Posted on 12/31/2010 3:06:32 AM PST by The Raven
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a press release last week headlined "111th Congress Accomplishments." It quoted a couple of Democratic Party cheerleaders calling this the greatest Congress since 1965-66 (Norm Ornstein) or even the New Deal (David Leonhardt), and listed in capital letters no fewer than 30 legislative triumphs: Health Care Reform, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a Jobs Package (HIRE Act), the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Food Safety, the Travel Promotion Act, Student Loan Reform, Hate Crimes Prevention, and so much more.
What the release did not mention is the loss of 63 House and six Senate seats, and a mid-December Gallup poll approval rating of 13%. Never has a Congress done so much and been so despised for it.
While this may appear to be a contradiction, it is no accident or even much of a surprise. The liberal wing of the Democratic Party had been waiting since the 1960s for its next great political opening, as we warned in an October 17, 2008 editorial, "A Liberal Supermajority." Critics and some of our readers scored us at the time for exaggerating, but in retrospect we understated the willful nature of that majority.
Democrats achieved 60 Senate votes by an historical accident of prosecutorial abuse (Ted Stevens), a stolen election (Al Franken) and a betrayal (Arlen Specter). They then attempted to do nearly everything we expected, regardless of public opinion, and they only stopped because the clock ran out.
The real story of 2010 is that the voters were finally able to see and judge this liberal ....[ snip ]...
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"What's that, Arlen baby? Afraid you're gonna lose? Trust me, Arlen, old pal.
About as much chance as that happening as Michele having a watermelon-eating
contest on the WH lawn."
TX for the morning chuckle..Funny.
To achieve the former, do nothing but complain. To achieve the latter will only be done with blood, sweat and tears.
Think about it. Congress essentially granted dictatorial health care powers. It is tyranny.
Even more egregious is that Democrats were given warnings all along the way, for example, Scott Brown, but continued to ignore the people.
Ignored? Or perhaps: "correctly assessed" the people maybe?
Maybe they're not scared because the entitlement-set voters are very reliable, and they know that we will eat our own continually in the purity battles.
Check the premise first.
“I loathe the Democrat Party.”
That makes two of us. But loathe is insufficient to describe the depth of feeling. Detest doesn’t work either. Neither do abhor, abominate, repudiate, spurn, or any others.
The question is, what does one think of cosmic evil?
IMHO
I LOATH the psychotic progressive Democrat mob too,welcome to the club.
It is the rule of man. Rule by decree. The Dems are quick to call anyone a Nazi, but they are indeed the facists.
One of the few blessings of McCain losing.
Supreme Rino McCain would have blurred and widened or totally erased what is left of the line between the demonrat socialists and the few remaining Republicans.
For the rinos, the aisle they must reach across is the one separating them from the Republicans, not from the demonrats. Unfortunately, the rinos are the RNC and control the Republican party and they don't feel the need to reach across that aisle.
All that can save us now is us.
Vote-crazed politicians: "The more we spend, the more earmarks we get."
Only the great author H.P. Lovecraft was capable of aptly describing the level of revulsion that I have for the Democrats. They are vile creatures from the darkest corner of Hell.
“They are vile creatures from the darkest corner of Hell.”
That still doesn’t quite ring adequate enough, but I’d sure like to use it.
Thanks and Best Regards, Happy New Year.
Let me try again...
From the darkest, deepest pit of Hell - marinating in the diseased, vile and vituperous corruption of mankind's most loathsome sins, emerges a political party that represents all that is wrong and destructive in the body politic - that writhing, hideous, pustule-ridden and unnameable demon born of the unholy fornication of covetusness and licentiousness - that despicable serpent known only as the "Democrat Party".
How's that? :)
I think “Wreckening” would be a more appropriate term for what they’ve done...
“The question is, what does one think of cosmic evil?”
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I scrape the Democrat party from my shoe? Maybe, “I’d rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother who’s a Democrat.”
“From the darkest, deepest, pit of Hell-marinating in the diseased, vile and vituperous corruption of mankind’s most loathsome sins, emerges as political party that represents all that is wrong and destructive in the body politic - that writhing, hideous, pustule-ridden and unnameable demon born of the unholy fornication of covetousness and licentiousness - that despicable serpent known only as the
‘Democrat Party’.... How’s that?”
That’s beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
May I use this one too? :>)
“I scrape the Democrat party from my shoe? Maybe, “I’d rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother who’s a Democrat.”
LOL.
(They are much, much worse than that.)
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