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Category: Congress sucks

  • WaPo; Obama should be a one-term prez

    This story has been up on Drudge and flying around the internet for a few days, but it’s a call from some Democrat pollsters on Washington Post for Obama to announce that he’s only occupying the White House for one term. here’s the screen shot. Notice the poll in the side;

    I’m glad the Democrats suffer from the same malady as Republicans – that being the illness that makes Washington insiders search for a candidate that appeals to the “other side” more than their own voters. It’s probably the most disingenuous practice in politics. It’s what happened over the last two years…Democrats REALLY wanted to vote for Hillary, but the party machine had decided that Obama would be more popular with RINOs than Hillary. Of course, they were right. Those intellectually vacant Republicans and Independents ignored the evidence that Obama is a boob – hence the whiplash during the mid-terms. Fool me twice, shame on you.

    I’m pretty sure that he’ll run again just like Pelosi still thinks the losses earlier this month had nothing to do with her. The Republican Congress didn’t see 2006 coming either.

  • What’s different now about DADT?

    I think it’s funny that the New York Times and dicksmith are pulling their hair out because Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell might not get passed this year. First, the NYT;

    Prospects for Congress to authorize repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy face new uncertainties as time runs out for the Senate to act and strong objections remain among Republicans and the most senior ranks of the military.

    Do you know what I just realized? DADT was still in force as a policy last year and the year before…and the year before. So what’s the rush? Dicksmith says;

    Let’s be realistic. Repeal of DADT has to be accomplished before the end of the year. Otherwise, there will not be enough vertebrates in Congress, once the new session takes over, to get the repeal through. If we don’t want our force weakened and unit cohesion inhibited for another undetermined amount of time before a new Congress with testicular fortitude is elected, the harmful policy has got to go in this Congress.

    I think testicular fortitude is probably the wrong simile to use in a DADT discussion. Well, unless, ya know, it’s the most important aspect of the discussion to dicksmith. But at least he’s honest about what he thinks of us “invertebrates”.

    I don’t think waiting on DADT to be repealed is having much effect on our forces. Not as much as dicksmith would like us to think. There are a whole lot of dead terrorists who would take exception with dicksmith’s contention.

    Besides, the gay crowd put their hopes in the Obama rhetoric for the last two years and nothing has happened, what has changed that makes them think anything will change in the next couple of weeks?

  • There is no leadership in Congress

    I was reading the Huffington Post this afternoon and stumbled over a post by Norman Lear – you know the guy who created Archie Bunker or something. Well, it seems for all of his success, Lear still hasn’t figured out our political system. His main complaint is that he heard something he didn’t like yesterday morning;

    Wednesday morning the Republican Party held a press conference. John Boehner, Haley Barbour and Mitch McConnell held forth, and if they mentioned “The American People” once, they mentioned them sixteen thousand two hundred and forty four times! They shoved “The American People,” almost literally, into every other sentence. All they did to win in this election was listen to “The American People.” “The American People” affirmed their Republican positions because the Republicans understood “The American People;” and “The American People” understood that they understood “The American People.” And on and on and on and on.

    Then Lear goes on for few more paragraphs about how smart and informed he is – all of his reading that led him to the polling place on Tuesday and how woefully uninformed are “The American People” – because we don’t take the initiative to inform ourselves about issues like he does. Mostly, says Lear, it’s because we’re all unemployed and homeless. he sums up with this;

    With our votes we “send you to the hill.” That’s what we did yesterday. On the hill we sent you to it is you who have the 360 degree view. We, the American people, do not. We call you our leaders and put you in a position to be just that. Why, then, do you seem to wish to follow our lead? We ache to be led, not polled. We are the American people as you repeated this morning again and again. Remember as well, YOU are the Congress. Lead, gentlemen. And you Democrats, too.

    Yeah, what Lear doesn’t understand is that Congress isn’t there to lead, they sit in The People’s House and do the bidding of their constituency – that’s why they face re-election every two years, to account for themselves. The Constitution begins “We the People of the United States…do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States” It doesn’t say say “We the Congress” for a reason. It’s our country and Congress serves at our pleasure.

    And that’s what happened Tuesday. Congress decided two years ago that they know better than The American People in regards to health care and the economy. They decided to lead and they faced the consequences. The Congress is supposed to REPRESENT the people and when they don’t..buh-bye. REPRESENT – it’s right there in the name of one of the Houses of Congress. The President is supposed to lead the country, not take polls and represent the people – he executes the laws that the people write through their representatives.

    Maybe Mister Lear should spend less time spouting off on Huffington Post about how smart he is and use that time to take a civics class.

  • Election Night Live Blog

    This is sticky at the top of the page, so my co-bloggers can write more posts which will appear below this post. I’m just posting this so the inexperienced will know what the rest of us are talking about.

    The live blogging begins at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time) even though I goofed it up and made the screen announce it at 7AM.

    Sign in with your screen name or just lurk whichever makes you most comfortable.

    Check your spam folder for an invitation to the live blog – several people who expressed an interest got them so I don’t have to moderate their comments. I’m limited in the number for whom I can do that, so don’t feel bad if you didn’t get one. I can add some when the program starts, so email me if you want the convenience.

    There’s a button to add a link to your Facebook page if you want your friends to come on in, too. The more the merrier.

  • Enemies should vote

    Yesterday, according to the Washington Post, President Obama, the president of us all, called half of the country”enemies”;

    …President Obama [used] the word “enemies” to describe his opponents in an interview on Univision radio last week. “If Latinos sit out the election,” the president said, “instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’ … then I think it’s going to be harder.”

    Of course, yesterday he walked that back and said he should have called us “opponents” instead. Well, he said “enemies” and that’s what he meant.

    That’s no problem as far as I’m concerned. Call me anything you want to call me…as long as I get my way. So today, we “enemies” get to neuter him with our vote.

    COB6 emailed yesterday when he came out of a super-secret GOP strategy meeting yesterday;

    It is not a stretch to see over 80 House seats and ten in the Senate!

    OK, well, I’d like that A LOT, but I’m not planning on it. However, it’d get lonely up here on this mountainside if I didn’t have anyone to celebrate with tonight, so we’re going to have a live blogging session at This Ain’t Hell…something we haven’t done since the last election.

    Luckily for me, Fox and DISH Network settled their dispute last Friday and I’ve got FNC again, but I’ll probably just moderate the chat. Brown Neck Gaitor will be watching Fox, TSO will be watching MSNBC and COB6 will be moderating the drinking game;

    I would suggest the criteria include the following:

    All drinking will be measured in double shot glasses.

    All keyword drink challenges will be fulfilled with one beer shot.

    (Keywords can include TEA PARTY, WAVE, TEMPER TANTRUM, LANDSLIDE, ANTI-INCUMBENT, ETC)

    All key-people drink challenges will be fulfilled with one beer shot.

    (Key-people (r) can include DEMINT, ODONNEL, RUBIO, TOOMEY , BUCK ETC)

    (Key-people (D) can include SOROS, COONS, REID, CRIST, FEINGOLD ETC)

    Double-Bonus key-people! OBAMA, PALIN, PELOSI AND BOEHNER!

    And now for the bourbon rules: (Or other liquor but no wine spritzers)

    The RCP currently shows seven toss-ups: CA, CO, IL, NV, PA, WA, WV. Every time one of these fall Republican is a mandatory double shot.

    Next is a list of particularly loathsome scumbags that if they go down deserve a full shot. This can include Barney Frank, Russ Feingold, Alan Grayson, etc…

    Of course, COB6 wrote those rules before he came out of that meeting, so the rules will probably change.

    So, I’ll open the live blog chat room at 7PM Eastern (I know Sporkmaster, that’s like 6 AM in Alaska) and we’ll go all night until it’s over like we did two years ago.

    Everyone is invited, regardless of their political stripe, cuz TAH is a big tent.

    I know it’s exciting, but don’t get so wee-wee’d up that you forget to vote.

  • The Congressional Badass Caucus

    Polling over the last few days has indicated that many Republican combat veterans are on the verge of being elected to Congress. Allen West, Illario Pantano, Joe Heck, Steve Stivers, and most recently Chris Gibson from New York have all begun to pull ahead of their rivals in multiple polls. In my home state of Arizona, Marine Jesse Kelly seems likely to oust Gabrielle Giffords, however there has been NO outside polling in the race despite it being one of the most contested house districts in the country (which is very strange and makes me wonder if there is some funny business going on behind scenes). Marine and ex-FBI Special Agent Michael Grimm in Staten Island, New York might be able to pull off an upset against his Democratic opponent.  In the Alaska Senate race, Gulf War veteran Joe Miller appears likely to win, despite Lisa Murkowski and her sore loser write-in candidacy.

    All these guys are the real deal (not like some dude from Connecticut whose name alludes me at the moment) and deserve our support. These are all candidates that you won’t have to hold your nose to vote for on election day.

  • VoteVets Favorite Congressman’s Campaign Involved in Voter Fraud

    VoteVets biggest “superstar” is Patrick Murphy, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania’s eighth congressional district. For those of you don’t know, Murphy is an ex-Army JAG officer who served in OIF with the 82nd Airborne in 2003 and 2004.  He was also was the first OIF veteran elected to Congress in 2006 and VoteVets has been his biggest cheerleader since assuming office. However, it appears that he hasn’t used his Army JAG training to teach his campaign staff about voter fraud:

    New reports are emerging that could spell trouble for Patrick Murphy’s campaign after it was revealed that his campaign manager controlled a post office box where voters were being instructed to send their absentee ballots. The ballots were then re-mailed to the county Board of Elections.

    A letter from a fictitious agency, the “Pennsylvania Voter Assistance Office,” was sent to an unknown number of residents across the 8th district in southeastern Pennsylvania warning them that their ability to voter could be jeopardized unless they returned an enclosed absentee ballot in a pre-paid envelope that went to a private post office box in Bristol, Pa.

    At issue is whether Rep. Patrick Murphy was directly involved, and whether absentee ballots were tampered with or discarded as they were proceeded through the post office box maintained by Tim Persico, his campaign manager.

    More info here and here. Now to be fair, there is no CLEAR evidence that Murphy is directly involved in this obvious attempt to commit widespread voter fraud. However, if he were still an Army Captain and there was illicit activity going on involving his subordinates, he would be held accountable and it would reflect on his leadership. There is no reason why in this case he shouldn’t be held accountable either.

    Of course, our good friends over at VetVoice are all over this……not.

  • Retired Colonel puts rich boy in his place

    I picked this up at Ace of Spades yesterday, but I’ve been holding on to it for days like this. It seems that Retired Colonel Chris Gibson is facing off with Scott Murphy – another of those Hah-vahd grads who carpetbagged themselves into New York State. Chris Gibson, on the other hand is a born and bred New Yorker who graduated from Sienna College (near Albany) with an ROTC Commission. Gibson rose through the ranks through four tours of Iraq, a trip to Kosovo and most recently commanded the 2d Brigade Combat Team of the 82d Airborne Division to Haiti. According to his bio, he has a Purple Heart, 4 Bronze Star Medals, 3 Legions of Merit, Ranger Tab and a CIB.

    Anyway, Gibson’s opponent, what’s-his-name-snooty-carpetbagger-lawyer-guy, accused Gibson of wanting to send jobs overseas. Go to 1:30 in this video to see his response;

    In case you missed it; “the only thing that I’ve shipped overseas in the last few years has been myself and my paratroopers to fight for this country.”

    According to the Albany Times-Union;

    A public poll last month showed Murphy leading Gibson, but a Republican-sponsored poll released Tuesday claims Gibson is leading by three points.