Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the Early Years
"If you honor Democratic candidates with your vote today, in the first hundred hours of a Democratic Congress: We will restore civility, integrity, and fiscal responsibility to the House of Representatives." -- Nancy Pelosi, November 7, 2006
First it was the "first hundred hours" in which the Democrat controlled congress would "make history." That was revised after the "first hundred days" and as many false starts as a sack race. But finally, after the endless motions and muddles, this congress has finally made history:
New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.The amazing thing here is that they still have 14% left to go, but I'm betting they can accomplish it. This is, after all, a congress dedicated to proving they can promise anything to be elected -- ("We'll end the war!" Yeah, right. "We'll secure the borders and bring 12, 20, 50, 100 million new Americans out of the shadows and onto the tax rolls." Correctamente, Senors y Senoras. "We'll raise the minimum wage!" Did that pass or not? I didn't notice. Did you?) -- do nothing except grandstand and still keep your job.This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time 1991 to 1994.
This week there's be a lot of yawing comment on Hillary Clinton's choice of a Celine Dion theme song ("You and I") to "empower" her campaign. Seems to me the Democrat congress better get with the program. I suggest the great Chubby Checker's anthem "Limbo Rock:"
Jack be limbo, Jack be quick,How low can they go? With this congress, as with so much else in the American Culture of Me which they represent, there is really no bottom. Posted by Vanderleun at June 21, 2007 6:56 AM | TrackBack
Jack go unda limbo stick.
All around the limbo clock,
Hey, let's do the limbo rock.
Don't you move that limbo bar,
And you'll be a limbo star.
How low can you go?
Maybe there is a bottom - the lowest sub-basement of the last bombed out building in the last big city in America. And Pelosi et al won't pry their eyes from their designer clothes and photo ops and $1,000-a-plate fundraisers until Jihad reaches that bottom for them.
Sensible, red-knuckled Americans will be somewhere unfashionable, living quiet lives with their families, dogs and guns, waiting. Because while modern leftists require private jets and public adulation to buoy up their tattered souls, Patriots feel rich and blessed every single moment that they are alive under a free sky. They exist to be of service to their God and their country, and they know that while they can live without Congress, Congress cannot live without them.
Posted by: askmom at June 21, 2007 9:07 PMEven the "Me" generation wants to LIVE, Gerald, and will have to face the tough decisions awaiting them/us, whether they want to or not!
Its only a matter of 'when'...
"How low can you go?" I limbo'd right down to shoulders 2-inches off the floor, and limbo-stick 7 inches up... (long legs to cantilever, back then)
I'm all for revamping the American system, more in line with -oh, say- The Baha'i Administrative system...
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