WTF?
   By Carl Bussjaeger, March 23, 2010

The past year or so has brought the strangest politics I can recall. That does not give me a warm, fuzzy feeling.

Some of the largest financial groups in the world collapsed due to their own dubious dealings, some blatantly illegal. But for the most part, no took the rap for it. Instead, our "leaders" in DC rewarded them by throwing a trillion dollars to them.

A major, and majorily failing, automaker went bankrupt thanks to decades of incompetent management and union feather-bedding. So the DC low-lifes bought them out at our expense. The federal government is now the majority stockholder, followed by the UAW. So much for the existing stockholders.

Meanwhile, the two undeclared wars, that the Dems promised to end to get control of Congress, are still going strong. Congress is considering another in Yemen. The Gitmo prison, that was supposed to be shut down by January 1st, is still open for business.

A TEA party activist sent a tea bag, with explanation, to his congress-scum. She had him arrested and investigated as a terrorist. The only good news is that they eventually let him go. With a warning against further terroristic threats.

And then there's "health care reform". Here's where DC dropped off the reality train and went down a branch line into the Twilight Zone.

Load the Constitution into a word processor and do a word search for "health care", "medicine", or even insurance. They aren't there. The Constitution supposedly being the authorizing document for Congress, the lack of delegated powers in those missing areas means the federal government can have nothing to do with it.

Unless you're Nancy "Are you serious?" Pelosi. The Shrub's disdainfull "goddamned piece of paper" was reported but never verified (his wars, domestic spying, Homeland Security, the TSA all do support the notion). Hag of the House Pelosi did it in a press conference.

Just using Rasmussen Reports polling for an example, a majority of Americans opposed this bill all along. It has never had majority support. Even people wanting socialized medicine opposed this version.

And there's a bit of insanity: A man wanting "health care reform", but opposing this variant, tried to call his congress-scum. Every time he tried to explain his position, the staffer hung up on him. Finally she theatened to have him arrested. Thank goodness he hadn't sent a tea bag; he'd still be in Gitmo.

I tried emailing my opposition points to "my" congress-scum (one Paul Hodes [D-state of Pelosi]). I got his canned response (which I expected) telling me how proud he is to support this bill because all of his constituents want it. Blink. Usually when the pol knows his position is 180 degrees out of phase with mine, he just doesn't reply. Telling me I don't think what I just told I think is a surreal first.

The bribes and kick backs were incredible, even for DC. My personal favorite was the "Louisiana Purchase", if only for the monicker.

That one led to yet another surreal moment, when Obama defended the Purchase because it would help with relief for the earthquake in Hawaii. Earthquake? Hawaii?

House Hag Pelosi insisted that the bill had to be passed so they could let us, you know, the people paying for the thing (in more ways than one), know what is in the bill. Think on that.

When a few Dems started making intermittent radio contact with reality – they noticed polls showing they'd be voted out if they voted for the bill – House hacks decided to Slaughter the vegetatively comatose, and inconvenient, authorizing document, by magically "deeming" the bill into law with no vote.

About then, the first brick crashed into Reprehensible Slaughter's office window. Shortly after, the MCDC office was similarly blessed.

Seeing that skipping the little "vote on the actual bill bit" could get nasty, Obama started calling wayward Dems into his office. They'd go in opposing the bill and hoping for reelection, and coming out supporting the bill. At least one 'Net pundit speculated Obama told them not to worry, that those inconvenient elections would be suspended due to civil unrest. I have to admit that the DC dimwits due seem to be doing their damndedest to provoke a little unrest. I don't think they're stupid enough to do that.

But are they crazy enough?

Could be. Hodes [D-P] is running for the Senate now. Polls show him losing by double digits versus anybody. Another poll says he'd lose by a 2:1 margin if he just tried for reelection to his House seat. But he still voted for the bill. Definite reality disconnect there.

Bricks and other projectiles are still flying. Lamestream media reports a few other Dem offices demonstrating the economic "windows fallacy", but informal 'Net reports say a lot more are going unreported.

I wish the problems were just in DC, but they're at the state level as well. The Dems got control of the state House when Dubya-sickened voters tossed a lot of Repugnicans. A "states' rights" bill came up for a vote; our junior socialists voted it down. There were boos and catcalls from bill supporters in the gallery. That wasn't the problem.

A rep, originally from New York, introduced a bill banning weapons in the State House. She explained that someone told her some of the states rights supporters had been open-carrying. She immediately became retroactively terrified of something that hadn't happened. Blink.

For the kicker, you have to understand some things about New Hampshire. It's mostly rural. You can encounter bears just going to the mail box (really; it's happened to me). And we generally pride ourselves on not being a socialist hell-hole like Massachusetts. Or New York.

Kicker: the ban's sponsor stood up in the House, surrounded by several hundred people who left work to oppose her bill, and told us it would be good because it would make us more like New York. Cue laughter.

The ban eventually got ITL'd (Inexpedient To Legislate). But that didn't stop the Dems. A joint facilities committee had a meeting. They concluded the scheduled business, said they were done. Then they waited until a pro-RKBA Rep left... and introduced new business. A ban. It passed, over the objections of the now-minority Reps.

Last year, they passed a new LLC tax on small business owners, about the same way: waited until the middle of the night at the end of the session and amended another bill without discussion.

Now they rejected a bill that would have repealed the tax. Because it needs to be thoroughly discussed first.

The gun ban wasn't exactly an isolated case. Another Dem introduced a bill to ban open carry anywhere except private property. No OC in parks, government buildings, bear-infested state and national forests, roads, sidewalks.We got that one ITL'd, too.

And they think they're going to be reelected.