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Congress Doing What It Was Elected To Do: Nothing

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-12 09:43|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 If they did nothing that would be fine but the dhemmi donks are being obstructionists and aiding and abetting terrorists. They are not supporting our troops. They are like a bunch of friggin kids--they want to whine about everything and take responsibility for nothing.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-12 10:07|| 2007-05-12 10:07|| Front Page Top

#2 If you showed me this list and asked how many working days it represented, I'd have guessed about 1 week. They're so busy pissing and crying that they can't get anything done. Most of what they did get done is redesignating buildings, I'd think that would take about an hour, max.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-05-12 10:22|| 2007-05-12 10:22|| Front Page Top

#3 To designate the United States courthouse located at 555 Independence Street in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as the "Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Sr. United States Courthouse".

that had to hurt...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-12 11:03|| 2007-05-12 11:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Ironically, I expected nothing less. The public tends to vacillate between wanting something done and wanting peace and quiet from government. That is pretty much what the election said: the vote was only for logjam, no mandate to anyone.

Democrats are tired of the WoT that they only wanted to last a month or two, if at all.

Republicans are tired of the Republican spending spree, and just wanted Congress to STOP passing laws and throwing money around like confetti.

So for two years we get a "time out". Eventually I expect Bush to get most of the money the military needs, and some of the more "rah rah" but ineffective Patriot Act stuff will be allowed to expire.

The loser in the next election will be the candidate who promises the most change. Unless that change is government doing less.

Optimally, Al Gore will run as a Green candidate and split the Democrats.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-12 11:08|| 2007-05-12 11:08|| Front Page Top

#5 There's nothing named after Robert C. Byrd? I'm shocked!

Posted by Raj 2007-05-12 11:30|| 2007-05-12 11:30|| Front Page Top

#6 # To revise the composition of the House of Representatives Page Board to equalize the number of members representing the majority and minority parties and to include a member representing the parents of pages and a member representing former pages, and for other purposes.

If there's any mandate the Democratniks can claim, that's the one. Prior to the '06 elections I'd never heard of Mark Foley. You'd think he was Speaker of the House given the amount of coverage of his idiocy during the midterm campaign, though.

Posted by eLarson 2007-05-12 12:21|| 2007-05-12 12:21|| Front Page Top

#7 A bill to endorse further enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and to facilitate the timely admission of new members to NATO, and for other purposes.

Considering Sweden's and Finland's recent interest, and the hammer and sickle flying over the Duma again, this one suggests that someone is actually paying attention.

Posted by exJAG 2007-05-12 12:22|| 2007-05-12 12:22|| Front Page Top

#8 I assume the statement "and for other purposes" means the bill is loaded with earmarks and pork.

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