President Bush attacked the democratic controlled Congress, the Senate and the House for failing to achieve his goals for the nation, immigration reform, the failure to pass the FY2008 budget yet. He spent his Saturday morning radio broadcast to attack Congress, the Democrats in Congress, not the obstructionist tactics the Republicans are doing.
He did not mention the fact that the last Republican controlled Congress failed to pass any budgets for FY2007, and left it for the new Congress in January 2007 to deal with, more than three months after it was due for October 1, 2006, yet I don't remember any outrage from the White House over this failed inaction from their own party.
I am tired of the hypocrisy coming out of Washington DC and especially the people's house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. For years all we heard about was the Democrats being obstructionists on the attempt to put radical judges on the Federal bench in for life appointments, the Senators were slammed every which way from Sunday, they demanded up or down votes, the "Nuclear Option" was laid on the table by the Republicans in control. The rhetoric was silly coming out of the pundits, Faux news, Charlie Krauthammer, Billy Kristol, Britt (brown nose) Hume, et al.
Now we hear the same idiots complaining that Scooter deserved a full pardon for his crimes against America, lying to Federal officials, and a federal grand jury, that was investigating a national security leak, that occurred apparently on the orders of the Vice President of the United States, yet because of his (Scooters Lies) to the government the truth could not be learned. So he was sentenced by a George W Bush appointed Judge Walton, who not only declared I. Lewis Libby guilty, after the jury delivered the verdict, but stated there was overwhelming evidence of his guilt. Yet George felt the punishment was to severe, so as we all know he commuted the sentence to the fine and probation, but now it appears that since Scooter did not even spend a few hours behind bars the Judge does not think Scooter can even serve the probation as one of the requirements to being placed on federal probation is that it starts after you come OUT of jail. Now this is hypocrisy, or as Tony Snow would say "chutzpah".
When will the democratic leaders start calling what the President and the minority party Republicans are doing as "obstructionist". They are the party who failed to deliver the votes on the immigration issue, they failed to pass the 2007 federal budget, they failed to vote to over ride the Presidents veto of the Stem Cell funding which the majority of this nation wants.
Now that it is coming close to election time for 21 Senators of the republican party, the rats are deserting the Iraqi War ship, first Senator Lugar, then Voinovich and last but not least Senator Domenici of the "attorney gate scandal" and after he went to Karl Rove and George W and demanded David Iglesias be removed because he wouldn't bring the indictments against the democrats in New Mexico before the 2006 federal election.
Hypocrisy and chutzpah does not begin to cover what the republicans are doing, I would say they are talking our of both sides of their mouths, but that wouldn't cover it, they are beyond that, they are talking out of their asses to top it off, and the democratic leaders are not calling them on it, the reason nothing is getting done is because of REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISM
plain and simple. We need more democrats elected to the house and the Senate and obviously we need a new democratic resident in the people's house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on January 21, 2009, and until then Congress should not do a DAMN thing except defund the war in Iraq and investigate the hell out of the Bush Administration.
UPDATE: In a WAPO article on who Virginia will support for President in 2008 things don;t look so good for the GOP, which is bad news, the last time Virginia voted for a Democratic President was LBJ.
But, more than a year before the general election, this poll shows that four in 10 voters prefer that a Democrat be elected to the White House in 2008, compared with 33 percent who said they favor a Republican. One in 10 said they prefer an independent.
"I think most of the United States and the majority of people I talk to are kind of negative towards the Republican Party," said Randall Austin, 53, of southwestern Virginia. "With the war, the economy, with everything, including fuel pricing, I have a feeling everyone wants a change," said Austin, a self-described independent who supported Bush in 2004.
When asked to name the worst president since 1960, 46 percent of the state's independents cited Bush. No other president was mentioned by more than 15 percent of independents.
Crossposted at Daily Kos
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