That’s about the only way one could justify CNN’s asinine posturing that the Democrats are a “do-nothing” party before they’ve actually taken power.
A December 19 report on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight featured the graphic “Do-Nothing Dems?” But, as the report noted, Democrats will not actually assume control of Congress for a little over two weeks.
A wise man once said: “If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour… you’re gonna see some serious shit.”
The punditocracy will be pulling shit like this every day for the next 2 years. I’ve got a cure – change the tv channel or better yet, turn off the set.
I wouldn’t know what these assholes were gurgling on about in the first place if it wasn’t for the reporting in Leftsylvania, Blogosphere.
If you’re making a living by pointing to idiocies in the media, then you’re in business for ever. Your well will never dry up.
Awwww, the poor Democwats: Did someone say something not nice about them?
We should be hearing about their big plans to make America (notice how they never call it the United States?) the Paradise they pretend it was during the Clinton administrations.
Where’s the excitement of the new people coming in? Perhaps that’s missing because the new people will be so far back in the House and Senate, that by the summer they’ll need glasses.
And how can you celebrate change and progress when the Democrats will be taking us back to the 60’s?
Seriously. And you should also be worried that the 2007 Redskins are winless so far.
Making shit up. It’s what they do.
That’s really weird because I remember Rep. Jack Kingston (R – GA) telling me just the other day that he was upset with the Dems because they were talking about extending the the Congressional work week to 5 days.
I guess Dobbs is saying that they will work more but do less.
And how can you celebrate change and progress when the Democrats will be taking us back to the 60’s?
Yeah! Where’s the efficiency? Now the ‘pubs can take us back to the ’30’s, before the country became corrupted by baggy jeans, video games, rock and roll music, and pennecillin. Ah, the good old days.[/sarcasm]
Seriously, we have to undo regression before progress can occur.
Prediction– The dems won’t get us out of Iraq. The dems won’t get shit accomplished on universal health care. The dems won’t push to reduce poverty.
Agree on Iraq. Dems don’t want to be saddled with ’surrender’. Now that they suckered money from the Kool Aid / Human Shield left, when it counts they will act more sanely.
Question is what will they really try to do. Realistically they have a very narrow, veto-prone majority; and many of their newly elected members campaigned as centrists. It may never be anything more than minimum wage – which I expect Repubs to back also.
Yeah, democrats will never wield that executive power they don’t have to bring the army home. Maybe installing some basic ACCOUNTING will do the trick though. Less incentive for Bush to keep the troops there of Halliburton gets cut off.
“Less incentive for Bush to keep the troops there of Halliburton gets cut off.”
So midder, you really think the troops are there now, in large part, because of a competitive US Army contract (base contract awarded 2001, order issued against contract 2003)initiated during the Clinton era??
Thats a pretty far reaching conpsiracy – especially since Cheney divested much earlier.
Dugger, ZERO accounting and accountability. We don’t know where the money is or has been going. Explain it to us. The only thing the Dems can do to shorten the war is put intense scrutiny on how Bush has pissed away hundreds of billions of dollars and tighten the purse strings.
So put down the KoolAid and join the rest of us in the real world.
Our “narrow” majority in the House is bigger than the majority the “Republican Revolution” ever had.
midder
Again, the base contract to Halliburton was competed and the initiation was during the Clinton Admin (it takes a very long time to originate, compete, evaluate and award big competitive contract). What problems there have been, have been with post award bookeeping, which is the reponsibility of Army procurement personnel.
We’ll get the details of those contracts, thanks to Chairman Waxman who will reinstate Congress’ role as watchdog and not lapdog.
We’ll get the details of those contracts, thanks to Chairman Waxman who will reinstate Congress’ role as watchdog and not lapdog.
Provided, of course, there are Republicans to investigate.
That’s right Dugger, blame the troops.
The Democrats will act “sanely” and KEEP the troops bleeding on the streets of Iraq, NOT pull them out?
I’d hate to see this guy’s idea of a “crazy” response to this horror.
Hey, dugger, thanks for those links to that stuff you were saying about Haliburton “competitive contracts”
Oh, wait…
If you’re making a living by pointing to idiocies in the media, then you’re in business for ever.
Well, he kinda is.
Amazing that Clinton knew we were invading Iraq! Halliburton got nailed for fraud on those Clinton era contracts but Bush and Ashcroft let them off the hook and threw more money at them. Crooks of a feather.
Maybe now liberals will realize that Dobbs is NOT someone who should be particularly listened to. Dobbs is of the old populist right, the Buchanan wing. He’s no liberal.