Jul 02 2007
Don’t Sh*t on me!
I found this picture waiting in my email inbox this morning.
How apropos…
Needless to say I think this image perfectly captures the opinion of the American people of their government at the moment. I believe it is safe to say that our Congress doesn’t act out of the best interest of the American people anymore.
After the defeat of this illegal immigration bill last week, we’ve been berated by one condescending politician after another. It’s like they’re lining up, each taking their turn to express just how bad the American people are, that we’re really right-wing and bigoted and narrow-minded and uncaring and generally stupid.
Here is Senator Harry Reid’s statement:
“The defeat of immigration reform is a profound disappointment. This vote rejects tougher border security, and now our border patrol agents will continue to do their jobs shorthanded. Today’s vote does nothing to solve our problem of 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the shadows. And this vote also ignores the very real economic needs of farmers and small business owners. The current system is broken, but there were not enough Senators willing to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work to fix it.”
“When immigration reform came up for a vote two weeks ago, an overwhelming majority of Democrats supported President Bush’s bill – but only 7 Republicans joined us. I said then that the fate of the bill would rest on the willingness of Republicans to move forward with us to solve this pressing national problem. Today, unfortunately, we learned that there just wasn’t enough Republican support for the President’s approach.”
Here is Senator Lindsey Graham’s statement:
“There’s racism in this debate,” Mr. Graham said. “Nobody likes to talk about it, but a very small percentage of people involved in this debate really have racial and bigoted remarks. The tone that we create around these debates, whether it be rhetoric in a union hall or rhetoric on talk radio, it can take people who are on the fence and push them over emotionally.”
Rather than saying that angry American citizens crashed the entire Capitol Building phone switchboard, our good senators are chalking the defeat of this immigration bill to racism and the general ill-will of the American people. You kind of have the picture of Senator Reid and his cohorts giving the American people a lecture about tolerance and how we should give each person according to their need.
Such bootless lecturing just underlines the chasm between the governors and the governed.
It is a fact that our Congressmen and Senators enjoy a lower turnover rate than the Soviet Politburo. It is also apparent that they are so disconnected with the American people that when the American people thwart their wills, they see it fit to berate and lecture us on the necessity of doing what they say.
It’s really no mystery why our Congress no longer reflect the will of the American people. They are behaving like an American oligarchy and they are the aristocrats issuing decrees to us peasants. Party lines have little to do with it anymore; the flavor in how they rule may be different, but make no mistake, they intend to rule, not serve.
The most glaring sign of their new status as aristocrats is their allergic reaction to work.
Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, said voters wonder why he spends so much time in Houston instead of Washington. “I’ve been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member,” Green said.
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“What first caught my attention was seeing that the House was going to take the entire month of January off and then be here basically three days in February,” Congress watcher Norm Ornstein from the American Enterprise Institute said.
He added, “It’s stunning to see how much time off there is, how little time is being spent in Washington doing any of the people’s business.”
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Even members from Hawaii jet home for long weekends, unthinkable not so long ago. Under both Democratic and Republican leadership, the work schedule has gradually decreased: In the ’60s and ’70s, Congress met on average 162 days a year; in the ’80s and ’90s, 139 days. This year the House is expected to meet 71 days.
Let me see here… When the Democrats took control of Congress, they said they are “prepared to govern!.” Since that time, what they’ve done is half-heartedly fund our troops in the line of fire, give themselves a raise, and demanded and got the military to fly them and their families around the country for free (at tax payers expense, of course).
But taxpayer watchdog groups and ethics advocates said they were surprised Pelosi would seek more perks for members.
“One of the things she was praised for when she came in was her sweeping reforms on gifts and travel,” said Craig Holman of Public Citizen. “It is very disheartening if she is, in fact, backsliding on this.”
Public Citizen filed a complaint with the IRS last year, saying that family members who receive free travel by accompanying lawmakers should pay taxes on the travel’s value. The complaint focused on privately sponsored travel, but Holman said it should apply to taxpayer-funded travel as well.
“I don’t see any difference,” Holman said.
Oh and by the way, they also revived the Fairness Doctrine proposal and they tried to shove the illegal immigration bill down our collective throats.
Okay, I’m leaving out a few things, but this is the gist of just how productive our Congress has been this past year.
I am almost tempted to wonder who is lining their pocketbooks, but we know the answer to that question, don’t we? All we have to ask is, why are our Congressmen, our Senators and our military generals suddenly billionaires after they leave office, and why are they on the board of all these overseas companies? Any cursory look at Colin Powell’s booming wealth after leaving the Bush Administration should answer a whole host of questions.
Globalism is wonderful if you get rich. So what if you sell out your country?
And THEY are going to lecture us on our morality and our work ethic?
Now that’s the OUTRAGE.
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Update:
For those unfamiliar with American history the title of my post refers to the Gadsden flag that was used in the American Revolution. Perhaps our Congress and our rulers should be reacquainted with American history. They seem to have forgotten whom they serve.
Senator Reid’s comments as usual only focus on the benefits to employers and to illegal aliens. Being so use to special interest politics, he and his peers are agitated that the majority are starting to demand that their interests be taken into consideration. To pass immigration reform the Senators are going to need to reword their arguments to explain why it would benefit workers who are citizens or legal residents (if there are any benefits).
http://ymarsakar.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/soviet-propaganda/
I keep being reminded of the useful idiot series of youtube vids from a Russian defector.
There are just way too many guillible and naive fools that believed in PillowC. The funny thing is, maybe even PillowC believed in her own propaganda, which would raise the question of “who the hell are the puppetmasters if the propagandists themselves believe in their own lies”.