By Roger Fredinburg
Stopping Barack Obama and his sleazy un-American agenda is as simple as "Just say No"
I support Joseph Farah's "No More Red Ink" campaign currently under way at WND.com.
In Congress, John Boehner and crew have the ultimate power – the purse strings.
If the EPA is out of control, (and it is) they should refuse to fund it.
If borrowing from foreign entities is out of control – STOP BORROWING!
If Obama wants to play green cowboy and stop critical projects like the Keystone XL oil pipeline, Congress should respond and cut off funding for his motor pool and Air-Force One.
Tell Obama to travel by bicycle and get him a hang-glider to fly around on so he can avoid any carbon footprint hypocrisy.
It is big lie that there is nothing Congress can do to stop the spending on Obama's agenda. They can stop it right now by NOT FUNDING his lunacy.
Remember, there is no constitutional requirement that Congress fund Planned Parenthood, the Department of Energy, Education the EPA. … It's all a big ruse.
Here's some basic history:
The power of the purse plays a critical role in the relationship of the United States Congress and the president of the United States, and has been the main historic tool by which Congress can limit executive power. One of the most recent examples is the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974, which eliminated all military funding for the government of South Vietnam and effectively ended the Vietnam War. Other recent examples include limitations on military funding placed on Ronald Reagan by Congress, which led to the withdrawal of United States Marines from Lebanon. Appropriation bills cannot originate in the Senate, but the Senate can amend appropriation bills that originate in the House.
The power of the purse in military affairs was famously subverted during the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s. Congress denied further aid to the Contras in Nicaragua. Unwilling to accept the will of Congress, members of the Reagan administration solicited private donations, set up elaborate corporate schemes and brokered illegal arms deals with Iran to generate unofficial funds that could not be regulated by Congress.
Budget limitations and using the power of the purse form a controversial part of discussion regarding congressional opposition to the Iraq war. On March 23, 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a supplemental war budget that imposed a timeline on the presence of American combat troops in Iraq, but the legislation was not passed.
The power of the purse has also been used to compel states to pass laws. And they do, mainly in cases where Congress does not have the constitutional power to make it a federal matter. The best example of this is the drinking age, where Congress passed a law to withhold federal funds for highways in any state that did not raise the age to 21. Congress did not pass the drinking-age law itself because the 21st Amendment (which ended Prohibition in the U.S.) gave control of alcohol to the states. Congress is now focused on similar legislation regarding texting while driving.
When I hear congressmen, in particular U.S. senators but also the likes of our crybaby House Speaker John Boehner, babbling about the president wiping his backside with the Constitution, I just want to toss my cookies. We must demand that Congress call Obama out on his unconstitutional abuses of power, and I am happy to see WND doing that with their "No More Red Ink" campaign.
If the cowards in Congress don't have the guts to impeach this poser in the White House and send his butt packing, then they should simply … SHUT UP!
The fact is, any program, agency, agenda, legislation or law passed by one Congress is not binding on the next. That means, rather than cry like gelded sissies about the dangers of Obamacare, the cowards in Congress need to defund the program, and they do have the votes for that.
But that would mean in the upcoming elections, Republicans might have to run on their own losing records, and that might prove to be political suicide.
The truth is, Congress can refuse to fund anything they find not to be in our best interests, unconstitutional or unlawful – like the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, for example, which is clearly ridiculous.
We have a Poser in Chief in the White House, and we need to relieve him of duty by any lawful means possible. But, we also have a few key posers in the Republican Congress, and they need to hear from you, right now. Join WND's efforts in the "No More Red Ink" campaign, and hold them to it.
Roger Fredinburg is a national radio figure. He conducted a daily three-hour syndicated radio talk show heard in hundreds of cities from coast to coast. He was syndicated by Talk Radio Network along ide Art Bell and held on to more that 150 radio stations from 1993 until he left Radio America in 2004. He now owns an ad agency, www.hohumproductions.com and offers audio and video blogging at www.regularguy.com.