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Last night I caught the beginning of the 10 pm news. This story was the lead. I noticed that, while the names and states these asshats represent were discussed, their party affiliation was not.

Now, way back in high school and college when I was taking journalism classes, we learned that when dealing with an elected official..like say…oh…a congressman, the proper syntax (ok, they said ’style’ but I prefer syntax) is to state the person’s name, then in parentheses their party affiliation and state. Here is an example Sen. Robert Dole (R-KS). See? Always with the party.

But the news story last night, it didn’t tell us if the lawmakers that took the Saddam sponsored junket were dems or repubs. I told the 5/8 and No. 1 Son that those three had to be democrats, because if they had been republicans, the news bimbo would have said so. Instead of the headline being "Saddam Paid for Lawmakers’ Iraq Trip" the headline would have read "Saddam Paid for Republican Lawmakers’ Iraq Trip."

No. 1 Son had some trouble understanding why. I tried to explain to him that the news reporting is mostly biased towards the leftards. That most of the reporters and editors are leftards, and glorify the likes Chavez and Castro, which is why we see so little news about the piss-poor living conditions, and the atrocious human rights violations that occur there.

I don’t think he completely understood what I was getting at. But he’ll learn. We all had to learn that lesson. The hard lesson when we discovered that Dan and Peter and Tom weren’t giving us the full, un-biased skinny and any damn thing they talked about.

Now, the question is, did these fellows know their trip was sponsored by the Butcher of Baghdad? Probably not. I don’t believe that any lawmaker who would travel to Iraq on the eve of the US invasion could be smart enough to figure it out. But then again, only they know. I mean, it was, after all, paid for by a charity group. And seriously, how would these male-bimbos know they guy who runs the charity was getting oil in exchange for getting them to Iraq?

I’m certain though, if the congressmen would have been republicans, we’d be hearing all the screaming and crying of corruption that the leftards are so good at spewing.

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More on government trying to run private businesses. kowtowing to special interests to the detriment of industry – and all of us. The senate has recently passed a bill mandating a 40% increase in mileage for all cars, SUVs and trucks by 2020, and requiring huge increases in the production of ethanol.

What I am seeing here is, “it doesn’t matter what the consequences are to industry or the individual, we are going to make theses requirements.” Other than using diesel, I don’t see how a 1 ton dually is going to get the mandated 35 MPG and still have enough power and torque to do what it needs to do.

The other part is what bothers me the most; that is the requirement for increases in ethanol production. Who are they requiring to produce it? And does it matter whether the companies forced into this production can profit from it? I don’t think the Dems care whether anyone can profit from it. As long as it satisfies the special interests and kowtows to faithful follower of the Church of AlGoreism and their global warming brouhaha.

By what right? By what right to people who have not financial stake in whether a company lives or dies, make decisions on how that company should be run or what it should produce? Is that some innate right that people have? To be able to force industry to bend to their will, not by supporting or rejecting what that industry produces, but by sheer force of want or need?

When did this happen in America? When is it that the needs of someone outweighed reason and common sense? Just because one needs ethanol, why is it that a company is obligated to make it for them? Why can’t they make their own ethanol? Why is it that they must force another to supply their needs? Whatever happened to fulfilling one’s own needs? Where did that go? If I need a glass of water, I get up and get myself a glass of water. I don’t call the police or the fire department to come over and get me a glass of water. They are there to fulfill needs, why can’t they fulfill this need of mine? It is utterly ridiculous what is happening.

Thanks for visiting, I really do appreciate it. And I apologize for being gone the last 10 days or so. But you know…

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They must believe that. How else can one explain the nonsensical, non-binding, non-things being voted on? One can almost hear the Senators now:

“Sigh, there’s nothing to do”
“Hey, I know, let’s try and set a deadline for the withdrawal of troops, that ought to take up a couple of hours”
“Nah, we did that already and it didn’t work. People got kind of pissed”
“Oh, yeah, I almost forgot about that one”
“Ooh ooh, let’s see if we can find any pork in the government to cut. The people always like cutting pork”
“Yeah, but what about our campaign donors? They’ll be pissed. I’d rather have the people pissed than the donors.”
“Oh, you’re right, all the people give us are votes, and I can’t buy a yacht with a vote.”
“Hmmmm.”
“Sigh”
“I’ve got it! Let’s create a news story. It’ll make us look good. We’ll hold a non-binding vote of ‘no-confidence’ for that Gonzalez fella over there at Justice. You know, that uppity beaner there that fired all those fine Democratic attorneys.”
“Why, that’s a grand idea. We can take up lots of time debating and arguing about it before we actually get to a vote. This will make us look busy, and make certain nothing gets done in the meantime. We’ll protect our donors, and fool the people. By George, you’ve hit on a right smart idea there.”

It seems to me, if the Dems have so much time for this witch hunt, which means noting, then they must believe there isn’t any government business of more pressing matters to attend to. Which tells me that the country must be running pretty smoothly right now.

Way to go fellas!
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A great video that every freedom loving American should see is over at hotair.com. Dennis Miller (the educated man’s comedian) really rips into Harry Reid. I usually find Miller very funny and insightful, and this one is no exception!

h/t Cap’n Dramatics Mom

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