Articles written before the election outcome was known
These are included because they correspond to articles on
the same sub-topics in the post-election section below.
Republicans Deserve To
Lose. The foibles of the current power structure in Washington, D.C., continue to mount. It
has gotten so bad that it is becoming extremely difficult to tell who the good guys are anymore. Those of
us who expected Republicans to provide some sanity to national leadership have been jolted into the reality that
there is little if any relief when the GOP is at the helm.
Voter
smashes touch-screen machine in Allentown. A man who reportedly believed Republicans were
conspiring to steal today's election entered an Allentown polling site, signed in and proceeded to smash
the screen of one of the electronic voting machines with a metal cat paperweight, poll volunteers said.
Michael Young, 43, of 375 Auburn St., will be charged with felony criminal mischief and tampering with voting
machines …. Police gave no motive, but a source said Young, a registered Independent, believed Republicans
had conspired to win the election by using electronic ballots.
[But until the vote totals come in, what makes a person think the outcome has been rigged?]
If Democrats control Congress, then
what? Don't ask the media. Now before you think, "Oh boy, here comes another piece about
how the media just covers the horse race," don't. This isn't one of those pieces. The media
aren't wrong to focus on the horse race this year because the horse race is of some import in this
case. If even one house flips, it will have a big impact on what happens in this town in the
next two years. The problem with the media coverage in 2006 has been the lack of context concerning
what those changes — if they actually happen — would really mean.
Why I Will Not Vote for Any Republican. In
every area of domestic and foreign policy, the conservatives controlling the Republican Party have expropriated
the central tenets of the left, while claiming to be an alternative. This has created a false alternative
to the political left, posing as its opposite but supporting the same basic goals. This has sowed massive
confusion in people's minds, and limited the American people to a choice of poisons. This confusion is
undermining people's capacity to even conceive of a true alternative to the welfare state and military
defeat.
Racial
discrimination on the ballot in Michigan. Discrimination by race has never had such respectable
defenders as it is garnering in Michigan right now. It is backed by the Democratic governor and her
Republican opponent. By the ACLU and the Michigan Catholic Conference. By General Motors and
Ford. They are all rallying against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a ballot measure that would
eliminate racial preferences for "public employment, education or contracting purposes." That includes,
most controversially, college admissions. Racial preferences in admissions have now achieved a status
close to free speech and tenure as operating principles of American higher education.
Religious
voters have a logical choice in November. As far as I can tell, the Democrats' plan for Iraq is
somewhere between increasing the troop levels in Iraq and completely abandoning Iraq as we cut and run from our
obligation to security in the region, leaving Iraq as a playground for terrorists. I'm simply not sure
what their plan is, and we simply can't replace one plan with no plan.
Vote Early and
Often. The mainstream media, like sportswriters cheerleading for the home team, is predicting a
landslide in the interest of promoting one. Their home team, of course, is the Democrats. As for
Republican efforts to spur a big turnout on November 7, the press frowns on such cheap tactics. "GOP
Aims to Scare Up Big Voter Turnout" was the headline on a Washington Post story last week.
Why
the Liberal Media Voted Early: Over the last ten years, I have noticed that the pace of political
races has changed. These "mini-wars" are strategically managed, media driven, and extremely well-financed.
As the political stakes have risen to enormous proportions, the win-at-all-costs mentality has forced its way into
the political arena.
Conrad
Burns and the Future Of the United States Supreme Court. The current majority of the Supreme Court
is pro-terrorist rights, anti-property rights, and indifferent to gun rights. But that current majority
will change — dramatically in all likelihood — over the next six years that Montana's
senator will serve.
Post-election analysis and commentary
Social
Security is at the roots of the shift. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid had a decision to
make. President Bush was starting his second term with a brash challenge to a sacred Democratic
program — Social Security — and the House and Senate Democratic leaders needed a coordinated
response, and fast.
Did
someone mention Social Security?
New Democratic
Majority Throws Bush's Judicial Nominations Into Uncertainty. The impending Democratic
takeover of the Senate, lawmakers and administration officials agree, will produce a vast change in an
area that has produced some of the sharpest partisan battles in recent years: President Bush's
effort to shape the federal bench with conservative judicial nominees.
Prospect dim for conservative judicial nominees.
With a Democratic Senate, a conservative like Alito will face a struggle.
Michigan Prefers Equality. Ward
Connerly has done it again: A striking 58% of Michigan voters gave the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
a thumbs up; only three counties voted against it. The language of the MCRI closely tracks California's
1996 Proposition 209, also led by Mr. Connerly. It amends the Michigan Constitution to "ban public
institutions from using affirmative-action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals
based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or
contracting purposes."
Did
someone mention Affirmative Action?
Why
Conservatives Lost: In one sense, I think, all Bible-believers are conservative, because we
believe in governing our lives by revealed truth rather than by man-made, utopian ideologies. Modern liberalism
wants to remove all restraints on people's behavior. Conservatives believe in the moral law. So
Bible-believers might be liberal on a lot of issues, at least in the common sense of that word, like helping
the poor, but they would be fundamentally conservative in their disposition toward life.
Why
Conservatives Lost. Conservatives lost because they deserved to. They failed to live up to
the high standards of personal behavior they preach about. And that's what brought them down. … Look
at how the conservatives for years railed against the Democratic liberal establishment and all of its money,
the lobbying establishment, the junkets, the payoffs. The conservatives campaigned against it in 1994,
only to take over Washington and do exactly the same thing. This is what is known as rank hypocrisy.
Why
the Republicans lost: They deserved it. The list of Republican failures is stunning:
rejection of the anti-flag-burning amendment, rejection of the amendment to uphold traditional marriage,
rejection of a hard-headed measure to assure all of President Bush's judicial nominees an up-or-down vote,
passage of a fetal stem cell research bill, refusal to pass a social security fix, dithering on the issue
of illegal immigration, out-of-control spending — all within the last two years.
What
to do now that I have decided not to blame Diebold? I don't hear those liberals who complained so
much about the evil Bush-manipulated machines prior to the election questioning the integrity of the vote now
that so many of those machines recorded Democrat wins, so I guess Democrats are having to change their
"to do" lists as well.
More material
about Electronic Voting.
Drive-By Media Wins
Big. Those who remember how a Democratic Congress paved the way for a disastrous American
withdrawal from Vietnam understand that it is not too early to talk about the consequences of an American
defeat in Iraq and what it will mean for U.S. national security.
The Amnesty
Fallacy: Little did voters know it, but last week they were delivering a mandate for amnesty
for illegal immigrants. Most of them probably thought they were voting on the Iraq War or on corruption,
but elite opinion-makers have decided that they also were panting for a laxer immigration policy. … The
true acid test on the issue is how Democrats handled it. They ran what everyone acknowledges was a
brilliant campaign. Yet, they tried to minimize differences with Republicans on immigration and
mentioned it nowhere in their post-election agenda.
Conservatism Was Not Defeated. When
Americans voted to put Democrats in power Tuesday, they did not reject conservatism but the Republican
establishment and its big-spending habit.
A double
thumping. I'm doing my best to try and understand what message my president is trying to send
us. Last week, he told reporters that the Defense Secretary would be in place until the very final day
of the president's term. Turns out, that wasn't true at all — we now know that President Bush
and Secretary Rumsfeld made the decision "a few weeks ago."
CAIR's Congress. With
the Democratic victory in the midterm elections, one big winner was the Council on American Islamic Relations
(CAIR). The American Islamic pressure group now has a chance to advance its agenda in numerous ways, with
energetic water-carrying by, among others, the Speaker of the House, the chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee, and the first Muslim member of Congress.
Dem Congress may scrap
border fence. The incoming U.S. Congress will review the law mandating 700 miles of fence
along the U.S.-Mexico border, and may seek to scrap the plan altogether. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.,
told reporters this week that he expected to "re-visit" the issue when he becomes chairman of the House Homeland
Security Committee in the 110th Congress, which has a Democratic Party majority.
Will
the pork stop here? Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vows to make reform of congressional
earmarks a priority of his tenure, arguing that members need to be more transparent when they load pet projects
for their districts into federal spending bills. But last year's huge $286-billion federal transportation
bill included a little-noticed slice of pork pushed by Reid that provided benefits not only for the casino town
of Laughlin, Nev., but also, possibly, for the senator himself.
Al Qaeda, Iran, Hugo Chavez, N.Y. Times Celebrate
Democrat Victory. If there was ever any doubt about whom America's enemies like to see in charge
of Congress, this week's elections surely beheaded it. Immediately after the scope of Democrats' victory
became clear, al Qaeda released an audiotape congratulating the American people on their wisdom.
The myths of
'06: Elections produce two things — new elected officials and bogus conventional
wisdom. Once they gain widespread circulation, erroneous beliefs about elections are difficult to
reverse and can be nearly as important as who won or lost.
Post-election
autopsy. Among Democrats, there is furious debate going on as to whether their success resulted
from candidates who ran to the right. A number of newly elected congressmen and senators are definitely
much more conservative than the vast bulk of Washington Democrats. They are against gun control and
abortion, support property rights and balanced budgets, and would not have been elected if they held
liberal views on such issues.
24/7
Presidential Campaigning — It Never Stops. Republicans only win when there are sharp
differences between the parties. That was one of the problems with this election. The Democratic
Party deliberately recruited Democrats who agreed with the Republicans on certain issues. Inasmuch as
voters only vote for Republicans when Democrats are far too liberal, the strategy worked. If Democrats
play it right they can be in power for the next generation.
What
I learned in the '06 elections: (1) Americans aren't anti-immigrant; they are pro-assimilation.
(2) Evangelical is the new black. (3) You may beat a so-called gay marriage ban, as long as you never use
the word "marriage" … or "gay."
The Republicans Really
Won. Democrats stop celebrating, and Republicans, don't despair. I know the Democrats won the
recent election on paper, but in the long run the Republicans just might be the big winners of Election 2006.
Robert C. Byrd Named President
Pro Tempore. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., has been appointed president pro tempore of the U.S.
Senate. Byrd will be third in line for the presidency behind the vice president and the speaker of the
House.
After Win, Democrats Revert to
Finger-Pointing. One would think that after their biggest electoral triumph in about a decade,
Democrats would finally break their usual postelection syndrome — a November loss followed by recriminations,
finger-pointing and infighting. Well, think again. The Democrats are celebrating their big victory
of Nov. 7 with recriminations, finger-pointing and infighting, no matter that they won control of the
Senate and the House for the first time since 1994.
You didn't know you were voting for THIS ...
Plan would
give D.C. a House vote. For decades, efforts to give the District of Columbia a voting
representative in Congress have run into a brick wall. Constitutional amendments failed to win the
states' support. Ad campaigns about "taxation without representation" did not help the cause. Now,
unexpected political forces are aligning behind a plan to give the district a House vote — along
with a new seat in Congress for Utah — when lawmakers return for their lame-duck session in early
December.
Liberals
ready to play offense after long slump. After years playing defense, liberal advocacy groups see
the Democrats' takeover of Congress as a long-awaited chance to convert some of their goals into law.
Their wish lists include workplace protections for gays, a broader hate-crimes law, and a multi-pronged push
to reduce unplanned pregnancies.
The Editor says...
Presumably, "reduce unplanned pregnancies" means "terminate unplanned pregnancies". Who knows
what the other stuff really means. Maybe it's in this
handy lookup table.
Note: The material about Congressman Charlie Rangel (and his proposal
to reinstate the draft) has been moved here.
So much for September 11
reforms. The Democratic congressional leadership didn't even need to take office to start
breaking campaign promises. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the Democrats do not plan to implement every
recommendation by the September 11 commission after all, as they promised to do again and again during the
campaign. No wonder: Some of these recommendations create more problems than they solve.
Democrats didn't win election; Republicans
lost. The problem was that while the Republicans were a disappointment, as any conservative knew,
the Democrats were and still are dangerous, primarily because their left wing controls the party, and does not
appreciate the nature of radical Islamic fundamentalism.
Immigration alone didn't sway Hispanics
from GOP. The conventional wisdom that Hispanics were turned off by the [Republican] party's
hard line on illegal immigration — and would deliver on the "Today we march, tomorrow we vote" cry
from the spring's protest marches — was not the decisive factor, some experts said.
Democrats Pledge Array of
Investigations. The incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is promising
an array of oversight investigations that could provoke sharp disagreement with Republicans and the White
House. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., pledged that Democrats, swept to power in the Nov. 7
elections, would govern "in the middle" next year.
Middle
class will look for a friend in either party. Almost every Republican member of Congress who bit
the dust in the 2006 election had been an enthusiastic booster of the globalists' agenda: North American
Free Trade Agreement, Central American Free Trade Agreement, World Trade Organization, Fast Track, permanent
normal trading relations and free trade agreements with countries most Americans never heard of.
GOP Must Learn from '06 Election
Failure. This year's election turned out to be just what many in the GOP leadership and those of
us outside Congress had feared: a referendum on the performance of Republicans in the White House and
Congress rather than a contest between competing ideological visions.
Democrat Control Means Hate Bill
Will Pass. For the past eight years, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has tried
unsuccessfully to pass its Orwellian federal "anti-hate" bill. It has failed largely for one reason:
Republican control of Congress. Repeatedly, Republican opponents of their hate bill, such as Rep. Roy
Blunt and Sen. Bill Frist have been able, with Republican congressional backing, to block passage. With
Democrats now in control, such freedom-saving clout no longer exists.
Liberal
Groups Holding Democrats to Their Promises. When House Democrats launch their legislative
agenda — starting with a proposed increase in the federal minimum wage — they'll have
more than forty progressive groups standing firmly behind them, ready to nudge them if necessary. On
Tuesday [12/5/2006], leaders of dozens of "progressive" (liberal) organizations — including Americans
United, MoveOn.org, and the Campaign for America's Future — gathered in Washington to organize
support for the Democratic agenda.
Justice
Breyer's dangerous jurisprudence: Granted, it was going to be tough enough for President Bush to
win confirmation for another conservative nominee to the court in the face of a militant minority should a
vacancy occur, but now that the Democrats have control it will be virtually impossible. This is something
disgruntled conservatives should contemplate before sitting the next one out.
Inept Democrats face failure with
poor start in Congress. It's a bad start, and the risk is that the Democrats are going to throw
away their big chance. This week has brought comedy to their efforts, as the new Democrat head of a
congressional committee on intelligence proved unable to tell Sunni from Shia.
House Intel Chairman: Hezbollah?
What's a Hezbollah? Law enforcement and intelligence experts are scratching their heads in disbelief
upon discovering that the next House Intelligence Committee Chairman doesn't possess even a basic understanding
of terrorism or terrorist groups. In fact, he's never heard of Hezbollah.
Poor
choice for intelligence. At a time when the biggest challenge facing U.S. intelligence agencies is
the rise of Islamist terror, it is astonishing that the man who would head the House Intelligence Committee could
not answer correctly even basic, simple questions about the sectarian divisions in Islam.
Leftwing 'Change America Now' Group Targets
Congressional Districts. Change America Now is a coalition of various leftwing organizations that
will engage in a media blitz for liberal legislation once Democrats take control of Congress in January.
According to the Washington Post, CAN will work to persuade the American people to support passage of far left
bills within the first 100 hours after the Democrats take power.
The Editor says...
Yeah, well the whole notion of the Democrats "taking power" all of a sudden is a bit far fetched. It assumes
that all members of a political party vote in sync all the time. It also assumes that the "Independent"
members of the Senate will vote with the Democrats, and that senators like Olympia Snowe and Lincoln Chaffee will
vote with the Republicans. It also presupposes that President Bush won't veto anything the Congress sends him.
House Democrats look to
redistribute Big Oil money. House Democrats in the first weeks of the new Congress plan to
establish a dedicated fund to promote renewable energy and conservation, using money from oil companies.
That's only one legislative hit the oil industry is expected to take next year as a Congress run by Democrats
is likely to show little sympathy to the cash-rich, high-profile business.
House
Creates Global Warming Committee. As one of the top priorities on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's
(D-Calif.) agenda, the House voted Thursday [3/8/2007] to create a select committee on global warming. The
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming was passed by a bipartisan vote of 269 to 150.
Al Qaeda's Man in Washington? Now
that the Democrats are in control of both houses of congress, Americans can look forward to their leadership
putting their own interests ahead of the safety and security of citizens during the war on terrorism.
Democrats
in Charge: Is it Safe? Did you know that all Members of Congress automatically get top
secret clearance when they are sworn into Congress — with no background check? … This new
Democrat-majority Congress is headed by some of the most radical liberals to ever hold Leadership positions.
And I believe their agenda on national defense could greatly damage our national security and put us and our
families in harm's way — either intentionally or unintentionally. So I think we have a right
to have them checked out.
Kucinich: "I'm Talking
About Impeachment". Nancy Pelosi's attempt to keep impeachment off the table has
already been upset outside the District of Columbia, as grassroots campaigns in states across the
country have begun raising the prospect of Constitutionally sanctioning President Bush,
Vice President Cheney and members of their administration.
Democrats hone adjectives to
vilify Bush. Emboldened congressional Democrats have turned up their rhetoric when talking about
President Bush, comparing him to Richard M. Nixon and using sharp language that conjures up images of secluded
dictators.
Tort Tribute: How
Democrats repay the plaintiffs bar. Democrats devoted their first months in the majority to
paying back unions for their electoral support. Now it's time for the other huge campaign bankrollers.
And don't think the trial bar, beat down by years of GOP tort reform, isn't expecting to feel the love.
Since 1994, law firms and lawyers have thrown a half-billion dollars at getting lawsuit-friendly Democrats
back in the majority.
Al Qaeda, Iran,
North Korea — and Global Warming. What a difference an election makes. Today
the House of Representatives will debate whether global warming is so serious a threat to American
national security that the Director of National Intelligence, normally busy with issues like al Qaeda,
Iranian nuclear research, and North Korean missiles, should be ordered to put aside other projects to
create a special National Intelligence Estimate on climate change.
Dems bend rules, break pledge.
On Wednesday, Democrats suggested changing the House rules to limit the minority's right to offer motions to
recommit bills back to committee -- violating a protection that has been in place since 1822. Much
of this heavy-handedness is standard procedure in the House, where the majority has every right to dominate,
but it contradicts the many campaign promises Democratic leaders made last year to run a cleaner, more
open Congress.
Strangling Oil:
In the Senate, New York's Charles Schumer wants to break up big oil companies on the notion that more small
companies would foster competition and cut prices. Others, including New York's other senator, Hillary
Clinton, want to tax oil companies' "windfall" profits. Such measures, and others like them, demonstrate
a woeful ignorance of basic economics.
Flood
of earmarks refill the swamp. When Democrats took control of Congress last year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
D-Calif., promised voters that her party would "drain the swamp" and "lead the most honest, most open and most ethical
Congress in history." Four month later, Democrats are reflooding the swamp with earmarks and more.
Democrats Want More Rights
for Held Terrorists. Senate Democrats are backing a bill that would grant new rights to
terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including access to a lawyer regardless of whether the
prisoners are put on trial.
Green Goodies: It's
payback time for another left-leaning lobby. First came Big Labor. Then the tort
lawyers. What special interest lobby remains for the Democratic majority to reward for services
rendered this past election? The answer rests in the ecstatic press releases tumbling out of the
nation's largest environmental groups, as they oversee the House's pending energy legislation.
The
Do-Nothing Congress: With much fanfare, Democrats campaigned last November that they would change
things in Washington. They had a plan for making America a better place. Well, Democrats have
controlled both houses of Congress now for six months. What have they done? Nothing, really.
Pork Barrel Stonewall: The
Democratic majority came to power in January promising to do a better job on earmarks. They appeared to
preserve our reforms and even take them a bit further. I commended Democrats publicly for this action.
Unfortunately, the leadership reversed course. Desperate to advance their agenda, they began trading
earmarks for votes, dangling taxpayer-funded goodies in front of wavering members to win their support for
leadership priorities.
GOP sweep in the offing? As
signs of victory in Iraq mount, the moonbats have become more strident in their demands that Democratic leaders
in Congress end the war before it can be won. Democrats compound their foreign policy follies by trying
to give college tuition breaks and driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, and by proposing humongous tax
increases. After a glimpse of Democrats in power, Republicans don't look so bad.
58 Votes
on Iraq War This Year: Why? Republicans Ask. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on
Thursday [11/8/2007] that she will bring another troops-out-of-Iraq bill to the House floor on Friday. It
will be the 58th "politically motivated" bill on the Iraq war by the House and Senate this year, Republicans
complained.
'Earmark' cash aids
Democrat freshmen. A year ago, Democrats won control of Congress in part by criticizing billions
of dollars spent on pet projects. Now, freshmen Democrats are benefiting from the same kind of spending,
a USA TODAY analysis shows. All 49 of the new Democratic lawmakers sponsored or co-sponsored at
least one project — known as an "earmark" — inserted into the House and Senate spending
bills, the analysis found. Freshmen Democrats were the sole sponsors on projects worth $351 million,
an average of $7.6 million. Republicans got approval for projects worth $65 million, or
$5 million each.
All they have done is raise the minimum wage.
Just Wait Till Next Year!
The Democrats are wrapping up their first year in the congressional majority, and pretty much everyone
agrees that it has been, to be charitable, less than a rousing success.
Democrats' high hopes fall flat.
Democrats won control of both houses of Congress in a stunning 2006 election victory by vowing to wind down
the Iraq war, marginalize President Bush, enact their agenda and revive bipartisanship. But after a year
in power, their "mission accomplished" list is thin.
What has the
Democratic congress done? After taking back the Congress, the Dems made many lofty promises,
such as killing "earmark" legislation and ending "pork barrel" politics. Instead, we got a Congress that
was incapable of passing a reasonable budget and instead passed an "Omnibus" bill that supposedly funds the
federal government for the next few months. But the new Democratic Congress actually exceeded the old
GOP Congress in earmark spending.
Congressional
Crackdown on Lobbying Is Already Showing Cracks. Congressional Democrats like to boast that the
rules, in the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, will go a long way toward ending the
influence-peddling that has become common in American politics. But writing a strong law does not
necessarily mean that strict interpretation and robust enforcement will follow.
Gas Prices —
Dems are getting exactly what they fought for. The world knows that with the power structure in
Congress that's been in place since long before the Democrats took over the majority, the Dem will fight against
and, in fact, will not allow 1) any more domestic oil production; 2) any more domestic refining capacity;
and 3) the further development of any existing technology, such as nuclear, that could have an immediate and
significant impact on our domestic energy production. Couple that with domestic policy thrusts that are
designed to increase the price of gasoline at the pump... you get the picture.
As
Gas Prices Rose, Democrats Ignored Opportunities to Help Production. Gasoline today at the pump is
$1.25 more, on average, than it was when the Democrats took over Congress. Why is that a good place to measure?
Because during that period, we've had an opportunity to build more refineries, and the Democratic majority voted
it down. We've had an opportunity to open up additional parts of the Outer Continental Shelf and the Democratic
majority voted it down. It's clear that on the production side of the equation, this new majority is not
interested in doing anything.
Harry Reid: Promise Breaker.
Last month, Reid finally agreed to do something about the Senate's abysmal progress in moving President Bush's
US circuit court judge nominations to an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. Given the current
Democrat-dominated Senate's snail's pace on circuit court confirmations (only eight circuit court nominees
have been confirmed so far in this Congress), Reid promised McConnell that at least three nominations would
be brought to a vote before the Memorial Day recess began. Reid broke that promise.
Congressional
Approval Falls to Single Digits for First Time Ever. The percentage of voters who give Congress
good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history.
This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is
doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category. Last month, 11% of voters gave
the legislature good or excellent ratings. Congress has not received higher than a 15% approval rating
since the beginning of 2008.
Congress frets as its ratings plummet.
"Not only does Congress have an approval rating below bubonic plague and head lice, I saw a recent poll that as
many as 40 percent of people still believe that Congress is in Republican hands," says Rep. Jeb Hensarling
(R) of Texas. "I wish we could get a little accuracy out there about who is in charge — and
let those ratings fall where they may." A recent Gallup Poll confirms what many lawmakers say they're
hearing from their constituents: that confidence in Congress has never been lower.
Congress ratings plunge in poll.
Congressional job approval ratings have sunk to their lowest point in three decades, according to the latest Gallup
Poll. A survey of 1,016 adults taken July 10-13 found that 14% approve of the job Congress is doing. That's
half President Bush's record low 28% job approval number, and the lowest congressional rating since Gallup first
began asking the question in 1974.
Dems
Skip Town: Empty Promises Revealed. Right now middle-class Americans are suffering from
expensive-energy induced inflation. We all know the adverse consequences pain at the pumps has wrought.
So what does "the most open" House majority of all time do when a fair and honest debate over drilling doesn't
exactly help them? They dodge the debate for weeks. They disingenuously lead the American people
to believe that oil and gas won't necessarily be a part of our energy needs in the future.
Flippers.
Liberals — or I could say Democrats, since the terms are now synonymous — are fun to watch
because they're so un-self aware. They switch positions on a dime whenever it serves their political
purposes and always consider themselves to be standing on the high moral ground. Of course that's where
they thought they were standing before they changed positions. This phenomenon has gotten quite a
workout since Democrats captured Congress in 2006.
The Last Two Years. If
you recall, that 2006 election was considered a referendum on Iraq. The people wanted change, so they threw
out the Republicans and replaced them with Democrats. Welcome Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Here is how
they handled Iraq once in office: Harry Reid told us that the Iraq war was "lost" and the surge was not
"accomplishing anything." Senator Obama introduced legislation that would have prevented the surge and
would have taken all US troops out of Iraq by March 2008. Were they right? Barack Obama now admits
that "the surge succeeded." So much for that change.
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