Posted on 07/08/2007 4:45:28 AM PDT by Tom D.
Steyn ping
“Blustering senators who claimed to have drafted this thing had to be told what was in it by critics who’d actually taken the trouble to look at it.”
I was astounded that the full bill wasn’t available to the Senators and that they hadn’t even read it. I told Burr’s office my grandfather’s advice was NEVER buy a pig in a poke, which was what this clearly was.
Thanks.
Do you believe in term limits for Congress?
Despite a recent House vote against it, talk radio is still being threatened by the resurrection of the Fairness Doctrine. With the near evisceration of McCain - Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act by the Supreme Court and the failure of the comprehensive "Shamnesty" in the Senate, the neoCOMs will be pushing harder for the Fairness Doctrine. Call talk radio. Use that as an opening to push for a Constitutional Amendment to give Congress term limits.
More good LOLs from Mark
I was already very cynical about our congressfolk — yet these would-be tinpot dictators were still able to surprise me with their arrogance. These people dare to equate voter communication with their elected representatives with intimidation?!?! They forget themselves — these ignorant, arrrogant fools need to be unceremoniously tossed out on their ears in the next primaries.
Great stuff, and thanks so much for the ping!
LOL. And this is more consideration that Traitor Lott deserves!
Great column by Steyn!
LMAO! I voted for Bush twice because there no doubt he was a better choice than asshats Gore and Kerry, but comparable “to Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, Truman, and Churchill?” Man, you were pwned.
If there ain’t no fence high enough, big enough, etc., how come he has these goats? Oh, that’s right. I momentarily forgot. They’re electrified. Therefore, might I conclude that there IS a fence that allows Lott to have 2 goats? Hmm, I might yet be, like Lott, smarter than a goat, though, also like Lott, not by much.
Yes. I was fooled.
So very true and it will be up to us to bring him down to earth and boot his backside out.He is also abismal on pork barrel spending.
Thanks for the ping.
I think that's giving him too much credit. Several senators changed their vote to cover their ass after it was clear that the bill was going to fail. I'm pretty sure he was one of this group.
Steyn Rocks BTTT
“It’s like a game to them. Especially the ones who have been there many, many terms. I’m fed up with that attitude.”
Maybe they need reform, too, reckon? How about...
Plan 1: Term limit Senate members to one 6yr term, House members to two 3yr terms...and require all of them to physically be in their districts at least 50% of the time.
(That’s right...phone it in, fax it in, tele-conference, IM, whatever. “All politics is local”, right? Welcome home, Boss Hogs.)
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Plan 2: Require House members to apply for salary/staff funding every four months. Defund the Senate, caulk up the chamber & fill it with fish.
He is such a testament to logic, I am amazed that Tony Snow hasn't just thrown in the towel already and admitted he and his boss are out of their leagues trying to bandy words over these foundational issues.
Pretty much a given. Every time he cuts a deal with Mexico...it's to reassure them that there will soon be amnesty, and absolutely no limits on the rest of them. John McCain clearly spoke from private knowledge obtained from no where else than the White House itself...when he said..."We aren't going to build no *@#$ Damn Fence!"
If he continues to refuse to enforce these laws, he should be removed from office. I know of no other remedy for a President--or a Congressman--who does such as this.
Agreed. And we need to start getting seriously in the face of the pundits who are running cover for this insanity. All of the WSJ editorial board, the so-called Beltway Boys, Robert Novak, Michael Medved, and without them...he will be left only with his admitted liberal MSM media (such as Geraldo Rivera or Chris Matthews). Liberals who won't provide cover for this White House...no matter how much they agree with W.
Without the cover of the fifth columnists ...W would be exposed to the call for removal for willful misfeasance and neglect in office...or to put it mildly...bad behavior.
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