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ChairmanAgnostic

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Thu May-24-07 07:47 AM
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I sincerely apologize, DU.

On January 1, 2007, I wrote a journal entry supporting Nancy Pelosi. I complained about several critics here, not by name, who demanded more than she could possible offer. I wrote about her leadership skills under difficult circumstances, and I suggested that with time, she would prove to be a major success.

I was wrong.

The 100 hour rush of legislation was a sham. Little or nothing was accomplished, unless you think pissing off and embarrassing the unflappable John Boehner (R-OH) counts as a success. Well, OK, let's call that last one a tie.

Nothing else has come out of that surge of legislation. To the contrary, Congress concentrated on the wrong things.

Let's take Ethics reform. I personally know of a dozen former GOP voters who shifted their allegiance last November because of the growing scandals, frauds, deceit and lies that are so much a part of this administration. Several of them were voting Democratic for the first time in their lives. I know how they felt; I had once voted GOP myself.

The package (perhaps a better label would be the bag of shit) eventually proposed by the Democrat majority is embarrassing. Instead of pushing for clean government, access to information, open windows into who is attempting to buy off our congresscritters, and decoupling the group bribes that K Street has now perfected, this has become a tissue-based bandage on an open wound so deep and deadly, that the stink is worse than that malodorous perfume that wafts downhill from pork mega-farms in Iowa. These greedy spineless bastards could not even get themselves to ban K Street hiring of congresscritters for two years.
What was worse was how many (D) congresscritters almost rejoiced at being able to suckle on the K-Street teat just like the GOP before them, and damn the consequences. The Black Congressional greedy assholes were almost, but not quite as bad as Murtha, Rahm Emanual, and a few others. If you need a visual, Encyclopedia Britannica has a video clip of a school of piranha attacking a defenseless cow. I do believe you can spot Rahm at the head of the pack.

Iran - This issue has to be the second worst. We here recognize and discuss the many dangers that exist in the muddle east. Israel is under rocket attack, and responds with 10x the deadly force. Lebanon, with a unforgivable push by Condi Rice, et al, is succumbing to Iraqian levels of violence. AIPAC continues to control the message issued by our congress, especially on the Democrat side, EVEN THOUGH the press in Israel is far more free, far more wide-ranging, and far more critical of their own government actions! When you put it all together, where do the Democrats stand on Iran? Pro war, pro invasion, pro disaster.

Name one congresscritter that has peered past the lies promoted by Cheney/Rice. Hard to think of one, eh? Name one congresscritter worried about the escalation of naval war games 15 miles from the Iranian shores. Name one congresscritter who complained that Bush/Cheney/Rummie lied that the current IEDs in Iraq HAD TO BE imported from Iran, because the IRaqis were incapable of such high tech manufacturing.

I'd bet that you can't name one, because, at least on the D side, they are MIA. NOT ONE raised a stink when two local factories in Baghdad, using old munitions and US weapons, were found to be manufacturing the IEDs locally. (with Reuters suggesting the US reconstruction funds also assisted in setting up the manufacturing sites)

That leaves us with Iraq. The quagmire. The Democrats won a majority in both houses for a couple of reasons, ethics, rational foreign policy, economic reform, and of course, Iraq. 70% of us want out. 70% don't believe or trust Bush on anything related to Iraq or terror.

when Nancy Pelosi caved in and pretended to score a victory by giving Bush everything he wanted, her decision was the final straw that broke the donkey's back. It is worse than embarrassing, it is a deadly shame. She just bought into this war, in more ways than one.

Yesterday, the GAO reported that the funds at issue don't really matter. EVEN IF WE PASSED NO BILL AT ALL, the military would have all the money they need in Iraq. I will repeat that. EVEN IF WE PASSED NO BILL AT ALL, the military would have all the money they need in Iraq.
That is according to the government branch that is tasked with knowing that kind of stuff.

If we step back, take a deep breath, sit, ponder and consider the truth of the matter, we see a Rovian hand once again. BushCo lied, again, when they said that not passing this bill would put our troops at risk. It simply was not true when they first said it 3 months ago; it still is not true today. Yet the MSM, AND our Democratic leadership never bothered to investigate the truth of the matter. Instead, they swallowed another lie from this administration as though it were fact. That is strike one. They pretended that they really were going to approach this occupation morally and stand up to the president. That was strike two. Then, Nancy et al, caved in, at the same time that they lie to us and claim victory.

Three strikes, Nancy. you're out.