Friday, July 26, 2013

A Nation Corrupt and Past Its Best Days


Should we be flying our flags upside down, as a sign of severe national distress ?  Our Constitution is under attack. Our nation is under attack.





  Tonight, the US House of Representatives narrowly defeated a Bill which would have defunded the National Security Agency's  Program which collects and stores ALL phone calls and e-mails which involve anyone who is in the United States.  Yes, Germany,  Britain, Iceland and New Zealand. If you are talking to us, your personal phone call and e-mail data is being "captured" for the next rogue administration also.

        There comes a time when you have to ask, what are you defending ?   Is it worth defending a nation where our Constitution is treated as if its a Kindergarten Report Card, an archive, or an historical document ?    What are you protecting if we are no longer the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave ? "



These are the representatives who voted to defund this particular little project of the NSA
These are our friends.  

AYES 205 —

Amash
Amodei
Bachus
Barton
Bass
Becerra
Bentivolio
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Bridenstine
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Burgess
Capps
Capuano
Cárdenas
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Courtney
Cramer
Crowley
Cummings
Daines
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Eshoo
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Fudge
Gabbard
Garamendi
Gardner
Garrett
Gibson
Gohmert
Gosar
Gowdy
Graves (GA)
Grayson
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Hahn
Hall
Harris
Hastings (FL)
Holt
Honda
Huelskamp
Huffman
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Jeffries
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Jones
Jordan
Keating
Kildee
Kingston
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Larson (CT)
Lee (CA)
Lewis
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Luján, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney, Carolyn
Marchant
Massie
Matsui
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McHenry
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Mica
Michaud
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Mullin
Mulvaney
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Nugent
O’Rourke
Owens
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Pearce
Perlmutter
Perry
Petri
Pingree (ME)
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Polis
Posey
Price (GA)
Radel
Rahall
Rangel
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Roe (TN)
Rohrabacher
Ross
Rothfus
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Salmon
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schiff
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Smith (MO)
Smith (NJ)
Southerland
Speier
Stewart
Stockman
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Tierney
Tipton
Tonko
Tsongas
Vela
Velázquez
Walz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Weber (TX)
Welch
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Yarmuth
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)

— NOES 217 —

These are the representatives who think it's okay to spy on all of America using our hard earned  money.

Aderholt
Alexander
Andrews
Bachmann
Barber
Barr
Barrow (GA)
Benishek
Bera (CA)
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Boehner
Bonner
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bucshon
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Cantor
Capito
Carney
Carter
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Cooper
Costa
Cotton
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Davis (CA)
Delaney
Denham
Dent
Diaz-Balart
Duckworth
Ellmers
Engel
Enyart
Esty
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Frankel (FL)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallego
Garcia
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Goodlatte
Granger
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Grimm
Guthrie
Gutiérrez
Hanabusa
Hanna
Harper
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Hensarling
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Holding
Hoyer
Hudson
Hunter
Hurt
Israel
Issa
Jackson Lee
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Joyce
Kaptur
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Kilmer
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
Kuster
Lance
Langevin
Lankford
Larsen (WA)
Latham
Latta
Levin
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Long
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Maloney, Sean
Marino
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McNerney
Meehan
Meeks
Meng
Messer
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Noem
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paulsen
Payne
Pelosi
Peters (CA)
Peters (MI)
Peterson
Pittenger
Pitts
Pompeo
Price (NC)
Quigley
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Royce
Ruiz
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Schakowsky
Schneider
Schwartz
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sessions
Sewell (AL)
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Stivers
Stutzman
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Titus
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Visclosky
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Wasserman Schultz
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Young (FL)
Young (IN)

— NOT VOTING 12 —

Barletta
Beatty
Bustos
Campbell
Coble
Herrera Beutler
Horsford
McCarthy (NY)
Negrete McLeod
Pallone
Rokita
Schock



   This voting information has been provided by the Blaze.

9 comments:

Sunnybrook Farm said...

It looks like the real problem is that so many people in this country have no need for freedom. They don't mind being taken care of and seek what they need from the government so freedom is just a meaningless word in an old document. The early days of the country was a time of survival and about the only thing the government did was send troops to the frontier if you were lucky but usually it was a local militia. The constitution was written under this mindset and not for our current makeup of citizens. A collapse of some kind is unavoidable and since we are tending toward socialism, which doesn't work, it could be that kind of failure. It will take more government and loss of freedom to hold things together before the collapse. The problem is people not wanting freedom.

JaneofVirginia said...

I think what you say may be true. How sad our nation has lost our taste for freedom when so many places yearn for it, or have just discovered it. I think it interesting that Russian citizens who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s have been among some of the voices so incredibly upset that many US citizens are letting their freedoms slip through their fingers without a word.

BBC said...

I'm a spirit in human form on a planet, I just happen to have been born in and live in America, but I haven't had an American flag for years. My flag would have a globe of the world on it.

BBC said...

Self serving politicians and big money interests are just allowing us the delusion of governing ourselves.

JaneofVirginia said...

My mother used to say," Don't just be a good American. Be a good citizen of the World." A good plan.

Kristin said...

I agree and to take that a step further, I believe that rugged independence was (and is) intentionally "educated" out of Americans. The first step many of us can do is to get our precious children out of the leftist indoctrination centers known as the public schools.

JMD said...

We stopped the fourth of July celebrations and all the rest we participated in. If it wasn't against the HOA rules I would have a tombstone in our front yard that said America, RIP.

JaneofVirginia said...

This year, for the first time, we didn't buy the fireworks. It just didn't feel right. Oddly, no one else around here did either.

JaneofVirginia said...

Yes, I think this is true also. This is why we homeschooled...that and wanting them to be able to read, write and do math proficiently. There are some good college programs and some good university programs which remain, of course run by dinosaurs like me.