Democrat Strategy For America: "Slow Bleed 'Em"...One Useless Bill At A Time
Posted at 5:00pm on Jun. 18, 2008
redstate.com
By haystack
Man, talk about fiddling while Rome burns...guess what the House is taking up today for Legislative consideration? Can anyone help me understand how, exactly, honoring the life of Tim Russert, or allocating land in Montana for a cemetery, or fussing over the treatment of non-human primates helps us all stop BLEEDING from the current crisis on fuel prices? No? Yeah, me either...
Minority Whip Blunt asks the question "So Why Hasn’t Congress Acted to Lower Gas Prices?" and all I can come up with is they've been too busy on (as he calls them) "a few other higher priorities."
For example:
Of the 244 laws that the Democrat Congress has enacted (thru June 6, 2008):
- 92 (38%) were to name government buildings or lands;
- 39 (16%) were to extend existing laws or make technical corrections to existing laws;
- of the remaining bills enacted into law, 87 (35%) were so uncontroversial that they passed either without a recorded vote in the House or with fewer than 10 votes in opposition.
But, heck-who am I to bellyache? At least the Democrat House gave us “Frank Sinatra Day,” “National Train Day,” “National Plumbing Industry Week,” and “National Passport Month” according to a recent Blunt presser. Feel all warm and fuzzy yet? No? There's more-"the Democrat House has been so busy naming months for various causes that they have now named 51 months...27 more than are actually on the calendar for a two year Congress."
Well done, Nance...well done. For the rest of us who are drowning in gas price-hell, give a peek at what President Bush said today about this nation's energy crisis:
For many Americans, there is no more pressing concern than the price of gasoline. Truckers and farmers and small business owners have been hit especially hard. Every American who drives to work, purchases food, or ships a product has felt the effect. And families across our country are looking to Washington for a response.
Still with me? Good...at least somebody in Washington understands the living hell we're being made to endure...
Let's go below the fold for MORE of what the "No Policy" Democrat policy is doing to America, m'kay?..
First, more than a third of Americans are rethinking vacation plans because of record-high gas prices. Next up we have kids losing out on summer camp. but, but, but...I thought this was all "for the children"...yeah, right. It's not about the kids, folks..it's about the freaking monkeys!
Then, of course, there's the always popular attack on boaters, followed by the easy mark of indirectly sticking it to the automobile industry. Given the democrats are all about Unions, where is the outrage from them now? You'd think there would be a revolt given their livelihood is being taken away from them, drop of blood by drop of blood...
Even MORE fun is the effects the ineptitude of Pelosi's "do nothing Congress" is having on the airline industry. Layoffs and reduced fleet size is driving up cost to "we, the consumer"...making travel harder and more complicated and more expensive...but what do the Democrats care? They'd rather worry about the humane treatment of monkeys..right?
Housing market? Trashed. Trucking industry? Near-bankrupt. Police protection? Gone. Public transportation? Might as well walk...and you can better bet the prices will go up too.
The list is endless...downstream effects on this gas price mess are killing every walk of life. From crushing the Military budget they STILL refuse to fund, to forcing Gas stations to close (pssst-that would be "driving down supply" gang which ALWAYS drives up cost), to freaking fuel surcharges on speeding tickets, the Democrats mean to slow bleed us right into the ground.
You know, come to think of it, I WANT to pay $$10.00 a gallon...I'll sleep better knowing Montana has some land for a cemetery and monkeys will be treated nice when they are transported across State lines.
Keep up the good work Democrats...this Bud's for you! |
