montanadave
03-29-12, 08:35
OK. Everybody has their political ax to grind and nobody wants to see their rice bowl broken. But the Simpson-Bowles commission offered a workable plan which provided for some substantive reductions/cuts to federal spending and did so in a manner which spread the pain around in a bipartisan manner. Folks may find bits and pieces to pick apart but it was a realistic effort to tackle a seemingly intractable issue.
So all these assholes serving in the U.S. House of Representatives had the opportunity to vote on Simpson-Bowles yesterday ... and shot it down 382 to 38 (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577310431192990736.html). These jerkoffs that make a living standing in front of every camera or microphone someone shoves in their face bemoaning the federal debt, unsustainable federal spending, and the need for entitlement reform, when given an opportunity to actually DO SOMETHING tuck their tails and run.
One of the bill's sponsors, Republican Steve LaTourette of Ohio, asked the House, "If not now, when? If not this, what?" Cue sound of crickets chirping.
The House of Hypocrites. That's all it is. You can count the number of statesmen serving in Congress on one hand. The rest are nothing more than political hacks and grandstanding politicians riding a gravy train of federal pork and lobbyist bribes until they can slip out the back door and make a couple of million a year with some lobbying group leg-humping all the connections they made while in office.
Rant over.
So all these assholes serving in the U.S. House of Representatives had the opportunity to vote on Simpson-Bowles yesterday ... and shot it down 382 to 38 (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577310431192990736.html). These jerkoffs that make a living standing in front of every camera or microphone someone shoves in their face bemoaning the federal debt, unsustainable federal spending, and the need for entitlement reform, when given an opportunity to actually DO SOMETHING tuck their tails and run.
One of the bill's sponsors, Republican Steve LaTourette of Ohio, asked the House, "If not now, when? If not this, what?" Cue sound of crickets chirping.
The House of Hypocrites. That's all it is. You can count the number of statesmen serving in Congress on one hand. The rest are nothing more than political hacks and grandstanding politicians riding a gravy train of federal pork and lobbyist bribes until they can slip out the back door and make a couple of million a year with some lobbying group leg-humping all the connections they made while in office.
Rant over.