Hope everyone had a peaceful, healthy and happy holiday season.
So… 15 days to go before the clouds part, the sun shines down upon us all, and we enter into a thousand years of peace. Pity Barack Obama because the expectations are high and his only hope is to continue to talk down the economy and everything else so that when he fails he can blame it all on Bush. Just today he said that the economy is bad and getting worse… not a word of hope or any indication that there is light at the other end of this darkest of tunnels. No, it has to be as bad as it can possibly be BEFORE he takes office. The hope comes later.
But at least he and Reid and Pelosi have absolute power to do what they believe is right; in the case of Reid and Pelosi, too bad they are already proving they are not up to the task of acting with integrity. Obama gets a pass for now because he’s not the president just yet, but he will need to prove that he really isn’t just another corrupt Chicago politician, he will need to prove that it’s merely a coincidence that he has so many corrupt friends.
So what are the Dems doing with this absolute power. Well, so far we have:
- an indicted governor, Blogojevich, trying to sell Obama’s senate seat
- another governor , Richardson, feeling compelled to withdraw from consideration for a cabinet position because of an ongoing investigation into questionable practices by his administration
- Harry Reid denying accusations he tried to pressure Blogojevich to not appoint one of several African American candidates to the vacant senate seat because they would not be able to hold that seat in an election, including Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
- Harry Reid insisting he has the power to block Blogojevich’s nominee from being seated in the senate even though he clearly doesn’t (scary how a senator/lawyer doesn’t appear to understand his constitutional authority in this situation and did not check his facts before his little power play)
- Pelosi totally abandoning any remaining pretense that she really plans to run the House in a way that will allow input from Republicans on anything (I guess it’s quite an inconvenience that any Republicans were elected and the folks they represent are truly irrelevant in this brave new world)…
- Per the AP: ” House Democrats unveiled internal rules Monday that would end Republican-imposed, six-year term limits on committee chairmen and make it harder for GOP lawmakers to offer alternative legislation. In changing how the House operates, Democrats sent a message that they will use the huge majority they won in November to overpower Republicans any time they wish.” ”
“When Republicans won control of the House in 1994, they adopted rules to limit the terms of committee chairmen to three terms, or six years.That change followed four decades of Democratic rule, when committee chairmen ruled by seniority and built up unchallenged power to pass or block legislation. The powerful chairmen also built up a system of perks for themselves, including a special bank that allowed lawmakers to overdraw their accounts without penalty. That helped lead to the Democrats’ downfall in 1994.”
- Per the AP: ” House Democrats unveiled internal rules Monday that would end Republican-imposed, six-year term limits on committee chairmen and make it harder for GOP lawmakers to offer alternative legislation. In changing how the House operates, Democrats sent a message that they will use the huge majority they won in November to overpower Republicans any time they wish.” ”
Nice. And that’s all before January 20th… welcome to a one party world folks.
Oh.. and I almost forgot the most embarrassing development of all: Al Franken might actually “win” the senate seat from Minnesota. Folks, it doesn’t get much more embarrassing than that. Wonder how if Schumer and Reid would have declared the election over and pushed for the “loser” to move on without a lawsuit if the loser happened to be a Democrat… no way. But now that the rather questionable recount has been completed and Franken magically came up with enough votes to reverse the results from election day, no need to look any further, one of their own kind will be welcomed into the senate with open arms, no need to dig any further to ensure he really did win the election.
If he really did win fair and square… how embarrassing for the people of Minnesota… how embarrassing for our country. What next? Micheal Moore for head of Homeland Security?
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