DEMS SHUT DOWN CONGRESS. THESE ARE THE ONES REACHING ACROSS THE AISLE?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Dems say our country is divided, has to be united. It’s time to reach across the aisle for the nation’s good. Dems claim Republicans shut down common sense and genuine patriotism to remake the United States into an antiquated morality clique.
Of course, it’s the Republicans’ fault. GWB doesn’t have a clue. And the nation is on the slice through.
Then how do Dems have the face to shut down Congress?
That’s exactly what they are intending to do, starting now. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid "made the threat in a letter to Majority Leader Bill Frist," according to Charles Hurt of The Washington Times.
Threat? Yes, threat. On paper. In public.
So what’s irking the uniting, flag waving, ethical Dems? The filibuster. That’s what. They want the filibuster so they can talk like fools into the night, into the night, into the night, sleep on cots and waste taxpayers’ money on Congress turned into a day care center. While the world burns, Dems block Congressional action by clogging up crucial business with the worn, infantile game called "filibuster."
So since the Dems can’t get their way on the talk machine, they’re not going to do anything for America in THE legislative building of the nation. Of course, if matters have to do with military or troops or something like staving off missiles, they’ll shut up and behave as adults. But if anything else comes to the fore — like Mr. Bush’s judicial nominees — then back to day care.
I hope voters remember this for a long, long time into the next eon. In the meantime, may every grassroots Dem hang his and her head in utter shame. Their reps are acting like spoiled urchins in the alley for the world to be privy to the sight. This is absolutely disgraceful.
Reid wrote: ". . .we will be reluctant to enter into any consent agreement that facilitates Senate activities, even on routine matters." So there, Republicans. So there. And so there, local citizen. So there.
Reid not only sent the letter to Frist but made a public donkey of himself on the steps of Congress, 35 other donkeys hunched alongside him. On those marble steps Reid read his letter aloud. "We would decline to provide such cooperation in the future if you implement the nuclear option."
The nuclear option: Frist’s 51 votes that would "force the nominees through the Senate on a simple majority vote."
Frist has that many votes ready to do legitimate business in Congress instead of that body enduring stymieing by Dems yapping away for hours ad infinitum, gawking minute by minute to TV cameras their low-brow approach to governing America.
One Dem had the decency to call the Dem mouth-off as being nothing other than "the power of arrogance." Well, at least one Dem has got to the root of the Dem demented motive in this flapping circus. It is just that: the power of arrogance in place of the power to govern.
According to Senator Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, the realistic chances are that all nominees to the federal bench will get the YES vote finally. It’s just that Dems want to fist fight the way through.
Is that the way to behave in Congress? Is that what it means to take the oath of office? "’Senator Reid's threat may inspire the Michael Moore wing of his party, but it will anger and confuse mainstream Americans,’ Coburn said."
"Sen. George Allen, Virginia Republican and recent National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, said Democrats ‘ought to learn a lesson’ from last year's election defeat of Minority Leader Tom Daschle, in part because Republicans tarred him as an ‘obstructionist.’"
Question: do Dem brain cells at present have the facility by which "to learn a lesson?" Answer: Not if they’re determined to run a day care and call it "Congress."
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Dems say our country is divided, has to be united. It’s time to reach across the aisle for the nation’s good. Dems claim Republicans shut down common sense and genuine patriotism to remake the United States into an antiquated morality clique.
Of course, it’s the Republicans’ fault. GWB doesn’t have a clue. And the nation is on the slice through.
Then how do Dems have the face to shut down Congress?
That’s exactly what they are intending to do, starting now. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid "made the threat in a letter to Majority Leader Bill Frist," according to Charles Hurt of The Washington Times.
Threat? Yes, threat. On paper. In public.
So what’s irking the uniting, flag waving, ethical Dems? The filibuster. That’s what. They want the filibuster so they can talk like fools into the night, into the night, into the night, sleep on cots and waste taxpayers’ money on Congress turned into a day care center. While the world burns, Dems block Congressional action by clogging up crucial business with the worn, infantile game called "filibuster."
So since the Dems can’t get their way on the talk machine, they’re not going to do anything for America in THE legislative building of the nation. Of course, if matters have to do with military or troops or something like staving off missiles, they’ll shut up and behave as adults. But if anything else comes to the fore — like Mr. Bush’s judicial nominees — then back to day care.
I hope voters remember this for a long, long time into the next eon. In the meantime, may every grassroots Dem hang his and her head in utter shame. Their reps are acting like spoiled urchins in the alley for the world to be privy to the sight. This is absolutely disgraceful.
Reid wrote: ". . .we will be reluctant to enter into any consent agreement that facilitates Senate activities, even on routine matters." So there, Republicans. So there. And so there, local citizen. So there.
Reid not only sent the letter to Frist but made a public donkey of himself on the steps of Congress, 35 other donkeys hunched alongside him. On those marble steps Reid read his letter aloud. "We would decline to provide such cooperation in the future if you implement the nuclear option."
The nuclear option: Frist’s 51 votes that would "force the nominees through the Senate on a simple majority vote."
Frist has that many votes ready to do legitimate business in Congress instead of that body enduring stymieing by Dems yapping away for hours ad infinitum, gawking minute by minute to TV cameras their low-brow approach to governing America.
One Dem had the decency to call the Dem mouth-off as being nothing other than "the power of arrogance." Well, at least one Dem has got to the root of the Dem demented motive in this flapping circus. It is just that: the power of arrogance in place of the power to govern.
According to Senator Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, the realistic chances are that all nominees to the federal bench will get the YES vote finally. It’s just that Dems want to fist fight the way through.
Is that the way to behave in Congress? Is that what it means to take the oath of office? "’Senator Reid's threat may inspire the Michael Moore wing of his party, but it will anger and confuse mainstream Americans,’ Coburn said."
"Sen. George Allen, Virginia Republican and recent National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, said Democrats ‘ought to learn a lesson’ from last year's election defeat of Minority Leader Tom Daschle, in part because Republicans tarred him as an ‘obstructionist.’"
Question: do Dem brain cells at present have the facility by which "to learn a lesson?" Answer: Not if they’re determined to run a day care and call it "Congress."
For more: http://conservativeposts.us/ <http://conservativeposts.us/>
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