Democrats: "Whose interest is it to settle anything now?"
By haystack Posted in 2008 | Do Nothing Democrats — Comments (12) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Admitting I almost spit my coffee out onto my poor defenseless screen while reading THIS AP piece this morning, it occurs to me that the quote in my title says everything we need to know about what's at stake in November.
I know I have been harping and ranting for quite some time now about this, but really-when the fight on the Hill is about power and not about attending to the needs of "we, the People"...and the Democrats go so far as to SAY so...doesn't that tell us everything we need to know about who cares about US and who cares about themselves? I'd say BOTH sides are more interested in themselves than they are about their constituents, but at LEAST with the Republicans this self-interest is driven by them knowing we're pissed off at them. The Democrats' self-interest appears to be more based on expanding their control OVER us. The AP piece is basically a summary of where we are this legislative cycle, and what is likely to get done between now and the General...and what is likely NOT to get done. I like the way they introduce the story:
Democrats bent on showing they can govern and Republicans anxious about a sour re-election climate are pushing a pared-down summer agenda in Congress.
Pared down? Phhhhhht...they are already dubbed the "Do Nothing Congress"... how much less can they actually do?
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And, "Democrats bent on showing they can govern" is hysterically funny-they've had 2 years to show us that, and all we have for our billions and trillions is a bunch of Post offices with cool names...and gas prices that are twice what they were before the donks took control...and the residual effects are driving everything else in the economy into the toilet.
Well done Harry and Nance...well done. And the liberals in this country are seriously considering putting a "kid" in charge of this mess for the next 4 years? Yeah right, like THAT'S gonna make things all cozy and nice for us.
My favorite passage is here, though, in discussing the itinerary for our Political heroes between now and November:
The Senate planned to return Monday and the House on Tuesday. Their abbreviated election-year calendar leaves little time to cut deals. Lawmakers will scatter again in August for their annual monthlong break and the two parties' presidential conventions.
With their attention turning increasingly to re-election campaigns, not to mention the White House race, members of Congress will be away from Washington much of the fall.
So, they'll be in session for what-a couple of weeks (total) between now and November? Expect nothing to get done...but then again, how will that be any different than what we've gotten for our money SO far? If there's any luck left for us out here, they WON'T get anything done...meaning they won't drive us any further into the ground than their inaction already HAS.
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by doing nothing other than endlessly talking about how bad things are. I disagree with the notion that the Ds don't serve their constituencies. Their constituencies live off government and every dime that government at any level takes in and spends, with the singular exception of some, only some, of the federal defense budget helps either a Democrat constituency or some economic constituency that will favor whichever candidate or party promises to deliver the most bucks, e.g., agriculture, most IT, the regulated industries, and even a good bit of manufacturing. Right now, even the automakers manageent and their shareholders, once a bulwark of the NAM and generally a Republican constituency, would clearly be best served by having a Democrat Congress and President. With that, they'd be safe to go bankrupt and pawn their retiree benefits costs off on the taxpayers, something a Republican President would most likely veto.
Far more than ideology, really only an issue for lefty true believers, the real reason they are so desperate to get the WH back is that they have a huge infrastructure of non-profits and various "service" provider organizations out there that live off the government and provide nice sinecures for Democrat operatives. A Republican President can both keep money away from these vital adjuncts to the Democrat Party and hold them accountable for how they spend the money they get. GWB has not been nearly as agressive as he could and should have been on this, but the fact that he has peeked under the skirts of Democrat governments, non-profits, labor unions, etc. at all has had a chilling effect on the way they operate.
Using energy costs and their secondary and tertiary cost effects as the example, whose constituents does this most hurt? Governments are all but immune to this, they just up their revenue by taxing Republican constituencies. Stupid rich celebrities are pretty much the only Democrats that pay real taxes. In contrast, the Republican constituencies of small business and independent wage earners bear the brunt of both the high fuel costs and the taxes to support Democrat constituencies.
In Vino Veritas
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice
they don't have to serve Blacks so long as they serve the poverty pimps that "lead" them, they don't have to serve union members so long as they serve union leaders - a union president will sell out his members for white wine at the governor's mansion anytime, they don't have to protect the environment as long as they funnel money and power to "environmental leaders." They use their non-profits and "public service" organizations to provide employment for activists and apparatchniks and they give contracts and favorable deals and legislation to the people that pay their bills. The sheep just line up and vote - early, often, and fairly often from the grave.
In Vino Veritas
Reid, Pelosi, et al. are doing a good job. They are stopping the Bushitlerhaliburton puppetmaster from putting fascist-nazi-corporatist earth polluters from having free reign to destroy the earth, and most importantly, stopping him from putting allies into the courts where they can impose ultimate destruction on the earth.
Granted, you and I agree they are not serving their constituents well, but that's because we share a belief in objective reality, and objective reality says they are dead wrong, and if we let them do what they want to, they'll be killing the rest of us. I've come to think of the way they think as a sort of anti-logic. Once you assume the premises, the rest is constructed consistently within the rules and limits of the premises. We'll do better to combat their vision by recognizing it is consistent within their rule sets, and working to correct the rule sets. Because until you get them to change the rule sets, your thesis doesn't make sense to them. Orwell was right in his assumption that if you undermine the language you can undermine the society. What he missed was that you could undermine the thought process in such a way that the language is undermined without having to attack the language itself.
or how dems serve from a bureaucrat jobs program perspective.
I look at all from the universal truth perspective.
From that perspective, they all suck.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice
"Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper" Peter Griffin...Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity....or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger
And that was their #1 priority this year.
They've wanted to hold up every judicial appointment they can so that if they get Obama in place, they can flood the courts with liberal appointments and gain control of the federal courts below the SCOTUS level. They've succeeded in stopping Bush this year, and they're trusting that the minority Republicans in the Senate will roll over, as they have for years. As for SCOTUS, that will depend on who retires when.
The courts are the most important reason for voting in McCain; the difference between recoverability and unrecoverability. If Obama wins, with control of Congress, his court appointments will tilt the playing field to make recovery by conservatives impossible. While McCain won't usher in a conservative reign, for sure, he'll at least give conservativism some breathing room to attempt a Congressional comeback.
I'd be making all of those that I could if I were Bush. That would draw attention to a lethargic Congress.
Not sure if Bush could make appointments that would run through the NEXT Congress, which would tie up those spots for two years, or whether everything would reset when the next Congress reconvenes in January 2009. Which raises the furether question of what happens if these appointments were made between the new Congress convening and Jan 20th.
Of course, I would hope Bush would wait until after the election to see who wins and to not set off a controversy that could only harm McCain.
Then there would be the question as to which appointments the next President could rescind.
Nonetheless, that could set off an interesting controversy.
The Dems have been pretty good about at least holding a pro forma session if they get the scent that W is going to try a recess appointment.
McCain for POTUS so the left can't ruin SCOTUS.
The Democrats probably could figure out a way to never put Congress into recess until the next President is inaugurated, especially if Obama prevails.
open up oil drilling areas and reduce regs on refineries and nuclear plants.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice