Posted on 12/13/2007 8:47:43 AM PST by .cnI redruM
One nation just passed a fully-funded budget for the next fiscal year. It was contentious, the different partisan sects fought bitterly, but it got done. Skilled parliamentarians proved that Democracy could work in the face of divisive strife. It was an example of how representative government should work.
Another country just can’t get their government to work. No matter what reasonable observers tell them, they just can’t get it together and pass the necessary appropriations. It’s a quagmire, and they have no one to blame but each other. The daggers have begun to come out.
The country clicking on all cylinders with its appropriations process is Iraq. The people not properly taking advantage of the troop surge. The country steeped in civil war and unable to even shoot straight when they convened a circular firing squad just passed its budget and told its government and people to get busy.
What of the world’s greatest Democracy? What of that shining city on the hill? The Democrats running the most ethical and effective Congress ever convened offered us their deep thoughts on how things were going.
"I can't control Speaker Pelosi," he (Senator Reid) said on the chamber floor. "I hope everybody understands that. She is a strong, independent woman. She runs the House with an iron hand. I support what she does, but no one needs to come and tell me I didn't keep my word."
"If there's going to be a filibuster, let's hear the damn filibuster," Rangel fumed. "Let's fight this damned thing out."
Asked about his decision on government funding, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.) groused to the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call: "I'll tell you how soon I will make a decision when I know how soon the Senate sells us out." – WAPO 12/13/07
Why would the harbringers of a new direction seem so utterly lost? Unfinished work is piling up -- legislation to aid borrowers affected by the housing mess, rescue millions of middle-class families from a big tax increase and put stricter gas-mileage limits on the auto industry. Two months into the new fiscal year, Democrats are still scrambling just to keep the government open..
Like the Ghost of Christmas Future, we get a look at what things could be like if the Democrats had titular control of all three branches of government. They would keep the power and bear none of the incumbent responsibility. You can lead a jack-ass to water, et cetera. These people would rather blame George W. Bush for their failures, rather than invest some of that energy in performing their official duties.
Senator Majority Leader/Unmitigated Ne’er-do-well Harry Reid still has the audacity to argue that Iraq’s government and The United States Army can’t do their jobs.
"The surge hasn't accomplished its goals," Reid said. "... We're involved, still, in an intractable civil war." – CNN 12/03/07
Yep, it’s a quagmire, Harry. I don’t think the Democratic Congress will be able to pass its own budget this year. So they will wait until the very last possible minute to budget for a fiscal year already three months underway. They’ll pretty much pass George Bush’s budget and then remind us how they went to Washington to fight for a new direction.
Just imagine how well things could work if this were a Democratic Administration that was just as remiss in submitting a budget as Reid and Pelosi were in getting Congress to pass one? It would be a galling defeat for the party of activist government to shut down the largest governmental corpus in the world through apathetic incompetence, bickering and stupidity.
That’s the new direction that the Democrats are taking America. We will look into the abyss and the abyss will laugh its butt off. If I were an Iraqi observing this fiasco, I’d chalk it up as a quagmire and run in the opposite direction.
If I Were an Democrat, I’d Consider lying to be on the right side in the minds of the ignorants.
Nancy P already is. “It’s Bush’s numbers; our priorities.” Yeah. Right.
Yet Harry and the Dems feel self-rightously compelled to levy a series impossibly intractable milestones on the the Iraqi government and demand immediate action.
More jobs are opening up, the markets and the streets are all opening up again, people, including Christians are returning home and many will celebrate Eid and Christmas together. More and more of the nation's security is being handled by the Iraqis.
Iraq is spreading her wings and getting ready to leave the nest and to stand on her own.
LOL - love your tagline.
at least he’d be able to run.
Under Saddam he could have ended up head first into a meat grinder for merely complaining.
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