Posted on 12/21/2010 5:25:27 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
What comes to mind when you think of "the worst"? President James Buchanan. The 1962 Mets. Vanilla Ice. Now add to that list the 111th Congress, which is finally slated to wrap up business this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just didn't want to give up that gavel. This may have been the worst Congress since Lyndon Johnson's landslide ushered in the Congress that gave us the Great Society and the Vietnam War. Memo to voters: Democratic landslides are usually followed by disastrous results.
The 111th Congress got off to a fast start. Barely two weeks into the Obama era, it enacted an $800 billion stimulus bill, the largest in American history. Why take any time to study the contents when you know exactly what to do? The problem was that most of the money went to states to preserve the jobs of government workers. Some stimulus. The president said it would keep unemployment at 8 percent. It is now near 10 percent.
Next came the infamous "cash for clunkers" program, which disrupted the used-car market, mandated destruction of perfectly usable older vehicles and subsidized purchases of autos, most of which would have been purchased in any case. But coming in tandem with the Obama administration giving the auto unions a huge share of a new government-run General Motors, the United Auto Workers were quite satisfied. (snip)
We'll be paying the price of the 111th Congress for years to come ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
January 2, 2011 if they have not adjourned.
That’s exactly what me and my father said when he was elected. The similarities are frightening. At least Carter was from a respectable state.
We should never forgive the voters of NV for burdening the country with another six years of Harry Reid. Shame on them.
Georgia is a great state! I grew up in Northern Florida and Georgia was just a few miles away. I have a lot of good memories of there. Illinois, otoh, is a cesspool perfectly fitting of Barry Obama.
Indeed. I’ve lived here all my life. I like to call myself “militantly Georgian”.
This is where the Dem party was finally exposed as socialist, and therefore dangerous. No congress in recent memory had attempted to completely ignore the private sector, and call it "stimulus".
It's as if they were saying to us-"You private sector people, you'll get yours when we spend it. If we spend it. Now that we think about it, since it's temporary, we'd be idiots to spend it". We now had proof that the dems believed in "trickle-down" after all, but only when monies forcibly extracted from the private sector were siphoned by bureacrats, the remainder then re-injected through government programs and workers. We also had proof that the private sector was the declared enemy of the party of leftists and liberals.
Previous congresses had done this stealthily, this one bashed capitalism in word and deed, all out in the open. This Congress succeeded in thoroughly ticking off private sector players by favoring government workers and unions, which explains the rise of the tea parties.
Certainly the 111th was a threat to Homeland Security.
Yes. They need to be in jail cells.
LOL...She’ll threaten to burn the place down.......
” Pelosi belongs in the Capitol basement, next to the furnace, for all the injustices she has inflicted on innocent Americans..... “
I was thinking of a place a wee bit lower....
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