The Zombie Congress Stumbles Along (Updated)-- The Walking Dead Dems.

Pajamas Media ^ | December 15, 2010 | Bryan Preston

[jazusamo]

Update: Sen. DeMint is set to stage a non-filibuster filibuster of the ominous spending bill (and the START treaty).

Two headlines greet Americans today.

1. Reid threatens to keep Congress into next year: New spending bill totals $575.13 million per page

And

2. Congress’ Job Approval Rating Worst in Gallup History

Call me crazy, but I think these headlines just might be related.  The Congress that runs until January has been called a “lame duck,” but that vastly understates the actual threat this Congress now poses.

On November 2, the voters turned this rotten Congress out.  But yet it’s still there like some B-movie zombie, engorging itself on the flesh of the nation’s fiscal future.  It’s still there creating monstrous spending bills.  It’s still there larding up what was a sensible tax cut compromise to the point that it’s becoming indefensible.  It’s still there threatening to amnesty a couple million illegal aliens via the nightmare of a DREAM Act, which will only serve to attract even more to get into the country by whatever means, knowing that goodies await because one of the major political parties has mistakenly staked its future on tearing down the rule of law.  And the other hasn’t yet decided how to deal with that.

On Tuesday, Sen. John McCain tried tweeting the Zombie Congress’ most flagrant pork assaults packed into the omnibus spending bill.  The senator was probably tweeting into the wind, but in the interest of helping expose some of the battier, porkier line items in that bill, here are a few of the things that McCain noted:

$247,000 – Virus free wine grapes in Washington State

$413,000 – Peanut research in Alabama

$349,000 – Swine waste management in North Carolina

Hey, at least that last item is for, you know, actual pork.

Last night on the Roger Hedgecock Show, guest host (and PJM contributor) Chris Salcedo said that the Harry Reid version of the omnibus spending bill amounted to a big middle finger from the Democrats to the American people.  That seems about right.  In November America voted for less spending and more transparency, and the first thing the Reid Gang does is, on the one hand, pay off the casino cartel that kept him in office, while on the other hand, cobbling together a massive, irresponsible $1.1 trillion spending bill.  Trillion.  With a “T”.  Over $8 billion of that is earmarks.

This is not an omnibus spending bill.  It’s an ominous spending bill.  It’s the zombie Democrat horde encircling the American taxpayer, ready to rip and tear and feast one last time before the Republicans arrive to restore order.  They really are The Walking Dems, and they must be stopped.

President Obama, if you happen to be reading Pajamas Media today, please take a little sincere advice from one of your staunchest opponents: If this bill reaches your desk, veto it.  Kill it dead and dance on its corpse.  Your approval rating will go up a solid five points.  And you’ll deserve that, for taking down the Zombie Congress.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

[jazusamo]

Go Jim DeMint!

[broken_arrow1]

Full-blown, unfettered Authoritarian Socialism on display in Congress!

[swain_forkbeard]

If by “Authoritarian Socialism” you mean kleptocracy, I agree.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Of all the legislation the lame ducks are trying to cram through, the most worrisome by far is the DREAM Act. Last I saw, even after Scott Brown declared himself a firm "no," we still need two more "no" votes to fend off cloture.

Does anyone have a credible update?

Could filibusters on other items run out the clock on the DREAM Act?

Kill it now, and given the makeup of the new House as of January, it may be dead for a long, long time.

[SandRat]

DemoRAT Zombies

[Qbert]

[jazusamo]

The Republican senators should get together and filibuster every bill in this lame duck session and let em start over in the new year, I know it won’t happen but this is ridiculous.

[jazusamo]

That’s great! Bob Hope was one of a kind.

[Beowulf9]

Let's not to forget the uses of the past 'stimulus' bills: 28. Monkeys Get High for Science (Winston-Salem, NC) - $144,541 Researchers at Wake Forest University think that, in at least one case, it is good to monkey around with your stimulus dollars. The Department of Health and Human Services has sent $144,541 to the Winston-Salem college to see how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine. The project, titled “Effect of Cocaine Self-Administration on Metabotropic Glutamate Systems,” would have the monkeys self-administer the drugs while researchers monitor and study their glutamate levels. When asked how studying drug-crazed primates would improve the national economy, a Wake Forest University Medical School Spokesman said, “It’s actually the continuation of a job that might not still be there if it hadn’t been for the stimulus funding. And it’s a good job.” He added, “It’s also very worthwhile research.” You can’t make this stuff up. UPDATE: Just checked Recovery.gov and they claim that this project reported “0.43″ jobs created as a result of this award. This may explain the inflated numbers of jobs “saved or created” by the Obama Stimulus plan. From Senator's John McCain and Tom Coburn's Summertime Blues:100 Stimulus projects that give taxpayer's the blues http://coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=a7e82141-1a9e-4eec-b160-6a8e62427efb

[pallis]

It’s all about destroying America while they can. Nothing should pass without being read on the floor.

[Venturer]

This Congress is a Suicide Bomber Duck.

It needs to be shot down before it can do any more damage.

[jazusamo]

$144K = 0.43 job saved. I really don’t know how Obama can lie to the American people and keep a straight face with rip offs like this.

[screaminsunshine]

Robbery attempt live on C-Span. Somebody call the Cops.

[screaminsunshine]

A Quackakazi Attack?

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

DEMOCRAT ZOMBIES