Posted on 03/20/2002 4:20:07 PM PST by vannrox
The Democrats seem to be stepping in it again and again. First, they insisted upon pushing the Campaign Finance Reform Bill forward, despite the fact that the majority of Americans who actually knew a thing about it thought it was a bad bill. Next, Tom Daschle obstructed President Bush's drive to enact an economic stimulus package for as long as he could. We needed an economic stimulus months ago, but late is better than not at all, which is what Daschle was promoting - not at all! There is another important Bill under consideration in the House and Senate. It is a Bill to standardize voting booth practices across the nation. As usual, there are two versions, one Demo and the other Republican. The primary difference between the two was that the original Demo Bill proposed to loosen voter registration. This brings me to Tom Daschle's most recent obstructionism in the Senate. He and his minions, voting across straight party lines, persisted in tarrig and feathering Thomas Pickering despite the fact that several public figures in Tennessee spoke up in Pickering's behalf. Many of them, including Al Gore's brother-in-law are Democrats themselves. Yet again, Daschle and his ilk ignored public opinion. Consider this. Even such a notoriously biased network as CNN is reporting that the Democrats wanted our economy to plunge in order to make President Bush "look bad" on domestic issues. They were disappointed when Alan Greenspan recently stated that he sees the end of the recession. America fails? More people are out of work? Companies go under? Left Wing Democrats don't care. When we lose, they win. People who wish ill for our country are obviously neither patriots nor loyal Americans. They are merely power-crazed, amoral leeches slopping at the public trough at our expense. Democrats are also behind the drive to keep us dependent upon foreign oil. The area in Anwar, in which President Bush proposes that we drill, is relative in size to a postage stamp on the back end of an oil tanker, but the Democrats keep "spinning" lies that imply that such drilling will despoil the entire Alaskan Wilderness. Balderdash! Even Bill Clinton's Department of Energy disagreed with Tom Daschle. The Department of Energy, under Clinton, produced a report in October 1999, entitled "Environmental Benefits of Advanced Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Technology." That report stated that technological advances now permit drilling in "environmentally sensitive" areas without damage. I watched a series of diagrams of the proposed drilling techniques on television. By creating roads across the frozen ice in the winter, drilling can be done far from the actual shoreline. Those roads will melt in the spring, leaving the drillings sites distant from the actual land mass and any animal and plant life. Further, the use of large low-pressure tires on transport equipment ensures that virtually no trace of human access and egress will remain. Borking Up the Wrong Tree
2002, Marti Stapp Linder
Published 03. 18. 2002 at 23:27 PST
Daschcle's resistance to the tax rebate that we all received last year prefaced this bullheadedness. Seems he didn't want us to have that either. In both instances, the majority of Americans agreed with President Bush and not with Tom Dashcle and his gang of partisan party hacks.
Democrats always want to spend our money for us and the idea of letting all those dollars slip through their greedy fingers sent them to the airways, telling lies and "spinning" the truth. Daschle essentially said, "We can spend your money better than you can. Letting us keep your money will help the economy more than allowing you to spend or invest your own money will." Nobody believed him.
Republicans, in an effort to protect voting rights for legitimate American voters, insisted that first time voters have a picture identification and documentation (such as a driver's license) to verify that they are American citizens. The last I heard, the Democrats finally had to relent, but they didn't want to. Their reluctance to guarantee voting rights for lawful American citizens stemmed from the fact that Demos assumed that most illegal aliens would vote the straight Demo ticket. They were eager to allow non-citizens to "slip through the cracks," to vote for Democratic candidates, as directed by cynical Demos who don't give a bunny's behind WHO votes for them as long as they garner power.
Despite the fact that our tax dollars pay their salaries, Democrats continue to discount the wishes of other Americans. Never mind that they are supposed to be working for us and not for the Left Wing Liberal Agenda. The Demo/Socialists/Communists do not have the best interest of our country in mind, but only a drive to consolidate power and bend the entire legislative branch of government to their idiosyncratic will.
Thanks to Clinton, we now import over sixty percent of our oil. (When he assumed office, we only imported about thirty percent.) The consequences of this dependency are dire. We are already aware of the creeping gas prices at the pumps as dictated by the guys who wear turbans. What if the current conflicts in the Mideast become ever larger and actually erupt into all out war? The oil pumps will be cut off across the nation. Without the energy to drive our economy, our country will be brought to its knees. We will essentially become an instant "Third World Nation," vulnerable to every terrorist in the world. Is that what the Left Wing amoral politicians really want? Surely, even they and their most rabid and obsessive evironut constituents are not so blind as to ignore the consequences of their obstructionist tactics.
The Borking of Thomas Pickering is only a single symptom of Democratic obstructionism. They are against everything that is good for the United States of America, from desperately needed court appointments to uniform voter registration to ensuring the energy to drive our economy to allowing Americans to voice their opinions in the media prior to elections a la the so-called "Campaign Finance Reform Bill." We have to get these ANTI-Americans out of office. The next time you go to the polls, be sure you vote for people who are willing to work FOR America! We cannot continue to allow these Socialist clowns to bring our country to its knees. To do so is unpatriotic.
Demonrats - "They are merely power-crazed, amoral leeches slopping at the public trough at our expense.
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