{"id":88,"date":"2009-02-06T20:47:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T01:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=88"},"modified":"2009-02-06T20:47:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T01:47:29","slug":"boy-take-a-few-days-off-all-hell-breaks-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/boy-take-a-few-days-off-all-hell-breaks-loose\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy&#8230; Take a few days off &amp; all hell breaks loose."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know where to start.\u00a0 I took a few days off because quite frankly, I was getting burnt out.\u00a0 I was glad to see the House Republicans stand firm and vote NO on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stimuluswatch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;porkulus&#8221; bill<\/a>, even though they lost due to the sheer number of Democrats in the House of Representatives.\u00a0 But from the looks of things tonight, the multi-trillion dollar &#8220;stimulus&#8221; will pass the senate due to 2 or 3 RINOS.\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 Call your senators!\u00a0 Even the democratic ones.\u00a0 They are wavering.\u00a0 I heard on CBS news tonight that the White House has dispatched Rahm Emmanuel to the Senate to &#8220;keep the Senate Democrats in line.&#8221;\u00a0 I wonder if he&#8217;s carrying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/us_elections\/article5106463.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his steak knife<\/a> as he wanders the halls of the Senate?<\/p>\n<p>In one of the funnier moments this past week, Ms. Pelosi announced that America would lose 500 MILLION jobs a MONTH.\u00a0 But&#8230; there are only about 300 Million people in America, so I think her math is just a little bit off.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/02\/04\/liberal-math-500-million-jobs-lost-a-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source: Michelle Malkin &#8211; with video!<\/a>)\u00a0 Ms. Pelosi also seems to be at odds with both <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/04\/has-obama-gone-to-war-with-nancy-pelosi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the White House<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/03\/democratic-rebellion-in-the-house-in-more-ways-than-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her own people in the House of Representatives.<\/a> I&#8217;ll be she&#8217;s just having the Best. Week. Ever!!<\/p>\n<p>Tom Daschle, Mr. <a href=\"http:\/\/obamanoms.com\/?p=244\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all&#8221;<\/a>, had to withdrawn his name from nomination due to tax problems.\u00a0 Funny.\u00a0 So that makes 2, Geithner &amp; Daschle.\u00a0 Then!\u00a0 Ms. Nancy Killefer dropped her name from the nomination for &#8220;Chief Performance Expert&#8221; because of&#8230; Tax problems!\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2009\/02\/another-obama-o.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)\u00a0 The next day, it came to light that Rep. Linda Solis&#8217;s husband hadn&#8217;t paid the employee taxes on his business. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0209\/18465.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)\u00a0 That makes 4!\u00a0 The icing on the Solis story is that she was also actively lobbying Congress, via a pro-union organization, on behalf of bills that she sponsored! (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/016\/101mswgc.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)\u00a0 Can we say &#8220;ethics violation&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Charlie Rangel got all caught up in the wave of people on the hill admitting tax fraud, because he stated on the house floor that he hadn&#8217;t been paying the taxes on his resort estate in the Caribbean. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/02022009\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/the_rangel_rule_153222.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 It&#8217;s no wonder these Democrats think nothing of raising our taxes, THEY ARE NOT PAYING THEIRS!!!\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 This just seriously pisses me off!\u00a0 Why are these people being given a free pass?\u00a0 Why are they not being hauled off to jail like any one of the rest of us would be??<\/p>\n<p>One of the latest nominations that is causing a stir is that of David Ogden for Deputy Attorney General.\u00a0 Here we have a man who used to represent Playboy, fought against pornographic filters in public libraries, and he believes in applying the doctrines of international law on the US, including enforcing UN Treaties which have NOT been ratified by our Congress.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29030191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/first100days\/2009\/02\/04\/talk-stimulus-obamas-justice-nominee-used-represent-playboy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>, &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hslda.org\/docs\/news\/200902060.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s all good, because after all, DC is now running on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/first100days\/2009\/02\/05\/obamas-tardiness-sets-apart-predecessor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama Time<\/a>. Oh, puh-leaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know where to start.\u00a0 I took a few days off because quite frankly, I was getting burnt out.\u00a0 I was glad to see the House Republicans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bringing-the-funneh","category-broke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}