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Category: Congress sucks

  • Democrat: Pelosi might die before I have to vote for her

    Bobby Bright, a supposedly conservative congressman in Alabama joked with his constituents at a Chamber of Commerce meeting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might be dead by the time he has to vote for her as Speaker next year. Ha-ha, backclaps all around.

    But it was an attempt to deflect the fact that he would indeed have to vote for Pelosi – hell, she might be kidnapped by amazonian lesbian aliens before January, too, but failing that event, Bobby Not-So-Bright would vote for her to be the Speaker. Obviously whoever asked the question was concerned about Pelosi returning to her gavel next year, and Not-So-Bright made a joke out of the answer.

    Even if Bright’s constituents vote for him because he’s conservative, they’re still going to get Nancy Pelosi. If Bright votes with Republicans on every single issue, they still have Nancy Pelosi who will decide which issues are put to a vote.

    I don’t give a rat’s furry ass how conservative a congressman is, if he’s a Democrat, he helps them get a majority and puts Nancy Pelosi in the Speaker’s chair. And it doesn’t matter who Bobby Bright votes for to be speaker.

  • Must be a Full Moon

    There’s just so much bullshit going on today, can you guys let me write a single post about everything? Thanks.

    First off, it’s TSO who is getting married, not me. Blackfive wrote some wedding advice to TSO yesterday and everyone has been congratulating me. And frankly, I’m insulted. Not only am I better looking, you can find pictures of me on the internet in a reasonably sober state and without a glass of Guinness in my paw. And I was married 33 years ago – where were all of your well wishes, then? Dicks.

    Leading the discussions on the blogs this morning is Ken Mehlman, former Bush campaign manager and RNC chairman. he’s suddenly come out and announced he’s gay. SFW? I’m always being preached to that gays are just like me, except for the whole flamboyant thing – and putting stuff in other people’s stuff. So what’s the big damn deal about Mehlman? Does it prove something? Does it mean something? Only to real homophobes, I suppose – homophobes who get their jollies “outing” Republicans. Dicks.

    And this guy who slit a cab driver’s throat in NYC yesterday.. Did you read about this? That pony-tailed fuck on a formerly conservative website blamed the Right, Pam Geller and Glen Beck until it was discovered that he was a film maker/student for some Left Wing media company. Dick.

    Alan Simpson, who sits on the President’s deficit commission called Social Security “a cow with 310 million tits” in a private email and now the entire left is calling for his resignation. Well, it’s not really about the statement – it never is – it’s because Simpson advocates spending cuts instead of tax hikes and he’s winning the argument among the commissioners. So Bernie Sanders and Paul Krugman along with a chorus of others think he should resign. Dicks.

    The Washington Post writes today that “Glenn Beck rally will be a measure of the tea party’s strength“. Yeah, we’ll just ignore that tea party rally in Washington on September 12th last year – that doesn’t count as a measure. We’ll try one that hasn’t happened yet. Dicks.

    The EPA wants to ban lead ammunition. That won’t price ammo out of the reach of the average hunter, will it? Just because it almost destroyed water fowl hunting doesn’t mean it’ll harm other hunting. Right? Dicks.

    That firebombing at Democrat Representative Russ Carnahan’s office last week which was blamed on the tea party crowd? Guess who has been arrested in connection to it; a disgruntled Carnahan emplyee/Talking Point Memo blogger. Dick.

    That’s enough dicks for one morning, isn’t it? Dick.

  • The name which will not be spoken

    Some Democrats are finding that their campaigning is a lot easier when they slam the president’s policies and the Democrats in Congress. This is the most recent ad from South Dakota’s Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, incumbent Democrat for SD’s lone congressional seat;

    Yup, you’d think she’s the GOP candidate, wouldn’t you? On her website, the only thing I can find that even remotely addresses her party is the fact that she belongs to the Blue Dog Coalition.

  • Levin assaulted with pastry

    Democrats discover that the Far Left credits them with the war (mLive link);

    A woman identified as an anti-war protester hit U.S. Sen. Carl Levin in the face with an apple pie during the Armed Services Committee chairman’s meeting with constituents in northern Michigan, authorities said Monday.

    The senator took a question near the end of the Monday morning meeting in Big Rapids from a man who said he was a student, Levin’s office said in a news release. The man read a long statement, then [Ahlam M. Mohsen] came up and hit Levin with a pie.

    So I guess Democrats can blame Bush all they want, but since they’ve owned Congress for nearly four years and the White House for a year-and-a-half, they now own the war as well. They also own Katrina, illegal immigration, the economy and everything else. And because the president and Harry Reid want to weigh on the NYC mosque, they own that, too.

  • Good Time Charlie’s Birthday Party

    As the pall of an ethics investigation hangs over his head, Charlie Rangel held his birthday party-slash-fund raiser in a swanky hotel in New York City last night as his political cronies swirled around him as if he’d been a faithful tax payer lo these last 80 years. Fox News names some of the friends of the tax cheat who attended last night;

    The show of public support for Rangel among the state’s highest officials was the most striking element of the evening, given that many of them — including U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo — will face voters in November.

    If i still lived in New York, those would be some of the names of people who wouldn’t be getting my vote just because they showed up to support the rotund little tax evader.

    “Charlie delivered for this nation, he carried the banner for people who are long left behind and forgotten,” Cuomo said. “His voice has always been a powerful voice.”

    Just like John Murtha, Dan Rostenkowski, and a long line of ethically-challenged politicians, the only reason Rangel carried that banner was to cover for his own misdeeds and feather his own nest. Al Sharpton tried to blame that Big Media bugaboo for Rangel’s troubles;

    The Rev. Al Sharpton, for his part, directed his criticism toward the media, which he said had waged a campaign against Rangel.

    “We showed up for Charlie Rangel because Charlie Rangel always showed up for us,” Sharpton said. “Don’t turn your cameras off, don’t put your notepads down. You have started and executed a political execution, so stay tuned for a political resurrection.”

    Yup, it was Big Media that screwed up Rangel’s tax forms. How someone could sit in that room and listen to that bullshit – then still feel good about themselves is beyond me. of course, the worst that could happen to Rangel is that he’d get a stern letter from Congress and the people of Harlem would vote against him in November (fat chance). He’d still be walking the streets. Not like the rest of Americans who’d be cooling their heels in a jail cell for trying to keep more of their own money.

  • Overseas troops to be screwed by largely Blue States

    Mr Wolf sent us a link to a story out of Colorado this morning that some states, mostly Democrat-leaning states, are planning to screw absentee voters (read that: active duty soldiers serving overseas) out of their right to have a voice in the government that sends them to war;

    Spokesman Rich Coolidge said the ballots will still be mailed, but some soldiers in remote battlefields might not have enough time to mail them back, even though the state will give them an extra seven days after the election. He said they can also send them by e-mail or fax.

    Coolidge blamed late primaries and petition deadlines. He said ballots for the Aug. 10 primary also went out under short notice, but the 45-day deadline doesn’t apply to those elections.

    Bob Carey, federal voting assistance program director for the Department of Defense, said waiver requests have been received from Washington, New York, Hawaii, Alaska, the Virgin Islands, Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

    Of course the waiver they’re talking about is to the law that Obama signed last year – but there were enough loopholes in the law, states are allowed to apply for exceptions to the rule. yet another excuse for ballots to arrive late to the troops.

    You’d think that VoteVets, IAVA and IVAW would be jumping all over this, but, sadly, no they’re not. I’m sure TSO will have something to add since this is one of his principal issues.

  • General Pelosi disagrees with White House on drawdown pace

    Well, you get the government you deserve. Here we are a year from the projected pull out from Afghanistan and already the Administration and the Congress are at odds over how fast we should cut and run. Pelosi and SecDef Gates have vastly disparate views on the pace;

    Since when does the Speaker of the House get to decide for the commander in chief? Just write the checks and shut up Pelosi. Politico writes;

    Pelosi, who saw 102 of her Democratic colleagues break ranks with President Barack Obama and oppose further war funding in a vote last week, suggested Americans would be disappointed and surprised if the initial withdrawal amounted to only a few thousand troops–a possibility recently laid out by Vice President Joe Biden.

    “Well, I hope it is more than that,” Pelosi said. “I know it’s not going to be, ‘Turn out the lights and let’s all go home on one day.’ But I do think the American people expect it to be somewhere between that and a few thousand troops.”

    Yes, a slim margin of Democrats broke with the Speaker on funding the war – probably 102 Democrats who won’t be in the House next year. The same peckerwoods who have voted against funding the war since the beginning. So who cares?

    Of course that’s been the plan all along – withdraw from Afghanistan while looking like the Administration wants to win. The goal isn’t making Afghanistan safe for us, it’s about ending our involvement no matter what Afghanistan looks like. That’s why there’s a schedule for withdrawal and not a model for success. That’s why that dick Eikenberry is still the ambassador to Afghanistan. He’s been a failure at everything he’s ever done and deflects blame so well.

    This is like last year’s tax cut. It was anemic and ineffectual, but the administration points to it every time the coming tax hikes are mentioned as proof that they’re against tax hikes. They’ll do the same in 2012 when they’re accused of losing Afghanistan – they’ll point at the anemic troops increases as proof that they want to win the war.

  • Rangel reminds us that he was a soldier while he acts unsoldierly

    While Charles Rangel negotiates with the House Ethics Committee, he reminds us that once he was a soldier. (Associated Press link);

    “Sixty years ago I survived a Chinese attack in North Korea and as a result I haven’t had a bad day since,” Rangel told reporters. “But today I have to reassess that statement.”

    First of all, how many soldiers get to negotiate with an ethics committee when they are being investigated for ethics violations? I’m guessing NONE. Secondly, whatever Charles Rangel was 60 years ago, that is not what he is today. he may have been a studly non-commissioned officer, but that NCO would not have avoided his obligations the way this Charles Rangel has done.

    To remind us of THAT Charles Rangel today is to bring dishonor upon whatever service THAT Charles Rangel might have rendered this nation. What have you done for us lately? You can’t hide behind THAT Charles Rangel to atone for the sins of the Charles Rangel that stands before us today. Take your medicine like THAT Charles Rangel would have done.