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Posted at 9:28am on Jul. 9, 2008 The "Do Nothing" Congress Gets Its Report Card

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You know, I've never been much of a believer in polls. You ask 1,000 people a few questions, and the results are supposed to be indicative of how the rest of us 300 million slobs out here feel...I know it works in a statistics class, but it's a stretch for me. That said, I am BESIDE myself over this Rasmussen Report card that tells the tale of Harry and Nance's woes:

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Posted at 10:17am on Jul. 6, 2008 Democrats: "Whose interest is it to settle anything now?"

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Admitting I almost spit my coffee out onto my poor defenseless screen while reading THIS AP piece this morning, it occurs to me that the quote in my title says everything we need to know about what's at stake in November.

I know I have been harping and ranting for quite some time now about this, but really-when the fight on the Hill is about power and not about attending to the needs of "we, the People"...and the Democrats go so far as to SAY so...doesn't that tell us everything we need to know about who cares about US and who cares about themselves? I'd say BOTH sides are more interested in themselves than they are about their constituents, but at LEAST with the Republicans this self-interest is driven by them knowing we're pissed off at them. The Democrats' self-interest appears to be more based on expanding their control OVER us. The AP piece is basically a summary of where we are this legislative cycle, and what is likely to get done between now and the General...and what is likely NOT to get done. I like the way they introduce the story:

Democrats bent on showing they can govern and Republicans anxious about a sour re-election climate are pushing a pared-down summer agenda in Congress.

Pared down? Phhhhhht...they are already dubbed the "Do Nothing Congress"... how much less can they actually do?

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Posted at 4:25pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Do Nothing Dem Congress Slow-Bleeding US Auto Industry

hey...don't Unions vote FOR Democrats? Weird love affair, that...

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hey...don't Unions vote FOR Democrats? Weird love affair, that...

This just in: GM, Ford, Toyota Plunge as Buyers Reject Big Trucks.

General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the biggest auto retailers in the U.S., said June sales plunged as fuel prices above $4 a gallon drove consumers away from gas-guzzling trucks.

GM sales fell 19 percent, Ford was down 28 percent and Toyota dropped 21 percent. Honda Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG, which rely on cars for the bulk of their sales, each rose about 1 percent.

Weird, I thought Democrats owed their pandering loyalty to ALL Union-based industry. Now, pay close attention to what Obama said a month ago about the effects of high gas prices: "Americans [will] start changing the kinds of cars they drive if gasoline prices continue to climb." What he DIDN'T say was that "Hope and Change" really means Union members must HOPE for lifetime Unemployment Insurance after Obama's destruction of the economy CHANGEs their employment status to "plant closed." Again, from Bloomberg:

The vehicles that people want are in short supply because the industry has turned on a dime in terms of demand and supply can't quite handle that,'' Alan Baum, director of automotive forecasting for Planning Edge in Birmingham, Michigan, said in a Bloomberg Radio interview. You'll continue to see a decline for the next several months.''

For the second straight month, Ford's F-Series large pickup, perennially the best-selling vehicle in the U.S., was outsold by four cars: Toyota's Corolla and Camry and Honda's Civic and Accord. Nissan Motor Co. reported an 18 percent total decline.

Propping up foreign competition while driving American jobs into the ground...hmmm...you know, coal and oil may be making us sick...but this "do nothing Democrat Congress" is killing us. As the Saudi King has suggested: Get Used To It.

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