Idiot Congresspersons

bfwebster on November 5th, 2012

[Thanks to the links from Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds), Chaos Manor (Jerry Pournelle), and John C. Wright's Journal (John C. Wright -- what, you were expecting Karl Rove?). In fact, if you follow the  link below to my 2008 post, you'll see that I first read the poem over at Jerry Pournelle's blog, Chaos Manor.] I posted this poem [...]

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bfwebster on November 13th, 2011

I’d like to post more, but the onboard ‘net access is expensive, slow, and flaky. Great sessions today: Jay Nordlinger interviewing Fred Thompson and John Sununu about running for president; a rather frank panel discussion on the potential 2012 Republican candidates involving John Miller, Tony Blankley, John Fund, Mona Charen, Robert Costa, and Raph Reed; [...]

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bfwebster on February 23rd, 2011

Despite occasional efforts by progressives to assure us that the deficit doesn’t matter, or doesn’t matter that much, it does. Our country is bankrupt. It’s not bankrupt in 30 years or five years. It’s bankrupt today. Want proof? Look at President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget. It showed a massive fiscal gap over the next 75 [...]

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bfwebster on February 2nd, 2011

Earlier today, a good friend of mine cited the Federal budget surpluses at the end of the Clinton Administration as an argument for higher taxes. I pointed out that if we had the same Federal budget as Clinton did, we’ve have a surplus, too. Then I put together this chart from a spreadsheet downloaded directly [...]

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bfwebster on January 27th, 2011

Yes, Dennis Kusinich is suing the House of Representatives Cafeteria for $150,000 because he bit into an unpitted olive: The Cleveland Democratic congressman’s lawsuit seeks $150,000 in damages from companies that operate the Longworth House Office Building’s cafeteria. It says he bought the suspicious sandwich wrap “on or about April 17, 2008,” and eating it caused ”permanent [...]

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bfwebster on January 26th, 2011

Yeah, I’m back blogging, a bit at a time. The San Diego City Council, having passed one of those lame anti-Walmart superstore ordinances, is now having to backtrack after Walmart managed to get over 50,000 petition signatures in less that three weeks to put the ordinance to an actual public vote: The ordinance approved in [...]

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bfwebster on September 4th, 2010

Hat tip to Gerard Van der Leun at American Digest. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on March 21st, 2010

…but only because Stupak caved. And for what? A meaningless Presidential declaration and $726,409 in airport grants. Once again, I am reminded of “A Man for All Seasons“: MORE:  I have one question to ask the witness. (RICH stops) That’s a chain of office you are wearing. (Reluctantly RICH faces him) May I see it? [...]

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bfwebster on March 21st, 2010

…film at 11. Or thereabouts. Foolish, foolish man. He will forever be known (and not kindly) as the reason Obamacare passed the House. And, of course, Obama has such a great track record of keeping promises. ..bruce w.. P.S. Poster hat tip to Moonbattery, c/o American Digest.

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bfwebster on February 14th, 2010

Remember Chris Christie, the Republican who defeated Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey last year? Well, here’s his address to a joint session of the New Jersey legislature about the budget crisis there. I can’t embed the video, so you’ll have to go over and watch it. I have to agree with Hunter Baker’s assessment [...]

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