What’s important here?
In the Washington Times this morning, David Sherfinski writes that poor Chuckie Schumer is having a tough time shoving a watermelon through a garden hose;
“I’m working very hard with both Democrats and Republicans, pro-NRA and anti-NRA people, to come up with a background check bill that will be acceptable to 60 senators and be very strong and get the job done,” the New York Democrat said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s very hard. We’re working hard, and I’m very hopeful that we can get this passed.”
Meanwhile, most of the media is trying to scare us to death with an impending attack from North Korea – the same country that, a few months ago couldn’t get a missile over the Chine Sea is somehow going to nuke Austin, TX, not that it would be a terrible thing, anyway. Maybe they could take out Berkeley, CA while they’re at it.
And, oh yeah, there’s immigration – John McCain and Chuckie Schumer got to watch how illegal aliens come into this country last week when, as they were wasting our money by looking at the border a woman scaled the fence crossing over into the US. I’m sure they were stunned, but it seems to me that someone could have shouted “Hey!” or “Stop!” But I guess that would be beneath them.
So, while our military spending threatens to damage operations and readiness, the President’s kids fly at taxpayer expense from their vacation in the Bahamas to their vacation in Sun Valley – just like your kids.
So while all of this is going on, who is working on the economy? Who is working on getting jobs back? I know, I know, that’s pretty much impossible for the federal government, but it’s what they promised before the election last year – and no one is holding anyone’s fee to the fire. I’m including Republicans in that criticism. John McCain is ready to throw the borders open – and witnesses first hand that they’re not closed anyway.
The economy expanded at an anemic annual rate of less than 3% in the first quarter, folks have generally given up looking for work and everyone is perfectly fine with that, apparently. They’d rather worry about gun control or North Korea since we’ve all got food stamps and two years worth of unemployment benefits pouring into our bank accounts by direct deposit, so as not to waste time getting to Wal-Mart on our daily commute to buy cheap plastic Chinese-made crap.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Congress sucks
dude, that’s just wrong. I live in Austin.
Well when you put it like that, all that stuff just sounds stupid. . .
Who cares? Obama and the democrats are just so awesome!!!
Yeah, well, the Republicans ain’t fer shit, either.
For one tiny second, I thought the last word in Uncle Chuck’s sentence was ‘pissed’ instead of ‘passed’. I really did read it that way.
‘So while all of this is going on, who is working on the economy? Who is working on getting jobs back?’ (Silence.)
Well, uh…. some sectors are slowly picking up. Entrepreneurs are always welcome. Um, uh, hmm…. sorry, but it will be as it always has been, on the backs of the individual small business owners who may, or may not, be able to slowly hire more people over time.
Of course, if we end up in a dust-up with DuLoc – I mean North Korea – that will require the rehiring and new hiring of many people to fill previously curtailed positions.
Oh, yeah – a friend of mine who spent some time in LaLaLand long ago told me that it’s Berserkeley. And I truly don’t mind if SoCal gets whacked, but if the Norks are going to hit Chicago, I just want time to pack up irreplaceables and cats and drive over to Mt. Carroll. Thanks!
Personally, almost all of the politicians need to be shit-canned. Then, elect people who would actually serve the people they are elected to represent rather than special interest groups and out-of-country interests. I know, I’m a “radical” for even suggesting that.
Here’s a thought, and it might save some cash, too: the Texas legislature only gets paid when it actually meets, which is about every 3 to 6 months.
That could be done in WDC, because there is nothing that says they have to be there all the time. They could also can the pages, cut their staff and ‘bodyguards’, and run their own errands, eliminate their congressional pensions and cut their paychecks in half.
Hey Jonn, it’s really important to get a weapons ban passed because that law will do absolutely nothing to reduce crime or save a single life in spite of the rhetoric to the contrary. It’s so important to pass a useless law that the folks in DC don’t have any time left to address the economy, the poor choices of reduction under sequester. Or anything resembling a difficult conversation about the mentally ill or why our larger metropolises are more like a war zone than a friendly American city.
Remember this simple rule, when the going gets tough Democrats and Republicans in office like to avoid a difficult job and work on something meaningless but showy….they want to look like they are doing something without actually HAVING to do something….
All show and no go, the new Washington Mantra…
If Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, et al, give up their CCW permits, then they can put any language in any bill they like.
But they’re still hypocritical shitheels.
Actually, NHSparky, Feinstein says she had her gun melted down and shaped into a cross and gave it to one of the recent Popes. No, that’s not an April Fool’s joke – look it up. Whether it happened or not, I can’t attest to it – it came from the mouth of Feinstein, so…
“We keep trying to pass these laws, but that pesky Constitution keeps getting in the way. Dagnabbit!”
If Americans were easily governed, we’d still be British, dickwad. Find a new hobby, Chuckles, perhaps something a little more Constitutional (read: legal).
That would be about “par for the course bullshit” I’d expect from a CA politician. She claims it, you can’t prove otherwise, soo….
Every time I hear the phrase, “gun control advocate” I get a mental picture of her standing up in Congress with an AK (like so many of us own those, right?) with her booger hook on the bang switch.
I can’t trust her enough WITH a weapon not to do stupid shit, I can’t trust her enough to take mine away from me. And forget about “guarantee” of safety, cause you and I and most people who live in the land of reality know there ain’t no such animal.
As for the “Norkies” building a missile capable of hitting our West Coast,… If ‘lil Kim-boy dared to use it, and it worked, I wouldn’t miss San Foo-foo OR LA, what do y’all think?
@13 — Neither would I.
Or Portland (sorry to the poster here who I forget lives fairly near there) or Seattle.
But again, IF they had a nuke that could be delivered, it’d be fairly small in yield, so while it’d be a shitty day for anyone directly underneath it, more than a few miles out, meh.
@4: Yeah, you’re right about that, but at least they aren’t the ones coming up with all this gun grabbing bullshit. if you will notice, the only state/federal anti-gun shit being introduced, outside of NY, is democrats.
I’m pretty pessimistic right now. At the national level, there are a handful of principled people working hard to try and change the status quo – Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and maybe Marco Rubio. The rest are in it for themselves and/or what power over the people.
Colorado is going to hell in a hand basket. The Dems are in charge and are going down their checklist as fast as possible. Gun control? Check. $1 billion more in taxes for the teacher’s union? Check. Giving the Secret Service police authority in CO? Check. Destroying the oil and gas industry? Check.
I figure we have a chance to turn things around in 2014. If that doesn’t happen, then we’ll find a quiet corner of Wyoming (lots of quiet corners there) and just live things out as best we can while we watch the US go the way of Greece. We just have too many people who only think about what they can get for “free” from others and those who are blissfully ignorant of what’s going on and will dutifully follow whomever is “cool”.
I think the Norks’ nukes are 10 kilotons, half the impact and damage at distance of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, which were 20 kilotons.
@17 Ever tried living with a roach infestation? Or ants? They don’t stay in just one place. The rot we’re facing now is the same way. People run away from the countries of their birth and come here, because they don’t want to fight the fight necessary to bring change to their own countries. So they come here. But what about us? As our country falls apart around us…where do we run for a better life? Got any ideas? Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, the Dakotas…do you think they’re immune? They’re not.
I want to hurry the fall and bankruptcy of the Fed Gov. How do I sign up for EBT (foodstamps) and other entitlements?
@19 – You’re right. Years ago, Colorado was pretty conservative, but once the liberals started moving it, they really changed the political climate there (and now we’re seeing it, and those in Colorado are feeling it). It’s just a matter of time before those locusts invade sanctuaries like Wyoming, the Dakotas, et al.
The whole country will go to shit unless something drastic happens. I pray that 2014 gets here soon, and that the American people will have learned their lesson and gained some common sense.
(Sadly, I’m not holding my breath about my last sentence.)
As long as the Liberals in The People’s Republic of Kalifornia think that all Alaskans live in igloos we will be safe. If they ever figure out that Palin doesn’t run the State still we might be screwed though.
@21 I’m not holding my breath either. When you see 110% voting returns and 100% for “the other guy”…I no longer believe conservative views are being represented in certain areas of this country. I also don’t believe they are being ALLOWED to be represented in those areas. Unless something very strange happens between now and then, I think the pattern we’ve seen will be continued in 2014.
If I could prove it, I’d like to see what voting discrepancies there are nationwide. My gut tells me something more sinister is going on, and I’ve never been the “conspiracy theorist” type. If one or two people admit they cast a ballot more than once (and for other people), you just KNOW there’s hundreds of others who have too.
It’s all very suspicious.