Least Democratic Congress in History

The Republicans on the House Rules Committee have put together a comprehensive report detailing the way the Democrats are completely ignoring any sense of democracy. 

As it begins:

Huge bills being rewritten in the middle of the night. Closed rules. Minority amendments rejected again and again. Earmarks automatically included in appropriations bills with no vote or debate. A vote under investigation. Broken voting machines. Repeated abuse of power from the Speaker’s Chair.

These sound an awful lot like Democratic talking points from a year ago. But as the first session of the 110th Congress nears its conclusion, it’s the new Majority that’s having to answer for their abuses of power.

The detail in the report is great and well worth a read.  So many of our First Friday Friends are over on the House side. We now know a little of what you’ve been going through. 

For example, “Members have had an average of 1.4 business days to review legislation”.  One and a half days?  No wonder this Congress is doing nothing.  They have no idea what in the bills.  Even Barney Frank is fed up:

“‘The one thing I hate more than Republicans being obstreperous is when they are being obstreperous and they are right,’ said Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee which is managing the bill. ‘And this time they are right.’

How offensive do Democrats have to be to get reprimanded by one of the most liberal members of Congress?  Appalling. 

Sad news today

We’ve just learned that John Berthoud, President of the National Taxpayers Union, passed away suddenly late last night.  John was a good man and good ally in the movement.  We ran into him last night at the Call of the Entrepreneur premiere and he had his usual smile on his face and was as friendly as always.

Our thoughts are with his family and friends…

John Berthoud

1962-2007

When will Americans wake up and realize they’re being swindled on “climate change?”

As we’ve said before, global warming is a myth, a lie created to impose the agenda of the extreme left on this nation that they could otherwise never get passed in the electoral process.  In fact, the term “global warming” is no longer being used by environmental socialists, mostly because the globe isn’t warming, winter still happens and the hottest years on record in the last 100 years were in the 1930’s. 

So no, “global warming” won’t do any more, but the angle of using an impending, un-provable environmental disaster as a way to impose their political agenda is simply too good, and it’s too late to say we’ve avoided disaster, lest they expose themselves as the frauds they are.  So global warming became climate change, and snow storms and cold snaps could now be blamed on human activity too.  The media certainly isn’t going to look into this inconsistency, so their lie was safe and the agenda still hidden.

Enter Congress, more specifically Congressman John Dingle.  Dingle represents Dearborn, Michigan, amongst other cities, home of the Ford Motor Company, and has been working on a bill to address climate change that, naturally, wouldn’t address the main culprit behind killing us all, if these extremists are to be believe, the auto industry.

Since human beings have nothing to do with the natural evolution of the Earth, aside from riding on it, Dingle’s proposals will be welcomed with open arms because they tax the hell out of everyone.  What does paying punishing taxes have to do with CO2 levels?  Nothing, really. 

It was once thought that higher gas prices would mean people would drive less, but the last few years have proven that theory incorrect.  So, with that in mind, Dingle seeks to ad .50 cents in new taxes to a gallon of gas, as part of his proposal.  Lovely!  That won’t be regressive and hurt the poor at all.

Then he wants to attack people with big houses by stripping them of the mortgage interest deduction credit if their house is too big, as determined by him. 

While still called a “discussion draft” and not a bill, look for these ideas to make their way into the normal talking points of the left, then into a bill.

If, however, this myth were real and as big a problem as advocates claim, they would be calling for the destruction of the auto industry, not simply higher taxes.  If the car is going to kill us, really kill us, why wouldn’t they be calling for its abolition?  Hybrids would simply slow the process of our death, so they aren’t the answer.  And Al Gore would not be private jetting around the globe making serious bank telling people about the evils of cars, factories and people private jetting around the globe for reasons other than to make serious bank telling people those things.

But since it’s not true, there is no reason to stop these things, to say those things, to live differently, to make an Herculean effort to change the world to eliminate human CO2 emissions to save all of mankind.  Since it’s not true but it is believed, they will simply use it as an opportunity to gain more control over our daily lives, and to take more of our money and use it for programs never envisioned by our Founding Father and strictly forbidden by our Constitution (read the 10th Amendment). 

And most of us will go along because we have been willingly misinformed by the media and/or are too lazy to question conventional wisdom and seek the truth ourselves.

See you at the pump.

What’s worth doing tonight? Well, this stuff.

There are two happenings tonight and both sound like a lot of fun.  Try to do both, if you can make it.

First, there is happy hour sponsored by Politico on the roof deck at Charlie Palmer’s at 101 Constitution starting at 5:00 and lasting till 9:00.  How do you get in?  Click here to read the Facebook event info for all the details you need.

Second, there is another movie tonight, and this one looks pretty interesting.  The movie is called Weirdsville and it is premiering at the Georgetown Loews Theater at 7:00.  If you are thinking that you have to choose between seeing this movie and embracing your alcoholism with Politico, fear not.  America’s Future Foundation’s AFF Underground is having a happy hour after the movie at Blue Gin, so you can to still get blotto after getting your movie on.  All the information you need is located here on the Facebook event page.

And, as always, we invite you to join our Facebook group here,but to be honest we don’t really use it for anything other than a place to post pictures and you get more information from the blog anyway.  But that might change, and people join some pretty worthless groups on Facebook, so why not join ours?

Hillary’s latest pander to the extreme left is a dangerous one

Hillary Clinton was under attack, somewhat, in last night’s debate from her opponents on any number of issues.  Perhaps the rest of the field is now realizing that they are losing to her and time is only getting shorter, we don’t know.  But whatever the reason, she was forced to defend herself more than she has thus far in the campaign. 

On one important issue Clinton contradicted her husband’s policy and, as it turns out, herself as well, in an attempt to appease the moron.org, er, moveon.org crowd.  In the process she committed herself to a policy that would make every one of us less safe.

If President Hillary Clinton’s administration captured a terrorist with knowledge of an imminent attack, the location of several bombs that were set to go off today sometime, she would not use torture in an attempt to get information as to where the bombs were located out of them.  Unfortunately for Clinton, while this makes those who want us to lose the war on terror, otherwise known as the Democrat’s base, she contradicted herself on this very issue from just a year ago.

The New York Daily News has a nice story that sums up her flip-flop quite well, check it out here.

In fact, given how far to the left the entire Democratic field has gone to make their extremists happy, they probably wouldn’t even question them until a lawyer showed up, with the exception of Dennis Kucinich who would pay the terrorist some sort of reparations and send him on his way without arrest.

These people are not to be taken seriously because they refuse to take the biggest threat to the United States seriously.  Instead, they waste time attacking Rudy Giuliani for refusing to take military action off the table as an option in stopping Iran from going nuclear.  The Democrats all said they would do everything necessary to stop Iran, as long as everything involved only talking to them and asking them nicely to stop.  That worked really well with North Korea!  Thanks, President Clinton.

It seems as though the only thing Democrats ARE willing to fight for are socialist ideals that have no basis in our Constitution, but they aren’t willing to fight to change the Constitution, just fight in the courts.  They’re brave that way.