Posted by
Jeff S on Saturday, April 25, 2009 11:52:08 PM
A little while back as I was leisurely getting on the internet for a mite of mindless surfing, I saw on my customized iGoogle page an article from Fox. It was an article about moderate Democrats taking issue with elements of the new Federal Budget. To us, that would be news. What's funny, I'm not going to spend any time talking about that. Why should I? The mainstream media didn't.
No, I having bigger...and dumber...fish to fry. It was the following statements made that caught my attention:
From Senate Leader Harry Reid:
"But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., again left the door open to using this risky tactic, when talking about both topics.
"How we pay for all this -- the budget resolution said we have to pay for it," he told reporters. "So we're going to have to pay for it. And I don't know how we're going to do that, but we're going to do it. We're going to pay for it." "
Then from Finance Committee Chair, Max Baucus:
"Reid's own Finance Committee chairman, Max Baucus, D-Mont, who would write health care reform legislation, went even further Tuesday.
"We're going to work to get cost-savings from inside health care ... That's where we should first look," he said.
"To the degree that we need extra revenue, then we're going to look at extra revenue, see what makes the most sense," he added. "There's a whole variety of sources." " ( Source )
What? I mean, what? Again, what?
Did those statements mean anything. I mean, they are are so nonsensical that I'm surprised they didn't win the George W. Bush Award for Circular Elocution!
What this really comes down to is that specifically the Democrats in congress do believe that Americans are just that dumb and they also know that the mainstream news will not call them on the stupidity when presented with the option. It will not occur. It's not that Harry Reid is really that dumb. George W. Bush wasn't. It's that Harry knows that he just has to say words, doesn't matter what ones, or even what order they're said, even if that aggregation of words means nothing.
The bow that ties this deal together is that the nation at large will never have any kind of exposure to this cyclopean opportunity to show our citizens a leader they now must contend with. This stuff needs to be barked far and loud to point to folks that the person who is an Officer upon the S.S. Sinking America, Harry Reid, is incapable of stringing a few words together to make any form of a cogent point.
The same could be said for Mr. Baucus. If we wonder why congress and the last two years have been an anathema to the American way, look at our Finance Chairman. He speaks in the tongue of a child who is trying to excuse him or herself out of homework.
It would be nice if people heard about this stuff.