29 May 2007

Bill Richardson is NOT the decider!

Governor Bill Richardson, who has the best commercial so far this election season, really stepped in it big time the other day. Richardson claims to be a creature that does not exist in nature: both a Red Sox and Yankees fan.

The Governor said, “My favorite team has always been the Red Sox,” he said, then added, “I’m also a Yankees fan. . . . This is the thing about me. I can bring people together.”

First Friday translation: I love the Hatfield’s and the McCoy’s, and dine with each them regularly. (Take that, Hillary! Cubs and Yankees fan, my ass!)

If this is true, it is clearly a sign of the apocalypse. However, since it can not be true, we are safe. For now, this myth will ride off into the sunset on the back of a winged unicorn and be forgotten. Unless, that is, he starts polling more than the atomic weight of hydrogen.

23 May 2007

We will not rest...until sometime Friday around noon

The new Democrat controlled Congress has been on the job since January 4th, and what a job they've done. Elected to do who knows what, they've pretty much followed through on that promise.

Leading by example. On December 6th, 2006, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was full of vim and vigor, ready to take the country in a new direction. "I have bad news for you," Hoyer told the Washington Post. "Those trips you had planned in January, forget 'em. We will be working almost every day in January, starting with the 4th."

Ever since then, Congressman Hoyer, Speaker Pelosi and their merry band of Democrats have been blazing a snail's pace across the nation. Actually, the only way they could move slower is by actually moving backwards.

Here are their accomplishments thus far.

They've passed 26 bill, 11 of which renamed buildings. Way to go there! Now people will have bad or confusing directions until every web based map program is updated to account for this legislative milestone.

They've also...well...They've taken some well deserved...They haven't done a lot, actually. But with a work schedule like they've had, they can't be expected to produce. Here's how their new work ethic translates into action.

After working the 4th of January, they took the next two Mondays off. (You can't work every Monday, otherwise people will start to expect it!)

Number of full weeks worked in January: 0. (Come on! There are college Bowl games to watch! That's like the people's business, since the people care about them. Look at the ratings!)

Number of full weeks worked in the new Congress: 7 out of 19. (If this were baseball they'd be well on their way to the Hall of Fame. Since this isn't baseball, they're just lazy.)

The "full" week of March 26th, they left at 10:00 am on Friday. (It was warm that day, tee times had to be honored over campaign promises.)

Number of Mondays worked: 14 of 20. (Monday's are a drag, who wants to work?)

Number of Fridays worked: 10 of 20. (Again, who wants to work on Friday? Plus, there is the added bummer of Monday being only 2 days away. You need time to prepare for that.)

Number of Fridays worked past 2:00 pm: 5 of 20. (Again, I ask: Who works past 2:00 on a Friday? Only those suckers who have jobs that require them to show up, do things, and produce. You know, the kind of jobs like voters have. Oh yeah, I guess we are the suckers.)

I encourage the lazy the run for office. Sure, the campaign will be a bit of drag, what with all the having to be someplace and talk to people and stuff. But if you get elected it's easy street all the way! Congress has become welfare with monogrammed shirts. Not that is was ever a bastion of work ethic, it's just that most leaders don't break such easy to keep promises so soon after taking office.

16 May 2007

If at first you don't succeed, cry foul and change the rules.

I'm not normally one to be surprised by the actions of our liberal friends, but this is just a little too much. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi can't advance the radical left-wing agenda laid out for Democrats by moveon.org and other anti-personal freedom supporters who "own" the Democratic Party now fast enough and she's fed up. So, in the spirit of open and fair debate, she's decided to change the rules of the House to essentially shut up Republicans.

The Drudge Report is reporting the following:

"After losing a string of embarrassing votes on the House floor because of procedural maneuvering, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to change the current House Rules to completely shut down the floor to the minority.

"The Democratic Leadership is threatening to change the current House Rules regarding the Republican right to the Motion to Recommit or the test of germaneness on the motion to recommit. This would be the first change to the germaneness rule since 1822.

"In protest, the House Republicans are going to call procedural motions every half hour. "

I could use all sorts of analogies, throw around names like Mao, Stalin, etc., but it's not really needed. Sometimes liberals act in such a way that it speaks for itself, speaks to their mindset, speaks to their true intentions, that it requires nothing more than spreading of the word. So there you have it, spread the word...

11 May 2007

Jabba The Commie Cries Foul

Michael Moore, publicity whore, tragedy profiteer, and all around hypocrite (see the book Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy to see how Mr. Moore owns or has owned stocks in several of the companies and industries he claims to loathe, including Halliburton, while claiming publicly that he doesn’t own any stock because it’s “dirty money.”), is nailing himself to yet another cross; that of victim of an unwarranted government investigation.

I guess he’s never heard of the embargo against Cuba. More to the point, he doesn’t think rules apply to him (especially rules about caloric intake, apparently). Read the story yourself here, I can’t stand to look at his mug any longer than I have to.

The Mistake from Michigan claims he’s only trying to help 9/11 rescue workers with health problems by taking them to Cuba for state-of-the-art medical care, care they can’t get here because our health system is evil. Forget the fact that Cuba’s health care system is a complete mess, except where those high up in the Castro regime are concerned. Undoubtedly, this is where Moore took his cameras. After all, he wouldn’t expose his ideological brother (or father based upon age) Fidel as the evil, oppressive dictator he is. Why would he, it’s the same type of government Moore would like to bring to the US?

But this is what average Cubans (meaning those who can’t escape or don’t get thrown in jail for speaking their minds) go when they get sick. When you know the truth, Mikey is the true Sicko.

Anyway, back to the point. Moore is a giver, not really of his money (see the book referenced above), or his time (his college tour to save the US from the evil Bush regime banked an estimated $10,000 per appearance), but he does care about…well…something, he just has to. This quote is particularly heart warming, if it were true:

"I understand why the Bush administration is coming after me - I have tried to help the very people they refuse to help, but until George W. Bush outlaws helping your fellow man, I have broken no laws and I have nothing to hide.”

Aside from the potential illegality of his trip (again, he thinks he’s above the law, or maybe just all the way around it), he didn’t take everyone he promised to take. He only took a few of those he asked, undoubtedly those who agree with him. The rest he left for dead, or to die, after raising their hopes.

He’s a disgusting human being who needs to be exposed as the hypocrite and tragedy profiteer he is. He is no martyr, and not just because there isn’t a cross made that could support his weight.