Dem Congress fails to deliver on promises. Dame Nancy blames Bush.
(Dingy Harry, of course, blames the war.)
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The San Francisco Chronicle Washington reporter Carolyn Lochhead offers this summation of our Democrat-controlled Congress, big on promises but inept on delivery:
Immigration has joined Iraq, stem cell research, Medicare drug pricing, the 9/11 Commission's recommendations and other promises in the dustbin of the current Congress. Heading into a July Fourth recess after a bruising failure on immigration, Congress has a public approval rating in the mid-20s, lower than Bush's and no better than Republicans' ratings on the eve of their catastrophic election defeat in November, when the GOP lost control of the Senate and the House.
So little has been achieved that Reid threatened to hold the Senate in session during the August recess, the congressional equivalent of torture.
That is not Lochhead's opinion. This Congress looks horrible, in both what they've done and in what they've failed to do. Nothing she has written is not factual.
Nancy Pelosi's answer to all this is beneath the fold. …
Uttered Dame Nancy (a polite and laudatory honorific):
Pelosi acknowledged the rock-bottom poll numbers but argued that Congress has "never been popular." Just six months into her speakership, she was postponing many of her hopes to 2009, saying a new president could change things -- presumably assuming it wouldn't be a Republican.
"Congress is a big institution to turn around," she said. "A new president comes in, and he or she is given every opportunity, because we -- everybody wants the new president to succeed. A Congress comes in, and it's Congress. It's an institution that has not been popular."
The Schumer-Emanuel-Nancy-Harry-Durbin-Murtha Congress has been a miserable failure, and Nancy… oh, wait for it… Nancy blames Bush. Sure, she mentioned the power of Senate Republicans, but ultimately, it is the President.
Dingy Harry and Chronicle reporter Lochhead are more particular; they blame: THE WAR.
Reid interjected, "Nancy, honestly, one other thing. Let's be realistic about this. The war in Iraq is dragging down people's confidence in what's going on in this country."
The war also is dragging down Democrats' popularity, especially among the party's liberal base, as well as public confidence that Pelosi's promises on the election night in which she was swept to power -- "to restore stability and bipartisanship" in Washington and to change course in Iraq -- would happen anytime soon.
Harry, Nancy, and the press have been doing a number on the war and the troops for partisan political purposes. They figure that if they trash the war, they're trashing the President and the GOP, so they'll retain Congress and elect Barack "Big Money" Obama (or Hillary or Richardson or Edwards or whatever).
Looking for blame, the Democrats need a mirror. The obvious quote is from Julius Caeser -- the one dealing with fault, stars, selves, and underlings – but I'm thinking more along the lines of a 12-stepper for Congressional Dems. Step One is to admit that they have a problem and that it is them. (Further down the list might be such things as "resign" and "move to Pyongyang.")
At least they've named the post offices.
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Does this mean we get to hear Harry Reid's favorite word for practically every phrase he speaks? The word failed.
Are we going to hear about Nancy's failed leadership? Or the Senate's failed immigration bill? How about the democrat's failed leadership in general?
Folks the track record isn't too good for women's firsts in government. Sandra Day O'Connor was a miserable first female Supreme Court Justice; Janet Reno was a miserable first female Attorney General; Madeline Albright was a miserable first female Secretary of State; and Nancy Pelosi is a miserable first female Speaker of the House. We can only hope we don't get our first female failed President in Hillary Clinton.
I know there are capable women out there - why aren't they selected for some of these firsts?
would be the fact they are liberals and there in lies the answer we need more conservative women at the top.
But I think iamsaved was implying that.
It's war -- so when can we start shooting back at the enemy Democrats?
Did you hear that those student's caught cheating in Indiana a few months ago blamed Bush for their cheating? It was all his fault.
"And let's not forget Katrina too..."
Of course it is....because that's the ENTIRE democratic agenda!! There is NO personal responsibility for anything, because someone else can be blamed for it! Are you stupid? Then blame the education system and the fact that we didnt throw MORE good money after bad into it. Are you not worth enough money? Then blame the GOP who didnt foster a bunch of programs to carry you from cradle to grave.....I could go on and on....
The fact is Pelosi and Reid are a joke and COMPLETELY have misread the electorate. Bush blew it, and the dems somehow thought they got a mandate to push through their stupid ideas. WRONG. They were voted to the majority IN PROTEST of Bush's mis-steps, not because suddenly the country wanted to see them "lead". If they had ANY intellect whatsoever they would have realized what a glorious opportunity they were given by Bush's shortcomings, and instead they got it wrong. That's why the poll numbers are saying what they are. Listen to the people, folks.....
That being said it gives me hope that we won't have to see Czar Hillary running the show in 09, and that puts this election back into play.....
are victims. Victims of the omnipotent Karl Rove, spawn of Satan himself.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle
Let's review the myth of "It's the Democrats' fault because they have more congressmen" myth.
Let's say an embryonic stem cell bill is up for vote. (These numbers are hypothetical and used for illustrative purposes only): 25% of all Democrats and all but 3 Republicans vote against funding embryonic stem cells. Who will the public end up blaming the most? The low percentage of Democrats who voted against this popular measure? Or the almost totality of Republicans who did so? The answer is simple. Look at polls. Fox News recently asked Americans about their approval of Democrats and Republicans in congress, and the results were:
Republicans: 30% approve, 56% disapprove
Democrats: 36% approve, 49% disapprove
But the lazy mind looks for lazy answers. The Democrats have the majority, period, these simpletons say.
They don't ask themselves, "if the Democrats are to blame, why are Americans willing to elect Democrats to congress again in '08"?
It apparently escaped your notice but Congress is not elected by national plebiscite so quoting a national poll on the subject is hardly enlightening. But it is lazy.
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling
We all forgot how the House requires a supermajority for every vote. It only follows that our nationally elected Congress can't get anything done because the Republicans hold more than 33%, but less than 50%, of the Chamber.
And the filibuster! Oy! Don't get me started!
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I mean, look at the number of post offices in the U.S. and then the number of possible names there are, and then selecting which name should go with which post office. No wonder Congress couldn't accomplish anything else. It's just that no one appreciates the effort that went into this.
Now if only Arthur B. Clarke had assigned the naming task for The Nine Billion Names of God to the U.S. Congress - computer or not - the stars would never have gone out...
And Rightly So!