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Congress Fiddles as the world burns

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One of my favorite writers, UncleJimbo of Blackfive fame got me pretty wound up this morning.

As Uncle Jimbo so eloquently puts it:

While our Parliament of Whores chicken fights about how best to help lose the war but not get blamed for it, our enemies are under the impression that the battle is still ongoing. Our sad little collection of money-grubbing swine have interrupted their Porkfest long enough to try to cobble together some meaningless, political, [expletive removed in deference to the posting guidelines]-covering document saying "It's not our fault". At the same time our enemy has their own plan, which like the President's has victory as it's goal.

I can't top UJ here, but I can suggest he could have said a whole lot more.

More below the fold...

Consider PJ's thoughts on government:

What is this oozing behemoth, this fibrous tumor, this monster of power and expense hatched from the simple human desire for civic order? How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?

The federal government of the United States of America takes away between a fifth and a quarter of all our money every year. That is eight times the Islamic zakat, the almsgiving required of believers by the Koran; it is double the tithe of the medieval church and twice the royal tribute that the prophet Samuel warned the Israelites against when they wanted him to anoint a ruler.
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Our government gets more than thugs in a protection racket demand, more even than discarded first wives of famous rich men receive in divorce court. Then this government, swollen and arrogant with pelf, goes butting into our business. It checks the amount of tropical oils in our snack foods, tells us what kind of gasoline we can buy for our cars and how fast we can drive them, bosses us around about retirement, education and what’s on TV; counts our noses and asks fresh questions about who’s still living at home and how many bathrooms we have; decides whether the door to our office or shop should have steps or a wheelchair ramp; decrees the gender complexion of the people to be hired there; lectures us on safe sex; dictates what we can sniff, smoke and swallow; and waylays young men, ships them to distant places and tells them to shoot people they don’t even know.

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life-this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

UJ and PJ are on to something. With all the ills in the world, what has Congress been busying itself with lately?

Well, there's all the fuss over the Speaker's travel arrangements, and her pimp's rush to defend her, and we can scarcely ignore all the fuss over the GOP's insistence they talk about Iraq (to each other and themselves).

Meanwhile, the Commander in Chief continues to do his job executing a war strategy, in spite of all the media coverage stacked against him.

With so much going on, and so much at stake, you would think this was all anyone could think of, or talk about. Nope.

Instead, we find ourselves immersed in this huge PALL as we analyze and dissect the assumption of room temperature of another, in the endless list of media attention whores. (God rest her troubled soul).

While we wrap ourselves up in ourselves, and salivate as we watch the self-promotion of those least concerned with our personal well-being, the world keeps on a-spinning. While we pay our political heroes OUR money so they can entertain themselves with, and drown in, their own hypocrisy, the enemy is staying focused and on-task. Meanwhile, we debate the "nothingness" of the American body politic.

The enemy has been busy re-enlisting, re-arming, re-tooling, re-deploying, and re-doubling their focus and their efforts. Meanwhile, our Congress is fighting over who's version of "we can't DO anything about this, but we want you to know(those we wish to have vote for our re-elections, that is) that we don't like it".

From MEMRI, (again via Uncle Jimbo):

"We [hereby] inform the Sunnis of a [new] plan called the Plan of Honor, which is more comprehensive and more perfect [than the existing plan] and includes not only Baghdad but all parts of the Islamic State [of Iraq]... [This plan] will end with Bush announcing the failure of his [security] plan and signing an agreement of defeat... The goals of the plan are: to defend our people and our honor; to rout out the invaders and eradicate the remaining pockets and bases of heresy; to butcher the wounded Crusader tyrant and take advantage of the collapse of morale among [the Crusader] soldiers and commanders; to unite the ranks of the mujahideen and to strengthen the foundations of the Islamic State [of Iraq].

"Oh Muslim youths, remember the cut up bodies of the children, the voices of their bereaved [parents] and the anguished cries of the elderly. Let the volcano of your wrath burst forth. Burn the ground beneath the feet of the Jews and their helpers, eradicate their army, destroy their equipment, down their planes, ambush them in their homes, in the wadis and on the roads. Hide in the darkness of night and turn their morning into hell... We are not afraid of your coalitions...We have drunk blood [in the past], and we find no [blood] sweeter than that of the Byzantines [i.e. Christians]... Roast their flesh with car bombs, cut off their supply lines with [explosive] charges and tear out their hearts with sniper fire. Know that offense is the best [form of] defense, and be careful not to lay down your weapons before the war is over... We are not fighting out of nationalism, but with the aim of making Allah's word supreme.

"To the mujahideen who have not yet pledged allegiance to the Islamic State [of Iraq], I wish to say that they are our brothers and we defend them with our bodies and tongues and do not [mean to] accuse them of heresy or corruption. But we regard their tardiness in rising to the demand of the hour - which is to unite, to adhere to the [way] of Allah and to join their brothers in the Islamic State [of Iraq] - as defiance, especially now that the infidels have united their ranks...

"O Islamic nation, we now stand where the Prophet and his companions stood in the beginning of the Medina period [when the jihad began]. Our war with the Persians has [now] begun just like our war with the Byzantines, only the Persian rule is [even] more depraved and despicable than that of the Byzantines...

When the hell will our politicians get their heads out of their collective [expletive removed in deference to the posting guidelines] and get down to the business of DOING something, and stop arguing about how and when they can be given stage to get down to the business of arguing about it?

The people are waiting. The Darfurians, the Somalians, the Afghans, the Iraqis, and so many more.

So are the Texans, the New Yorkers, and the remainder of the country that put these morons up there to do our bidding in the first place.

Get to work ladies and gentlemen, and quit whining about all the self-made reasons why you haven't thus far.