As Janet -- or more appropriately considering that I have been known to have a bit of a propensity for nastiness -- Miss Jackson would say..... What have you done for me lately?
Well regarding the newly Democrat controlled Congress, the answer my friend isnt very much at all. Seems like they took the old Zimmerman hippie mantra literally as they have been nothing more than a party of blowing wind, hot air, non-binding resolutions, strongly worded letters and jaundiced jowled jibber jabber jackassery.
Oh how I pity the fools.
Congress's new voice
Jun 12th 2007 NEW YORK
From Economist.com
What have the Democrats achieved?
ROUGHLY half a year after the Democrats seized Congress, nobody could deny that politics has grown more interesting. Judging from the newspapers today it is Capitol Hill, not the White House, where the action is in Washington, DC.
The new Democratic majority certainly started strong. In its first 100 hours the House passed six popular bills to show that this was no “do-nothing Congress”, as its Republican-controlled predecessor had been labelled. The Iraq debate heated up with congressional calls to pull the troops home. The Senate has held public, sometimes riveting, hearings with the attorney-general and other administration officials, holding their feet to the fire as Congress is meant to do. And recently, the Senate unblocked the debate on immigration by considering a vast compromise bill that would overhaul America’s system for welcoming foreigners.
And yet the past six months has also shown how painfully blocked-up America’s checks-and-balances system can be. For all of the attention-grabbing activity, nothing concrete has yet been achieved. That 100-hours plan? Except for changes to the House’s own rules, none of the other bills has become law; most are languishing in the Senate. A bill on stem-cell research recently passed both chambers, but it now faces George Bush’s veto. The “100 Hours” may be remembered as a catchy campaign slogan, but it may produce precisely nothing of legislative substance. At least the 1994 “Contract with America” helped to get the ball rolling on welfare reform.
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Hi, Donkeyhue, I got your comment on Psychedelic Problems, of March 9, sorry it took so long for me to respond, I don't give the attention to my comments one gives at a social blog. Not that I don't want my blog to be social...
Going back to jokes, I think I could sell a joke to my da that about a girl arriving on a deserted isle, with a lasagna, a picture book of "The World's Greatest Construction Projects" and finally maybe some sticks.
Sox don't see the Yanks 'til the last week in August, so what's the point of worrying about baseball 'til then; unlike last seaon I don't see the St Louis Cardinals getting right into it at the end, maybe see a West Coast team in the NLCS. Go Mets, hopefully see you all in Boston this year in October.
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