Sidle Up To The Trough, Y'all, Cheese Smothered PORK Is On The Menu In D.C.!

I swear, if you weren't already exorcised about the screw job Shamnesty Reform Bill awaiting resounding approval by the Republicans you sent to represent you, take six minutes and ten seconds of your life to watch this. And to all you Conservatives trapped in The People's Republic of Wisconsin, you have my deepest sympathies on the cheesehead stereotype. But I will have to say-- it is richly deserved.

{WARNING: Those at risk for Heart Attack, Stroke or Aneurysm, please take your prophylactic meds before you hit "play".}

Comments

[Margo]

This doesn't surprise me at all. This is not the first time this has happened, people on both sides of the aisle have been bitching about 'pork barrel spending' for years when it didn't directly benefit their own paying constituency, but its always been more of a hand-flapping hissy; a sort of 'he's getting more than me!' tantrum disquised as concern over waste, fraud and abuse. It really is no different now.

[Fight4TheRight]

Well, as a neighbor to "The People's Republic of Wisconsin" (haha Jane), in what we could call the Union of Swedish Socialist Republics (Minnesota)...I can't cast too many stones. Our two states, who allowed two major universities in Minneapolis and Madison to create a lightning rod of socialism to permeate the countryside, have gotten to reap this shame. Obey gets his deserved recognition here but Wisconsin can sheepishly claim Russ Feingold as well - as we had Paul Wellstone, may he rest in peace.

The solution to this criminality? TERM LIMITS! I say that a Representative to the U.S. House gets two terms then he/she walks and a U.S. Senator gets one term...that's it.

How many "gems" do we really have in Congress that we would mourn having to leave after one or two terms? And how many would we celebrate this imposed impeachment?

Do you suppose my Congressman could slip an anonymous earmark in to limit terms? : )

[Margo]

Hmmm...along with term limits, allowing NO RIDERS on ANY legislation would be another fix. If a piece of legislation can't stand on its own, it shouldn't pass at all. Sneaking it through on the coattails of another piece of legislation is CHEATING and should not be tolerated.

[JANE SAYS: GEE....that seems too logical for Washington. I swear, there are DAYS when I wish the plane had not hit the Pentagon, but landed square on the Hill instead...all things being equal. They are OUT OF CONTROL and Rush is right, and as I have MAINTAINED>>>THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN about us. anymore.]

[Margo]

Ah, but Jane even the terrorists know that Congress is the weakest link in America's resolve to fight! Why waste the ammo (er...the plane and its passengers) on the camp of your greatest ally in the nation?

[JANE SAYS: I think you must be a military strategist in your off time, eh Margo? You are sadly correct, and the Muj are long about now, probably thanking ALLAH that they missed because they CERTAINLY weren't smart enough to anticipate THAT fortuitous accident.]