Powerline: Speaking of Gangster Government

Watch this video on Powerline giving a pretty good picture of how our Congressmen view themselves and how they view the public.
This guy Etheridge is a sack of dung and should be thrown out of office at the earliest opportunity and censured in the meantime.
Follow this link to see what I mean.
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Throw the Bums Out! All of them both parties.

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Ann Althouse

and take this poll at the Instapundit.

Bye Bye Pelosi?

Speaker Pelosi may have handed President Obama with the perfect means of eliminating half of the worst Congressional leadership ever: nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Obama should have been chomping at the bit to lose those two anchors and put his own people in place. Pelosi's now involved in a controversy concerning her knowledge of interrogation techniques that in retrospect whe wishes to disavow. Boomberg

Mr, President this is an opportunity to serve the country -- dump Pelosi.

Barney (not so) Frank

Blarney is out strutting around with righteous indignation again today. Remember he was a huge backer of Fannie and Freddie leveraging up and lowering credit standards to potential borrowers. Oh and incidentally a big beneficiary of political donations from fannie and Freddie and the various overpaid politically appointed CEOs of those companies. VIDEO

Liberal Media Censorship In Action

I was sent this message about video that was suppressed by threat of law suit by Time Warner at the behest of liberal media supporters of the Democrat party and supporters of the Obama campaign:

Object: The video clip that was not allowed in the USA - Pass this on to everyone.

This video shows that George Bush tried to warn Congress starting in 2001 that this economic crisis was coming, if something was not done. But congress refused to listen, along with Barney Frank. This video says it all.

The liberal AMERICAN media did not want this video on You Tube, so they had Time Warner threaten a law suit (proprietary rights) if it was not taken off.

This link is of the same video but is routed through Canada . Everyone in America needs to see this!

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the video is linked through Canada because it has been blocked for the US by the very people should be the gaurdians of free speech.

Say It Ain't So

via The Instapundit:

Kanjorski says Dems were insincere about ending war

Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) is seen in a video that has surfaced on the Web saying that Democrats “sort of stretched the facts” in the 2006 elections about their ability to end the Iraq war.

In a video , posted to YouTube on Thursday, Kanjorski reflects on the Democrats’ approach to the war in 2006 and said they pushed the rhetoric “as far as we can to the end of the fleet — didn’t say it, but we implied it — that if we won the congressional elections, we could stop the war.

Politicians stretching the truth? I am shocked, shocked I tell you. We need to throw the bums out. All incumbents, in all elected offices, from both political parties.

This is a disgrace!

From Pajamas Media:

Thousands of foreign students are in U.S. flight schools illegally. Annie Jacobsen exclusively reveals an internal memo on the Transportation Security Administration’s failure to enforce the law.

Read the whole thing if you want to be infuriated.
This is a disgrace and and a number of higher ups should be fired. Complete bungling by a Republican administration and I am no Bush basher. Oh and for those of you who lean left remember it likely would be worse with the democrats. One more reason to Throw the Bums Out. Do not vote for any incumbents in the coming national elections. Get rid of all of them from both parties and send a message.


Hat Tip to the Instapundit

More Reasons toThrow The Bums Out

One can always count on Congressmen from both parties for reasons to Throw the Bums Out, but the democrats have been making a special effort recently. Robert Novak writes in the Washington Post

Why Torts Trumped Terrorism

about Nancy Pelosi allowing antiterrorism laws to expire in order to protect political contributions from trial lawyers.

The true reason for blocking the bill was Senate-passed retroactive immunity to protect from lawsuits private telecommunications firms asked to eavesdrop by the government. The nation's torts bar, vigorously pursuing such suits, has spent months lobbying hard against immunity.

The recess by House Democrats amounts to a judgment that losing the generous support of trial lawyers, the Democratic Party's most important financial base, would be more dangerous than losing the anti-terrorist issue to Republicans. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed against the phone companies for giving individuals' personal information to intelligence agencies without a warrant. Mike McConnell, the nonpartisan director of national intelligence, says delay in congressional action deters cooperation in detecting terrorism.

Big money is involved. Amanda Carpenter, a Townhall.com columnist, has prepared a spreadsheet showing that 66 trial lawyers representing plaintiffs in the telecommunications suits have contributed $1.5 million to Democratic senators and causes. Of the 29 Democratic senators who voted against the FISA bill last Tuesday, 24 took money from the trial lawyers (as did two absent senators, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama). Eric A. Isaacson of San Diego, one of the telecommunications plaintiffs' lawyers, contributed to the recent unsuccessful presidential campaign of Sen. Chris Dodd, who led the Senate fight against the bill containing immunity.

Just one more reason to vote against all incumbents of both parties. Voters have a duty to find men and women of integrity who are not part of the slimy corruption that is present day Washington DC. Vote against the incumbents and if you do not trust the opponent either, then write in your own name.
hat tip: Instapundit

update to more links:

Worst. Congress. Ever.

There's a Reason They're the Worst Congress Ever

Democrats Should Read Kipling

I reiterate: Throw them all out. No vote for any incumbent politician.

Throw The Bums Out

This is a happy day for me. I have found a group of like minded people at a sight called The Kick Them All Out Project. My sister pointed me to an article by Charlie Reese called:

The 545 People Responsible For All of America's Woes

You should read the whole thing but here is a small part:

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 235 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I have written a number of times on the need to throw the bums ( all incumbent Congressmen and Senators) out of office. Vote against everyone of both parties and make it clear that we have had enough slimy two faced mendacity.
Previous posts:
http://derivativemusings.blogspot.com/2007/11/instapundit-remember-its-not-just-waste.html

Of Course The Republicans Aren't Any Better

http://derivativemusings.blogspot.com/2007/11/looking-for-new-political-party.html

Karl Rove: "corruption, not Iraq, will be the No. 1 issue.”

More Despicable Behavior From Incumbistan

Our New National Divide : Owen West

http://instapundit.com/archives2/008135.php

Instapundit: "Remember, it's not just the waste. It's the corruption."

The Instapundit points to this article on one more corrupt congressman, Alaska's porkmeister Rep. Alan Young.

Earmarks, favors: Young used position for funds and his donors' projects

Time after time in recent years, Young approved millions of dollars for highway projects for people who in turn fattened his campaign treasury.

This guy is a Republican but it hardly matters. Both parties are filled bloviating sellouts willing to be bought for a few thousand. Throw all the bums out! Vote against all incumbents.

Of Course The Republicans Aren't Any Better

WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Lieberman on Thursday painted a dim picture of his party, saying Democrats have given up their moral authority on foreign policy because they are more concerned with opposing Republicans than doing what is right.

Hat Tip Instapundit

Throw all the bums out of office.

Looking for a New Political Party.

Stephen Bainbridge sounds like he is looking for a new party:

Is the Supreme Court Why I’m a Republican? Or Used to be?

Vote against all incumbents. That is my plan.

Karl Rove: "corruption, not Iraq, will be the No. 1 issue.”

More evidence for the throwing the bums out campaign:
Patterico discussing Rove's remarks and linking to three Instapundit posts on corrruption, pork, and earmarks.

Vote against all incumbents of both political parties in the coming national elections. We have no hope of dealing intelligently with problems like Iraq, Islamic terrorism, social security and medicare deficits, or healthcare when the political process is controlled by pigs at the trough.

Murtha seems to be the posterboy for curruption and greed, read this infuriating article:

A Contractor, Charity And Magnet for Federal Earmarks

Behind the rise of Concurrent is Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee, who helped arrange funding to launch the organization in 1988. Murtha has since arranged millions of dollars more in directed congressional appropriations called earmarks. Now Concurrent has nearly $250 million in annual revenue and 1,500 employees.

Throw the Bums Out!

I have ranted before that I will not vote for any incumbents in the next election. None. Neither should you. The voters of both parties need to send a loud clear message "clean up your act or go home."
We need to bust up Incumbistan D.C.

Don Surber writes on related thought today:

If these 2 elections are any indicator of the public mood in the United States, then the mood is this: The people are fed up. They tire of the corruption. They tire of the war. And most of all, they tire of the incompetence in Washington.

More Despicable Behavior From Incumbistan

From the Weekly Standard ( hat tip Instapundit);

Earmark Recipients Come through for Chairman Reyes

Roll Call reports that a few months after Silvestre Reyes became chair of the House Intelligence Committee, he asked his brother to create a political action committee called BEST PAC. That committee received tens of thousands in donations from employees and clients of a lobbying firm. Those clients subsequently received millions in earmarks from Chairman Reyes:

Read the rest of the article. Just more corrupt behavior from a congressional leadership that campaigned on the promise of cleaning up earmarks and corruption that went on under the previous leadership. These people are pigs at the trough, they cannot help themselves. Vote them all out of office. No incumbent should be re-elected. Both parties need to be cleaned out.

Our New National Divide : Owen West

Owen West writes a great article on the poisonous political atmosphere in the country and the damage it does to our country.
I agree with what Mr. Wilson wrote and applaud him for doing so. I think he illustrates why we need to clean out Incumbistan. Do not vote for any national politician who is running as an incumbent. Or in other words "throw the bums out".
We the voters of both parties need to remind all the bloodsucking office holders they are supposed to represent us, not enrich themselves. For the good of the country both parties need to be cleaned out.

Porkbusters update

Glenn Reynolds one of the founders of Porkbusters today points to an article by Robert Novak on the scumbags in Congress and their earmark payoffs to political supporters. As always Murtha is in the lead and Pelosi is useless. The republicans are no better.
I admire the effort by Representative Flake but I continue to advocate voting against all incumbents. throw all the bums out!

One incumbent I would vote for!

I am posting a copy of a speech by Joe Lieberman demonstrating principle before political convenience.

Time for Choosing

Here is a speech by one of the few statesmen in Congress -Joe Lieberman. It is worth reading.

Editors note: This is the text of a speech Senator Joe Lieberman (I., Conn. ) delivered to a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

Thank you so much for that kind introduction. It is a pleasure to be here among so many friends. Now, I know there are some who are probably wondering - what is a nice Independent Democrat from Connecticut doing at a Republican event like this?

Well, a funny thing happened on the way to reelection last year and as Rabbi Hillel said, the rest is commentary.

In all seriousness, many of you in this room stood with me last year through the long journey up a winding road that was my 2006 reelection campaign. You came to my side without regard for party affiliation, and you stayed there even after I ran as an Independent but said I would caucus with the Democrats. Your non-partisanship in my race is a model for what our politics should be. I thank you personally and deeply for it. I could not have won without it. And I pledge to you that I will do everything I can to vindicate your confidence. We gather at a critical time for the future of our country.

The war in Iraq has now become the defining issue for this Congress and for this presidency - although the decisions we will make in the weeks and months ahead about Iraq will have consequences that reach far beyond the terms of anyone now in office.

Part of the disagreement we face over Iraq comes down to a genuine difference of opinion.

On the one hand, there are those who believe, as I do, that the struggle against Islamist extremism really is the central challenge of our time, and that, as General David Petraeus - our commander in Iraq - recently said, Iraq is now the central front of the war against Islamist extremism.

On the other hand, there are those who reject this view – who genuinely believe that the threat of Islamist extremism is overstated, or that Iraq is a distraction from the "real" war on terror, or that the war there is lost, or not worth fighting to win.

It is my deeply held conviction that these people are not only wrong, they are disastrously wrong - and that the withdrawal they demand would be a moral and security catastrophe for the United States, for Iraq, and for the entire Middle East, including Israel and our moderate Arab allies.

Let there be no doubt - an American defeat in Iraq would be a victory for Al Qaeda and Iran the two most threatening enemies we face in the world today. It would vindicate the hope of our enemies that America is weak and that we can be driven to retreat by terrorism, and it would confirm the fear of our friends - not only in Iraq, but throughout the world - that we are unreliable allies who will abandon them in the face of danger.

The fact of the matter is, you cannot claim to be tough on terrorism while demanding that our military withdraw from Iraq , because it is the terrorists - particular Al Qaeda - that our military is fighting in Iraq .

You cannot claim to be committed to defeating Al Qaeda, while demanding that we abandon the heart of the Middle East to Al Qaeda.

And you cannot claim to be tough on Iran , while demanding the very thing that the mullahs want most of all - the retreat of the American military from the Middle East in defeat, leaving a vacuum that Iran will rush to fill.

I recognize that this war has been controversial, and there are those who oppose it on principle. I respect that. But too much of the debate we are having today about withdrawal from Iraq has little or nothing to do with principle, or with reality in Iraq .

It is about politics and partisanship here in Washington .

For many Democrats, if President Bush is for it, they must be against it. If the war is going badly, it is bad for Republicans and it is good for Democrats. It is as simple as that, and it is as wrong as that. For many Republicans, the unpopularity of this war and this President has begun to shake their will. They say that they have no choice but to abandon General Petraeus and his strategy because the American people tell the pollsters they want out. If previous generations of American leaders had allowed their conduct of war to be shaped by partisanship or public opinion polls, we would not be the strong and free nation we are blessed to be today.

Republicans in Congress delude themselves if they think they will be helping either themselves, their party, or their country if they now attempt to wash their hands of Iraq, out of a sudden sense of political anxiety.

Democrats in Congress delude themselves if they think they will not be held accountable for the bloody consequences of the retreat from Iraq they seek.

The fact is, a loss to Al Qaeda and Iran in Iraq would be devastating to our security. These are fateful days and critical decisions we are making about Iraq . We must make them with our eye on the safety of Americas next generation, not the outcome of Americas next election. It is to the everlasting credit of President Bush that in the war against Islamist extremism he has shown the courage and \steadfastness to stand against the political passions of the moment. I have never hesitated to express disagreement with the President on any issue when I felt he was wrong - and I have criticized his administration many times for the serious mistakes I believe it made in prosecuting the war in Iraq .

But let me tell you this: I believe that each of us should be grateful that we have a commander-in-chief who does not believe that decisions about war should be driven by poll numbers. And each of us should be grateful that we have a commander-in-chief who does not confuse what is popular with what is right for our security as a nation. The public opinion polls may not reflect this today, but I believe history will tomorrow.

My friends, as Ronald Reagan once said, now is the time for choosing. If we stand united through the months ahead, if we stand firm against the terrorists who want to drive us to retreat, the war in Iraq can be won and the lives of millions of people can be saved. But if we surrender to the barbarism of suicide bombers and abandon the heart of the Middle East to fanatics and killers, to Al Qaeda and Iran, then all that our men and women in uniform have fought, and died for, will be lost, and we will be left a much less secure and free nation. That is the choice we in Washington will make this summer and this fall. It is a choice not just about our foreign policy and our national security and our interests in the Middle East . It is about what our political leaders in both parties are prepared to stand for. It is about our very soul as a nation. It is about who we are, and who we want to be.

Will this be the moment in history when America gives up - when Al Qaeda breaks our will, when our enemies surge forward, when we turn our backs on our friends and begin a long retreat from our principles and promise as a nation?

Or will this be the moment when America steps forward, when we pull together, when we hold fast to the courage of our convictions, when with a new strategy, and a new commander on the ground - we begin to turn the tide toward victory in this long and difficult war?

I know that we can rise above the anger and smallness of our politics. I know we can rise to the greatness that this moment demands of us.

The question is - will we choose to do so?

I would like to close today by sharing with you a story from my last visit to Iraq a few months ago. It was in Anbar province in western Iraq - the center of the insurgency - a part of the country that conventional wisdom last year dismissed as hopeless.

In fact, on September 11, 2006, the Washington Post ran a front-page story reporting that even the chief of Marine Corps intelligence in Iraq had concluded that Anbar was "lost," and our position there was "beyond repair."

I was in Anbar last December, on a forward operating base just outside Ramadi, the capital of the province. As one of the briefings with our military commanders ended, a colonel who had been sitting in the back of the room came up to me. He said something that I carry with me to this day - something that I hope you will carry with you as well. He said: "Sir, I want you to know on behalf of the soldiers in my unit and myself that we believe in why we are fighting here, we want to finish this fight. And we know we can win it."

Today, five months later, Anbar has been dramatically transformed. Thanks to the bravery, ingenuity, and commitment of our men and women in uniform, shops and schools have reopened, Al Qaeda is on the run, thousands of Iraqis have joined the local police, and - yes - no less than the New York Tim es reports that we have turned the corner there.

My friends, now is not the time for despair. Now is the time for resolve. Now is not the time for reflexive partisanship and pandering to public opinion. Now is the time for the kind of patriotism and principle Americas voters have always honored. I ask you to plead with every member of Congress you can in the days and weeks ahead - Do not surrender to hopelessness. Do not succumb to defeat.Do not give in to fear.

Rise above the political pressures of the moment to do what is right for America .

Believe, like that colonel, in why we are fighting in Iraq , and know, as he and his soldiers know, that we can and must win there."

Thank you very much!

It is no coincidence Lieberman was forced out of his political party. Neither party can tolerate statesmanship ahead of partisanship.

ps. the Instapundit points out related thoughts from Bill Hobbs

Don Surber: Democrats ‘achieve' 14 percent approval

Under Democratic leadership, Congress has gone from the brink of the abyss and leaped. Whee!

Time to initiate " Incumbent Busters" to see if the PorkBusters style internet movement could create momentum for real change in Washington. The center of the American voting public needs to unify long enough to throw the bums out. We have a culture of elected officials who represent themselves, their lobbyist contributors, and their party. Then and only if it is convenient do they represent the best interests of their constituents and the nation.
I will vote against any incumbent of any party in the next election. There is not a single elected official in Washington fit to powder the wig of George Washington.