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Congress And It’s 10% Approval Rating
Category: Current Events, Government Madness, PoliticsGood article this morning in the Wall Street Journal titled The Beltway Crash. The writer of the essay takes no prisoners in laying blame for Congress’s inability to function. The long and the short of it all is this. The current Democrat controlled Congress along with their Republican enablers are destroying this country. Hands down and without a doubt, this impotent Congress under the failed leadership of Nancy Pelosi and her fellow ilk, is definitely living up to it’s 10% approval rating. Here’s an excerpt from that article which I found to be spot on.
Sphere: Related ContentThe 228-205 defeat reflects badly on all concerned, starting with the Democrats who run the House. The majority party is responsible for assembling a majority vote, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed in that fundamental task.
Her highly partisan speech on the floor — blaming “right-wing ideology of anything goes, no supervision, no discipline, no regulation” for the financial distress — is no excuse for Republicans to vote no. But it is indicative of the way she has governed for the past two years — like Tom DeLay without the charm. The cynics are saying Ms. Pelosi deliberately tanked the bill by giving 95 Democrats a pass, knowing failure would hurt John McCain, and given her track record we can see why people would believe it.
House Republicans share the blame, and not only because they opposed the bill by about two-to-one, 133-65. Their immediate response was to say that many of their Members turned against the bill at the last minute because Ms. Pelosi gave her nasty speech. So they are saying that Republicans chose to oppose something they think is in the national interest merely because of a partisan slight. Thank heaven these guys weren’t at Valley Forge.
Yeah, great idea – Let’s blame the actions of the past 8 year Republican majority on the current Congress. No matter how great you are, you can’t shovel a mountain of dung that high in 2 years.
Ron,It’s hard to imagine isn’t it? As incredible as it is and as far-fetched as it may seem, This do- nothing Congress amazingly achieved the barely credible feat of creating a dung heap mountain in two short years.
“House Republicans share the blame, and not only because they opposed the bill by about two-to-one, 133-65. Their immediate response was to say that many of their Members turned against the bill at the last minute because Ms. Pelosi gave her nasty speech.”
Two of the Republicans I saw interviewed on TV after the vote who voted against the bill denied that Pelosi’s speech was a factor. They said they voted “no” on principle. While I could have missed it in the wall-to-wall post-vote TV coverage, I heard no Republican give that as the reason for Republican no votes.
This was a myth fabricated by the Democrats to excuse Pelosi’s and Frank’s failure to deliver enough Democrat votes to pass the bill. 37 of Frank’s Financial Services Committee Democrat members voted against the bill.
Joe,
Since early this AM when I posted this essay and now, more facts are coming out regarding yesterday’s congressional sideshow. You are correct with what you say and I thank you for setting the record straight.
Are you kidding? Yesterday on CNN, 12 of those Republicans went on TV and said that Pelosi’s speech was the reason they voted No! So are you trying to say that the Democrats forced those Republican members of the House to go on TV and lie? How is that setting the record straight?