Posted on 06/30/2007 5:31:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
Your Post #8 is an excellent analysis.
I was admonished last week on FR for repeatedly calling for Washington, DC to be burn't to the ground. We don't need a lawyer...just a bunch of people with pitchforks.
Remember when Nancy Pelosi took office as Speaker of the House? How could I forget. I had to turn off my TV for a few weeks.
All those nauseating pictures of lovely Nancy with her grandchildren being hailed by the newsmedia like a goddess.
The honeymoon was skipped and we’re headed to divorce court.
LOL. Something like that!
It would be interesting if they graded the House and Senate separately. I think the Senate would show up much worse.
For all the clowns in the House leadership and in the House in general, at least these clowns stand for election every two years.
It is the imperious, arrogant, superscilious, elitist, condescending U.S. Senate that really fires my vehement anger at the Congress. Since they only stand for election every six years, they think they are some kind of royal country club. They don’t represent the people, or the states from which they come. They are about self preservation, and are frequently bought off by special interests.
The founders of this Republic intended the Senate to be a body to represent the States. Senators were selected by their respective states according to the laws of that state, be it by appointment by the governor or by selection by the state legislature. The Seventeenth Amendment stripped the state governments of this power, and created a “House of Oligarchs” which, because of their six year terms, are accountable to no one. It was instructive to observe the behavior of Senators that are up for election next year versus those who are not in the amnesty bill “debate.”
Far from being “the world’s most deliberative body,” it is the Senate that has come up with the most radical legislation, particularly on immigration and amnesty in recent years. If anything, it is the House of Representatives, clowns and all, with their feet held to the fire every two years, that have played a major role in stopping this amnesty insanity that the elitist Senate cooked up. It is also the insulated, elitist, cloistered Senate that has been the origin point of such atrocities as McCain-Feingold and recent attempts to revive the fascist free speech regulating “Fairness Doctrine.”
We need to keep in mind that it is the House of Representatives that played no small part in knocking down the amnesty insanity in that the Republican House members voted overwhelmingly against the Senate amnesty atrocity and sent the signal to the Senate that the amnesty bill was dead on arrival. This helped to defeat the amnesty bill before it could get out of the Senate. Similarly, the House voted overwhelmingly with 309 votes to defund the so-called Fairness Doctrine, a vote that included both Republicans and Democrats. Jim Pence has also introduced legislation to prohibit the re enactment of the Fairness Doctrine by the FCC. It is interesting to note that McCain has introduced similar legislation in the Senate, but it is too little, to late. The Senate has shown its elitist tendencies to regulate free speech and pass radical legislation.
The possible solutions to this Senate problem include repealing of the Seventeenth Amendment (which is difficult and will probably never happen) to shortening to four years the terms of the Senate. Term limits are another possiblility. Think how much better it would be if we could get rid of Teddy Kennedy and John McCain. Both of them, and far too many others have been in there too long to be representative of anything but their own self aggrandizement.
Pelosi is very much the same time as Laura Miller, whose just finished her tenure as Mayor of Dallas. A suburban housewife who had a bigger mouth than brain.
Good! I hope it goes even lower and more of the sheeple awaken and notice that it looks like our gov’t gets up every morning trying to figure out a new way to screw us.
bttt
So the President is twice as popular as the Democratic Congress.....
You got that right. But the left ignores the low poll number of the congress and only bring up the president’s number. It really is hilarious
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