{"id":3168,"date":"2005-03-21T03:53:35","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T11:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/03\/21\/grandstanding-farce-passes-congress\/"},"modified":"2005-03-21T03:53:35","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T11:53:35","slug":"grandstanding-farce-passes-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/21\/grandstanding-farce-passes-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandstanding farce passes Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tSo the Congress has jumped about the loony train and passed a bill grabbing jurisdiction on the Schiavo case away from the State of Florida, a move applauded by that state’s fool of a governor, Jeb Bush:<\/a><\/p>\n

\nGov. Bush, praised the actions of Congress. “We in government have a duty to protect the weak, disabled and vulnerable,” he said in a statement Monday. “I appreciate the efforts of state and federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have taken this duty to heart.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I find it amusing, now, that Congress’ concern for the weak and the vulnerable wasn’t strong enough to extend unemployment benefits at the pit of the recent (some would say “Bush”) recession.<\/p>\n

This law proves that it’s dangerous to allow any one political party to take control of too much of the government. For the sake of the country, the Democrats need to organize and take back the House of Representatives in 2006, and I’m going to do what I can to make that happen, beginning with the removal of my Bush\/Cheney 2004 bumper sticker.<\/p>\n

Check Joe Gandelman’s post on prospects for the mid-term elections<\/a>. He cites Bob (“Prince of Darkness”) Novak,<\/a> to wit:<\/p>\n

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Analysts at the Republican National Committee have sent this warning to the House of Representatives: The party is in danger of losing 25 seats in the 2006 election and, therefore, of losing control of the House for the first time since the 1994 election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It looks good for America.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the Congress has jumped about the loony train and passed a bill grabbing jurisdiction on the Schiavo case away from the State of Florida, a move applauded by that state’s fool of a governor, Jeb Bush: Gov. Bush, praised the actions of Congress. “We in government have a duty to protect the weak, disabled … Continue reading “Grandstanding farce passes Congress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-P6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}