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- Elijah Cummings Wants the President to Fight, but For What?
- Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Changing Plans of Leviathin Government Monday Edition
- Pity Maxine Waters. She Just Realized She Can’t Build a Jobs Bill out of Spite and Corruption.
| Elijah Cummings Wants the President to Fight, but For What? Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:00 AM PDT
Doesn’t the President actually have to fight before he can fight harder? To date, the President has promised us a jobs plan about ten different times. We still don’t have his plan. This reminds me of the debt ceiling debate during which the President castigated the Republicans for their plans (yes, more than one plan) even though he never did produce one of his own. So shouldn’t Cummings scold the President, not the Republicans? After all, the Republicans are the ones who have compromised even though they hold the clear majority not only in the House of Representatives, but in the polls. America wanted Cut, Cap, and Balance and a Balanced Budget Amendment but Republicans compromised with the President on a plan that earned us a ratings downgrade from S&P. Unless, of course, Cummings’ intention is to blow a really big dog whistle that will bring all his most radical followers into the fight. One can never rule out the presence of race-baiting from the Democrats. I think, though, there’s a bigger question here. For what does Cummings want the President to fight? I can only think of one area where the Republicans have mostly refused to give in to the President’s demands. Taxes. What Elijah Cummings really wants is for the President to fight for higher taxes, and not just on the rich. See, most of the people who create jobs in this country aren’t millionaires like Elijah Cummings. They’re middle-class people who work ridiculous numbers of hours in their businesses and pray almost every night that members of Congress like Elijah Cummings won’t pass yet another law that will hamstring them. They sweat payroll and utility bills. They want to save money for their kids’ college funds but each dollar is dear these days. They would like to hire another employee or two but they can’t. There might not Christmas bonuses this year because things are so tight and a whole new truckload of regulations are coming from the likes of Elijah Cummings for which they’ll need money they won’t have unless they fire one of the people they already have on staff. But who do they fire? Which person gets the axe because Elijah Cummings needs more tax money to fund another wasteful Those are the people against whom Elijah Cummings wants the President to fight, not the Republicans. Any jobs plan he has will involve higher taxes on them, more regulations on them, more pain for them, and more worry for them. We’d do well to remember that the next time Cummings is up for election.  |
| Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Changing Plans of Leviathin Government Monday Edition Posted: 22 Aug 2011 03:10 AM PDT In one of his speeches that weren’t in any way campaign speeches, so you just put that thought right out of your head, President Obama suggested to a farmer that he should contact the USDA with his concerns about a number of coming regulations. See, the farmer had heard — and don’t ask me where he got this silly idea — that the Obama administration might just issue their regulations without any concern for how large an impact they would have on the economy, especially his economy. Well, a reporter from Politico took the President’s advice and called the USDA. The results were, well, inconclusive. After two days of being transferred from bureaucrat to bureaucrat and hearing several variants on “That’s not my job. Call this person.”, the reporter finally got something like an answer. And EPA spokesman sent her an e-mail that said the agency had “no plans to put stricter standards into place”. That’s hardly a comfort to the farmer, or anyone else whose businesses would be crippled by more restrictive EPA regulations. See “no plans” doesn’t mean “we absolutely won’t”. Plans change. Hey, wouldn’t that make a great motto for this administration? I don’t think you could get one that would describe the capricious nature of our government right now that’s better. And now, links!
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| Pity Maxine Waters. She Just Realized She Can’t Build a Jobs Bill out of Spite and Corruption. Posted: 21 Aug 2011 08:22 PM PDT
On Saturday, in front of a friendly crowd, Waters cranked up the old hate machine and set it to churn out a new offense against the thinking world.
Now, I suppose I could make some comment here about the Democrats and their insistence on the “new civility” in the wake of Rep. Giffords’ shooting, an insistence that usually came in between slanders about Sarah Palin, talk radio, conservative blogs, or the Tea Parties. I won’t, though. That’s low-hanging fruit and I have a better point to make. I honestly don’t care what Maxine Waters has to say about jobs because she’s proven that she knows as much about job creation as she does about quantum entanglement. I clipped a paragraph out of the quote above because I didn’t want to give you the punch line to Water’s infantile tirade too early. But now, it’s time.
Maxine Waters has allegedly represented the State of California in Congress since 1991 — twenty years. She has built enough clout to write her own jobs bill, but she hasn’t. She could gone to small business owners and learned what they need to produce good jobs at good wages, but she hasn’t. What has she done? Well, she’s spent a lot of her time in Ethics Committee hearings into why money that was supposed to go to at-risk banks ended up in a bank that wasn’t even in her state. Her family has done quite well in those twenty years also. Her husband, son, and daughter all made very good money working in areas over which Waters has quite a bit of influence. Maxine Waters has done quite well. Her constituents, on the other hand, quite clearly have not. Normally, corrupt politicians bring some of their dirty money home to the voters, but Waters hasn’t bothered. Why should she? She is safe in her district and all her voters apparently require from her is a little demagoguery against some invented villain once in a while and they’ll happily pull the lever next to her name on Election Day. Obviously, we’re not going to get the horsepower we need to vote Waters out of office. However, we can consign her to irrelevance over the next few elections as we give the Republican Party a larger and larger majority. We can’t stop her idiotic outbursts, nor should we want to. I hope the GOP records every one of her outbursts and puts them front and center in campaign commercials that remind the American people exactly just how hateful and vicious the Democrats in Congress have become. See, unlike Waters, we Tea Partiers don’t want our opponents to “go straight to hell”. We don’t carry that much hate in our hearts. We would, however, like it very much if Maxine Waters stopped flapping her gums and actually did her job once in a while. And so would the people of California.  |
So, what is Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD) really trying to say here?
If you built a ranking system for risible loudmouths, you’d have to rank Rep. Maxine Waters (D – Greed) somewhere in the top five, if not at the very top of the list. Whenever she speaks, the intelligence of the entire planet drops a solid ten points. She is to stupidity what the sun is to global warming: an immense generator whose most gentle utterance causes meters to spike across the planet.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Sundries Shack To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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