Congress locked in dead heat with Ebola Virus — Polls
by JohnHuang2
In light of the Democrat Congress’s latest approval ratings, the Dems’ new winning pitch is: “Vote for us, under 90 percent of Americans detest us!” Or, “Re-elect us, you ain’t seen absolutely nothing yet!” Or, “Peace, Progress and more hearings.” Or, “Join the dozens of people who still approve of us!”
Even ‘unbiased’ and perfectly ‘objective’ CNN has Congress’s approval rating in the toilet, as does the LA Times. Congress has been trying to pass amnesty, DREAM acts for illegals, “civil rights” for al-Qaeda, Habeaus Corpus for the Taliban, resolutions about the Ottoman Empire and the Senate spent weeks talking about Rush Limbaugh, so it’s a real enigma why Congress is unpopular.
Maybe Democrats should launch an investigation into Bush’s polyps — that should do the trick.
Bush’s numbers are up to three times higher than Congress’s, but he’s the “lame duck”.
Frustrated that the California wildfires didn’t turn into another Katrina, Senator Barbara Boxer claimed the fires spread fast because there’s fighting in Iraq and Senator Harry Reid said Bush was to blame because the fires were set by global warming — a claim so preposterous even the Democrats’ press chums played it down since EVEN THEY know the fires were set by Dick Cheney, not Bush.
The one good news for Democrats is that most polls show Congress still pulling double-digits — up to 11 percent approve in the latest Zogby poll! But that’s down from its rating in July, when Congress was riding high at 14 percent. Congress peaked too soon.
To be fair, the Pelosi Congress last week achieved history! This Congress has voted 1,000 times so far this year. The American Spectator reports that Pelosi demanded that Democrats mark the 1000-vote milestone as a glorious victory for the party. Of the thousand votes, 900 never became law, and of the 10 percent that did, half involved naming federal buildings.
On her official Web site, Pelosi noted the remarkable progress “for the American people,” listing them one-by-one:
* “We made our very first vote the implementation of the independent, bipartisan” 9/11 Commission recommendations, except for those teensy-weensy ones having to do with overhauling Congressional oversight of U.S. Intel agencies. The bill included such terrorism-prevention measures as expanded labor rights for 45,000 useless airport screeners, a privacy and civil liberties oversight board, better Walkie-Talkies for firefighters.
* “We voted to increase the minimum wage for the first time in 10 years,” and over 300,000 teenagers dropped from the labor force mysteriously when it became law in the summer (though many were back to work again in September, due to Bush’s “jobless economy”.)
* Voted to “make America more energy independent and help fight global warming,” and oil is only $91 per barrel now! The Democrats’ ‘Energy Plan’ consists of not drilling, not building nuclear power plants, not expanding refining capacity while raising taxes on “Big Oil” — on the theory that if you want more energy, you tax it more.
* Voted to “clean up Washington” — with John Murtha’s indispensable help. William Jefferson is still on the Homeland Security Committee and Alcee Hastings is still on the Intelligence Committee. Other than these crooks, Washington is thoroughly clean now.
* Worked to “strengthen our national security and provide a new direction in Iraq” — by voting for failed non-binding resolutions and by having lots of hearings on Blackwater, Iraq, Halliburton, Bechtel, Iraq, Blackwater, Valerie Plame, Blackwater, Iraq. As a result, more troops in Iraq now than when the Democrats took over.
And the list of remarkable progress goes on — SCHIP, Bush vetoes SCHIP, House Democrats pass “revamped” version of SCHIP because Bush doesn’t support it, DREAM, EDNA, trying to vote on the Ottoman Empire, not trying to vote on annual budget bills, etc. But the real biggie is the Iraq war. The Democrats’ nut base elected them on the promise to make America lose the war, now instead it’s their side — al-Qaeda — that’s losing. (In response, Democrats are flying their white flags at half-staff.)
Beaten repeatedly by the powerless “Lame Duck” moron, Democrats are now going after Judge Michael Mukasey, Bush’s nominee to be Attorney General. They didn’t like John Ashcroft because he’s too conservative. They didn’t like Gonzales because he hadn’t torched 80 civilians to death. They didn’t want Ted Olson because Muslim fanatics murdered his wife on 9/11. They didn’t want Larry Thompson because he’s black. They didn’t want Christopher Cox — lacks experience ordering botched raids. They said they wanted Mukasey. Now they don’t want Mukasey because Mukasey might get too rough on terrorists. So we’re back to ‘too conservative’ again.
Senate Democrats are crying because Mukasey won’t declare “waterboarding” al-Qaeda ‘illegal”, especially since Congress hasn’t passed any laws against it. Were Mukasey to say what the terrorist-coddlers want him to say, he would legally undermine CIA agents who waterboarded captured terrorists and undercut the chaps at the Office of Legal Counsel, so Democrats are really shocked about Mukasey’s refusal. He would also be revealing classified information, which would immediately land him a job at the New York Times.
Upset, Democrats postponed a committee vote and sent Mukasey a letter demanding that he reject waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning, or a ride in a car with Ted Kennedy.
The Treasoncrats may decide to go to the mat to protect their little innocent clarinet players and ballerinas in Guantanamo from being put in stressful positions, but whether by recess appointment or straight up-or-down vote, Mukasey’s the next U.S. Attorney General, and the losercrats will be on to new hunting grounds — Blackwater!
Anyway, that’s...
My Two Cents
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