Posts Tagged ‘democrats’

Andy Hefty

I have had enough of the arrogance of our political class in America. And Vice President Joe Biden is at the top of the list.

If you haven’t heard already, His High Exalted Vice Messiah Joe “Bite Me” Biden decided to waltz into a frozen custard shop in Milwaukee the other day. The media was waiting for him with cameras rolling. Can you say “Staged event”? What’s the first thing he says? “Where’s all the ice cream?”

Got brains?

Excuse me, Mr. Vice President. I realize that you’re smarter than George W. Bush and Dan Quayle combined, but that’s on the level of walking up to a Cheese Steak Stand and asking for a hoagie. Weren’t you briefed on where you were going? But I digress.

When he’s ready to pay, he asks the manager what he owes. The manager says, “Don’t worry. It’s on us. … Lower our taxes and we’ll call it even.”

Apparently, that didn’t sit well with Vice President Thin-Skinned. He eventually walks up to the manager and says (and I quote): “Why don’t you say something nice instead of being a smartass all the time? Say something nice.”

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Andy Hefty

By now, everyone but Harry Reid himself should understand that the current Senate Majority Leader is about to be retired by the voters of Nevada.  Politically, he’s toast.

So what now?

Not John Adams, but not Joe Isuzu either

Whom do the Democrats elect as their next leader in the US Senate when the 2010 elections are complete?  Which direction will they go when they are handed a series of defeats at the ballot box?  What surviving Democrats with any seniority will be willing to plop their posteriors into the “hot seat” of Washington politics?

My vote is for Bill Nelson of Florida.

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Andy Hefty

For once in my limited life of punditry, I will finally blame George W. Bush and the Republicans. That’s right. Bush and the “evil GOP” are to blame for our health care mess. I’ll explain.

If Bush hadn’t asked the now late Ted Kennedy to write the No-Child-Educated-Properly bill, the initial capitulation mentality of “compassionate” conservatives would not have taken place.

Compassion? Or coercion?

If Bush had told Congress to stop spending worse than drunken sailors – in his first year in office – then Harry Reid would have been shown to be the blustering, squandering, mouthy, irresponsible, tax-and-spend liberal that he is.

If Republicans while in power had actually cut spending instead of “reducing the rate of growth” (a misnomer for spending buckets of cash with reckless abandon), the deficits would not have mounted faster than the buffet plate of an NFL linebacker.

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Andy Hefty

So let’s cluster some random thoughts and see if someone out there can make “heads or tails” of my mental state.  Better yet, don’t go there.

In my column on Chuck Schumer (D-NY-Jerk), there was a comment about how he should be voted out of office.  There’s just one problem:  voters across the nation have a mentality of “throw all the bums out, except my bum.”  How else can you explain Robert Byrd, Ted Stevens, Strom Thurmond, and anyone remotely related to the Kennedys?

ZZZZ...Huh? What?

Senators Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Ben Nelson of Nebraska should read the following message to the majority party before moving to adjourn for the Christmas break:

“Since the beginning of the debate over health insurance coverage, the Democrats have figuratively plastered us to the wall because we dared to raise objections that violate our political beliefs.  All during the negotiations, we have been demonized.  And even though some of our negotiations have moved toward a compromise that many consider reasonable, all we receive in return is derision and ridicule.  Read the rest of this entry »

Andy Hefty

It’s official. Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York is a Grade-A, #1, Government-Inspected, certified, pompous, arrogant jerk! By now, you’ve read the reports of a GOP staffer aboard an airplane, sitting adjacent to the “gentleman” from New York.

Laws for thee, but not for me.

Schumer was ordered to shut off his cell phone. He was told by the flight attendant that the rest of the passengers were waiting on him.

When he finally complied, he uttered an epithet that isn’t worthy of print. Hint: rhymes with witch and means female dog.

Forgive my anger, but I am getting infuriated over these elitist government officials who think they are above the laws that they generate for the rest of us to abide. Enough already! Politico now reports that the Senator – through a spokesman – “regrets” what he said.

Horseradish.

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Bob Franken

There are certain cliches that can get really, really irritating. It’s a condition called Platitudinous Badditudinous Attitudinous and it flares up each and every time someone says “We shouldn’t make the perfect the enemy of the good”. Some sort of ridicule is in order, like maybe a “Kick me” sign.

Who wants to save this face?

We usually hear it these days from those trying to gut health care reform, leaving an almost empty shell. Offenders also include our Democratic leaders who are desperately trying to avoid the embarrassment of outright defeat which would probably devastate their party to say nothing of its president.

So they are bargaining away, trying to protect themselves by caving in to each and every special interest group but one, the American people. In particular, they are frittering away the changes that would force the insurance companies to act responsibly. Read the rest of this entry »

Andy Hefty

That was the Drill Instructor’s call to cease whatever activity was no longer warranted when I was in boot camp.  That call was followed by silence and stillness.  It was a command for everyone to button their lips and pay attention.  The antics were to stop, and everyone was to immediately – and seriously – focus on the task at hand.

But with Congress, such is not the case.

Can you hear me now?

The Associated Press reports that Congress is set to spend more money they don’t have on projects and programs in which the federal government has no business.  But spend they will.

Remember the 1992 campaign?  The previous call for “change,” orchestrated by Bill Clinton highlighted “trillion dollar budgets.”  Now the current deficit exceeds the budgets from only 17 years ago.

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Kelly Anderson Wright

Lawmakers on the Senate floor are wondering if Majority Leader Harry Reid has lost his mind, something folks back home have known for quite some time.

Why else would Reid deliberately offend a majority of Americans, as well as most of his constituents?

During the raging debate on health care reform Monday, Senator Reid intentionally aimed nuclear missiles at his fellow lawmakers: he compared those who oppose health care reform to those who opposed the abolition of slavery more than a century ago.

Harry lives in a bubble, unaware of the mutiny back home.

Reid seems to have forgotten his history: Sen. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat,  unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957, while Republicans led the charge against slavery.

More troubling is the fact that Reid appears unaware that not just Republican lawmakers oppose Obamacare. Numerous recent polls show a majority of Americans and Nevadans oppose the specific health care reform bill Harry is trying to pass. His salvos, aimed at the Republicans he is supposed to lead, might as well have been aimed at the entire nation… and Nevadans, who cringe every time Reid speaks. Read the rest of this entry »

Kelly Anderson Wright

Let’s face it, American women rock. Book authors and basketball players, heads of households and heroes, American women are free to be all they choose to be, or not. Sarah Palin, newly-crowned best-selling author and private citizen, is “all that,” and more.

But more what? The media and her detractors still don’t know what to make of Palin. Now that she’s not a politician, Palin doesn’t follow the rules. She’s not scripted, not packaged and not in sync with old school journalists like Barbara Walters, who openly cringe at Palin’s street-wise jargon.

Sarah seems comfy wherever she is, including Kuwait.

Sarah doesn’t seem to care. She says she’s the most honest she’s ever been, telling talk show host Sean Hannity that all her interviews now are “unplugged.” Every question is fair game, but be careful, Katie Couric… this time, she’ll tell you exactly where Alaskans get their world news (hint: not your network), and what she thinks of the “perky” yet arrogant media anchor who asked her the same question about abortion, 12 different ways.

Palin’s in the ring, her gloves are off, and she’s proving that she’s tougher than a “motha…” bear. No political handlers are scripting what she says. No one is telling her when to eat, what to wear or when to keep her opinions quiet. She’s calling the shots now, she’s gone rogue and she appears to be reveling in it. Why wouldn’t she be? Unlike Senator McCain, she’s not having to tangle with Harry Reid’s health care reform or watch Pelosi’s liberal love-in. Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Sherrier

Remember that ordeal in New York recently? When the Republican establishment backed a left-leaning candidate, until conservatives led by Sarah Palin rallied around a third-party candidate who held views more strongly in line with their values?

Pundits had a field day with that one, as they carried on about the GOP being taken over by the “radical right,” which sought to purge the party of moderates.

Sorry, not progressive enough. Gotta go.

This was hailed as a horrible situation for the Republican Party that would no doubt favor the Democrats in elections. The general tenor equated to “those stupid conservatives, sabotaging their own party!” followed by a “Ha! Ha!” similar to that bully kid from The Simpsons.

DNC Chairman Tim Kaine said in a Nov. 4 statement, “However, perhaps the most consequential race of the night was the special election in the 23rd Congressional District of New York in which the Republican candidate, a moderate, was purged from the Republican Party by the most extreme elements of the conservative right wing including Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Read the rest of this entry »