Johnson Threatens to Block Senate Floor Action
January 27, 2012
Just hours before President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to set aside partisan bickering for the good of the country, Sen. Ron Johnson was again accusing Senate Democrats of fiscal negligence and threatening to gum up the legislative process if the chamber failed to pass a budget by April 15.
Johnson, R-Oshkosh, joined a group of GOP lawmakers Tuesday to mark the 1,000th day in which the Senate has not passed a budget resolution. The last time the chamber passed one was in 2009.
Johnson said it was unconscionable that Democrats had not passed a budget plan as required by law, given the nation’s dire fiscal standing with a debt of more than $15 trillion.
“This is a national scandal,” Johnson said. “It is imperative that we get our federal budget under control. And the first step, the minimum thing that Congress should do, is follow the law that it passed to put discipline on itself and pass a budget.”
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Way to go Senator Johnson! It is impossible for me to believe that the president is serious about our economy and economic recovery when he ignores the fact that his Democratic Senate allies have ignored their legislative duties. But, the president has spent the last 1000 days scolding Republicans and ignoring his congressional allies sloth.
Get real! He has spent the last 3 years blaming Bush and the republicans for everything.Including his own stupidity and that of his libtard-dumbocrap allies. What in the world makes you think that will ever change?
By “he”, I hope you are referring to Odumbo?
America’s incompetent CEO, ØZebra, was stumping for re-election by using the “State of the Union” message as his latest campaign speech:
Imagine you are a board member of a corporation and the officers (senators and congressmen) you appointed signed a pledge never to raise prices, and eventually you would fire them.
Well in reality it is the CEO who usually reports to the board, so let’s imagine that in 2008, as a board member, you hired a new CEO, ØZebra, to turn the company around. Since the hiring, you STILL have not been given an operating budget to approve. ØZebra has not yet presented a strategy with goals and objectives for his executive (Senate) and management (House) team. As a matter of fact, ØZebra does not even bother to meet with them. The board-meeting agenda mainly consists of ØZebras requests to borrow more money, which has now reached 40 percent of your operating expenses. The company’s debt has increased by about 60 percent; the stock price is at an all-time low. One of his staff members is responsible, through his negligence, for the death of an employee.
Most of the time the ØZebra travels the country promising your customers and shareholders the products and service will get better if they give him more time and money, or taking extended vacations on the company dime. ØZebra tells them he is doing everything he can but that his executive and management teams don’t know what they are doing, they can’t make a decision and it’s their fault the business is in shambles.
As a board member, I would fire the CEO, ØZebra, based on no confidence in his leadership ability. Wouldn’t you?
So, as board members, isn’t it about time to call a meeting, cast our votes, and fire, the Socialist, ØZebra and all of his “Fellow Travelers”. We can do just that, on the 6th of November. So let’s do it for the good of what’s left of our country.
“A Fellow Traveler” is a term that applies to Communist sympathizers (a sympathizer with the cause of an organized group, especially the Communist Party, without joining it).
Does he get a bonus?
Citigroup’s stock fell 44 percent in 2011, but its CEO, Vikram Pandit, got at least $5.45 million on top of a retention bonus of $16.7 million. (The firm will reveal the rest of his pay in March.) The stock of JPMorgan Chase fell almost 22 percent, but its CEO, Jamie Dimon, was awarded a package worth $17 million.
At the top of the American economy, you can walk away with a bundle even if you’ve driven your company into the ground. The swankiest golf courses in America are festooned with former CEOs who have almost sunk their companies but have been handsomely rewarded nonetheless.
Thomas E. Freston lasted just nine months as CEO of Viacom before being terminated and walking away with an exit package of $101 million. William D. McGuire was forced to resign as CEO of UnitedHealth over a stock-options scandal, but he left with a pay package worth $286 million.
I’m sure we can all agree that Obama’s severance package is quite lucrative as well…and he get’s it for life. Just think, not only will he receive financial income for the duration of his life, he’ll get a armored vehicles and a Secret servioe team for him and his family. And he’s relatively young and will go on the lecture circuit–he’ll be living the life he criticizes other for having.
Unless he is tried, found guilty of treason and then will have a nice secure cell in Leavenworth and make big rocks into small rocks. Hopefully, Eric Holder will be in the next cell to him. Throw in a few others also, like his corrupt czars!
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buckeye… you are not only clueless you are hopeless as well. Too bad you probably have the right to vote…
daves,
That sounds as if you have a big case of P E N U S , uh… make that wealth envy.
Yep, and he’s one of those priviledged people who get to pay 38% of all income taxes.
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YOU HAVE YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND. THE DEMOCRATS HELD BOTH HOUSES.
The Democrats only had the majority in Congress the last 2 years of Bush’s 2nd. term.
The Republicans had the majority all of his first term and the first half of his 2nd. term.
And you point is? Democrats have controlled the House and Congress for the last 5 years and the presidency for the last 3, and everything has steadily gone down hill and there is no positive motion for the future.
That is not correct. The republicans lost their majority in the senate part way thru bushs 1st term when jumpin jim jeffords switched from republican to dumocrap and shifted the balance of power .
You need to do a little more investigating. It is true that the government was running a surplus in those years, however, a surplus does not mean that you are not in debt. If I am $1000 in debt and run a $100 surplus, then I am only $900 in debt. Don’t confuse the two.
The Dems were in control of the House during that time. They held the purse strings.
In 2006, before the Democrats took back Congress, our unemployment rate was 5.6% which was assailed by the Democrats as way too high. Our national debt was 9 trillion, as soon as Nancy and harry got the gavels the debt exploded, Bush was too Progressive to turn the spending tide, he’s never been a real Conservative, and I never voted for him. Now we are at 16 trillion and rising, by the way Congress is who spends the money, not the POTUS, Obama has let the Liberal dem’s run wild with our credit card, is anyone paying attention?
I am so sorry I am allowed only one thumbs up for your comment. You have an excellent grasp of our dilema
retired marine-AMEN, brother!!!!!!! its people like you that keep me hanging on with hope for our country. i pray there are still enough courageous, common sense people left to throw this bum out in november. anyone who could vote for this incompetent buffoon at this point must have a screw loose or their head in the sand.
I could not give you a thumbs up on this post because i did before on another article the other day.
Please at least come up with something new to read.
Repeating the same post makes it look like you have no other ideas, like the guy who keeps posting the long list of Bible quotes on every article that he posts on.
No original thoughts.
Thank You – and I do agree with you for what it’s worth (had an accounting career myself).
Breaking the law is what this Obama administration does best. They must be defeated in 2012!!! The future of this country depends upon it.
I just pray to God that he, Pelosi, Reid, Holder, and others that are guilty of crimes against the people of the U.S.get whats coming to them, because if they walk away scott free and collect our hard earned tax payer dollars in their retirement, it is going to make me sick.
God Sandra, these crooks liers thieves will get away scott free of any wrong doing. they will all retire filthy rich and laugh all the way to the bank thanks to the tax payers. I’d love to see them all stripped of their pay especially the retirement pay. Not a one of them is worth a penny of tax payers money
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God Sandra, these crooks liers thieves will get away scott free of any wrong doing. they will all retire filthy rich and laugh all the way to the bank thanks to the tax payers. I’d love to see them all stripped of their pay especially the retirement pay. Not a one of them is worth a penny of tax payers money
& retirement
Unless we get an incoming president who will break with precedent and not give an all-encompassing pardon to his predecessor, he will get away with it. I am pinning my hopes on either Newt or Ron Paul to do this. Neither has a problem going against the establishment but I think New has more moxy.
“ØZebra”….????
Back in September I coined the moniker “ZerØBama” after the employment numbers for August revealed zero growth.
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I have since decided that I needed to come up with something up to date and descriptive.
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My Grandkids and I recently went to the zoo. There, in the area reserved for animals of Africa, was a Zebra. The Grandkids wanted to know if the zebra was a black animal with white stripes, or the reverse. They also noted that the zebra looked a lot like a donkey (A s s). I told them that the a s s is representative of the Democratic party, and especially of the current White House resident.
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Inspiration! From now on I will refer to the worst president in the history of the United States as “ØZebra”.
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ØZebra hates the fact that his mother was a cheap, white whore. He, in turn, as evidenced by his lifetime membership in that Chicago “Gentlemen’s Club”, has shown that he is a misogynistic homosexual.
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ØZebras’ hatred of Whites is demonstrated by his acceptance of Black Liberation Theology, as taught by his long time “minister” Jeremiah Wright.
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If this post doesn’t get me on someone’s “Watch List”, nothing will. What an honor!
You also posted this one on other articles.
Please make a post relative to the article.
Thank You.
It will be interesting to see if the Senator will “gum up” the legistative process unless the senate passes a budget (as required by law, but not complied with by Reid and his cohorts for ~3years) by April 15, 2012.
I cannot understand if he (and others) have the power to put a stop to this, why not before now?????????????? Would appreciate a response by any/all Senators!!!!!!!!Thank you
Ralph, call Speaker Boehner’s office or send him an email. I sent him an email asking why the House keeps caving in and letting Obama have his way. I also told him that if he didn’t have the balls to stand up to him, then he needs to let someone that does have the Speaker’s job. We have to continue to stay on all of our members of Congress.
His constituents need to throw his lame, libtard sucking ass out. He is in this up to his cajones with the liberals, Hence his little game of sending all the reps home and then calling for a vote before they could get back so he and his fellow liberal conspirators in the house could push the liberal agenda thru.
Who the HECK are you talking about?!?
The Obama Administration is the most corrupt administration we have ever had in Washington and Senate Ron Johnson was absolutely right. Furthermore, we should impeach Barrack Husane Obama and make him less than a one term president.
Obama needs to be impeached and then put on trial for treason along with Holder.
and Pelosi, Reid, Boener and Mconnell along with all the union thugs and czars
Thannks for adding the names.
Ron Johnson is making Wisconsin conservative proud! That is why he beat Russ Feingold in 2010. Scott Walker will win during the recall election because of his conservative policies!
I can only agree with those writing previously. We have the most corrupt AND incompetent administration in our history. I thought Clinton was the most corrupt and Carter the most incompetent, but BMO combines the best of both worlds. If anyone wants to know where this comes from, just visit Chicago and review the political situation here.
Maybe house arrest for the Senate leaders until they produce a budget would work ? Any way it’s fun to think about
Try no pay, no expense accounts and a personal fine for every day they go without one.
Most of one felt that we could never have a more incompetent president than Jimmy Carter, but boy have we been proven wrong now several times. Most of also felt that we would never have seen a more corrupt president that Bill Clinton and we were certainly wrong again. I do not believe any of us had ever seen a president that had a ill effect on investment, jobs and the economy even before he got elected but we have also seen that now. If at all possible we need to make Barrack Husane Obama a one term president and certainly see that he does not get a second term. The Obama Administration has certainly been the most corrupt and incompetent we have ever seen.
There is a crack in the dam and water is beginning to trickle out;; can anyone else feel the slow crumbling of the extreme left Marxist agenda? I feel a good move on the right. Take down HUGO OBAMA CHAVEZ.
Robert, you might be right. I know that there are plenty of good people working to get him and the other crooked people out of Congress. The good Sheriff in Arizona is one, and the people of Georgia another. We need to get people in every atate to stand up and change the voting laws in the states that don’t require a picture ID to vote. Some of the states are working on that now.
I have been pestering my Reps and Senators to join Georgia in removing him from the ballot and joining Alabama and Arizona in illegal immigration suppression. As well as impeachment for the whole lot of them.And I have chivvied every person I come across who actually voted for the turn-coat McConnell. We ned to not only get rid of the libtards, union thugs, czars and the Obumble, Pulosi, Reif consortium but the Republican establishment quislings like Boener and McConnell.
You can rest assured IL won’t be one of those states. We have too many dead people voting, and without them Obummer wouldn’t win.
Yes, we need a budget. But take Obama’s campaign expenses out of the budget and then the DNC can pay for it. He is campaigning on government money now and I call that stealing.
Hooooooray for our newly elected Senator Ron Johnson! We finally got rid of Feingold and got someone who will stand up with the American people and TRY to get the right thing done. Continue to stand up and fight for us Senator Johnson and thank you for your efforts.
AH !!! Another savvy Wisconsinite ! ! ! I too am proud of our newest REPUBLICAN senator !
As I am proud of our newest REPUBLICAN governor, who is standing tall against nobama’s henchmen. You go, guys !!! We will also stand tall FOR you when the time comes !!! God bless both of you and your families, and protect all of you ! ! !
As are we from other parts of the country. I know it feels great!
The Democrats are a bunch of incompetent parasites. I hope the Democrat party becomes extinct Jan 2013.
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Which ones? I know New Hampshire lost because of a libtard judge. Doesn’t surprise me with Christie campaigning for Romney. He was supposed to be a power house conservative but he is showing his true colors now.
Please list the seven States.
Fololow the law??! This is Congress we’re talking about. The Constitution be damned, the law is what Congress decides it is. But don’t worry, tomorrow what is legal today will be illegal, tomorrow we will debate the definition of “is”. And chaos is on the horizon. Need a definition?
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It’s good someone in the Republican minority in the Senate has a pair of gonads anyway. Maybe Sen Johnson could take Harry Reid out behind the woodshed and clean his clock too, it’s been needed for a long time.
We have hope for change. The judge in Georgia just ruled by default that Obummer does not meet the qualifications as a natural born citizen and should not ppear on the Georgia ballot.
Now the rest of the states need to grow a pair and follow Georgia’s lead.
When did that ruling come down ?
The last thing i read about an hour ago it was still pending.
Watch Obama quash that ruling, too. Worse yet, let’s see what becomes of Judge Mahili. Obama will follow Clinton’s lead to get what he wants.
The jerks in Washington keep trying to put band aids on the economy, but do not correct the source of the problem! A trillion here, a trillion there, a trillion everywhere – bankrupting our country!
Since demographics is what drives the economy, I believe that biggest source of the problem is the abomination of law passed by bigoted, immoral, liberal supreme court justices called Row v. Wade. Since the passing of this law FROM THE BENCH, over 50 million little, defenseless babies had their heads crushed and their brains sucked out just because women could not keep their legs crossed, because some found that having a baby was inconvenient or because Planned Parenthood talked people into abortion in order to increase their profits. (They should NOT receive federal funds.)
Roe v. Wade was passed in January 1973, so those aborted would have been 0 to 39 years old. They would have required that schools were built, roads were updated, required a larger energy grid and that at least 20 million more homes/apartments were built. They would have gotten married, had children, raised families, bought a house or rented an apartment, bought clothes, bought food, bought refrigerators, computers, cell phones, books, washers, dryers, dish washers, furniture and many more products that would have caused more factories to be built to manufacture these products and more stores to sell them in.
Now, because of Roe v. Wade, we have had over three years of recession with no sign of an end. In fact, we are looking forward to ten to twenty years of more of the same.
To fix the problem, we need to reverse Roe v. Wade and it would help to instill better morals in all our citizens. GOD is punishing us through the use of simple economics. The application of Keynesian economics IS NOT the solution!
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I don’t think Senator Johnson will be able to gum up the works because the R’s are the minority in the Senate.
Unless, maybe he will start a filibuster on whatever legislation hairy reed brings to the floor.
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Thank you Rep Johnson, we need more of you to help us hold there feet to the fire. And to know that some one is listening and understands what is going on. Enough is enough.
These guys all sound like Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles. hurump,hurump,hurump! Trying to make it look like they are really doing something. All hot air and sound bites. Meaningless and futile threats.
Finally. A Republican with balls. I was beginning to think they were extinct.