{"id":4898,"date":"2009-10-30T20:27:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T03:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2009-10-30T20:27:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T03:27:18","slug":"for-very-odd-partisan-balance-another-your-congress-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/10\/30\/for-very-odd-partisan-balance-another-your-congress-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"For (very odd) Partisan Balance, another &#8220;Your Congress At Work&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the weird position of bashing the Democratic Majority for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/10\/29\/your-congress-at-work\/\">spitting out pointless resolutions about Confucius and looking into the &#8220;Violent Injury in Violent Sports&#8221; problem<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At least Confucius is sort of a non-partisan back slap honoree.\u00c2\u00a0 The Republicans are spitting out a Measure to commend <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?c111:7:.\/temp\/~c111U5I5gA::\">the Acorn investigators<\/a> &#8212; they who tried to rebut the troubled organization&#8217;s claim about one of the non-biting city&#8217;s claims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/blog\/#post-13165\">with a muted video and silent press conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sponsor: <\/strong>Rep Olson, Pete [TX-22]<br \/>\nRep Broun, Paul C. [GA-10]  &#8211;<br \/>\nRep Brown, Henry E., Jr. [SC-1]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The other back slap &#8220;Commending&#8221; goes to the Tea-Party Movement.\u00c2\u00a0 All 25 Kajillion of them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Whereas, on September 12, 2009, hundreds of thousands of American patriots, who refuse to sit idly by as the Federal Government advances skyrocketing deficits, taxpayer-funded bailouts, pork-barrel projects, burdensome taxes, unaccountable policy czars, command-and-control energy policy, and a government takeover of health care, came to Washington, DC, to show their disapproval; [&#8230;]<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Whereas estimates of the number of people who peacefully marched from Freedom Plaza to the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on September 12, 2009, range as high as 1,700,000 marchers;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you say so.<em><br \/>\n<\/em>Good thing Jeff Flake doesn&#8217;t appear <a href=\"Whereas, on September 12, 2009, hundreds of thousands of American patriots, who refuse to sit idly by as the Federal Government advances skyrocketing deficits, taxpayer-funded bailouts, pork-barrel projects, burdensome taxes, unaccountable policy czars, command-and-control energy policy, and a government takeover of health care, came to Washington, DC, to show their disapproval;  Whereas individuals also wanted to convey their displeasure with the future tax increases that will be required to pay for deficit-financed spending;  Whereas these individuals understand that the fundamental American principles of limited government and personal liberty are under direct assault;  Whereas this dedicated group of freedom-loving Americans believe in open, accountable, responsible, constitutionally based government;  Whereas hundreds of buses, multiple caravans of cars from across the country, and many individually chartered flights, as well as thousands of lone-traveling cars and trucks, brought these patriots to Washington, DC, solely for this event;  Whereas these individuals endured considerable personal expense to get to the march, including transportation and lodging expenses, as well as lost wages in many instances;  Whereas estimates of the number of people who peacefully marched from Freedom Plaza to the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on September 12, 2009, range as high as 1,700,000 marchers; \">on the list of 75 (or is it 7500?) co-sponsors<\/a>, of I&#8217;d be able to throw his Confucius line back at him.\u00c2\u00a0 I leave it up to you to see if other Confucius nay-sayers pop up on the list.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it could be worse.\u00c2\u00a0 See this man&#8217;s lonely battle <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d111:836:.\/list\/bss\/d111HE.lst::|TOM:\/bss\/111search.html|\">for expressing approval for &#8220;Teen Read Week.&#8221;<\/a> Fight the good fight, Representative David Roe of Tennessee.\u00c2\u00a0 Fight the good fight!<br \/>\nWe also see the famous Alan Grayson <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d111:864:.\/list\/bss\/d111HE.lst::|TOM:\/bss\/111search.html|\">commending Obama for his Nobel Prize<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see if any Republican sign up for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the weird position of bashing the Democratic Majority for spitting out pointless resolutions about Confucius and looking into the &#8220;Violent Injury in Violent Sports&#8221; problem&#8230; At least Confucius is sort of a non-partisan back slap honoree.\u00c2\u00a0 The Republicans are spitting out a Measure to commend the Acorn investigators &#8212; they who tried to rebut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}