Sue for cheap gasoline!

[NICKG]

what we should do is cut off the foreign aid to these countries, stop supporting them and take that money and drill for oil here...we are the 3rd largest producer of oil after all. We should also force all companies that are based in tax haven (re bahamas) to pay tax or not do buisness here...then limit the amount of money that can be sent overseas

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

I couldn't agree more. I wonder what our Congress could do to embarrass me further. Wait. Don't answer.

Just wait, you will see

George, do you suppose when he said "Congress" he meant the House of Representatives, rather than the Senate? This is a thread about what the House did after all. Maybe we will get a chance to see what an evil triumvarite can accomplish, Demoncratic President, House and Senate. That would be great!

Oh, and the BS about Chavez booting Exxon/Mobil was about seizing assets. He kicked them out, and kept all the equipment they had, and the facilities they built

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

I'd rather them be grandstanding about crap like this than focusing on new ways to destroy the middle class.

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when we have to choose between government ineptitude or government actively working to destroy America. I choose the former.

But this will help destroy the middle class, how do you think opeckers will respond, raise prices again. Instead of suing them, we should be sticking it to them with food & stuff.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Tobra

George, do you suppose when he said "Congress" he meant the House of Representatives, rather than the Senate?

The house is not the magic 60% either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives

D: 435/236 x 100 = 54%

R: 435/199 x 100 = 45%

[Tobra]

Who is the Speaker of the House again?

Do you comprehend how much power this position holds?

never mind

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Who is the Speaker of the House again?

Do you comprehend how much power this position holds?

never mind

Why don't you tell me?

To be fair, how many of these "First 100 Hours" goals were met?

100 Hours with a Democratic Congress
http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/10/100_hours_with.php

If Democrats win a majority in the House of Representatives, the first 100 hours under would-be Speaker Pelosi would look like this:


Day One: Put new rules in place to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation."

Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Time remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step. Cut the interest rate on student loans in half. Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.

Broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds _ "I hope with a veto-proof majority," she added in an Associated Press interview Thursday.

All the days after that: "Pay as you go," meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is middle class tax relief, health care or some other priority.

[kach22i]

I found the answer.................on Fox News no less.

FOXNEWS.COM HOME > POLITICS
Democrats' 'First 100 Hours' Winds Down With Plenty of Time to Spare
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244539,00.html

With more than 57 hours to spare, early Thursday evening, Democrats passed the last of their "Six for '06" plan — a renewable energy measure that adds $15 billion in new fees, royalties and taxes for the oil industry — 264-123, and prepared to turn off the clock.....

....“We have passed an agenda which we promised the American people we would pass in the first 100 hours,” said House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md. “No matter how much fun they make of it, no matter how many different ways to count it, we made it within our first 100 hours.”.....

The hours were clocked by measuring only the amount of time Congress debated the six items since convening the 110th Congress on Jan. 4. Republicans complained that Democrats were able to whip out the six bills in short order because they did not allow Republican involvement in the debate.

Pelosi said Democrats used 34 hours to pass the first five bills. Procedural voting on the last bill began in the 41st hour.

Democrats approved the remaining Sept. 11 commission recommendations that had not been made into law on Jan. 9; pushed through an increase of the minimum wage on Jan. 10, expanded federal funding for stem cell research on Jan. 11; allowed the government the power to re-negotiate Medicare drug prices on Jan. 12; and gave a cut in interest rates on students' college loans on Wednesday. They were on the verge of investing in renewable energy Thursday.

Democrats also won approval of internal House rule changes dealing with ethics, lobbying and budgeting. They were passed on the first two days of the new Congress but were not legislative actions so were not included.

All the bills have to be approved in the Senate, a generally slower deliberative body that has already demonstrated their own will on some of the hot topics.

[kach22i]

double post

[djmcmath]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Can't we somehow fire them all and start over? My God this is stupid.......

+1. I've been thinking this for a while now. Holy cow, get rid of the whole lot, start over with people who aren't career politicians. If there's an incumbent in any seat after the elections are over...

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by Mo_Gearhead

We can only HOPE that asteroid, racing towards Earth, hits D.C.

Well it would certainly save us all from the hassle of a revolution. In reality, that asteroid is probably this nation's greatest hope....

[Mo_Gearhead]

Please don't assume the 'officials' in the USA are the only idiots out there.


From a recent news release:

"A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party's presidential nomination."

Yes, it appears the United Nations will investigate racism in the USA!

[Nathans_Dad]

Originally Posted by kach22i

The Dem's don't even have half the Senate when people are sick, plus there are independents and Lieberman keeps voting with the Republicans.

Are you SERIOUS? Your excuse is that sometimes people are sick?

[teenerted1]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Can't we somehow fire them all and start over? My God this is stupid.......

yes every two years. go to the the polls in November and vote them out if you like.

if i remember right we can only kick out half the senate every 3years?

US politics 101

[Racerbvd]

Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step

Yea, that won't affect the cost of anything, reward losers too stupid to earn a raise Why would any low achiever try harder when they know some dumb-ass, liberal in DC is going going to force businesses to give unearned raises to buy votes And if you don't think that also gets figured into gas prices, you are a fool

[Nathans_Dad]

Democrat controlled Congress approval rating: 18%
Bush approval rating: 28%



And Bush sucks!

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by teenerted1

yes every two years. go to the the polls in November and vote them out if you like.

if i remember right we can only kick out half the senate every 3years?

US politics 101

Bad vs worse isn't the kind of decision I envisioned.

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by teenerted1

yes every two years. go to the the polls in November and vote them out if you like.

if i remember right we can only kick out half the senate every 3years?

US politics 101

No, one third of the Senate is up every two years.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Can I sue the govt for wasting all of my tax dollars?

[teenerted1]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

No, one third of the Senate is up every two years.

i knew it was something like that, just didn't wanna look up my grade school civics book