Ideas
I recently signed up for email updates from the Patriot Post . Today I was browsing through the reader comments on various articles available on the site. I thought I’d put up a few ideas some of them had for discussion here.
Subject: Congressional Pork
Comment: Maybe Atty Gen’l Gonzalez should borrow Bush’s war strategy and go on the offensive against Congress. He could appoint special prosecutors to explore the criminal aspects of Murtha’s non existent company, Diane Feinsteins funneling contracts to her husband’s companies and Senator Reid’s land deals. I’m sure there are a host of other members of congress who might also be vulnerable to close scrutiny.League City, Texas
Subject: racial profiling
Comment: I am a fat, frumpy, middle-aged white woman with red hair and freckles. If a someone matching my description committed a crime, I would be unhappy but not surprised to find myself a suspect. If a million fat, frumpy, middle-aged white women were sneaking across the border, would it be racial profiling for the authorities to take a closer look at me?San Leon, Texas
Subject: Immigration
Comment: In Hazelton, they cannot pass a law that forbids businesses from hiring illegal aliens because they don’t have jurisdiction on federal issues and laws, but in New Haven, they can pass an ordinance to help the illegal alien get access to opening bank accounts etc. Why is it that New Haven can interfere with federal law, but Hazelton cannot help enforce federal law/Loveland, Colorado
Subject: Contempt of Congress
Comment: Contempt of Congress is a “crime”? And all this time I thought it was indicative of good judgment and patriotism. I guess most of us are going to jail! –Mount Sinai, New YorkSubject: Agriculture Dept. Constitutional?
Comment: The Agriculture Dept. has been giving money to dead farmers. Over $1 billion from 1999 to 2005. How about eliminating the dept? Does anyone know which section of the Constitution authorizes an agriculture dept? –Cheyenne, WyomingSubject: Ultimate spin
Comment: If the term “spin” means an attempt to point the finger of guilt in any direction but at yourself, Reid’s ridiculous statement that Congress’s well deserved low approval rating is all President Bush’s fault is both the ultimate absurdity and the classic “spin” of all time. –Lakeside, ArizonaSubject: Mandates for Government
Comment: “Today’s federal government is too big, too powerful, and too expensive because it is doing things beyond the scope of the Constitution. This is foolish and it is dangerous.” –newly elected Georgia Rep. Paul BrounHe has it exactly right. I’m glad to hear that someone headed to DC say so. If only a majority there believed it and did the right thing about it. –North Webster, Indiana
Enjoy!
August 1st, 2007 at 12:57 am
I say we start profiling fat, frumpy, middle-aged white women with red hair and freckles! I laughed out loud at that one!
Seriously, the American people are not stupid – you can see it in their comments. Maybe Congress and some of our other elected officials should pay more attention to what we are saying so they’ll know they aren’t getting anything ‘over on us’.
Thanks for a good laugh!
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:04 am
You’re just now getting the Federalist Patriot as they were previously known, shame on you, grin, Steph, I gotta fuss at you , fuss, fuss, fuss, at least you are on board the Patriot express now.
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:37 am
Goat, I take full responsibilitiy for the fact that I haven’t been all that active in politics for a long long time. If you knew where I come from and the things I’ve gone through in my short 49 years, you’d understand why. I was selfish and I know it.
Back when I was younger, going against the politicians meant death or going to jail on trumped up charges… and the politicians in power got away with it because there was no one who cared, if they even knew about it.
It’s also why I hate the Democratic Party. As long as that party supports the people who run my former home state and try to push their socialist crap on the rest of the states, I will never ever vote Democratic for any reason. However, I refuse to register as a Republican because socialists have infiltrated that party, too.
August 12th, 2007 at 5:35 am
I am from the deep south farm culture, Bull Conner and such, I don’t get what you are saying, you are not much older than me. You were eligable to vote 77-78, not early sixties. Heck AL reelected Fob James as Governor till they woke up. I just answered my question, nevermind. No wonder the SE has gone GOP by a large margin.