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Category: Congress sucks

  • Patty Murray lies to constituent

    “NOT Larry the Cable Guy” sent us a letter he got from his Senator, Patty Murray after he asked about the POW issue that we’ve been harping on.

    First of all, TWO phony POWs in the entire country is a little bit suspect. I’ll bet that there’s more than two who are listed as POWs (we’ll use her number 15,000) just because of clerical errors. But more importantly, no such recorded communication exists between Murray and Shinseki.

    As most of you know, in our quest to take over the world, TAH has tentacles that reach to Capitol Hill and when I emailed our insurgent yesterday with the letter, he quickly fired it off the Veterans Affairs Committee staff who promptly called him back to tell him that there was no committee hearing that month, and no record of communication that would support that conversation between Murray and Shinseki. So unless they talked on the phone, it never happened.

    Mary Schantag, after I showed her the letter, said that she has evidence of HUNDREDS of phony POWs. So if Shinseki did tell Murray that in an unlogged, unofficial phone call, he’s lying, too. Hell, we’ve busted more than two phony POWs here at TAH. But as it stands right now, it’s just Murray lying to her constituency.

    I don’t understand the motivation for covering up for these people – unless they’re covering for their friends and supporters. The word on the street is that there’s a bomb about to explode on this issue and a boatload of VA officials are about to get ‘sploded. And they’ll have TAH to thank for it.

  • Navy disregarding all available evidence

    TSO sends us a link to the Marines’ plan to station 4500 more Marines from Okinawa on Guam;

    That administration plan calls for shifting about 4,500 Okinawa Marines to Guam – reducing the current plan from about 8,600 — and rotating about 4,000 more Marines through Australia, Subic Bay and possibly other bases in the Philippines and Hawaii, the news service said, citing anonymous administration sources.

    Apparently, the Navy is not heeding the advice of Congressman Hank Johnson who warned them just two years ago that Guam is in danger of tipping over and sliding into the ocean.

    Have they no regard for the lives of the Guamanian residents and the US military personnel they are clearly sending into harm’s way on this floating pool toy in the Pacific?

    Of course, I’m not serious, but I do have a call into the Congressman’s office for his comment on this huge potential engineering error. For some reason they’re not taking me seriously.

  • Debbie Wasserman Ditz blames Tea Party for “tone”

    A year has passed peacefully without the Left going batshit crazy over the shooting in Tucson involving Congresswoman Gabriele Giffords…until it’s the political season. She’s the only one left in America who still ruminates publicly about the Tea party being anyway involved in the shooting by a nutjob. From Michelle Malkin;

    “We need to make sure that we tone things down, particularly in light of the Tucson tragedy from a year ago, where my very good friend, Gabby Giffords — who is doing really well, by the way, — [was shot],” Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chair said during a “Politics and Eggs” forum this morning. “The discourse in America, the discourse in Congress in particular . . . has really changed, I’ll tell you. I hesitate to place blame, but I have noticed it take a very precipitous turn towards edginess and lack of civility with the growth of the Tea Party movement.”

    Yeah, the tone has changed because Americans are making their opinions heard instead of just cowing in the back of the room while Der Wasserman and her colleagues preach to us about how we should fell feel and think. Terrible, huh?

    If any popular group has changed the “tone” it’s those Occupy maggots who disrupt legislative sessions, crap in our streets and beg for free shit. Those are exactly the people I warned my children away from while they were growing up. And they’re exactly the people that Ditz would pander to.

  • Panetta: Our post-cuts military a “spoiler” force

    The front page of my New York Times greeted me this morning with this headline above the fold:

    Panetta to Offer Strategy Cutting Military

    Oh, good. Panetta, who I really don’t think is all that bad a guy, testified in November that forcing the military to take an additional $500 some billion cut, past the already pending $450 billion, would be “devastating” to the military and pose a “substantial risk” to national security. He underscored the point that our defense budget is reflective of the threat we face and reducing military spending by a trillion dollars won’t reduce the threat level, only create an enviroment were we are unable to respond to it. His most prophetic statement was this:

    …we would have to formulate a new security strategy that accepted substantial risk of not meeting our defense needs.

    Fast forward less than two months to today where the unholy alliance of “burn it all down” libertarian Republicans and anti-military liberal Democrats have produced an environment in which the sabotage of our military and its members wasn’t significant enough incentive to reach a deal. According to the NY Times:

    In a shift of doctrine driven by fiscal reality and a deal last summer that kept the United States from defaulting on its debts, Mr. Panetta is expected to outline plans for carefully shrinking the military — and in so doing make it clear that the Pentagon will not maintain the ability to fight two sustained ground wars at once.

    Instead, he will say that the military will be large enough to fight and win one major conflict, while also being able to “spoil” a second adversary’s ambitions in another part of the world while conducting a number of other smaller operations, like providing disaster relief or enforcing a no-flight zone.

    Pentagon officials, in the meantime, are in final deliberations about potential cuts to virtually every important area of military spending: the nuclear arsenal, warships, combat aircraft, salaries, and retirement and health benefits.

    For those who remember history it was our “peace dividend” post World War Two “spoiler” force which was left to defend South Korea as an avalanche of North Korea soldiers flooded the peninsula before finally being stopped at Pusan by an ad-hoc fire brigade of old World War Two Marines brought together from every naval garrison and motor pool in the world. Once you get over the 100,000 wounded and 37,000 dead Americans it was a triumphant spoiler of a conflict. The millions of North Koreans living in a waking nightmare this very moment might have some other thoughts but hey, guns or butter, right?

  • The looming Obama/Paul military massacre (Part 1)

    An unholy alliance has been formed in Washington D.C.

    Libertarian Republicans and liberal Democrats are moving to both destroy the military and cut off at the knees the families who have given the most this past decade. The first person to sound the alram in the mass media was former President George W. Bush’s Ambassador to the UN John Bolton in July of 2011:

    Every indication is that the debt-ceiling negotiations are leaving the defense budget in grave jeopardy. By exposing critical defense programs to disproportionate cuts as part of the “trigger mechanism,” there is a clear risk that key defense programs will be hollowed out.

    While the trigger mechanism comes into play only if the Congressional negotiators fail to reach agreement on the second phase of spending cuts, it verges on catastrophe to take such a national security risk.

    Defense has already taken hugely disproportionate cuts under President Obama, and there is simply no basis for expanding those cuts further. Republican negotiators must hold the line, since the Obama Administration plainly will not.

    He spoke out again making it clear that if (when) the so called Super-Committee failed the DoD and its membership would be left devastated.

    In the deal’s second stage, the yet-to-be-named Congressional Joint Commission will have wide discretion on what to agree on, but if no agreement or only partial agreement is reached, the deal’s sequestration mechanism will be triggered. Broadly speaking, if that happens, defense spending will bear fifty percent of the total cuts, with non-defense spending bearing the remaining fifty percent, up to the amount necessary to raise the debt ceiling by the minimum $2.4 trillion required by the deal. This approach risks grave damage to our national security.
    There is no strategic rationale whatsoever for cuts of this magnitude. There is, in fact, every strategic rationale to the contrary. While the appropriations process may still be able to decide which specific programs will be cut, this is no consolation. Cuts of this size are effectively indiscriminate.

    It’s at this point in which I know I don’t actually need to remind this readership of this blog where the true burden of our tax dollars rest. I’d hope we all know where the rest of this is heading…

    I’ll sound the alarm now for the 6.1 million of you whose jobs are tied into defense. Your time is coming in what is referred to by insiders as the coming train wreck. Entire US companies are looking to get out of the business of defending the United States and taking their people elsewhere.
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  • Dick Lugar blames Tea Party for Reps not controlling Senate

    Senator Dick Lugar is facing a primary challenge from Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who is backed by Tea Party groups, so Lugar took the opportunity to blame the Tea Party for his party not controlling the Senate according to Bloomberg;

    “There were people who claim that they wanted somebody who was more of their Tea Party aspect, but in doing so they killed off the Republican chances for majority,” Lugar said. “This is one of the reasons we have a minority in the Senate right now.”

    See, that’s why Republicans don’t control the Senate…the Tea Party isn’t about giving Republicans the majority, it’s about CONSERVATIVES being in the majority and that’s why Lugar faces a Tea Party candidate. He may think he’s conservative, but obviously, the voters don’t.

    The Republicans running the Senate was no better for the American people than when the Democrats ran it. If Republicans want the conservative bloc votes, they’d better act like it.

  • Now you’re talkin’

    Two Republican Congressmen have proposed to cut, if not end, Congressional pensions according to The Hill;

    In an effort both to identify cost savings amid the nation’s growing debt crisis and to give federal lawmakers more credibility in addressing related financial issues, [Tim Griffin (R-Ark.)] and Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) have recently introduced separate proposals for the elimination of pension benefits for members of Congress.

    I have no illusions that this will even make it out of committee let get a vote, but I welcome the discussion it will generate since these pig-fuckers are so willing to cut military pensions and health care. The problem I have with the proposal is that it will only eliminate the pensions of members not currently serving. It should end all pensions immediately. That way they’ll all term-limit themselves by doing something productive for a change.

  • The punchline of almost every joke in DC plans to retire

    Yes, all you have to say is “Barney Franks” and people laugh because they remember all of the jokes which had that name as the punchline. Well, the guy is finally retiring…about 30 years too late. Franks is the main reason that no one trusts a word that comes from Washington, well, the main reason now that Ted Kennedy is gone.

    I hope the door does hit him on the way out. If it doesn’t, the door will be the only thing that hasn’t hit that ass in the city.