Showing posts with label House of Representatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label House of Representatives. Show all posts
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Boehner Reminds The One That The Grownups Are In Charge Of The House
The Obama White House is run by hustlers, pure and simple.
John Boehner won't be rolled on this one.
Read and enjoy. No comment needed.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, Equating GOP Stance On Health-Care Law To Joseph Goebbels
Really, you just can't make this stuff up. From ABC News, today.
ABC News Jonathan Karl reports:
The newfound civility didn’t last long. Political rhetoric in Congress doesn’t get much nastier than the words of one House Democrat during the debate on repealing the health care law.
In an extraordinary outburst on the House floor, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) invoked the Holocaust to attack Republicans on health care and compared rhetoric on the issue to the work of infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
“They say it's a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels," Cohen said. "You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That's the same kind of thing. And Congressman Cohen didn’t stop there.
The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it--believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover," Cohen said.
Cohen made his comments late last night, but they have attracted no attention because his speech was made to a virtually empty House chamber with no reporters around to watch.
Well, someone was present to pass it along. OS believes it would be a good thing for this little gem to circulate and circulate and circulate, especially through the ranks of the Tennessee legislature charged with apportioning districts based upon the 2010 census. For the first time since post-Civil War Reconstruction, Tennessee has a Republican governor, a Republican House, and a Republican Senate, and large majorities in both houses. Time to begin cleaning up over 140 years of mess left behind by the Democrats.
The Congressional Districts of Tennessee are obvious Democrat gerrymanders, which finally failed to produce the expected results in 2010, because the voters outside of Memphis and Nashville had finally had enough, and the old-boy Dems got out of Dodge before they had to face the voters.
Memphis is a classic 'rotten borough', essentially ceded to the Democrats since the days of the Crump machine. It is a dependency of the Welfare State. The crime is awful. The corruption is rampant, and has long been blatant. OS has visited there on days when the racial tension was so thick that no blacks and whites would even look one another in the eye at the grocery checkout line.
Steve Cohen is a proud product of that machine.
When Memphis sneezes, West Tennessee gets a cold. OS thinks it's time that Greater Memphis (including good portions of Germantown and Cordoba, to where the middle class fled to avoid the crime and decay) should be included in the Congressional district that the Hon. Mr. Cohen would find himself attempting to win in 2012. Things would get interestinger and interestinger for him in a non-fixed election.
This speech is, well, shameful. Has one Democrat at either state or Federal level stepped up to disavow those remarks, and scold Cohen in public? Miz Nancy, you there? Paul Krugman? Former Governor Bredesen? Former Speaker Naifeh? Former State Senator Roy Herron? Anybody?
Don't hold yer breath waiting fer it, ya'll. Cohen is the face of the Tennessee Democrat Party, in full flower. Listen and judge.
ABC News Jonathan Karl reports:
The newfound civility didn’t last long. Political rhetoric in Congress doesn’t get much nastier than the words of one House Democrat during the debate on repealing the health care law.
In an extraordinary outburst on the House floor, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) invoked the Holocaust to attack Republicans on health care and compared rhetoric on the issue to the work of infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
“They say it's a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels," Cohen said. "You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That's the same kind of thing. And Congressman Cohen didn’t stop there.
The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it--believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover," Cohen said.
Cohen made his comments late last night, but they have attracted no attention because his speech was made to a virtually empty House chamber with no reporters around to watch.
Well, someone was present to pass it along. OS believes it would be a good thing for this little gem to circulate and circulate and circulate, especially through the ranks of the Tennessee legislature charged with apportioning districts based upon the 2010 census. For the first time since post-Civil War Reconstruction, Tennessee has a Republican governor, a Republican House, and a Republican Senate, and large majorities in both houses. Time to begin cleaning up over 140 years of mess left behind by the Democrats.
The Congressional Districts of Tennessee are obvious Democrat gerrymanders, which finally failed to produce the expected results in 2010, because the voters outside of Memphis and Nashville had finally had enough, and the old-boy Dems got out of Dodge before they had to face the voters.
Memphis is a classic 'rotten borough', essentially ceded to the Democrats since the days of the Crump machine. It is a dependency of the Welfare State. The crime is awful. The corruption is rampant, and has long been blatant. OS has visited there on days when the racial tension was so thick that no blacks and whites would even look one another in the eye at the grocery checkout line.
Steve Cohen is a proud product of that machine.
When Memphis sneezes, West Tennessee gets a cold. OS thinks it's time that Greater Memphis (including good portions of Germantown and Cordoba, to where the middle class fled to avoid the crime and decay) should be included in the Congressional district that the Hon. Mr. Cohen would find himself attempting to win in 2012. Things would get interestinger and interestinger for him in a non-fixed election.
This speech is, well, shameful. Has one Democrat at either state or Federal level stepped up to disavow those remarks, and scold Cohen in public? Miz Nancy, you there? Paul Krugman? Former Governor Bredesen? Former Speaker Naifeh? Former State Senator Roy Herron? Anybody?
Don't hold yer breath waiting fer it, ya'll. Cohen is the face of the Tennessee Democrat Party, in full flower. Listen and judge.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Things That Make You go 'Hmmm'
All of a sudden, a certain sobriety seems to have descended upon the frat house of Congress.
We have this Constitution that dictates that 1/3 of the Senate and 100% percent of the House have to face the voters every two years.
Suddenly, one-third of the Senate is having serious second thoughts about facing the voters and explaining why they confirmed Zimbabwe Ben Bernanke. They've already got to some 'xplainin' to do about TurboTax Timmy, who has help put us into unimaginable debt after arranging for the secret bailout of Goldman Sachs, after presiding over the worst banking abuses in memory as chief of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
Even liberal voters know how to do math, and the math sucks, in each instance.
Warren Buffett was in Washington today, talking Ben and Timmy up, assuring Fox Business what a great job they are doing. It felt, shall we say, contrived. This guy owns insurance companies. And he has five billion bucks sunk into Goldman Sachs. If things go tits-up, he'll need Ben and Timmy.
Hmmm...
One hundred percent of the House is wrestling with how they would justify voting for a health-care bill that stinks to high heaven, that the country can't afford, and does not want.
Hmmm....
The Supreme Court weighed in today on the side of free speech.
If the law considers a corporate entity to be a person, then that person has the right to express its political opinion, whenever it wishes. The gloves will come off, and the Democrats will not fare well in the onslaught. Everybody, including unions, small businesses, big businesses--everybody--will be able to speak their mind this fall. Imagine how many small businesses, state by state, might decide to spend 5,000 bucks of their own money to tell the country what they think of Barack Obama and his minions? Hell, it makes OldSouth want to form a corporation, just for the joy of joining in!
Hmmm...
So, what happened?
Well, in great part, this is the crisis when people began seriously reading about what happened, and how, and who, and why. OldSouth began reading Robert Peston's thoughts in the fall of 2007, and the journey began.
And, they began talking to one another. Family, friends, neighbors, folks at church; and people they'll never meet, thinking out loud from their computer keyboards.
The frat boys in Washington never contemplated that would happen.
But they never contemplated a 30% drop in housing values. Or a 17% employment rate. Or that the details of the TARP scam would ever leak out. Or that the UAW would scam the country like it did.
Or... Or....(you fill in the blanks)
Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep talking.
The Congressional frat boys have shredded great parts of the Constitution, but short of a coup, they can't avoid the first Tuesday of November of every even-numbered year.
Hmmm...
We have this Constitution that dictates that 1/3 of the Senate and 100% percent of the House have to face the voters every two years.
Suddenly, one-third of the Senate is having serious second thoughts about facing the voters and explaining why they confirmed Zimbabwe Ben Bernanke. They've already got to some 'xplainin' to do about TurboTax Timmy, who has help put us into unimaginable debt after arranging for the secret bailout of Goldman Sachs, after presiding over the worst banking abuses in memory as chief of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
Even liberal voters know how to do math, and the math sucks, in each instance.
Warren Buffett was in Washington today, talking Ben and Timmy up, assuring Fox Business what a great job they are doing. It felt, shall we say, contrived. This guy owns insurance companies. And he has five billion bucks sunk into Goldman Sachs. If things go tits-up, he'll need Ben and Timmy.
Hmmm...
One hundred percent of the House is wrestling with how they would justify voting for a health-care bill that stinks to high heaven, that the country can't afford, and does not want.
Hmmm....
The Supreme Court weighed in today on the side of free speech.
If the law considers a corporate entity to be a person, then that person has the right to express its political opinion, whenever it wishes. The gloves will come off, and the Democrats will not fare well in the onslaught. Everybody, including unions, small businesses, big businesses--everybody--will be able to speak their mind this fall. Imagine how many small businesses, state by state, might decide to spend 5,000 bucks of their own money to tell the country what they think of Barack Obama and his minions? Hell, it makes OldSouth want to form a corporation, just for the joy of joining in!
Hmmm...
So, what happened?
Well, in great part, this is the crisis when people began seriously reading about what happened, and how, and who, and why. OldSouth began reading Robert Peston's thoughts in the fall of 2007, and the journey began.
And, they began talking to one another. Family, friends, neighbors, folks at church; and people they'll never meet, thinking out loud from their computer keyboards.
The frat boys in Washington never contemplated that would happen.
But they never contemplated a 30% drop in housing values. Or a 17% employment rate. Or that the details of the TARP scam would ever leak out. Or that the UAW would scam the country like it did.
Or... Or....(you fill in the blanks)
Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep talking.
The Congressional frat boys have shredded great parts of the Constitution, but short of a coup, they can't avoid the first Tuesday of November of every even-numbered year.
Hmmm...
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