The Senate is considering three bills which having been passed by the House are now awaiting Senate action before becoming law. The three measures are :

1. Cap and Trade which will make energy and everything else more expensive for every American. Naturally, the brunt of these increases will fall on those least able to bear them. The poorest Americans, those near the poverty level, will have to pay more for gasoline, more for heating their homes; in short more for everything.

2. The Hate Crimes Bill or as it is known to some The Child Predator Protective Bill. This legislation would gag clergymen from preaching against homosexuality and other perversions. If provisions in this bill are similar to those in Canada it would even be forbidden to put an ad in a newspaper referring to the bible verse in Leviticus which condemns these unnatural practices.

3. Universal Health Care. In a few words: IT DOESN'T WORK! If you're reading this you have a computer. Do a Google search on national health care in places like the UK and Canada. People with serious illnesses sometimes have to wait months for diagnostic tests which can be had in the USA in a few days. Our politicians tell us that our medical system is too expensive yet they want to spend more billions on insuring everyone in the country. Maybe instead they should round up the illegal aliens, who are the chief users of emergency rooms, which would cut down the expense a great deal. They could also stop wasting our tax money on lavish foreign trips and other wasteful pork projects.

The politicians (I didn't call them representatives because they aren't) insist on passing laws that we don't want and are harmful to the country. They think they can get away with it because we keep re-electing the same bums election after election. It's time for REAL change. There's an election next year. It's the opportunity to save our republic. DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!! It doesn't matter which party they belong to.  If enough incumbents are tossed out on their rear ends it will serve notice on the rest that we are:
MAD AS HELL AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.

The latest polls show that Barak Obama has a 58% approval rating. I'm wondering why! Are these 58% not paying attention? Are they unaware that Obama and the Democrat dominated Congress are spending us into unsustainable debt.

Are they unaware that this president, who promised a transparent administration, has erected an iron curtain of secrecy between the American public and almost every move he makes?

Do they approve of his violating a law which he co-sponsored regarding the firing of Inspectors General?

Do they approve of his unwillingness to show his birth certificate to prove he is eligible to hold the highest office in the land? Never mind if he was born in the United States we don't even know if he's a citizen.

Do they approve of his demanding a stimulus package be passed so quickly that those who voted on it didn't have time to read it and then waited five days to sign it.

Everything has to be done in a hurry with this administration. His Supreme Court nominee has to be approved before the August recess., socialized medicine (don't let them tell you it's anything different) and the Hate Crimes bill has to be passed right away.

The only way to stop this plunge into socialism is at next year's election. If a large number of incumbents are defeated it will send shock waves through Washington. Our "representatives", of whatever party, might start listening to us . I believe that the 2010 election is our last chance to preserve what freedom we still have left.

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!!!!!

North Korea has been making some threatening moves lately.

Nuclear tests, rocket launchesand threats to their neighbors.

The rest of the world is having a hissy fit trying to work out some way to deal with these commie maniacs. This tenth rate dictatorship can't provide for it's people without massive aid from China and, when the limp-wrists in the US State Department have their way, .Uncle Sap.

The only way to deal with these bullies is from a position of strength.

We should tell the North Koreans that if they want to build nuclear bombs go ahead. If they want to build rockets go ahead. But if they dare to use these weapons or conventional weapons against anyone they will bring down on their heads thermonuclear destruction. Kim Jong Il and his family will die. Most of their army, including their top generals, will die. Those that survive will be living (for a short radiation poisoned time) in a country that is even more miserable than it is now.

In addition, all ships going and coming from North Korea will be subject to search. If contraband is found the ship will be sunk on the spot.

No negotiations. This is the way it will be.

Everything else has failed to rein in these wackos. Let's try something different.

Of course the weaklings in the White House and the State Department will never have the intestinal fortitude to do any such thing.

And this makes me FURIOUS!!!!!

Barak Obama has been touted as the most intelligent president in United States history. He is certainly one of the most polished speakers in recent times. But I would suggest that he is also one of the most immature men to occupy the Oval Office.

Whenever a difficult problem arises he always claims it is not his fault someone else is to blame (usually George W. Bush).

His recent difficulty with closing the Guantanamo Bay prison is George Bush's fault for building the prison in the first place. However, Bush didn't force him to make the promise to close the prison. He did that on his own. But now, like a teenager or a left-winger (who have very similar mind-sets) he refuses to take responsibility for getting himself into this quandary. It's Bush's fault for building the prison in the first place.

Time after time when a tough problem comes up we hear the same thing from our most intelligent president, 'It's not my fault George Bush did it."

I think it's about time for Obama to start taking on the responsibility of the office he holds. When a problem comes up don't try to shift the blame. Take action to solve the problem instead of trying to shift the responsibility.

It's time to grow up and act like an adult.

How about it Mr. President?

I'm supposed to be on vacation but listening to these hypocritical holier-than-thou Democrats pontificating about "torture" during the Bush administration calls for some straightforward questions. Questions that the Obama sycophants in the main-stream press don't dare to ask for fear they will make their fair-haired boy (oops - is that politically incorrect?) look bad.

What ever George Bush's failings he did keep America safe from the Islamofacist fanatics.

When this question of interrogation comes up one premise that is proposed is what should we do if an American city was the target of a nuclear bomb and we had a prisoner who had information that would let us forestall this disaster. Should we use "enhanced interrogation techniques" to get that information? Apparently Obama, from what he says would not. He would rather see thousands of Americans die than betray, what he calls, American values.

Obama should be reminded that the first obligation of an American president is to keep America and it's citizens safe. Not only the thousands who might be killed by a nuclear device but even a single citizen should be safeguarded by any means at the disposal of the government. Not only "enhanced interrogation" but any other means that might wring the information from such a subject.

Here is the question that the press should ask the president: "Mr.President would you sacrifice an American citizen who could be saved by using rigorous interrogation? Which citizen or citizens are you willing to sacrifice?  If so suppose that citizen was your wife or one or both of your daughters?"

Death by nuclear bomb would at least be fast. One or two people killed by these barbarians would have a slow painful death if the butchery inflicted on some of our troops in Iraq is any indication.

Obama would have to be pretty cold-blooded to allow any citizen to be killed, much less members of his own family, by Islamic fanatics.

But then again this is the man who would let babies born alive due to botched abortions die of neglect by denying them medical help.
Water-boarding maybe torture to Obama but nobody died from it. I'd like to know what his take is on a helpless new-born baby gasping for breath until death finally ends his/her suffering.

How about it, Mr.President?

As this is being written Somali pirates are holding hostage the captain of a ship which was flying the US flag and which these pirates tried to hijack. The American crew, unlike the crews of other ships, fought off the hijackers. Unfortunately, the captain was taken hostage and now the pirates are demanding a $2 million ransom.

The Obama administration doesn't seem to have a clue as to how to handle this situation so I'd like to offer some suggestions which would not only end this standoff but would guarantee that American flag ships would have no problems sailing this perilous stretch of the ocean in the future.

1. Tell the pirates they will get no money.

2. Tell the pirates if they release the captain unharmed they will be allowed to leave but if the captain is harmed they will all be killed.

3. Once the captain is released take the pirates into custody.

4. If the pirates protest that they had a deal to go free tell them that the deal is invalid since it was made under duress.

5. Summarily hang the pirates. No ACLU, no endless appeals just a length of rope.

6. Send a detachment of Marines, with air cover, to the town where these creeps lived and burn it to the ground.

I don't think any ship flying the US flag would be bothered in the future.

It has been said that in a republic the people get the government they deserve. Well, we are getting what we deserve - good and hard.

In 2006 the voters were mad at the Bush administration so they threw the Republicans out and put the Democrats in  charge. In 2008, in spite of the fact that the course of the Iraq war had changed for the better, voters gave the Democrats larger majorities in both houses of Congress and also elected a Democrat president who had a clearly socialist agenda.

Now, after less than three months in office Tea Parties protesting the profligate spending of the Obama administration are springing up all over the country. Since voters have given the Democrats such large majorities in both houses these Tea Parties will probably not have much effect.

Voters should vote on facts not emotions. They should know by now that Democrats are the tax and spend party. We are seeing the spending right now by which the future of our children and grandchildren is being mortgaged. The taxes are yet to come and they will be huge.

There is a saying that goes, "Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me." The politicians, all of them Democrats and Republicans, have been fooling the American people over and over again for years than I can count. People say over and over that our representatives don't listen to us. Why should they listen when we march to the polls and send the same incompetents.back to Washington for term after term. Before the 2008 election Congress had an approval rating of only 12% yet almost 90% of them were re-elected. It must prove that Americans are either stupid or insane or both. People say we should have term limits. We do have term limits - It's called an election.

WISE UP AMERICA.

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS

THIS MAKES ME FURIOUS!!!!!

                               

Barak Obama, the Democrat nominee for the presidency, when he was a member of the Illinois legislature twice opposed The Born Alive Infant Protection Act. This act would have made it mandatory to render medical aid to an infant born alive as the result of a botched abortion. Obama's actions led to the deaths of an unknown number of helpless babies through neglect and starvation. I'm sure he doesn't know or care how many babies died but it's a little more important than how many houses John McCain owns. Obama isn't worthy to run for president. He belongs in a mental institution.

Harry Reid says, "Coal is making us sick. Oil is making us sick." This is the same dolt who said "The Surge" was a failure before it had even started. This is the Democrat Senate Majority Leader. Has he been checked for Alzheimer's lately? He makes ME sick.

I see the Republicans have added a global warming plank to their platform and deleted a plank calling for drilling in ANWR. No doubt this was done at the behest of McCain in spite of the growing evidence that global warming is nothing more than a natural climate cycle. By the way John we got into this energy mess because of limited drilling.

China cheated at the Olympics!! I'm shocked, shocked!!!

With callous disregard for the average citizen who is being whipsawed by rising inflation due to high fuel prices the Democrat controlled Congress went on a five week vacation. Anyone who votes for these bums is a fool.

Pope Nancy Pelosi I has overruled Pope Benedict on church policy regarding abortion.

The Obama gang is trying to censor all criticism of the anointed one. It's the Progressive thing to do.

ABC reporter arrested for "trespassing" on a public sidewalk. You don't suppose the fact that he was trying to film Dem senators and big money contributors leaving a secret meaning had anything to do with it do you. The police thugs who roughed up the reporter before arresting him claim they had  signed complaint from the Brown Palace Hotel which claims they own the sidewalk. Asa Eslocker, the reporter involved, should sue the hotel for a zillion.
 

I've been watching the presidential campaign for quite a while now as have most people with a TV set. After seeing what the major parties are offering as potential presidents I have decided to enter the race. I'm sure I could do a much better job than either McCain or Obama.

This will be a new kind of campaign. No flying around in private jets. In fact my whole campaign will be conducted from my living room. When elected my administration will be conducted mainly from Washington, DC. I don't have a ranch in Crawford, Texas or a compound Hyannisport. I do have a mobile home in North Carolina which I may want to visit when I get lonesome for the mountains.

This campaign will be conducted entirely by email. No campaign contributions, which I consider to be bribes, will be accepted. No tying up your phone with requests to vote for me. Just an occasional blog which you can read or delete as you wish.

That being said here's my Pro-America platform:


1. A BALANCED BUDGET

For the current fiscal year we have a budget of $3.2 TRILLION. This is absolutely obscene. The treasury took in a record amount of taxes and we are still running a deficit.

Here's how I intend to balance the budget. No more foreign aid. Since WWII the American taxpayer has been soaked for trillions of dollars in foreign aid. What have we to show for it? Our solid allies can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Poverty and privation are as prevalent as ever. It's time the rest of the world stopped using us as a crutch. A lot of the money winds up in the Swiss bank accounts of third rate dictators anyway.

All government agencies, except defense, must cut their budgets by 10%. That's in real dollars not in their projected budget increases. For instance if a particular agency had a budget of $10 billion this year next year it only gets $9 billion. Anyone who thinks this can't be done doesn't realize how much waste there is in government. Does anyone remember that in the Clinton administration the government was actually shut down for a time? If you just had to be reminded of this you can see how much of an impact no government at all had. So 10% less government should be a boon to all. Gain for us about $300 billion +.


A balanced budget would mean a sounder dollar and therefore a reduction in the cost of oil among other benefits.

For further enlightenment on stopping the giveaways do a Google search on "Not Yours to Give."


2. ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

Energy prices most notably gasoline and diesel have skyrocketed to unheard of heights. Americans in the middle and lower income groups, that is the people who really make America work, have been badly hurt by this precipitous rise in prices.

The candidates of the major parties have finally come around to the realization that we must increase the supply of petroleum by drilling to exploit our abundant oil reserves. Both espouse cap and trade which has been instituted in the European Union. This system has proved so expensive for certain industries that they are considering moving out of the EU. They would move to countries with less stringent pollution standards like Saudi Arabia. Both Obama and McCain say we should develop alternative fuels and renewable sources of energy. this may be fine for 2050 or 2075 but it's not the answer for the short run. There has been little mention from either of them regarding new (old?) sources of energy for which the technology already exists. Oil from coal was used to keep Hitler's Panzers running until the end of World War II over 60 years ago. We also have abundant deposits of oil shale from which petroleum could be extracted.

As President my first action would be to declare a national emergency, because that's what it is, even though the other candidates don't seem to think so. I would open up all sources of oil to drilling. I would start a crash program for bringing all sources of energy which are now practical to the American market. Nuclear, gasoline from coal, greater use of coal in electric generating plants, building oil refineries, etc.

Higher CAFE standards and new sources of energy are fine but not in the short term. Right now we need oil and lots of it. The other candidates either don't know this or are afraid they might offend the Sierra Club and their ilk. The answer to our energy problems is in developing our own natural resources.   

All we need is for the government nay sayers to get out of the way. American ingenuity and our attitude of we can do it are the answers to our problems. Our greatest enemies aren't overseas they are the Congress and the bureaucrats in Washington, DC.

As President I'll tell them to get out of the way or just get out.
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3. BORDER SECURITY

Our borders haven't been secure for many years. Largely because Presidents of both parties have violated their oath of office by not enforcing our immigration laws. The Border Patrol which is supposed enforce border security has been understaffed and hamstrung by ridiculous regulations. In addition George Bush's hatchet man Johnny Sutton the US Attorney in the area has taken every opportunity to persecute Border Patrol Agents for doing their job.

To remedy this situation I would withdraw our troops from Europe and South Korea and station them on our borders. The countries involved have been leaning on us to defend them for over 50 years. It's time they stood on their own two feet. there would be enough manpower to seal the borders and to rotate the troops periodically.

Incidentally, one of the first actions I would take in my first day in office would be to pardon Ramos and Compean who are still imprisoned in Bush's Gulag and are two of Johnny Sutton's victims.
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4. STRICT INTERNAL ENFORCEMENT IMMIGRATION LAWS

Non-enforcement of our immigration laws has led to a flood of illegal aliens who are taking jobs away from Americans and legal immigrants. These illegal aliens are also depressing wages. Since rounding up the 20 million or so illegals would take untold years and resources the answer is to tackle the problem from a different angle.

The penalty for hiring illegal aliens is a $10,000 fine or 5 years in prison. As president I would attack this problem by prosecuting company executives who violate this law. I would also encourage judges to forgo the fine aspect and mete out jail terms for such violations. Some CEOs doing 5 years hard time should make others think twice before hiring these people. Their terms wouldn't be served in "country club prisons" either. Such posh prisons would be abolished. So-called white collar criminals would do their time in the general population just like any other crook.

If they couldn't get work the illegals would have no other choice but to go home.

5. REFORM CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS

As we have suffered through this seemingly endless primary campaign we have been treated to announcements that one candidate has raised $30 million this month and another candidate has raised $25 million in another month. This is absolutely obscene. I know I've used this term before when alluding to the amount of money in the Federal budget but that's exactly what it is.

Is the presidency of the United States and leadership of the free world for sale?

Something must be done to stop what amounts to large scale bribery in financing elections. McCain-Feingold is an unmitigated disaster. Let's repeal it. Let's let people donate as much as they want to the candidate of their choice. But.....Let's publish their names and how much they have donated AND LET'S LIMIT CAMPAIGN SPENDING. Let's put a limit of 25 cents per vote cast in the last election for campaign spending by all candidates running for president. That is if 100 million votes were cast in the last election for president a maximum of $25 million could be spent by each candidate. Any excess donations would go into the US Treasury General Fund. God knows we could use a little extra cash the way these people in Washington waste our money.

By limiting spending the campaign would be shortened. With a shortened campaign the candidates might talk about the issues and what they intend to do as president instead of engaging in personal attacks as they do now.

6. SENSIBLE TRADE POLICIES.

Our trade policies are ridiculous. We have ceded control of our trade policies to international organizations. Constitutionally our trade policies should be controlled by the Congress of the United States. The Congress has given control of our trade policies to these international organizations so they can work on more important things like National Orange Month and Take Your Daughter to Work Day. As a result we are being taken to the cleaners by other countries.

A number of years ago Japanese trade negotiators banned American made skis from Japan because they said their snow was different. Negotiations over this went on for months. Our representatives could have ended this impasse with one sentence, "Our skis in or your cars out!"

When the House wouldn't take up the Colombian Free Trade Agreement President Bush complained that it would be to our advantage because Colombia charged tariffs on our products but we didn't charge tariffs on theirs. I'm sure the answer to this problem is obvious to anyone not in government. We don't need another free trade agreement to solve this problem. All we have to do is tell Colombia to take their tariffs off or we'll put tariffs on their products.

We should also withdraw from all international trade organizations and take charge of our own trade policies. We don't need bureaucrats in Belgium telling us how to trade with other nations.

These are the kind of sensible trade policies I advocate.

7. OUR TAX SYSTEM IS A MESS. IT'S TIME TO GET RID OF IT AND START OVER

It seems to me that a flat tax would be the fairest and simplest way to go. Under this system you could fill out your tax return on a postcard. No more voluminous forms or complicated and confusing instructions.

We should also repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and at the same time pass a new amendment requiring a two-thirds majority to raise taxes except in times of national emergency.

The death tax should go. How fair is it to put a tax on dying. Especially on money that has already been taxed. Isn't dying bad enough without adding insult to injury by taxing the money the decedent leaves behind?

Corporate taxes should also be reduced. With lower corporate taxes industry would start coming back to the United States from overseas.

Almost everyone, except left wingers, recognizes that high taxes are bad for economic progress. My administration will endeavor to eliminate unnecessary programs and lower taxes as much as possible.



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That's my platform so far. Other planks may be added. I don't have a staff to help me formulate these things. Just me.

The South Korean government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is currently investigating civilian casualties which occurred over 50 years ago. The commission has more than 200 cases on it's docket alleging indiscriminate killing of civilians by US forces mainly by air attacks. If true it is tragic but things like this happen in war.

Now surviving family members of some of those killed are seeking are seeking compensation from the US government. They say that they should be compensated because the deaths of their relatives are the fault of the US military. What they seem to forget is that it is also the "fault" of the US military that they are not living under the oppressive regime of the most brutal dictatorship on Earth, that of the People's Republic of Korea.

What wasn't reported in the news story is whether the commission is also investigating atrocities by Chinese and North Korean forces. Probably not since they know they would be wasting their time looking for compensation from any communist regime. Only Uncle Sap might be apt to come across with a few bucks.

While we are on the subject of compensation we should ask if the people and government of South Korea are contemplating any sort of compensation for the thousands of American GIs who gave their lives to give freedom to South Korea. (Cynical laughter in the background)

Any claims for compensation by Koreans should be dismissed out of hand by our government. I doubt if Washington has enough backbone to do so.

This makes me FURIOUS !!!!

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS !!!!!!

After being rebuked by the Supreme Court's ruling that the District of Columbia's gun prohibition law was unconstitutional the DC council passed another gun ban which in some ways is more restrictive than the one which the Court threw out.

Semi-automatics are prohibited under this new law. Only revolvers and Derringers. Any gun which is loaded from the bottom is considered a machine gun. When registering guns must be left with the police department for ballistics testing and there are  fees of $60 for each gun registered and only one gun can be registered every 90 days. There are other restrictions such as the gun must be locked or disassembled until there is imminent danger which will leave the honest citizen at the mercy of criminals.

This is obviously a blatant attempt to disobey the Supreme Court's ruling. At least one member of the city council has admitted that this law is unconstitutional. It is therefor an illegal law and every American citizen has the obligation and the duty to disobey it.

Washington gun owners should march on city hall with their guns and demand that this illegal law be repealed. And they should keep marching until it is repealed.

The Second Amendment to the US Constitution says. "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." This DC gun ban is not only in violation of the high court's ruling but is also a violation of every American's Constitutional rights. Of course this is typical of any level of government run by "Liberals" or "Progressives" as they like to call themselves but in fact they are in fact left-wing fascists.

Honest citizens of the District of Columbia must stand up for their rights or they don't deserve to have them. Our Founding Fathers knew what action to take when, as is stated in the Declaration of Independence,  "confronted with a long train of abuses." They revolted. This is what the citizens of DC should do. This is what the government of DC deserves.

In 1775 Paul Revere rode through the Massachusetts countryside rousing the Minute Men with his call of. "To Arms! The British are coming." To arms citizens of DC don't let  the tyrants in City Hall take away your God given rights.

March for your right to keep and bear arms!

This makes me FURIOUS and don't vote for incumbents !!!!!

"The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Impost/s and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and GENERAL WELFARE of the United States;"
Article I Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States

If anyone can think of anything the Congress has done lately to enhance the General Welfare of these United States I wish he/she would let me know what it is. I can't think of anything Congress has done except engage in bickering and finger pointing on a grand scale and, of course, spend us into an ever deepening deficit hole.

The latest outrage in the spending department is the passage in the Senate of H.R. 5501 a bill to help third World countries combat AIDS, TB and Malaria. This bill spends $50 billion in taxpayer money and triples the amount previously spent. The vote in the Senate was 80-16. Every Democrat voted for this boondoggle and considering the number of votes in favor they had plenty of help from Republicans. All 16 nay voters were Republican. Voters with a senator running for re-election take note.

Speaking of outrages the Democrats are still blocking every attempt by Republicans to increase energy supplies. Our politicians are wrangling over ANWR and delaying, as far as I can tell, debate about oil shale, gasoline from coal and other abundant sources of energy.

We must drill AND dig our way out of this problem. We must press ahead on all fronts including wind and nuclear. The politicians are not working for the "General Welfare of the United States" rather they are placing their own welfare above the security and welfare of their countrymen who they swore to serve.

Abraham Lincoln said:
"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

How right Lincoln was. Our greatest enemies are not China and Iran. Instead they are our own selfish, power hungry politicians. We have an opportunity this November to send a profound message by defeating a large number of incumbents.
A message that would reverberate through the halls of Congress. There would be change in the "Public be damned" attitude that now pervades congress.

As Lincoln warned we would be committing suicide by returning these scoundrels to office.

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS !!!!!

World Net Daily has run a poll asking for their reader's opinion about a rumored increase in the tax on gasoline. Because of the high price of gasoline, which the Democrat controlled Congress has done nothing to alleviate, people are driving less resulting in a reduction of revenue from the gas tax. Because of this short fall the Highway Trust Fund will not be able to finance some highway repairs and improvements. Now they are proposing a 10 cent increase in the tax on a gallon of gas.

The question posed in WND was as follows: Do you expect Congress to take beneficial action on energy before it adjourns?
The top two answers were: No, and that's why these morons have approval numbers in the single digits and sinking39% (399)
                               No, I expect these numbskulls to actually take detrimental action, such as raising gasoline taxes38% (395)

No other answer got more than 4% and no yes answer got more than 2%. This reflects the low esteem in which the current Congress is held. Granted the WND readership in basically conservative but considering the single digit approval rating of Congress it would seem that the results wouldn't be very much different no matter who participated in this poll.

It is estimated that by the end of 2009 the Highway Trust Fund will have a deficit of $3 billion so naturally Democrats do what Democrats always do. They propose a tax increase. They want to take more money from those least able to afford it. The average working man who has to use his car to go to work and maybe to take a little drive on the weekend to relieve the stress of the work week and the aggravation of a do-nothing Congress.

So the possibility of a gasoline tax increase is on the horizon. This in the wake of voting a TRIPLING to $50 billion foreign aid supposedly for the purpose of helping third world countries with their AIDS, TB and malaria problems. It would seem that our "representatives" have their priorities very mixed up. Not only will this add to our already onerous national debt but most of it will surely end up in the Swiss bank accounts of African dictators.

The really sad part of this whole situation is that voters will go to the polls this November and return at least 90% of these rats to office.

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS !!!

This makes me FURIOUS !!!!!

Congress is diddling while the United States burns. Average Americans are suffering because of high energy prices and instead of doing something about it our overpaid Congress is in recess. Apparently these fools don't know a crisis when they see one. Both sides continue to play politics with this vital issue.

We need oil from shale. We need oil from coal. We need oil from offshore wells and we need oil from wells in the continental United States.

Politicians say we can't drill our way out of this problem. We'll never know unless we try. Even if we can't is doing nothing the answer?

Increasing domestic oil production would drastically cut our balance of payments deficit, curb inflation by strenghthening the dollar and enhance our national security.

They have been petitioned and flooded with phone calls, emails and faxes but they pay no attention to their constituents.

Drastic means are called for.

Just about the only means that hasn't been tried is a nationwide general strike. Maybe shutting down the country will finally get their attention.

This makes me FURIOUS!!!!!

Just a heads-up for my many fans (both of you). I have taken the nickname "overhaul" for use in answering comments. I never had a nickname but decided to take this one when Sue in her comment  said Congress needed an overhaul. So thanks to Sue and when you see a comment with the nickname "overhaul" you'll know who it is.