I DON'T WORK FOR YOU!

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was quoted during a tour of one of the Obamacare call centers today (responding to those in Congress and Citizens here in America who call for her resignation), "I don't work for those who are calling for me to resign". Well Ms. Sebelius ... I am one of those Americans whose hard earned tax dollars pay your salary and I think you and the HHS employees in charge of this contract and the firm you hired to build a failed website for over $300 million dollars should be held accountable for the dismal failure ... all under your watch!
Under your failed leadership your staff had three years to implement the site and everyone else in America (with any sense) feels you have dropped the ball on the launch of the Healthcare.gov website.

IT'S JUST A WEBSITE!

 

 

The dismal failures profiled by the Obama Administration as "technical glitches" are not the most absurd issue here. And I'm not surprised White House Press Secretary Jay Carney deflected concerns from both Liberal and Conservative Media outlets and continues to ignore and avoid any discussion of accountability.

What is a huge concern is we are not firing the firm who failed. Why not? You know in the private sector had a contractor failed in this manner, the customary remedy would be to make good on the technical guarantee and complete the project to the clients total satisfaction. What is the most astounding and irresponsible remedy that Sebelius proposes is to continue to pay the contractors to fix the site. It's not their money ... they just spend, spend, spend ... and don't give a damn if it costs more!

AND WHO DO THEY BLAME?

  



Finally, the firms that are responsible for this dismal failure were called to testify today to defend their website architecture and answer questions from a host of Congressmen grandstanding to give the appearance that they are concerned. Ha! This is the group who the day after the Government Shutdown approved $1.7B to Pakistan (the country who sheltered Osama Bin Laden)

Who did they blame? The government! Wait a minute. You fail at a job that you were paid over $300 million dollars. A government that is willing to pay you more to fix what you screwed up. And you blame your client? And the most bazaar element is that the client is willing to move forward as long as nobody is held accountable and nobody reveals who is really to blame ... The Obama and the Liberal Agenda. This debacle should make you mad as hell.

 

In 2014 Get the Scoundrels OUT!

 

Gary S. DeMoss

IN MY RIGHT MIND

 

Brinkmanship - WHAT CAN WE DO?

Brinkmanship 2.0

So here we are again.
Back to political brinkmanship on Capitol Hill.
No continuing resolution and no debt ceiling increase.
Millions of Americans are affected.
Congress and the President refuse to take responsibility.

What is different about the current impasse is that unlike the seventeen other Debt Ceiling crisis' the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, the Commander in Chief is unwilling to negotiate.

Unwilling to negotiate?

Yes, both President Obama (37% approval rating) and Senator Harry Reid (7% approval rating) have said repeatedly they will not negotiate.

WHAT?

Isn't that what a leader does? They negotiate and make the deal work for both parties. In most settings in corporate American boardrooms, members of organizations sit down around a conference table, they hash out their differences, find common ground and develop a solution that meets every ones best interest. That happens every day in America.
We pay our law makers on Capitol Hill a pretty good salary to do their jobs. And what do they do? They go on vacation knowing full well the CR and the Debt Ceiling was looming. How dare they! Then they return and blame each other for the crisis.

The Blame game continues!

Regardless of what side of the isle you are on something must be done to solve the impasse on Capitol Hill.

My suggestion to solve the debt ceiling crisis and the budget battle? This fall and for the mid-term elections in 2014 you and me ... all of us - can make a difference. Fire every damn one of them. No matter the party affiliation, no matter the state, no matter their record, let every single one of them know how we feel about their performance - or lack there of.

GET THE SCOUNDRELS OUT!

VOTE AGAINST EVERY INCUMBENT ON CAPITOL HILL IN 2014

Gary De Moss
IN MY RIGHT MIND

Missed Opportunities

As we close the books on 2011 here in Washington, D.C., it’s hard to shake the feeling of disappointment looking back on the many opportunities our leaders missed this year to address the serious fiscal challenges we face.
We continue to lurch toward the end of the year with a national debt of more than $15 trillion, and with no plan to cut that number down to size. And even though we’re in a hole, Congress won’t stop digging a deeper hole—the federal budget deficit in November was $139 billion. Remarkably, this was treated as good news, since it was smaller than last November’s deficit of $150 billion! OMG

Here we are at Christmas and by the end of the year, neither President Obama nor Congress seemed to have much stomach for coming together to address these problems. My children solve issues better than these guys. The president spent the fall pitching tens of billions more in economic stimulus spending, although his last round of economic stimulus (nearly $800 billion) under-performed wildly. They seem perfectly capable of spending taxpayer dollars, yet they lack any ability to even consider saving.
Meanwhile, Congress has become increasingly dysfunctional; members seem to have given up on getting anything done in favor of looking ahead to a contentious 2012 election season and heading to vacation spots around the world. Look out, Nancy Pelosi will be booking a government charter to send her family to Hawaii to join her buddies.
Our leaders had opportunities throughout the year to address the challenges we face, but time and again, they dropped the ball. Since the end of the year is a great time for looking back and making lists, here’s a review of the top five missed opportunities for government spending reform in 2011:

1. Budget? We don’t need no stinkin’ budget! The principal mechanism Congress has for setting national priorities is the federal budget process; in fact, passing a budget is one of the legislative body’s most important duties. But in 2011, as in 2010 and 2009, Congress once again failed to produce a federal budget toguide the government’s spending decisions—an unconscionable dereliction of duty. What if corporate officers of the top 200 businesses failed to propose a budget? I'll tell you what would happen, they'd all be fired.

2. Getting floored by the debt ceiling debate. A summer-long debate over raising the nation’s debt ceiling offered an opportunity for Democrats and Republicans to seriously assess the government’s spending trajectory and take action to set the nation on a more sustainable course. But after months of squabbling, a perfectly unsatisfactory compromise emerged to raise the debt ceiling, while punting tough spending reform decisions to later. They chose instead the normal route, bounce the ball down the street for the next Congress to tackle. This led directly to….

3. The crisis of credit confidence. Immediately following the debt ceiling debacle, the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded their rating on U.S. debt for the first time in history—a vote of “no confidence” in the nation’s ability to get its financial affairs in order. I'm actually amazed their wasn't more outcry from the public. But wait ... the rating may well go down another two levels this year.

4. The "Super Committee"? Not so super. As part of the debt ceiling compromise, Congress established a 12-member “Super Committee” charged with reducing the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years, with a November deadline to present their plan. The deadline came and passed, but the committee failed to deliver as negotiations deteriorated over disputes over tax hikes and much-needed reforms to entitlements and defense spending. First of all this whole debacle seems unconstitutional and who thought 12 would be a good number?

5. Spending and spending, but without a plan. Washington has proven it can’t prepare and live under a budget, but one thing Congress is good at is spending money right? Not necessarily. Congress is supposed to pass appropriations bills directing how billions in federal funds will be spent in a given fiscal year before October 1 (certain spending categories, like defense, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are automatic and thus exempted from this process). This year, they missed that deadline, yet again. As I write on December 22nd, Congress has only passed three of 12 appropriations bills—more than three months behind schedule.
Following the elections of 2010, which delivered a withering blow to the president’s congressional majorities, many people thought our elected officials might get the message and finally embrace a true commitment to fiscal responsibility—cutting spending and getting the national debt under control. You've got to be kidding me!
Why? Chalk it up to a lack of leadership and responsibility on the part of our elected officials. And while Republicans and Democrats are furiously pointing fingers and playing the blame game, it’s time we hold them all accountable with a simply, three-word demand: “Keep your promises.”
As we wrap up 2011 and survey the wreckage in the nation’s capital, maybe at least a few of our leaders will take those three words to heart and make it their New Year’s resolution for a more constructive, productive 2012. I'm not going to hold my breath! My suggestion ... get the scoundrels out! Every single one of them.

Gary DeMoss
IN MY RIGHT MIND

Political Brinkmanship

political brinkmanship (bringk'men-ship') n  The practice, esp. in politics, of seeking advantage by creating the impression that one is willing and able to pass the brink of default.

Same Procedure, Predicable Results
Einstein once wrote that if you continue to perform the same exercise over and over again you will net the same results.
On Monday in similar fashion to past Congressional last minute theatrical staging, the House and the Senate passed a watered down version of a Bill that would predictably raise the US debt ceiling preventing the catastrophic event the Obama Administration reinforced ... A default of the United States.
For weeks both sides argued over cuts in the Federal Budget but neither side could consider the maverick and visionary cuts from Tea Party Republicans whose cuts would place the US on a path to financial freedom ... ending the cycle of Tax and Spend now in its 5th Decade on the Hill. Although cuts to the Pentagon, Medicare and Entitlement programs were considered ... in the end it was two Senior Senators in closed door sessions that agreed to a lack-luster Bill. Once again they kicked the hard decisions down the Beltway to the next generation to decide. Same good-ole-boy network and our gutless President is too worried about his re-election and his birthday party fundraising to do any thing that would come close to "a positive example" or consider what is best for the American People. Fooey!

Big Deal
Did it prevent Standard and Poor's downgrading the US credit rating from AAA to AA+?
Hell No!
If the Obama Administration and Congress had the balls to make the difficult and necessary decisions to end the spending spree and pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution S&P would have ignored the crisis and left the rating alone. Instead and based on Congress' inability to act in a fiscally and responsible manner; S&P downgraded the US credit rating for the first time in the history of our nation. Congratulations Mr. Obama, Harry Reid and John Bohener! You can now add to your resume one of the most deplorable statistics in our nations history ...

You Raised the Debt ...
Your Bill does nothing to decrease the Deficit.
Our Nation is downgraded for the first time in our Nations history!

Congress you've proved yet again that you can waste time creating political theater and the media will react to your every need. Sadly the majority of America could care less.
Hopefully the few of us that care about our country and know what you just did to the future of US, will react in a way that will punish you for your inability to do your job in a responsible way for the benefit of America. We will vote you out of office.

Please get these guys out of Washington!

Gary DeMoss
IN MY RIGHT MIND

Congress = Unlimted Debt

Did you know that Congress wants to raise the current national debt ceiling Twenty Percent to $14 Trillion Dollars?

Listen closely ... they will get their way, one way or another.

While most of the citizens of this country are either unemployed, struggling to pay their mortgages and/or busy managing their daily expenditures and cutting back on spending ... your elected officials are busy spending more money they don't have and advocating adding a whopping twenty percent to the deficit to finance their runaway spending spree.

And how do they plan to do this?

Right under our noses and despite oposition from Americans from both sides of the isle. The emergency they will create is that they will tell us that the US Government will stop operating if they don't act and raise the deficit. They will also frame it in a way so that if they don't get their way ... "the troops won't have enough money to wage war against terrorism." Sound familiar? Their plan is to pass it right away so that it happens well in advance of Mid-Term Elections during the Fall of 2010 so that we forget the Democrats increased the deficit by $4 Trillion dollars in less than a year. Wow! Thats double the spending during the Bush and Clinton Presidency's combined.

When you and I can't afford to pay our expenses ... we cut back, only spend our available resources on neccessities and many of us struggle with those issues every day. We can't just print more money that we don't have.

So why does Congress continue to spend and not cut back?

Because we continue to let it happen. Democrats (the majority in Congress) continue to spend at an alarming rate. In fact they are spending at a rate of $120 Billion per month. Republicans are at least united in their opposition ... but they can't end the madness as the minority. The Congress and the Senate can do whatever they please ... and they will despite public opinion and against the opposition of Fiscal Conservatives.

What can we do?

In 2010 and 2012 ... if we are still solvent ... CLEAN HOUSE!
ELECT ALL NEW CANDIDATES AND GET THE SCOUNDRELS OUT!

Gary DeMoss
IN MY RIGHT MIND