Was listening to Hannity replay, and Coburn talked to Obama early this evening. Can’t wait to hear about that discussion.

Did Obama trade the omnibus for the tax compromise???

Very pleased about the “slimmed down” continuing resolution.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

Now they need to be sent home…NOW.

http://www.marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=2058925&spid=32345

Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773

Omnibus wheels come off, December 16, 2010

We’ll soon see what – if anything – was traded for pulling back on Omnibus.

This piece of crap was the most egregious thing to come out after the election and now its dead leaving me one very happy camper.

Now, I hope this will convince at least a few of those perpetual cynics out there that it is okay to take some delight, to have some optimism. Granted their are a lot of things to be bothered about, but guys it just seems to me that more days we are actually getting good news that we choose to dismiss and than days with bad news that we spend all our time on.

Am I going to far to suggest that everybody take a step back and actually appreciate all of the great things that have happened in the last few months. We have been very fortunate, and one day probably several years from now we are going to be longing for days like today when the things we wanted to take down were this easy to take down.

Jumping Jehosaphat! Does anyone have a video of Sen McCaskill’s whining?

Peter DeFazio (D-Ore):

“The White House is putting on tremendous pressure, making phone calls, the president is making phone calls saying this is the end of his presidency if he doesn’t get this bad deal.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/133909-obama-tells-lawmakers-not-passing-tax-deal-could-end-presidency-dem-says

This is a MAJOR victory for sure, not just over the lame duck liberal dirtbags but the flagrant turncoat RINOs who had no qualms voting for this before they caved under pressure

But I have a sinking feeling that we’re just going to have to agonize through close votes now on START, DADT and DREAM now, all of which will be miserable

This was the granddaddy and its 100% dead. The rest pail in comparison to how much that bill stunk. And again that is great news.

On a different note DADT isn’t appearing good. I haven’t been as focused on whip counts for that bill, but I do remember that Brown and a couple others are coming out in support, and have said so for sometime now.

Personally, I don’t blame Brown for voting for DADT. I mean the guy’s from Massachusetts, and on the net he has performed better than I would expect from a Mass senator. I did kind of blame him a lot more though for backing the Financial Regulation bill a while back. That bill really pissed me off though.

. . .or did the wind come out of the sails on this monstrosity the instant the idea of it being read aloud was seriously put forth?

Actually got 35 GOP ‘No’ votes – I’m actually pretty impressed by that.

Of course, more than half House Dems ended up voting for it – what absolutely unprincipled asses(heh) House Dems are…

These Repubs who in less than 1 day have “seen the light” on more spending and Earmarks. This is after they voted Yes to Tax hikes, Deficit Increases, Earmarks and more unpaid for Spending.

There are already enough R Senators to pass DADT, Start and it appears enough R’s rolling on more “needed spending” without a budget.

Yes Repubs has really gotten the message from Nov 2. Itm is that they are safe for at least 2 more years and to heck with the will of the people!

The oligarchy shifted so far left two years ago, perspective is now difficult for Conservatives. The left must be trembling at the riots in Europe-the cause to their philosophical effects.

America requires preemptive Austerity now…we know what’s right.

This is such good news that even if it is a lie when the 9 turncoats say they never intended to support Reid on the 0mnibus, I will repeat it and tell people I believe them. I’ll even muster my best straight face when doing so.

names, and earmarks were exposed. As bad as the leftist media is, they had the 9 Republican names out there everywhere. Reid pulled the bill because some of the 9 changed their minds about voting for the disaster, and he no longer had the votes needed. Nothing does a better job than exposing those that need to be shamed, and they were. Now we once again have the chance to defund much of the O’s agenda, including Ocare. The Food safety bill also went down with it, as it was added to the Omnibus.

Don’t forget the 9 names that were at one time willing to sell us down the river.

whether that is true or not, we do need to be a little careful about always assuming the worst.

The reason is that GOP congressman and senators do need to at least believe that doing things good the base want(like killing this bill) gets them some appreciation from the base. Otherwise they don’t stand to gain any reward for standing with the base on issues as they come up. Granted the real value is avoiding negative outcomes from the base, but to a certain extent we need to be appreciative of RINOs that vote right. Even as we work to eventually replace them with someone that is a conservative instead of a RINO.

He came up short on 4th down. A turnover not a punt.

We’ve given him a lot of [deserved] heat here, but the more I read, it seems like McConnell read the tea leaves on the omnibus and himself put a lot of pressure on the porkers to vote against it

He was calling all of the appropriators who were so proud to vote for their porkfest and embarrassed them to switch their votes behind the scenes

Even little Orrin Hatch voluntarily pulling his own earmarks embarrassed the rest of the RINOs who were drooling to vote for this disaster

I’m quietly optimistic we will have some nice victories in the 112th Senate– if we can just run out the clock this month without any more disasters getting rammed through

Now we have to worry about DADT, Dream, and START. I don’t think we can afford to celebrate too long. I wish these guys would just GO HOME.