Tell him/her to support the hell out of this bill if he/she wants your vote.
The REINS Act would require Congressional authorization for any new Major Rule proposed by the executive branch. It now has now has 57 cosponsors, including noted Constitutionalist Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). It also enjoys the support of the Chamber of Commerce. Under REINS, the numerous proposed regulations pertaining to health care, climate change, energy, financial regulation, and our economy would have to be submitted to Congress for approval. REINS would continue to allow the executive agencies charged with writing rules to propose draft rules, but would end the delegation of Congressional authority that has enabled these agencies to enact them unilaterally.
Sidesplitter of the Day The video of the constantly leaking Gulf well will damage Palin and the Republicans, not Obama, according to Henry 'Hairless Wombat' Waxman.
Harry before and after joining the Hair Club for Men..
On the rise and fall of the Obama Empire... Oh Peggy, Peggy! Have you come back to the fold, my dear? Did that little fling not work out for you?
Peggy on Obama in 2008
Ah, he didn't look quite so lovely, so charming, so...so vaguely humorous in the cruel morning light, did he? I feel your pain, sister. Have a vodka tonic and tell us all about it. (excerpted; to read the entire delicious piece, click on the link in bold)
The president is starting to look snakebit. He's starting to look unlucky, like Jimmy Carter. It wasn't Mr. Carter's fault that the American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran, but he handled it badly, and suffered.
It isn't Mr. Obama's fault that an oil rig blew in the Gulf and a gusher resulted. He already had two wars and the great recession. But the lack of adequate federal government response appropriately redounds on him.
The administration's failure to take impressive action after the spill dinged its reputation for competence. The president's failure to turn things around Tuesday night with a speech damaged his reputation as a man whose rhetorical powers are such that he can turn things around with a speech. He lessened his own mystique. Reaction among his usual supporters was, in the words of Time's Mark Halperin, "fierce, unforeseen disappointment." Dan Froomkin of the Huffington Post called the speech "profoundly underwhelming," a "feeble call to action." Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich called the speech "vapid." Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times said the president looked "awkward and robotic." MSNBC's Keith Olbermann famously said "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days." Chris Matthews scored "a lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk." Mr. Olbermann, on Mr. Obama's well-written peroration: "It's nice but, again, how? Where was the 'how' in this speech when the nation is crying out for 'how'?"
The right didn't like the speech either.
Well now Peggy, it depends on what you mean by "like". I can tell you it was my favorite speech by far. The excuses, obfuscations, feigned emotion, and startling display of fecklessness (startling to Democrats, anyway) were no more than I expected, but the uncontrolled dismay of freshly disillusioned pundits was more than I could have hoped for. It was the best laugh I've had since Chris Christie, Bob McDonnell, and then Scott Brown collectively humiliated Obama by handily defeating the losers he'd backed. The shock and horror of the leftist media had me in stitches. "This is not a referendum on Obama". Before that, the "Best Side-Splitter" went to the reaction to Chicago losing the Olympics in the first round..
Chicago is out?!
Be still, my heart. I knew when Obama was elected that it would be a disaster for the country. The only light I saw at the end of the tunnel was the possibility of the conservative-minded general public being galvanized into action by the sheer magnitude of the disaster that is Obama & Company. Lo and behold, the recoil has exceeded my hopes. What I didn't foresee was Obama coming unglued less than two years in. Coming unglued to such a degree that Chris Matthews and his ilk can't cover for him.
Let us all bow our heads and observe a moment of silence over the bloody shambles of the 'progressive' dream. (after we stop laughing hysterically)
The press traveling with Obama on the campaign never had a lovey-dovey relationship with him. He treated us with aloof correctness, and occasional spurts of irritation. Like many Democrats, he thinks the press is supposed to be on his side.
The former constitutional lawyer now in the White House understands that the press has a role in the democracy. But he is an elitist, too, as well as thin-skinned and controlling. So he ends up regarding scribes as intrusive, conveying a distaste for what he sees as the fundamental unseriousness of a press driven by blog-around-the-clock deadlines.
Now that Obama has been hit with negative press, he’s even more contemptuous. “He’s never needed to woo the press,” says the NBC White House reporter Chuck Todd. “He’s never really needed us.”
All of this makes the truth quite ironic. The man who affects to despise the press and to be above following the news has displayed a very telling behavior pattern regarding the Gulf spill, as covered in this excellent piece in the Washington Examiner.
Here are the highlights, with accompanying sound track..
Media says go back to the Gulf coast Obama makes second visit to the Gulf coast...3 days later
Media says meet with BP CEO Tony Hayward Obama announces meeting with BP CEO Tony Hayward..2 days later
Media says cancel trip to Indonesia Obama cancels trip to Indonesia...2 days later
Media says Obama should deliver a primetime address Obama delivers primetime address..12 days later. (That required a speech, it takes time to coordinate a million monkeys with a million keyboards.)
Media says, "Show Passion!" Obama "furious" "jaw clenched"..lag time, 2 days
Media says Obama "too detached" Obama tells sweet, personal "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" story.. lag time, 4 days
Media says "get angry!" Obama looks for, well, you know..
"Treat me good, and I'll do anything..I'm just a puppet and you hold my string..I'm your puppet."
Iran promised to expand its atomic research Wednesday as its president vowed to punish the West and force it to "sit at the negotiating table like a polite child" before agreeing to further talks.
So much for Obama "restoring our relations" with the Mideast and the rest of the world. You might almost think he was utterly clueless the whole time and living in a fantasy world of his own making. You know, one where all he had to do was show up and everyone would break out the unicorns and ride together into the sunset. Between breaking his campaign promises, his hapless bungling of foreign diplomacy, the American economy, and now the oil spill cleanup, I wonder how leftists are taking the massive disappointment as their pipe dreams dissipate in a cloud of smoke...
But if the standard to which they are holding Obama is impossible, that’s because it’s hoist-by-his-own-petard time for Obama, as brought to you by Euripides. Anyone who greets a primary victory as Obama did in 2008 by saying that history would record that “this was the moment when the oceans began to recede” is just asking for it. And “it” may be upon him.
Of course, what Jon is complaining about is that Obama isn't fulfilling his campaign promises, which were all geared to appeal to the slavering hunger of leftists to seem righteous in their own eyes. If Jon boy and the rest of the howling pack had listened to conservatives, we could have told him that Obama was blowing smoke as fast as he could produce it.
That's right Jon, weep into your nonfat vanilla soy latte about how Obama suckered you into thinking he was going to fulfill all your leftist fantasies. Meanwhile, you continue to mock the only person in the political spectrum right now who has been known to voluntarily relinquish power over a matter of principle. On multiple occasions, no less.
