It looks as though it will be a great day today. Seven AM, deck half covered in sun already, cup of coffee, newspaper in hand and the sweet sound of birds tweeting.....no not on their computers........ Just reading a very interesting article on why the right wingers................no not the birds..................are pissed off again at our poor President. It seems that the congress decided to take off for summer break and are romping on the beaches in the Southeastern part of the country..............Our President............hard at work decided to get something done............SSSSSOOOOOO he appointed a couple of people to head up some departments that have been waiting for leadership for the past ..................OOOHHHH year or so. The members of the "right" seemed to disapprove of this method known as................getting off your ass and getting something done "RECESS APPOINTMENT" Now, in all due respect, I am blaming both of these glorified party's for this since I believe that they should give their employer............YOU AND ME ........THE PEOPLE...........an honest days work. They seem to feel that 4 hours a day is all they can stand. After all, it's mind boggling to work on all these problems...........that.....................YOU...........CONGRESS!!!! can make without using up all of their BRAIN power, at one sitting. Lets clarify one thing before I go any further, lets compare the previous administration........(better yet)........I'll even go out on a limb and say I'll give you 2 democrats to one republican administrations.
Obama..........to date including the 2 above so mentioned recess appointments total 18
Bush ............in his first two years.......23 BUT LISTEN UP.................................total 171
Clinton......... over the course of his 2 years..........................................................total 139
and the republicans are pissed!!!!!!WHA! WHA! WHA! ITS NOT FAIR, YOU'RE NOT PLAYING NICE WITH US, YOUR NOT GIVING US ANY SAY!!!! I guess the BRIBERY just is not up to what they want, they are really pushing to have those 100 park benches in Illinois painted and paid for by the taxpayers. Meanwhile there are 180 appointees still waiting for some kind of approval. To me, that means that this administration is working with less people than the previous administration. CAN THIS BE POSSIBLE???? Just goes to show you guys, you want to take off on vacation? Perhaps it would be to the benefit of ALL Americans, that while you are gone, the Prez. comes in and replaces you all. This brings to mind a question I have been having headaches over. If congress can all get together and enact a law governing how many years a President and Vice President can serve..... Who can enact that same law on Congress. I guess the answer is only Congress. Who would be stupid enough to do that to themselves???? Seems a little ass backwards to me. I think TERM LIMITS for all elected officials should be the law of the land. Notice, I say ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS. These people have got it made..........4 hour days (max) 3 days work week (max) free postage. Spring break, Summer break, Fall break, Winter break. All holidays off, travel both foreign and domestic paid for, usually by tax payers, lobbyist or on military aircraft. Escorts (both security and otherwise) in foreign cities. Free food, lobbyist constantly in their pockets or the other way around ..............JUST TO SIT AROUND AND DO NOTHING..........OR TO MAKE STUPID and I do mean STUPID Laws, like wearing of a bicycle helmet or drinking out of a hose. Where the hell were these laws when we needed them.................and I grew up just fine.
I recently started to think about how the Republicans rag on the Prez about his social life. They seem to feel that it's unamerican for the Prez. to take a vacation of any sort or why he's playing golf or basketball instead of in his speedo's trying to plug the hole in the oil gusher. GOLLY GEE GUYS.........cut the guy some slack.........after all you take you vacations 5 times a year and shut the doors to the office ...............MAY I REMIND YOU.............FOR THE PEOPLE. Everyone knows it's healthy to take a nap mid afternoon but no time off does not do it. Seems the right forgot about the times Mr. Bush .................WAS OUT OF THE OFFICE.......................mentally and physically.
It apparently was OK during the last administration since the "cowboy" was down on the ranch.....moving brush (like for the amount of time it took to click the photo) and was considered a working vacation. If that's the case, as long as Obama is wearing his Hawaiian shirt lets consider that a working vacation.
I really get a kick out of all the times I hear (I don't know their names but I call them)the 3 stooges of the right. Two guys, one gal, sitting there criticising the President and all his buddies but then it shows flashbacks of past Republican Presidents doing the exact same thing as the present day President, This is what I mean when I said that FOX isn't even bright enough to photo shop their video's. Someone should send them the BROADCASTING FOR DUMMIES book.
I recently read an article in the paper regarding the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It seems that EX-GOV. Palin along with John McCain and Dick Armey(R) former house majority leader are leading a pack of conservative wolves to rag on Obama for not waiving the Jones Act. I thought this to be quite interesting so I decided to do a little research on this. Apparently President Bush during the Katrina fiasco waived the act to permit foreign ships to transport much needed oil and gas between ports in Louisiana and other states, WHICH WAS QUITE LEGITIMATE!!!! since the oil and gas was already onboard these ships and 99.9% of these ships are registered outside this country. Let me bring you up to date on some things...................first of all ....one of the things the Jones act protects is that all cargo carried between U.S ports is carried on U.S. made ships worked by U.S. merchant seaman. The Jones act basically covers 3 miles from the coast of the USA.and protects the interest of U.S business.
According to the Admiral of the U.S. Coast Guards, who I would consider well versed in the Jones Act since it is the job of the Coast Guard to enforce this Act, that since the location of the deepwater horizon platform is 41 miles off the coast that NO WAIVER is necessary. How can it be that our legislatures DON'T KNOW THIS!!!! Are they that brain dead? If so, why are they still legislating? Also, apparently unbeknown to them that presently the U.S. does not have the ships available to do such work, and that booms from several foreign countries and 24 foreign ships from nine countries have been assisting since the 11th of May.with addition help from 12 foreign countries being implemented. Now........to carry this one step further, I also found out that McCain recently sponsored a bill to repeal the Jones Act, as the conservatives consider this Act to be protectionist that hurts business. So, if I have this right, one side of their mouth says KEEP BUSINESS IN AMERICA........the other side says....PERMIT FOREIGN COMPETITION!!!!!! Sounds like used car salesman rhetoric to me. TELL EACH GROUP WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR!!!!!!.........they will listen to me.........I'm a war hero.
NOW!!!!! If you want I can also Factcheck it and email it to you. Why anyone does not check out this stuff is beyond me........but.......guess those people just like to pass on garbage and hope someone believes it........................GET REAL FOLKS!!!!!!!!
