100 Hours in Record Time

Congrats Nancy, you've completed your agenda in record time. To bad it probebly won't amount to much. Unless the Senate acts, all that glad-handing is for naught.

The house can change it's own rules, but that's it.

Minimum wage? Most people here make more, except in American Samoa I heard.

Even cracking down on big oil will go down. The price of oil has just dropped below $50 a barrel. The oil give-aways democrats are concerned about were OK'ed by the Clinton admin. back in 1998. I sure don't remember hearing any complaints back then. That makes me think that things looked alot different then to the Clinton admin. and the oil companies needed the help.

I'll say one thing though, the democrats and liberal press did an excellent job of feeding the "American People" alot of Dis-Information. Some things will never change. The republicans should take note on how they did it.

Now let's see if you can do the same with S.S. or immigration. You know, something that'll really matter to the "American People". Who knows, you might even help us.

The 1st Hundred Hours

Didn’t take long, did it? Only the 1st week and the Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, are up to their old tricks. Moaning and Groaning about everyone paying their fair share of taxes, and then exempting the biggest earners, and driving up our costs. Soon we’ll hear about the S.S. Trust fund being broke and now we know 1 reason why. At $3.26 per hour, you don’t pay much into the system, but you still collect a great deal.
Then we started in with the excuses from every dem in the country. How come they didn’t mistakenly forget Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin isles, or even Illinois. We have lots of Illegal Aliens here because of all the incentives offered to them. From the democratic mayor in Chicago, (Daley) to the democratic county, (Cook under Stroger), to the democratic governor, (Blagojavich). Our employers probably need some help lowering wages too, because the Illegals aren’t getting the job done fast enough. But, we don’t have any tuna here. Carp.
I’m sure that the real story though, is she was responding to the needs of a constituent. Being a multi-millionaire herself, and owning a huge winery business, she understands the need to control costs. What’s the big deal? I don’t think she could just be testing the waters to see if maybe in the next year or so, maybe there could be a way to give Carte Blanche to the wineries to screw their poor, down-trodden workers, just the ones she represents (for now) of course.
$3.26 an hour on an island that has to import everything that it needs and/or wants, except maybe fish. I doubt they have enough room to grow any crops at all on those tiny islands. They say gas is over $3.50 a gallon in Hawaii, so I can imagine what it is there. I guess it would be hard enough to buy a bicycle, much less a car or motorcycle on a salary of $3.26 an hour though, so I guess it really doesn’t matter much. Unbelievable.
Then, they showed the representative of the islands, and he was yelling and screaming about Nancy being right and the American People not knowing what’s going on. Basically to shut-up. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Personally, I think that guy should be investigated for bribery by the FBI. I find it hard to believe that someone didn’t pay him off. I mean, how do you do that to your own people?
Ofcourse, he does have a point though. He manages to scrape by on his own meager salary ($175,000+ per) and he doesn’t complain. I guess it’s like the man said, “We Don’t Live There”.

Time for a Linguist?

"Train more Iraqi troops faster", "Stay the course", "We'll stand down when they stand up". Democrats were cheering what the Iraqi commission had to say. What a joke. Millions of taxpayer dollars wasted (again) on a commission that basically endorsed the Bush Plan on Iraq. The president wants to wait until 2007 before he lays out a new plan "based on the commission's recomendations", but I'm sure it'll take a lot longer. The problem is that there isn't a linguist at the White House. Somehow the words have to be changed or rearraigned so that when George Bush says to "stay the course", "train more Iraqi troops faster", and "that we'll stand down when they are ready to stand up" again, it won't sound like he said it, it'll sound like a commission said it. There's got to be some heavy dictionary use going on right now. Capitol hill is loaded with lawyers and we all know how well they can parse words. Real pros at that. I expect to hear some real tongue-twisting when he makes that speech, and in the days to come, as they float trial ballons.

I Wrote a Letter to Senator Durbin

Dear Senator Durbin,
I heard on the news that you and the future leader of the senate, Sen. Harry Reid, were in the So. America Andean countries, but you'll both be back for Former Pres. Ford's funeral. What were you doing down there?
Channel 7 news reportsd that the Andean countries are pushing for even greater access to the U.S. market and about our mean-spirited immigration policies. Is that true? Now that the democrats are in charge, are you there to give away more American jobs? Are you there to complain about American-made products being shut out of their markets? (not likely)
Then there's this immigration thing. Are you and the future majority leader of the senate demanding or even asking that those nations improve the standard of living for their own people so they can earn a decent living at home in their own countries? Are you and the future majority leader of the senate just nodding your heads in agreement with them, That we mean-spirited American Taxpayers need to understand and reach out and give comfort and aid to the millions of Illegal Aliens that broke-in to our counry, stole S.S. numbers, lied on applications, and contributed to driving down American wages?
I heard that both you and the future majority leader of the senate will be coming back for the funeral, so I'm eagerly looking forward to your press confrence on how you laid down the law while you were there. I'm sure that the
American People can't wait to hear how you saved their jobs and wages too.
Thank you for your time.
P.S. The Iraqi commission pretty much endorsed the Bush plan for Iraq. When I heard the commission say "stay the course", "train more Iraqi troops", "we should leave when they're ready to takeover", I expected to hear some complaints from democrats congress that it was George Bush light, but the democrats loved it. Why, I guess because George Bush didn't say it this time. Joe Biden was the only one to complain, and that's only because they didn't think his plan was any good. What a waste of time, energy, and taxpayer dollars.
Oh ya, one more thing, another Increase in the Murder rate here back at home in Chicago. I know that you were out of the country, so I just wanted to let you know that 466 Chicagoans were Shot, Stabbed, Clubbed, Beaten, and/or Burned to death in 2006. It was reported on Channel 7 News this morning. They didn't give a figure on the wounded though.