Wednesday, December 15, 2010

BloggeRhythms 12/15/2010

According to new polling data, the Congressional approval rating has fallen to 16 percent. That's the lowest in the history of polling. And in looking for why that's happened, you don't have to go very far.

Robert Menendez, is a Democrat senator from New Jersey. And while "hailing" passage of the tax cuts he attacked Republicans for insisting that the wealthy were included in the package. He said, "It is astounding that Republicans prioritized millionaires and adopted questionable negotiating tactics to protect them, including working in lockstep to deny medical treatment for ailing 9/11 responders, but for many of us, this is not about whether or not to support tax cuts for millionaires, it is about whether we are going to stand up for the middle class, protect them from the tax increase that's looming two weeks from now and actually provide significant additional relief beyond that."

So, in effect, what this guy's babbling about is that it's criminal to allow successful folks to keep money they've earned instead of giving it to government to throw away on pet projects or otherwise steal and waste. Because while he was ranting about his dissatisfaction with taxpayers keeping their money, the Senate Appropriations Committee, led by Daniel Inouye, Democrat of Hawaii, introduced a 2,000-page bill, drawn behind closed doors.

The $1.1 trillion bill is an earmark-laden spending plan to fund the government for next year. It even includes $10 million to build a center in memory of Representative John Murtha, earmark king of Western Pennsylvania, who died amid a growing scandal over the funds he directed to his home district. And what the Democrat leaders hope is that with the government shutdown coming on Saturday, Republicans will be forced to accept the plan, or most of it.

So here we have this bunch of worthless con men politicians who've practically bled the country dry via their incompetence, greed, and most often simply stupidity, showing their contempt for people who've done nothing but gone out and succeeded financially. And as I've pounded over and over on this keyboard for the last few weeks, where do they get the right?

Unfortunately, it will take some time for all of the damage done by these self-serving phonies to correct itself, but the voters of this nation will get that accomplished. Because, as of the moment only 16% of those voters think a good job's being done. And when this new spending bill is added to the deficit, that 16% will likely shrink some more.

Thus, the only thing to be hoped for in these politicos future is that when their shortly back in the real world, no one gives them a job that lets them anywhere near anyone else's money.

That's it for today folks.

Adios

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