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How to cure a fever of "110"

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I've had all I can take, and it's only been 24 hours. Worse still, I have 17,496 more mind-numbing, vessel-bursting ones to go before I can even PRAY for this to stop.

Of course, wretching through a week of hypocrisy as I was tortured - dragged through lie after bold faced lie from the Democrats - regarding the mysteriously NOW "way excellent" former President Ford, and all the wonderful things he did for America, now I find myself having to withstand This, and This, and This, and especially (wretch) THIS, and perhaps worst of all THIS. AND-there are THOUSANDS MORE where they came from.

I'm getting a fever.

I remember much of the tone from the Democrats since George W. Bush took office in Jan. 2001; every one of these morons, from Katie Couric all the way up to the "Honorable" Speaker of the House...you know the one. The Dragonlady who slaid the knights of the formerly-known-as-Conservatives roundtable.

To the sqeals and glee of her minions and those who would plant their pouty lips squarely on her now-royal derriere, a new Congress has begun and I couldn't be any LESS impressed.

We need to determine whether we fight, or whether we just curl up now into our fetal positions, thumb squarely planted in our mouths, rocking back and forth in a dark corner somewhere tugging on our ear lobe looking for our "happy place".

Should we choose the latter, we deserve to be in the next remake of the movie from whence that scene originates.

"Moored" below the fold...

In May of 2001, in an interview with Wolf Blitzer, Tom Daschle said this:

"I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together," Daschle said on CNN's "Wolf Blitzer Reports." But he also said that Bush "will have a greater responsibility to show that he can work with Democrats. That's the only way he's going to be able to get anything done in the Senate is to work with us. If we work together, there's a lot we can get done."

Specifically, Daschle said the energy package released by the White House last week needs "a lot of work" before it can pass. And he said that while Bush will get "every bit of an opportunity to make his case" for a missile defense system, Daschle remains opposed to its deployment.

When did that energy bill pass? And, how well did the two sides work together on the Missile Defense System?

In January of 2002, Tom Daschle had this to say about the Bush proposed budget:

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle on Sunday compared the Bush administration's handling of the budget to the bankrupt Enron Corp.'s handling of its finances, drawing a sharp rebuke from his Republican counterpart.

Working together real fine SO far…

On April 24, 2002 Fox News carried a story about Daschle and the dreaded Farm bill-the first of many sell-outs to Liberals and Democrats this President did in the name of "finding ways to work together". Daschle, at this time, was very interested in bringing this one home for his state:

Daschle "still looks at where he came from," said Wally Koester, a South Dakota corn grower. "For a state the size of South Dakota, that does an awful lot for us."

Koester is counting on Daschle to win a change in how some subsidies are calculated that could benefit South Dakota more than any other state. Daschle also is pressing for higher corn price guarantees and for two other measures sought by farmers and ranchers in South Dakota and neighboring states.

Daschle would go on to actually get much of what he'd hoped for on May 13, 2002.

The Democrats would express their gratitude and newfound ability to "work together" with the President through their House mouthpiece (yes-Dragonlady) in February 2003 with these words:

"President Bush likes to talk about issues that are important to working families - prescription drug coverage for seniors, educating our children, access to quality health care, protecting the environment, and securing our homeland.
"Yet time and time again, his actions fail to live up to his rhetoric, and no place is that more concretely demonstrated than in the budget. The figures speak for themselves. The budget that was proposed by the Administration this week is a perfect example of the widening credibility gap between rhetoric and reality.
[…]
"This budget makes the President’s priorities clear. In order to make room for a $1.3 trillion tax cut, when you include the interest, his budget short changes the very things he trumpeted in his State of the Union address.
[…]
"The Bush budget creates deficits of more than $300 billion this year and next, spends the entire Social Security and Medicare surpluses, and adds $2.1 trillion to our national debt, leaving enormous budget problems for our children and threatening the retirement security of their parents and grandparents just as the Baby Boom generation is retiring.
"We should be investing in our children. Instead, we are indebting our children long into the future with this deficit and debt.

"The budget falls $9 billion short of the amount promised for 2004 in the No Child Left Behind Act. How can that be? The bulk of that shortfall -- $6 billion -- hits Title 1, the program that provides additional resources to high-poverty schools. This Administration has already labeled more than 8,000 high-poverty schools as failing, yet it denies the funding promised to turn those schools around.
"The Bush budget fails to provide anything for struggling states, fails to create jobs, fails to fund vulnerabilities in homeland security, and weakens Medicare by forcing seniors into private plans to obtain drug coverage. Yes, the President’s Medicare plan is about choice. You can either have your choice of physician or you can choose to have prescription drugs. But you can’t have both.
"As far as homeland security is concerned, this budget falls $4 billion short of what nonpartisan experts on the subject say would be needed to protect the American people. The list goes on and on.

Hey Dragonlady…gimme back my 190 freakin’ billion from Farm subsidies and maybe we can talk about a billion here or there for the Children, mkay?

When the Country was attacked on 9/11, and we all rallied together, mourned together, cried together, and vowed to fight together, what did Tom Daschle say eight months later to the American people?:

I'm gravely concerned about the information provided us just yesterday that the president received a warning in August about the threat of hijackers by Osama bin Laden and his organization. We shouldn't jump to any conclusions. Clearly, there is a lot more to be learned before we can come to any final conclusion about all of the facts, but it clearly raises some very important questions that have to be asked and have to be answered.

Why did it take eight months for us to receive this information? And secondly, what specific actions were taken by the White House in response?

I think two things need to be done quickly: First, I think the president should turn over the entire briefing that he was given to the Joint Bipartisan Intelligence Committee investigation today or tomorrow, at the earliest possible convenience. And secondly, I think it is important that the president release the Phoenix FBI memorandum as soon as is possible. We need to get the facts, and the sooner we can get the facts, the sooner we will have all of the answers to the many, many questions that this report raises.

On June 21, 2002, after President Bush announced $500M dollars on the Global Aids epidemic, Daschle had this to say:

The president's participation in the battle against AIDS is "welcome and significant," Daschle said in a speech on the Senate floor. But the money pledged by the President is not enough", he said. "I cannot help but feel that we have just missed a tremendous opportunity."
[...]
"[B]etween now and October 2003, when the $300 million would become available, more than 1.1 million babies could contract AIDS. Does the administration truly believe that this $300 [million] couldn't be spent wisely and well now?"
[...]
"The resources the administration is willing to commit "still fall far short of what is needed," Daschle said. "And far short of what I believe this great nation is capable of and should be doing."

On May 21, 2004 , Nancy Pelosi (you know the one...) with the new tone and all that? Bipatisanship? For the Children? Yep-you win the booby prize!

"The emperor has no clothes," Pelosi, D-California, told reporters on Thursday. "When are people going to face the reality? Pull this curtain back."

"The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader," Pelosi said. "These policies are not working. But speaking specifically to Iraq, we have a situation where -- without adequate evidence -- we put our young people in harm's way."

"I believe that the president's leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers."

"Rocket-propelled grenades, not rose petals, greeted them," Pelosi said of U.S. troops. "Instead ... of Iraq being a country that would readily pay for its own reconstruction ... we're up to over $200 billion in cost to the American people."

And, for one last tease from memory lane...

Jan. 31, 2006, The Queen Mother of the 110th had this to say after the President's State of the Union speech:

The President's speech tonight was more of the same. Just a speech. Empty rhetoric from a man and a party who have consistently failed to lead our country on the most pressing issues. Health care costs and energy bills continue to hammer working families, and we still don't have a plan for our troops in Iraq.

All this was true before the President's speech, and it remains true now.

The State of the Union showed that once again, the President is choosing lobbyists and special interests over the American people. Last year, it was Social Security; this year, it's Health Savings Accounts. President Bush may think Americans should pay more to get less, but Democrats will fight for real reform - because it's right, and because the nation's economic security depends on it. The President's health care plan is brought to you by the same people who created the confusing and special-interest driven Medicare prescription drug bill and promoted privatization of Social Security. Americans didn't fall for privatization of Social Security, and they know that Health Saving Accounts will do nothing to reduce soaring health care costs or the number of uninsured Americans

So we face two years of this drivel, spoken from on high by the lowest of the low-given power by our collective avarice and apathy. So be it.

I for one will DISAVOW any and all notions of bipartisanship, and ANY calls for working together (for the children), while in reality working to more deeply root the seeds of power for power's sake, will be fought with every thing I can muster.

A left-wing pandering lunatic may be swinging her wooden gavel, but conservatives better get their Estwing claw hammers out and get to poundin'.

Top ten "New Rules of Engagement" with Liberals and Democrats for the next two years:

10- Challenge.
9- Resist.
8- Attach Amendments.
7- Fight.
6- Obstruct.
5- Vote NO.
4- Filibuster.
3- No Prisoners, no Compromise.
2- ACT like a minority.

And #1 goes to:
Be Conservatives.

Or prepare to be replaced in '08 by those willing to stand up against this tide of swill.