NEVER TOLERATE TYRANNY!....Conservative voices from the GRASSROOTS.

Is ANYONE surprised that the Republican lead House of representatives "CAVED" on this issue last year?

As a result, Obama and the democrat machine gets the debt ceiling automatically raised another 1.2 Trillion dollars!!

And I just heard John Boehner say he's doing a GOOD job holding Obama's spending in check.

Senate kills measure to stop President Obama from raising debt limit

By Alexander Bolton - 01/26/12 12:32 PM ET

President Obama will raise the nation’s debt limit to $16.39 trillion after the Senate on Thursday killed a measure to stop the president from adding $1.2 trillion to the total.

After just over two hours of debate, the Senate voted 44-52 to block a motion to disapprove the debt-limit increase, which the House passed overwhelmingly last week. Four Senate Republicans missed the vote.

The $1.2 trillion debt increase is expected to cover the nation’s borrowing requirements until after the November election. A GOP aide said Congress would have to vote on another increase if the administration spends the money faster than anticipated.

Conservatives accused their colleagues of abandoning fiscal responsibility.

“I’m embarrassed for us that we failed to meet the standard that we ask of the people who serve this country,” said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). “We have done nothing to eliminate the duplication in the 82 federal government programs for teacher quality. We have done nothing to consolidate the 88 economic development programs.

“We have no business teaching anybody financial literacy when we don’t even have it ourselves,” he added.

The House voted 239-176, largely along party lines, to stop Obama from raising the debt limit. But the measure needed to be approved by the Senate, as well.

Democrats argued that raising the debt limit simply covers obligations the federal government has already incurred and does not authorize new spending.

“Last week the House of Representatives said, ‘No, we don’t want to extend the debt ceiling.’ The same members of the House who voted for the spending bill, the same members who voted for the Budget Enforcement Act, the same members who give speeches back home about how we can’t turn our backs on our men and women in uniform,” said Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). “It is a totally inconsistent position.”

Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.), two Democrats from conservative-leaning states, bucked their party leadership and voted with Republicans to advance the disapproval motion.

Obama requested latest debt limit increase on Jan. 12.

In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) earlier this month, Obama said the greater borrowing authority is needed to meet existing agreements.

GOP strategists said that vulnerable Democratic incumbents from so-called red states would suffer politically for voting against the disapproval motion.

“I can’t imagine why red-state Democrats would not vote with Republicans to disapprove raising the debt limit,” said a senior GOP aide.

I'm so sick and tired of the Republicans being beaten to a pulp by the democrats who just plain know how to play the game of Washington politics better than the Republicans. PERIOD!

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Comment by valerie eggers on January 29, 2012 at 11:46am: Oh I am sure they, the left, is well prepared and funded.

Comment by PHILIP SCHNEIDER on January 29, 2012 at 10:42am: If the case of eligibility begins to get traction, "you can take it to the bank" that the democrat machine already has contingencies in place and money available for payoffs . . . . or worse.

Comment by valerie eggers on January 29, 2012 at 10:38am: Correction it's Mitt Romney's wife whose mother was born in Wales. His father was born in Mexico. And frankly my concern is the left will use this particularly if current efforts to challenge Obama's eligibility go anywhere.

Comment by PHILIP SCHNEIDER on January 29, 2012 at 2:11am: Now you're catching on Leon!

Comment by Leon Ewers on January 29, 2012 at 12:54am: Or hey, maybe we can get rid of the department of education and department of ag and deparment of commerce and post office and fannie and freddie and amtrak and homeland security and CIA and EPA and NASA and benefits for congress and stop paying them lifetime salaries and that goes for any government servant.....

Comment by Leon Ewers on January 28, 2012 at 5:53pm: Well if they didn't raise the debt level all those folks on social security wouldn't get their checks. Or their medicade - medicare.
Oh my! I think we would have to shut the government down and bring all those soldiers home from all those overseas bases and lose our domination over the world. Now we can't have that now can we? *rolls eyes*

Comment by PHILIP SCHNEIDER on January 27, 2012 at 2:44am: Yeah . . . . aint there ANY real Americans here anymore???

Comment by valerie eggers on January 26, 2012 at 11:47pm: I just heard that Obama effected amnesty by Executive Order already. Has anyone else heard this? Also I watched the GOP debate in Fla. tonight. Santorum says his father was sent for by his grandfather from Italy as a child, Romney says his father was born in Mexico and his mother was born in Wales, And Rubio's history is pretty much known as far qualifying as a "natural-born" citizen????????? What do we do now?????????

Comment by Annette Akerman on January 26, 2012 at 7:07pm: As far as I am concerned, I think the majority of the Senate appears quite willing to aide and abet this loser at every turn. I have never seen so much useless, wasteful, un-American, and illegal mandates come out of DC ever!!! Government is supposed to stay OUT of our lives, not be a part of it. It's like having an albatross around ones neck.