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Republicans Walk Out, Americans Pray They Won’t Return
by Open-Publishing - Friday 15 February 20082 comments
Republican lawmakers in Washington, DC, did today what voters and citizens across the country have been trying to do for the better part of the last 8 years: they removed themselves from the House chamber of the Capitol.
Following an impassioned speech decrying "political grandstanding" by minority leader John Boehner, Republican members of the House of Representatives walked out of congress and onto the steps of the Capitol in a move oddly similar to "political grandstanding."
Many Americans cheered the move, but asked, "how can we keep them from coming back? Could they all just go home and stop bothering us?"
The Republicans supposedly walked out in protest that the Democratic members would not approve a Senate bill that granted blanket retroactive immunity to telecom companies involved in the Bush administration’s "warrantless wiretapping" practices.
Strangely enough, since that measure was not going to come to a vote, the next item on the agenda, forwarded by Chairman of the Judiciary Committee John Conyers, was to hold administration officials Harriet Miers and Josh Bolton in contempt of Congress and authorized a civil contempt suit against the two by the House. When that issue came to a vote, there were no Republicans in the chamber and the measure passed, 223-32.
Sadly, the Republicans returned to their offices and various hearings moments later, dashing the hopes of millions that once gone, they would stay away.
Hack N. Spend, an interested bystander, hoped the Republican lawmakers would make use of FEMA trailers that New Orleans hurricane victims have been living in for the past two years and now were being told by FEMA executives that they are unsafe for human habitation.
"The Republicans could camp right out here in those FEMA trailers since they’re said to be not fit for regular people," said Spend. "Believe me, these Republicans are anything but regular," he added.
Published simultaneously at Thought Puh-Leeze Political Blog
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15 February 2008, 04:41
There are many things that Congress could fix if they would do their job!
It’s not just a Republican problem. The Democrats are to blame also.
THE 545 PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR AMERICA’S WOES!!
By Charley Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then
campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are
against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all
the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation
and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I
don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The
House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code.
Congress does.You and I don’t set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I
don’t control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme
Court Justices - 545 human beings out of the 300 million - are directly,
legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems
that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem
was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its
Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered
but private central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.
They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a
congressman or a president to do one cotton- picking thing. I don’t care
if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has
the power to accept or reject it.
No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s
responsibility to determine how he votes.
A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that
what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con
regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive
amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a SPEAKER,
who stood up and criticized G.W. BUSH for creating deficits.
The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to
accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives
sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and
approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House? She is the leader of the majority party.
She and fellow Democrats, not the president, can approve any budget they
want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto.
REPLACE THE SCOUNDRELS
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace
545 people who stand convicted — by present facts - of incompetence and
irresponsibility.
I can’t think of a single domestic problem, from an unfair tax code to
defense overruns, that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.
When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise power of
the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they
want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair. If the
budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red. If the
Marines are in IRAQ, it’s because they want them in IRAQ.
There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people
shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can
abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to
regulators, to whom theygive the power to regulate and from whom they can
take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exist
disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation" or "politics"
that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone,
have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the
people who are their bosses - provided the voters have the gumption to
manage their own employees. We should vote all of them out of office and
clean up their mess.
22 February 2008, 22:12, by daddysteve
And by the way, not all republicans walked out and one republican isn’t responsible for 9 TRILLION in national debt. You KNOW who i’m talking about.