Friday, March 9, 2012

BloggeRhythms 3/9/2012

As expected yesterday, I'm sure the president was quite pleased that an amendment to the highway bill to fast-track the Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline was defeated. But what surprised even me, who follows the oil supply situation closely, was that he personally lobbied Senate Democrats with phone calls urging them to oppose the bill, according to Politico's website. Even so, this time around 11 Democrats joined 45 Republicans to support the pipeline, and only the fact that 60 votes were needed for passage saved him from an embarrassing defeat

As for me, I understand clearly that the president owes his election win primarily to George Soros and moveon.org, and therefore does everything he can to maintain and support the importing of foreign oil, increasingly from Petrobras in Brazil. But what continues to confuse me is why so many other Dem's go along with the incumbent while watching American citizens suffer financially as foreigners greedily take money out of their pockets, hand over fist.


And while I certainly realize that folks like Schumer, Pelosi and Boxer are nothing more than totally selfish, uncaring political hacks who have some bucks themselves and generally have no interest in anyone else, I wondered about some of the others on the left. And then just yesterday I saw that Henry Waxman voiced an opinion.

Both Waxman and the president said that increasing domestic oil production would do nothing to reduce the price of gasoline at the pump. And after wondering what planet these two think average folks live on to try and sell them that kind of total BS, I looked up Waxman's bio. I did that because although I've seen him often enough to know that he comes on like a ferret after a dying sparrow, I actually know little about him personally, and here's what I found out.

As I should have expected,  after attending UCLA, attaining a BS in political science in 1961, he got a degree from their law school in 1964. He worked as a lawyer until elected to the California Assembly in 1969 and served three terms, then went on to Congress where, along with Congressman Howard Berman he co-founded the Los Angeles Young Democrats.

According to his own website, Waxman's legislative priorities are "health and environmental issues, including  universal health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid coverage, tobacco, AIDS, air and water quality standards, pesticides, nursing home quality standards, women's health research and reproductive rights, the availability and cost of prescription drugs, and the right of communities to know about pollution levels. As an example of Waxman's thoughts regarding tobacco, on April 13, 2010, he requested that Major League Baseball ban smokeless tobacco"

So, as I should have suspected, he's another one of these guys who's never worked in the real world, or likely seen it, a day in his life. He's also highly opinionated about things he knows nothing about from an average American's perspective and represents a district that's so left wing, none of his constituents know anything about it either. And yet, despite his naivete and gullibility to the realities of the nation's economy, his election to office permits him to add his effect to the dampening of the nation's well being continually.

The only good thing about any of this is that if I found these two politico's, the president and Waxman, so unconscionably biased against the good of our nation I have to assume many others will too. And although all the Hollywood types will likely keep Waxman in office, there's a very good chance the general voting public will toss the other one out.

That's it for today folks.

Adios

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