SIMPLE, TRUE, AND STRAIGHT FORWARD…

CONYERS:

I love these members that get up and say, “Read the bill!” What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you’ve read the bill?

That’s in a luncheon speech at the National Press Club in Washington last Friday.

Just to be sure everyone gets the point here…

… at the National Press Club.

I didn’t see it in any of the Obama-Media.  Did you?  Did anyone hear about this over the weekend?  It was a shock to everybody, right?

“What good does it do to read the bill if you don’t have a couple lawyers to find out what it means after you read it?”

This guy is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.  So… Sometimes it’s just best to get out of their way and just let them go ahead and make fools of themselves.

They did not report it — and it was on, obviously, C-SPAN.

As reported by Yid with Lid, earlier this year Congress:

• This past February, the Congress voted on an almost $800 billion stimulus bill that they hadn’t read. This one bill single-handedly increased the national debt by 160%. The bill was over 800 pages, and the members of the House received the bill at 11 pm the night before they were to vote on it. The vote couldn’t be delayed because Nancy Pelosi was going on vacation to Italy.
• When the House Energy committee passed the “cap and tax” bill. The legislation was over 900 pages, once again the people voting for the bill hadn’t read it. In fact, committee chair and one of the bill’s sponsors, Congressman Waxman admitted that he didn’t even know what was in his own bill.

It’s bad enough, when they dumb down public schools to the point of illiteracy, but in an attempt to Socialize the country’s health system –  ignorance is the only hope of the Democrat lead government.

Simple truth: What the public doesn’t know can distroy the greatest economy on the planet.

If you turn your health care over to the state you’re giving up all control over your health care.  It’s a crapshoot.  You may as well have walked into a casino.

“Good luck,” takes on an ominous meaning.

HOWALUYA…OIL in the US REBORN

Finally, America you can drill… where the oil actually is.

If Congress will get off their fat asses and get something done about accessing the domestic supply here in our country.

All you that believe, “War in Iraq was for oil.” Well, as history already shows (Kuwait is another prime example of the fallacy of the statement) This war has continued the safe and free follow of oil from the mid-east, violence continues fail 85%/90% last time I checked.

But I am getting off topic.

You don’t need to look far to see the obstacles: Congress/Senate/Environmental wacko Groups, Democrats, Liberals, etc…

The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.

US Congress Approval Rating

The new Democrat Congress, came in on the wonderful plan they were to announce in the first 100 days, or whatever, never materialized (gas prices have doubled) and now all they do is blame Bush, Business, Foreign countries (…even though they demand greater production from foreign countries, while stopping with all might our own production), ah… and don’t forget they want to sue OPEC for not producing enough… please…

Typical liberal solution: do nothing… except obstruct.

It was just a few weeks ago that the Democrats in Congress were railing at Big Oil, telling us that Big Oil was responsible for high prices and that Congress would be taking charge. Remember Maxine Waters? She let the cat out of the bag, said she wanted to nationalize the oil companies.

Well, what happened to that solution? What happened to getting even with them? What happened to taking it to those guys, hmm? What happened to that solution?

Isn’t it amazing, my friends, that the scapegoaters in Congress have literally dropped the issue of attacking oil companies now in lieu of oil speculators?

So guess who won the debate when Congress debated the oil executives a few weeks ago? The oil executives, they manned up!

The oil executives grew a set and they finally told Congress the facts of life when it comes to supply, demand, and overregulation, and look what happened? Congress was embarrassed, Americans figured out who the real enemy is, and Big Oil is off the hook because they got the facts out. As a result, Big Oil was dropped as a bad guy faster than a negative Lord Obama story. And oil speculators were instantly declared public enemy number one. Meanwhile, the speculators were simply reacting to fake news out of Iran, fake news promulgated by the US Media.

I just find it amazing, folks, how quickly members of Congress and the Democrat Party dropped blaming Big Oil for the prices of gasoline and have moved on to the speculators.

What a breathtaking quickness took place here, shifting blame from Big Oil to the oil speculators. It’s a given that Democrat policies will never be examined regarding that or any other issue, so there’s always going to be a distraction and the Democrats are always gonna need a demon. So does this mean that the decades of endless investigations and public rebukes and condemnations of Big Oil have been wrong? Seriously, folks, these are our members of Congress. These are the guys that pass the laws and then act like spectators. These are the guys that gave us the subprime problem. These are the guys that create all this. These are the guys that won’t drill for oil. These are the guys that cause runs on banks, like Charles Chuck-U Schumer. They sit around and get to act like spectators. Now all of a sudden they drop the hot potato of Big Oil. Does this mean they’ve been wrong all these years? Does it mean it’s been a total waste of taxpayer money to go after Big Oil all these years?

How many millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on investigations and big show hearings, show trials targeting Big Oil? I think they were going on in the 1970s. How many hundreds of millions of dollars has it been? How many millions have the oil companies had to spend defending themselves and the countless hours of favorable news coverage at the same time devoted to Democrats showboating on TV, acting as prosecutor, judge, and jury with their declarations that Big Oil was ripping off Americans and getting filthy rich with their ill-gotten windfall profits.

Whatever became of all that?

Is that now just inoperative ’cause it’s the speculators’ fault? Big Oil was guilty until proven innocent, and there would be no innocents.

There are no innocents in oil prices. Somebody is guilty. They’re going to find somebody to get you mad at, and now it’s the speculators.

All of these flip-flops have got to be referred to as the result of inexperience. He just doesn’t know what he’s doing. When he’s off a prepared speech, when he’s off the prompter, when he’s on his own, when he doesn’t have some campaign aide, then he’s off the beaten path and as such, he’s on his own and so this has to be chalked up to inexperience.

And how little experience does he have?

Cheri Jacobus, who is a brilliant woman, a Republican strategist, she lives in Washington, she’s worked on Capitol Hill, posted a little blurb:

“Just how much Senate experience does Barack Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much. From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged–”

How many days experience, from the time he’s inaugurated in the Senate, sworn in, until he announced his presidential exploratory committee, how many actual days of work experience in the Senate for Barack Obama?

It’s 143.

“After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan. 143 days -”

I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that…

“In contrast, John McCain’s 26 years in Congress, 22 years of military service including 1,966 days in captivity as a POW in Hanoi now seem more impressive than ever.”

So there you go, 143 days.

So this is the key. All of these so-called flip-flops, all these changes in position, they are due to his inexperience. His inexperience and his incompetence lead him to make goofs, to lie, to flounder around. I think if people see Obama as dangerously incompetent and floundering, it might lessen his appeal.

Calling him a flip-flopper, you know, been there, done that with John Kerry. He owns that.

You look at Kerry and you see a sandal, a flip-flop.

So you can’t tag that to Obama. It’s gotta be incompetence, it’s got to be inexperience.

Do you know how many hearings there have been with the Big Oil execs and without, just exploratory hearings?

They’ve had 40 hearings on oil and energy, and has anything happened? Yes, the price has continued to go up.

Do you know how many hearings they have had on whether or not the United States tortures detainees? They’ve had over 60 in the House and Senate combined, over 60 House and Senate hearing, and there was another one Friday.

Our tax dollars at work, folks…

It was the Constitution civil rights and civil liberties subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. Massachusetts representative Bill Delahunt was questioning David Addington. David Addington is chief of staff, former counsel to Vice President Cheney. Addington, a very private guy, does not show up in public. He was forced to show up at this hearing.

They asked him the typical stupid questions, and he just stuck it to these guys by not bending over forwards and grabbing the ankles like Republicans usually do or anybody else does when they face a congressional committee. This did not sit well with Bill Delahunt, who said this.

DELAHUNT: Oh, I can understand why he [the president] doesn’t talk about it.

ADDINGTON: But you gotta communicate with Al-Qaeda. If you do — I can’t talk to you. Al-Qaeda may watch C-SPAN.

DELAHUNT: Right. Well, I’m — I’m sure they are watching, and I’m glad they finally have a chance to — to see you, Mr. Addington, give —

ADDINGTON: I’m sure you’re pleased.

You need me to translate this for you? -.-

Delahunt said, “Oh, I can understand why the president doesn’t talk about it.” Addington, “you gotta communicate with Al-Qaeda. If you do, I can’t talk to you, Al-Qaeda may watch C-SPAN.” I can’t tell you what we’re doing about Al-Qaeda. Not here. Delahunt says, “Yeah, well, I’m sure Al-Qaeda is watching, and I’m glad they finally have a chance to see you, Mr. Addington.”

A number of people have inferred from this that Delahunt would not be disappointed if Al-Qaeda took Addington out now that they know who he is. Delahunt has said, “I didn’t say ‘they.’ I didn’t say finally they had a chance to see you, I said finally I’ve had a chance to see you.” Okay, let’s see if that’s what he said.

Let’s do this again —

DELAHUNT: Oh, I can understand why he [the president] doesn’t talk about it.

ADDINGTON: But you gotta communicate with Al-Qaeda. If you do — I can’t talk to you. Al-Qaeda may watch C-SPAN.

DELAHUNT: Right. Well, I’m — I’m sure they are watching, and I’m glad they finally have a chance to — to see you, Mr. Addington, give —

ADDINGTON: I’m sure you’re pleased.

Did he say, I?

No, he said THEY, twice.

And these, ladies and gentlemen, are your modern-day liberal Democrats in the Democrat Party.