which may be the first case of lobbying done in connection with Murtha that didn’t involve money changing hands

How do you know…?

The whole town seems stuck on stupid.

E L Frederick on November 15, 2006 at 2:20 PM

E L, That pretty much sums it up.

In all my 48 years I’ve never seen a more self-destructive, arrogant, out of touch, juvinile, and just basically ignorant bunch of adults in my life.

And that’s just the House. Now for the Senate………..

What does courage look like? Nope Not even Uh-uh That what I’m talkin’ about! Yeesh: Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is imploring her colleagues to support Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) for majority leader, multiple House Democrats said yesterday, d…

All we need now is a conservative spokesman to make the points we all see here in media interviews. Hey Newt!!!

And I’m all for it!

HAHAHAHA!

Re your “culture of corruption” rant;

I direct your attention to Matthew Chapter 23 Verses 27 & 28

Ch 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, HYPOCRITES! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
Ch 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of HIPOCRISY and iniquity.

mountainmanbob

Guilty of Frenchacide,

I’ve got an idea: Let’s just sit by and watch.

Sure, we will still have Honey, Connie, the Greebster, and the other halibuts rattling on and on over the relative merits of supply-side economics and Iraq…but, when we all cast our eyes toward the freak show under the Capitol Dome, we can — if only for seconds at a time — unite in gales of laughter at the expense of this collection of stuffed suits, zepplin-esque egos and monumental ambitions we find arrayed before us. Too bad Cynthia McKinney isn’t still in Congress…we could make her “do lunch” with the Senate Minority Leader…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It’d be a case of Greek meeting Greek!

Mind you, this is going to be a loud, nasty, expensive and ultimately disappointing two years, capped off by what will almost certainly be a nasty, underhanded, wrenching and rending presidential campaign…but, might as well take the good along with the abysmal.

It’s no longer who’s got a lock on the “culture of corruption”…both parties have excellent candidates among them for the FBIs Most Wanted. If he were still among us, I’m sure that Ken Lay would feel right at home in the Congressional commissary.

Our elected representatives, stewards of democracy, are in clear focus as villains and buffoons. What must they be saying in dictatorships around the world. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.

It’s starting to look as if these guys are so hungry for power, that they’re ready to eat their own children in order to get it; and now that they have some measure of power, they haven’t got a clue as to how to use it.

So you’re in the “see Nancy get undermined by her own caucus before she even touches the gavel” camp, and not in the “two lightning rods (in the dem leadership) are better than one” camp, right?

Well, the Republicans would play a big part in the first option, and it would be nice to see them do something right this month. :-P

Now, it looks like the donks’ congressional majority will be self-terminating … but for the Republicans’ inability to stop shooting themselves in the foot and head (e.g., with their thus-far disastrous leadership choices).

Nah, Steny Hoyer for Speaker.

Pablo on November 15, 2006 at 2:24 PM

So you’re in the “see Nancy get undermined by her own caucus before she even touches the gavel” camp, and not in the “two lightning rods (in the dem leadership) are better than one” camp, right?

I can live with it either way :D

The whole town seems stuck on stupid

I agree. There must be something in the water because the whole flippin’ town has gone nuts(more than usual anyway).

Say hello to the man Nancy Pelosi is working hard to get into that Majority Leader position (this from Roll Call):

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) told a group of Democratic moderates on Tuesday that an ethics and lobbying reform bill being pushed by……

Sounds like this isn’t sitting well, and most of the incoming Dems are moderate….

Is Pelosi really as incompetent as she appears? I mean she seems so freakisly bad its hard to believe truth is at least as strange as fiction. I wish the ‘Pubs were fielding a better team this year, it would make the contrast more evident (I mean come ON, Trent Frickin Lot?)Congress is looking more and more like a clown college on mushrooms.

That really is a tough call, isn’t it?

Nah, Steny Hoyer for Speaker.

Hoyer leads, 90-32

Wow.