Congress proving why its approval rating is lower than Bush

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before congress today that he doesn’t think additional rate cuts are necessary right now.  Liberal Senators Charles Schumer, senior liberal from New York, and Sam Brownback, the liberal RINO from Kansas pressured Ben Bernanke to cut rates further, faster, etc.  So what’s the big deal you ask?

“When those gas prices get up to $3 a gallon, it seems to hit some sort of psychological point in consumer’s mind that ‘I have less to spend,’ and that’s a reality for them.” - Sen. Sam Brownback (R) Kansas

“I’m very concerned that there may be a bigger storm on the horizon,” - Sen. Charles Schumer (D) New York

So if Senators Schumer and Brownback are so concerned about people having less to spend then why push for a rate cut that will have little effect on consumers  immediately, why not do something that will affect everyone.  Cut the gas tax, I know we can’t do that because after all Government never has to do with less, only hard working people do.  Don’t believe me, here’s the proof….

Coincidently today the Senate voted 79 to 14 to override President Bush’s Veto of a $23 Billion water resources bill that he believed was too expensive.  The fact that President Bush found a spending bill too expensive is news by itself, but congress, in spite of what former Fed Chairman Greenspan has preached for decades, voted to Override the President and spend $23 Billion tax dollars that came from the pockets of hard working people.

Somehow the AP thinks that it is a negative for a branch of government to exercise a rare instance of fiscal restraint:

President Bush suffered the first veto override of his seven-year-old presidency Thursday as the Senate enacted a $23 billion water resources bill despite his protest that it was too expensive.

Now I will take the occasion to commend Sen. Brownback because he voted to sustain the veto.  However after the preaching about the bigger storm on the horizon for the American people Sen. Schumer didn’t think it was big enough to keep him from voting to override the President and spend, spend, spend.

And now we know why congress’ approval is nearly half of what the President’s is.

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Proving yet again that they are clueless on conservatism

The Washington correspondents for the UK Telegraph are just like the rest of the MSM, proving how clueless liberals are when it comes to conservatives.  Now in all fairness the article is titled “The top US conservatives and liberals” however we’ll focus on the “conservatives” on this list since liberals are irrelevant anyway.

Perhaps a better title for this would have been “The top US liberals and Stalinists, with a few conservatives here and there”.  That’s what it boils down to and it’s a joke from top to bottom!

Starting at 100 General Peter Pace.  A great man, I personally don’t know if he is conservative but after the way the stalinists in congress have treated him who could blame him.

Moving down to 96 Ron Paul.  Please, having this man within three time zones of a list of conservatives is insulting.  Hillary is more conservative than Ron Paul.

93 Michelle Malkin.  Having Michelle any lower than 20 proves that it was liberal idiots who came up with this list but I’ll press on.

85 Clarence Thomas.  As one of only 4.5 (Anthony Kennedy is only 1/2 conservative) conservatives on the Supreme Court I dare say he rates much higher than this.

78 Brent Scowcroft. He has been a loyal Republican over the years but calling him conservative, no.

75 Michael Chertoff.  The Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security is not conservative; he has been a big supporter of amnesty for illegal immigrants, not a conservative resume enhancement.

66 James Baker.  I had more respect for James Baker before he led the bend over and grab the ankles study group whose recommendations amounted to us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq.  Nope not in the top 100.

62 Antonin Scalia. I refer to my comments about Clarence Thomas and add that he has been the anchor on the conservative side of the Supreme Court for over 20.

54 Fred Thompson.  Having the only conservative in the Presidential race ranked 54th (and I don’t count anyone under 10% because by now if they were going to convince people they deserved the nomination they would be doing better than 10%) shows how ignorant the so called “enlightened” among us really are.

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The definition of Sacrifice

Merriam-Webster defines sacrifice as: destruction or surrender

of something for the sake of something else, something given up or lost, the sacrifices made by parents.

I have discovered in recent years that the definition of sacrifice varies more with other factors, generation, political beliefs, political party, etc.  The “greatest” generation, those born from 1911 to 1924, seemed to sacrifice a great deal.  Many of these people suffered through the great depression, many went on to fight in World War II, and many did not come home.  There are those that didn’t fight for our country in Europe or the Pacific but worked in factories to support the war effort, but all were impacted by the war.

Everyone was restricted in the fuel they could use; scrap metal was reused to make planes, tanks, ammunition, etc.  People made do with what they had at the time, if the radio broke you fixed it, you didn’t throw it away and buy a new one, people didn’t replace cars every twelve months because it was “old”.

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The ranting’s of a liberal terrorist

After reading the transcript of the lunatic, and George Soros speech writer in training, Osama Bin Laden one can only deduce that he would love nothing more than to have Hillary in power so she could secure defeat for America and validate everything this idiot says.

The Al Qaeda leader rants further about capitalism and freedom and the presumed failure of both.  He lashes out at Iraq’s leader, but he fails to answer one critical question.  If Muslim law is the way everyone should live then why, when given the chance, did both the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan reject the systems they had and chose to elect their own leaders?  The people of both countries chose freedom over tyranny, many of them braving Al Qaeda snipers and roadside bombs to do so.

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Poverty rate declines under Republican Administration

For the first time that I can recall the AP is reporting (via FoxNews) that the poverty rate has declined during a Republican Administration. This in itself is news but AP couldn’t stop there, they had to make the obligatory statement that people living without health insurance also increased to 47 million. This is absolute bull but it has been the MSM line for too many years now, it assumes that there are 47 million people out there who would sign up for health insurance if it were free, or provided by the government on the backs of all the taxpayers.

 

There is also this little tid bit in the story: “In 2005, the poverty rate dipped from 12.7 percent to 12.6 percent, but Census officials said that change was statistically insignificant.” Of course it wasn’t significant; a republican was in the White House. When will the liberals over at the AP realize that people don’t believe the garbage they print and we largely only use it for its comedic value.

Racists at CNN try to pick new AG

CNN proving again that they are nothing but racist libs basically demanded that President Bush pick former Deputy AG Larry Thompson as Gonzales’ replacement over at the Justice Department. Now I freely admit I know nothing about Larry Thompson, don’t know what he stands for, what he has done and the commentary by Roland Martin at CNN gives us none of those important details. What does Mr. Martin give us you might ask?

“Thompson was also widely respected when he was the top U.S. attorney for the northern District of Georgia. Democrats and Republicans both like him, and that’s a good thing today.

Another plus? He’s African-American.”

Then Mr. Martin goes on to make the token statement that makes liberals feel objective.

“Sure, people should be appointed based on qualifications, but he has that. His race is an added element.”

Now personally, I don’t know Larry Thompson, he’s undoubtedly a good man and Bush may nominate him and if he’s qualified then great. I don’t care what color he is, I don’t care what race he is, and my only question is if he is qualified for the job. Being a certain color or race doesn’t have any bearing on if he is qualified to be Attorney General. Only to liberals and CNN is your color or race a qualification or disqualification as the case may be.

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