What Monumental Pissants
By Mark Adams
Douchebags and Dickwads playing who’s got the bigger schlong on the floor of the United States Senate.
Republicans stuck together in blocking this bill not because they oppose all of the programs, but because they have decided to block everything small and large this week until they get votes on stalled energy legislation.
The vote sent Reid into one of his trademark tirades on the Senate floor, as he basically accused Republicans of voting against people with strokes, people in wheelchairs and those suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease.
“You go home and explain to your folks [voters] about stroke legislation,” Reid said. “You go home and tell people … in a wheelchair you voted against moving forward on something that could get them out of their wheelchair.”
“You’re going to have to go home and explain to the poor, the disabled and the elderly,” Reid continued.
McConnell held his ground, saying the Republicans were launching blockade of everything not related to oil prices. The two sides are actually negotiating on energy amendments, but there was no breakthrough yet.
These assholes are playing games while the rest of us are getting flushed down the sewer. They know damn well that the oil barons aren’t even drilling where they’re allowed to right now. There are people that can be helped right now, today, if the Democrats are allowed to bring these measures to the floor — but not with this filibuster happy minority party.
No, not until they once again cater to the energy cartels so that ten years down the road they can buy their way out of ruining the the North Slope and the entire Gulf Coast while never once considering any real effort to reduce the $15.00/gallon cost of gas — and all the while never building a single refinery which is the real choke-hold on the oil spigot. And again we’ll be talking about alternate/renewable/clean energy sources someday, down the road.
This is blackmail mixed with disaster capitalism at it’s worst. While doing the bidding of their corporate masters, Congress yet again manages to hold the weakest among us hostage against all the rest who are firmly at the mercy of the Kleptocrats. And as we hear the chants of Drill! Drill! Drill! nobody will give a shit that we’re making things Worse! Worse! Worse!
Again.
And when the Democrats capitulate, again, who wants to take the bet that none of their proposals see the light of day anyway. I guess the real reason this sticks in everyone’s craw is we watched the the Democrats allow BushCo ram so much down our throats when they could have jammed things up like the GOP does every damn day.
- Terry Schaivo
- Military Commissions Act
- War Funding, and Funding and Funding and Funding
- Authorization to Use Military Force In Iraq
- Justice Roberts
- Justice Alito
- Confirmation of Alberto Gonzales
- FISA revamp with Telecom Immunity
- Medicare givaway to Big Pharma
- Impeachment and any kind of accountability, “Off The Table.”
Yeah, they stopped the GOP from destroying Social Security, ANWR (so far) and confirming John Bolton to the UN. I’ll take it, but the legacy of Congressional Democrats in the minority makes their tenure as the majority party a bitter pill to swallow.
I caught Nancy Pelosi on The Daily Show last night. She was flogging her new book, but Jon Stewart pushed her beyond that by pressing her on the poor performance of the Congress since the Dems took over. Paraphrasing Pelosi, she pretty much blamed it on the Senate, or more specifically on the fact that nothing gets done in that chamber without 60+ votes and that much of the House’s progress was stymied because of that.
He also asked her if, with an increased majority, would they press a President Obama (or, as he put it, “To be perfectly fair, a President Clinton”) to give back much of the power stolen by Republican President Bush. She said yes, but I didn’t get the impression that the topic enflamed her, shall we say, with any amount of passion.
I still think that the greatest scandal of the Bush-Cheney years is that those two guys weren’t impeached and convicted by Congress.
P.S. On a related topic I noticed that the Google Adsense ads for this article are about Orkin Pest Control and the like. Get it? Pissants. Heh.
Whatever happened to the “nuclear option?”
I always get the feeling that the two parties play by entirely different rules.
I miss Tip O’Neil.
See, here’s the thing: people don’t want to impeach the president because they’re afraid that this will “criminalize politics.” But that is exactly the wrong way to look at this. The founders understood that, for example, the chief executive’s pardon power could protect a co-conspirator (translation: Scooter Libby). But it was James Madison, I think, who argued for preserving the pardon power and checking it with the power of impeachment. Remember: impeachment and conviction merely removes the president from office — it does not transform him into a convicted felon. Of course, for most politicians, removal from office is the worst possible outcome and one that should give them pause.
This is why Gerald Ford was correct in saying that impeachment need not require a criminal offense on the part of the president (or Judge Douglas in that case); and that an impeachable offense was whatever a majority of the House deemed it to be.
Impeachment is best viewed as a check on over-reaching executive (or judicial) power by the legislature. It does NOT represent a “criminalization of politics.”
Impeachment is to good for Bush and Cheney. They belong in prison.
Then you ought to bone up on How To Perform A Citizen’s Arrest of a Bush Administration Official.
Do I have to do everything?
Sigh.