FReepathon day 40.
Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.
Posted on 08/10/2014 8:48:19 AM PDT by John Semmens
A big part of President Obama’s political message has been the travails he’s suffered because of a “do nothing” Congress. The fact that there are over 300 bills passed by the House that are currently being blocked by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) would seem to rebut the President’s contention. Of these House passed bills, 50% passed unanimously, 70% passed with a 2/3rds majority, and 55 were introduced by Democrat members of the House.
“The House has been active trying to craft legislation to address an array of problems,” Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan) pointed out. “The charge that we are doing nothing is mendacious propaganda. It is the Senate under the leadership of Harry Reid that is failing to undertake its legislative responsibilities.”
Reid defended his inaction on these bills. “The President is engaged in a desperate struggle over who will rule this nation,” Reid contended. “Faced with the option of helping him or cooperating with the House my choice is clear. If the President is to prevail in his struggle his argument must not be undermined. By helping to ensure that nothing can get through Congress the case for unilateral executive action is bolstered.”
The Majority Leader argued that recent polls showing that Congress is held in even lower repute than the President vindicate his strategy. “The whole concept of legislative government is confusing to the average American,” Reid said. “Voters want and deserve the clarity of having the man they chose as their President do what the country needs to have done. By validating his criticism of Congress I am helping him to retain his credibility in his fight. For that I make no apologies.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://theconservativecitizen.com/2014/08/09/semi-news-a-satire-of-recent-news-92/
Reid has his own issues regarding credibility.
I doubt the mainstream press will either.
This one is pretty dark, John.
Harry The Reid knows his 15 minutes is almost up
Reid,a Vegas whore,bought on the cheap!
Doing nothing has prevented further damage in many ways. 300+ pieces of legislation is insane regardless of who introduced or passed it.
Congress needs to be part time again. 2 weeks twice a year works for me (they get paid for that 2 weeks) only unless there’s a threat against the US. Otherwise anything they do the f—k up.
Good!
Then we will accept that as a confession and a plea of GUILTY!
What are ya...nuts?
What if they're repeal bills?
Every session there are thousands of bills introduced...300 is NOTHING!
>>“The President is engaged in a desperate struggle over who will rule this nation,” Reid contended.
You don’t say?
>> “If the President is to prevail in his struggle his argument must not be undermined. By helping to ensure that nothing can get through Congress the case for unilateral executive action is bolstered.”
Reid’s loyalty is to the Fuehrer.
“Reid has his own issues regarding credibility.”
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What credibility? With a few exceptions, there is none in the Congress.
Says it all.
No; Not credible, not plausible, not even specious, just a pure unadulterated Ly’ing liar with a lie. Both them I mean.
There’s few if any bills that are ever repealed. They get changed and more convoluted but repeal is rare at best.
Bottom line is way have way to many laws and congress needs to go back to part time work i.e. we don’t need full time legislatures.
Neither one of them has a shred of credibility. None.
What do people expect from reid after mac daddy bought his voice by waving a penny in front of his face.
“The President is engaged in a desperate struggle over who will rule this nation,” ....I knew it! I knew it! I only looked up to see it was you!
You don’t think there are any “repeal ObolaCare” bills in that mix?
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