze all actions of both houses and hold special elections for every seat in washington.

[ers586]

@arpeggio420 What you're advocating is a parliamentary system of government. In nations like Britain, the Prime Minister has the right to adjourn the legislature and call for immediate elections. For better or worse, our Founding Fathers established a system where the President and members of Congress have terms of office. Is the government crisis simply the fact that Democrats have won control of both houses of Congress?

[arpeggio420]

@ers586 I'm not advocating a change of systems. I'm advocating stopping this corrupt group of lifelong government officials from doing any more harm to this country. I'm advocating putting a bunch of freshman congress-people in their as soon as possible, because frankly, a bunch of amateurs would do a lot less damage than these people, some of whom have learned how to bilk the taxpayers over 30+ years. At lease DOD is only missing $8.7 bil this time instead of the $2.3 trillion on 9/10/01.

[ers586]

@arpeggio420 Any President enjoys enormous power. The 1 check on this is Congress. Presidents face Dems and Reps with 15-20 years in the system. If you replace experienced legislators with a bunch of amateurs, then the President gains significant power. It's odd how some people would want an experienced teacher to educate their kids and a seasoned surgeon to operate on their parents but prefer a novice legislator to enact their laws. Many of our best Founding Fathers were lifetime politicians.

[bujin21]

@ers586 None of our founding fathers were lifetime politicians actually. Experience is less important than honesty and integrity, and your surgeon/teacher analogy is comparing apples and oranges.

[ers586]

@bujin21 Jefferson was a colonial legislator, governor, state legislator, envoy to France, secretary of state, vice president and president; J Adams was a state legislator, envoy to England, vice president, and president, Madison was a state legislator, congressman, secretary of state, and president. Monroe was a senator, envoy to France, then to England, governor, secretary of state, secretary of war, and president. Wouldn't you call these career politicians?

[ers586]

@bujin21 No one doubts that Jimmy Carter was a man of honesty and integrity, but with limited political experience. Few would argue that his Presidency was successful.

[mypaldave]

Love it! We need more GOOD men like Rep. Tom Price to boldly call out the tyranny for what it is!

[vidguy67]

Shoot the lame duck...and kill it.

[ers586]

@vidguy67 Sorry but having lived thru the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy as well as the wounding of Ronald Reagan, I find comments such as "shoot the lame duck...and kill it" as simply inappropriate.

[ers586]

@bujin21 Saying "shoot the lame duck and kill it" isn't a harmless remark. We have the Republican candidate for Senator in Nevada threatening "Second Amendment remedies." Talking about "shooting" anyone is beyond the course of normal political discussion.

[JudithMatta]

GREAT IDEA - our family was discussing this very thing! Repubs need to ABSENT themselves from all sessions and prevent a Quorum! Use Roberts' Rules FOR our cause, and don't sit there while rules are used to dis-semble our Congress! THANK YOU CONGRESSMAN PRICE!

[utubecenseorstruth]

@JudithMatta can they do that? if so why the hell did they not do that during obamacare

[soco13466]

Face it folks, the donkeys don't know what the word "representative" means. It means that representatives are supposed to vote according to the wishes of the majority in their districts. The donkeys have forfeited their mandates. Let's crush the HATED donkeys in November! We can't afford their agendas! All they propose to do us punish us over and over again! Sorry, folks, the donkeys have been taken over by America hating, Muslim and communist loving traitors.

[Diesel152]

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?-Thomas Jefferson

[ers586]

@Diesel152 Simple, liberties are preserved when the people can change the membership of the legislature every two years, when they can remove the chief executive every four years, and when an independent judiciary has the right to review the constitutionality of actions of the other two branches.

Jefferson is not a useful person to quote on this issue. He certainly didn't "preserve the spirit of resistance" on his plantation.

[WhereDidItAllGo7]

Only until the consequences hit will America wake up, sad.

[WhereDidItAllGo7]

Get r' done.

[shredderofmass]

Mike Stopa, Republican and Harvard Physicist, Candidate for Massachusetts 3rd district, predicts 300 republicans in the house the next election. Youtube Search "Congress should support Arizona, Mike Stopa"

[brannoncpa]

@shredderofmass ... they better be conservative Rep's. There isn't a tropical paradise big enough for 300 RINO's.

[shredderofmass]

YOutube search for,

Mike Stopa for Congress

Harvard Physicist runs for U S Congress.

[rlancel]

And the real beauty of it is, they didn't even have the guts to vote on it. They procedured it out.

Ironic, huh?

If you don't have the integrity to be embarrassed, I'll be embarrassed for you.

I'm done with you. You don't need to admit that I'm right in order for it to be so.

[ers586]

The argument here appears to be that Congressmen who are not reelected in November shouldn't be able to vote in a Lame Duck session. But what about those Congressmen who were defeated months earlier in their parties' primaries? Or those congressmen who announced their retirments months ago? Aren't they lame ducks? Should we deny them their vote?

[rlancel]

@ers586 That's not the argument and you know it. The court is moot. Price knows this wasn't going for a vote. You know that.

Point of fact: Democrats are unpopular.

Point of fact: Democrats will use the opportunity of "nothing left to lose" to force their agenda down the throat of a distrustful and resentful public. Hence the "lame duck" monicker.

Point of fact: Arguing over procedural details is nothing but a deflection of the point that leftists refuse to accept.

[ers586]

@rlancel

Point of Fact, Obama's rating (in the mid to high 40s) is 3X as popular as Congress.

Point of Fact, A lame duck is an office holder who is not going to serve another consecutive term. When Mr. Bush was elected to a second term in 2004, he immediately became a lame duck because the 22nd Amendment prohibits a President from serving a third elected term. The term is neither derogatory nor complementary.

Isn't it ironic that those who favor term limits create MORE lame ducks.

[rlancel]

Oh please, get off it. He knew the statists wouldn't vote on it. He was making a point. With every new bill and every new trillion spent, the party on their way out is forcing another piece of legislation down the throat of the American public and their RAPIDLY dwindling poll numbers proves it.

The point was well made. Instead of voting against the will of more than the die hard foaming at the mouth leftists.

11% approval rating.

Point made.

[ers586]

@rlancel Of course President Obama pushed his programs through Congress. Didn't George Washington? Thomas Jefferson? Abraham Lincoln? George W. Bush? It's called keeping your campaign promises. It would have been shameful if having pledged healh care reform in the primaries and in the general election, BO DIDN'T fight to keep his commitment to those who voted for him.

As for 11% approval, note that refers to both Democrats and Republicans.

[rlancel]

@ers586 Oh please. Look at the individual numbers on each piece of legislation. After every new procedural maneuver and 1 vote margin, the numbers drop even further.

And don't even try promulgating the lie that the 11% is about anything more than leftists wearing out their welcome. Every pundit, pollster and blogger on the PLANET knows which party is on their way out and which party is on their way in.

That's why Price's point is so perfectly made. And everyone knows it.

[ers586]

@rlancel I agree with you that the Republicans will gain seats in both houses of Congress. With two exceptions (1934 and 2002), every time a President was halfway thru his first term, his party lost seats in Congress. But if accept the view that a defeated legislator loses his right to vote for the balance of his term, what do we do with those Congressmen and Senators who lost months before November in a primary election? Would you forbid them from voting??

[rlancel]

@ers586 Once again. PRICE WAS MAKING A POINT More legislation from the party with "nothing left to lose" is a cynical and elitist thumb in the eye of a public that doesn't want what they're selling and doesn't want them around anymore. If they were doing what the people wanted, they wouldn't be on their way out. You can pretend it's not a rejection of tired old progressivism, but you'd be lying. I know it. You know it. Everyone reading this knows it.

[ers586]

Utterly shameless. First the Republicans fillibuster to prevent the Senate from voting, now they want to prevent Congress from MEETING.

Any legislator who votes to prohibit Congress from meeting between November and January should be required to forfeit his paycheck during that period. Most of us don't get paid for refusing to work.

[rlancel]

@ers586 You mean like voting "present" 130 times? It's an "obomination."

[ers586]

@rlancel In the Illinois legislature, a representative may vote "present" to indicate that he doesn't support the bill in its present form. It is a common procedure used both by Democrats and Republicans there.

[rlancel]

@ers586 Voting "NO" indicates that one doesn't support the bill. The rest is just a kool-aid drinking rationalization.

Begone.

[ers586]

@rlancel Some legislators may oppose a bill raising the minimum wage because they believe it should not be raised. They vote "no." Others may feel that the proposed increase in the minimum wage is insufficient. They vote "present." That way, their constituents understand WHY they didn't support the bill.

Obviously Mr. Obama's "present" votes didn't upset his constitutents because they kept reelecting him.

[rlancel]

@ers586 So did Rangel's. For 40 years. Yet, still a corrupt piece of garbage. Proves nothing.

Facts are facts. He dodged taking a stand on issues to avoid the political repercussions. Their constituents know why they voted against a bill when they tell them, not leaving them to guess.

The rest is just YET ANOTHER kool-aid drinking rationalization.

Next.

[ers586]

@rlancel You're comparing Rangel's secret and corrupt actions with Obama's open and legal actions. It's not the same thing. If the people of Illinois object to a "present' option, they could amend their state constitution to eliminate that practice.

As far as Kool AID goes, Obama wasn't my first choice for President. I disagree with him on a number of issues.

[joekiddone]

We must never forget the heartache, pain and suffering Obama and his Democrats have brought into our lives daily with all their lies, schemes and subterfuge. We must take the fight to them, and ensure that they know in the end, it was the fight of our lives....and they lost.

[ers586]

@joekiddone What about the "heartache, pain, and suffering" from Bush? Sending an insufficient number of troops into Iraq without body armor to locate non-existing weapons of mass destruction? Allowing the people of New Orleans to go for days without food and water? Halting govt stem cell research which holds the promise of cure for dibilitating illnesses? Turning the Clinton surplus into a Bush deficit by cutting taxes while waging TWO wars? Obama at his worst is better than Bush at his best.

[bujin21]

@ers586 What about it? Bush isn't in office, Obama is.

Obama is a nightmare for this country.

[ers586]

@bujin21 We saw what the Republicans did when they had control of the government. They gutted the surplus, ignored the infrastructure, blocked vital medical research, imposed unfundated mandates waged wars with borrowed money, ignored illegal immigration, etc. Isn't it reasonable to ask whether they would RESUME these policies should they once more gain power? At least in 1994 the GOP produced their Contract with America which stated an agenda. Why are they silent about their goals today?

[adamitshelanu]

I like this guy! He has the correct idea!

[GrandmaBillie]

I am proud to say that Tom Price is my Congressman !! Go Tom !!!

[curtatlanta]

@GrandmaBillie I should move back to Roswell. He's a great Congressman, one of the best! We're so fortunate to have great reps here, Im in Nathan Deal's district.

[wildcatjdh]

I CAME....this speech rocks! This is so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I lived in Georgia so I could vote for this guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His power level must be over 9000! This speach should be played before the Nov elections!

[koyettsu]

Ok now Americans need to start start yelling in Democrats faces to make then go along with this.

[ers586]

@koyettsu The term of office of a Congressman is TWO years, NOT one year and ten months. If we accept Rep. Price's view that Congress shouldn't meet between election day and the start of a new Congressional term, then what do we do about a defeated President like George HW Bush, who quite properly continued to serve as Chief Executive for more than two months after he lost the 1992 election?

[koyettsu]

@ers586 The problem is we are no longer just facing a President or a Congress/Senate that people are angry with like Bush. We are facing a group of people trying to destroy the country. Our laws are being shattered left and right, we are on our way to becoming subjects to a class of people who rule over us.  I am at the point where we need to stop them at all costs, reinstate our Constitution, our laws and our rights and make sure this NEVER happens again!

[koyettsu]

@ers586 In addition they are not doing what they are supposed to be doing which is REPRESENTING the citizens of the state/district they come from. They have gone rogue and are doing whatever the hell they want with our money, our freedom, our rights and right now getting them the hell out and stopping the damage is more important then anything else.

[BeantownJim]

Go Tom Go!