Congress Is The Biggest Failure In Decades
Democratic Congress: A Perverse Pride in Doing Nothing
By David karki
“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”
“If Congress takes tons of votes but passes nothing, has it really voted?”
Congress under Democratic leadership has reduced our legislative branch to little more than a philosophical question, so little has it accomplished in a year. They have passed none of the budget bills the federal government needs to operate, and wasted much time with multiple Iraq withdrawal and S-CHIP bills that they know will get vetoed, just to create issues for the 2008 elections and to curry favor with their lunatic base. They are on a pace to write the fewest new laws in 35 years, since the height of Watergate when President Nixon and a Democratic Congress were bitterly at odds.
They have also launched over 300 investigations of the Bush Administration, yet haven’t managed to show a single incident of wrong-doing. Compare this to the Clinton Administration, where a single investigation may well show over 300 incidents of wrong-doing.
And that’s what this is really all about: Childish partisan revenge.
Of course, there was the spectacle of Harry Reid commandeering the Senate floor to attack Rush Limbaugh for something he didn’t even say, never mind that little thing known as the First Amendment. Even if El Rushbo did say something awful, why is this worth putting all Senate business on hold? Just change the dang radio station and listen to Air America, if it’s still operating.
At the same time, the House has already set a record with 1,009 recorded votes this year. But only 107 of those have actually become law, with 58 involving such no-impact items as naming buildings and extensions of current law. Speaker Pelosi apparently thinks House members are to function like 435 hamsters on little wheels, running like mad and yet going absolutely nowhere.
Having said this, a Congress that passes nothing of consequence is a good thing. But there is a difference between simply doing nothing and being preoccupied with that which is simply partisan or unimportant (or both). It indicates a fundamental unseriousness toward the real challenges we face, and a level of immaturity bordering on the infantile. And it forces one to question just how fit such “leadership” is to hold power in the first place.
During a time where we have such major issues as unsecured borders, troops in the field and an impending implosion of Medicare and Social Security due to the retirement of the Baby Boomers, Democrats are spending time on stuff like National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week and ensuring toys made in China don’t have lead paint in them.
Does the phrase “the inmates are running the asylum” suddenly leap to mind as strongly for you as it does for me?
Fortunately, this isn’t lost on the American people; Congress’s approval rating is at the lowest level since such polling began. The Democrats that were supposed to save us from the Republican “culture of corruption” have only succeeded in showing us that they are unfit to hold office, be they clean, crooked or otherwise.
These are the people we’re supposed to trust if another terrorist attack occurs? The same folks who are too busy re-naming rivers (the same one in Connecticut twice, in fact) and post offices to do the work needed to try to prevent it? Keeping them in power is nothing more than playing a high-stakes game of Russian roulette.
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have proven themselves unqualified for the posts they hold and would have embarrassed themselves were they capable of shame. Sadly, they seem to take an almost perverse pride in the nothing they have done.
They have even managed to get President Bush, who hasn’t exactly been inclined to loquaciousness or stiff opposition during his time in office, to publicly criticize them as well as locate and utilize his long-lost veto pen. So I guess they have done at least one thing right.
Hopefully, Bush’s newfound ornery streak will carry over to congressional Republicans, and they’ll re-discover the conservative soul they sold while holding power for 12 years. And then this term can conclude with a perfectly deserved ending for Reid, Pelosi and the Democrats – a return to minority status.
Full article by David Karki for NSWG here.
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Its too bad Joe Schmo voter doesn’t realize this. I wish people at the polls had to take a current events test: What’s the president’s name? Where is Iraq?
October 31st, 2007 at 10:44 amActually, slassbag, the low polls show the public knows more than the MSM wants them to.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:20 am“Congress under Democratic leadership has reduced our legislative branch to little more than a philosophical question…”
little more? The very things that are polarizing this country are ‘philosophical’.
However, I do enjoy knowing that all Soros’ money could produce was an ineffective majority in Congress that would expose the Dhimmicrats for the Marxist appeasers they are in time for the ‘08 elections.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:46 amAnother year of getting hit over the head with that hammer and the fuckers are toast.
Brian H, you’re exactly right. Dictators and politicians worldwide have been strewn aside underestimating the American people.
Remember when John F. Kerry had the election in the bag? How about Al Gore? How about the 2002 midterm elections?
Democrats have their power because they try and keep their constituents poor and poorly educated, but the demise of the MSM, unions, and other liberal institutions shows that the American people aren’t quite as stupid as the liberals would like to believe.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:12 pmHar har,
Harry Weid sure does have the American Gothic face dosnt he? Nice picture.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:13 pmupon further review we find this congress has succeeded in one important task……confirming to many Americans that the d’rat party is being led by a bunch of neo-coms that are only interested in governing for themselves and not for the good of the nation as a whole
October 31st, 2007 at 1:13 pmAs if this congress could do anything with that dildo fucked Texas punk in the way
October 31st, 2007 at 1:40 pm“…that dildo fucked Texas punk….”
Whats Ron Paul dun ta git you so riled up pardner?
October 31st, 2007 at 8:15 pm“that dildo fucked Texas punk”
I think I wanna cwy…boohoo,
October 31st, 2007 at 10:46 pmThat post was too over the top. I agree. My bad
November 1st, 2007 at 6:30 am