america's dumbest congressmen

“dont worry, its bipartisan.



http://radaronline.com/features/2006/10/americas_dumbest_congressmen_a_radar_special_report.php”

“i posted that yesterday mr slow on the draw”

“yea sorry i dont read much of the crap on here anymore. one week being shown the upper limits of tremendous self-ignorance and inability to provide adequate rationalizations was enough for me.

its a funny link though.
last edited: 10/18/06 3:33:31 PM”

“Lets not forget Shelia Jackson Lee fromt he 18th in Texas...remember when she asked NASA if they could drive the mars rover over to where the Apollo Crews planted the Flag?

LOL...one of your finest.”

“LOL...one of your finest.

wha? im not black.”

“Boy Hiker...why do you always have to bring COLOR into something. Can't you follow the advice of the Reverend Martin Luther King and measure people on the quality of their charachter....

the name you so conveniently Absconded with would have understood that. Then again I guess you needed that comment to stay in good with the Grand Whatchamacallit....”

“Isn't this thread title a trick question?”

“Wow! I was losing hope until I got to number 2. Don Young (R-AK) is a freaking nut job. If Harris (r-Fl) hadn't had more press, he'd be a lock for number 1.

Young represent everything that is wrong with this state!”

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this ad will appear in sundays new york times
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“Nice!”

“Hey DumbA$$es, it's satire!!!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/21/115032/846

New York, NY (Rotters)- In a vote of 3,100,000 to 100,000 yesterday, the members of MoveOn.org voted overwhelmingly to place a second ad in the New York Times .........

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this ad will appear in sundays new york times
hikerboy
6:53:04 PM


Lie much, vile?”

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http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=275267411712756

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Friday, September 21, 2007

Election 2008: MoveOn.org once crowed that it had bought and owned the Democratic Party. With the Senate now blasting its tactics, that's an open question. But not, apparently, for Democrats running for president.

The Senate voted 72-25 on Wednesday to stand up for the integrity of America's leading military field commander, Gen. David Petraeus.

Everyone knew what it was really about: MoveOn's big-bucks ad in the New York Times that outrageously attacked Petraeus even before he gave his report to Congress on the Iraq War's progress.MoveOn.org's Sept. 10 full-page ad childishly played on the field commander's name as "General Betray Us," in a pre-emptive bid to obscure any potentially positive news about the war getting out.

The Senate's nonbinding resolution was simple enough: It expressed "full support" for the general returning from the field of battle and "strongly" condemned "personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces." Given that they voted 81-0 to confirm him less than a year earlier, it was a reasonable gesture.

MoveOn's ad disgusted average Americans across the country. Even the Democrat-dominated Senate couldn't halt a vote to condemn it. A quarter of the Senate, however, did refuse to condemn the attacks, and curiously, that included all Senate Democrats who seek to become the military's next commander in chief.

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd voted against the symbolic measure. Sens. Joe Biden and Barack Obama had other things to do that day and abstained from voting.

That's peculiar. Democrats like Clinton are perfectly capable of voting against radical leftists when their stunts step over the line.

Last summer, for example, Dodd sponsored a bill condemning Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, for his shutdown of TV station RCTV as millions of angry Venezuelans protested in Caracas. Clinton, Obama and Biden signed on as co-sponsors.

If they hadn't, they might have looked as though they were in the dictator's pocket.

That's why these same Democrats' failure to condemn cheap-shot ads against Petraeus is worth a closer look.

MoveOn.org is the sort of radical group that ought to be on a park soapbox instead of driving the U.S. presidential debate.

But two things change that equation:

One is that MoveOn.org claims to have 3.2 million members. These leftists represent a committed segment of the Democratic voter base, whose support is important to winning the Democratic nomination next year.

MoveOn.org claims that its average member contribution is $40. For a Democratic candidate to dare sanction the group, no matter how boorish its actions, there are consequences. Result: MoveOn.org can act out as wildly as it likes, driving the party left — and it will.

Second, MoveOn.org has gotten financing from the deep pockets of billionaires such as George Soros, who pledged it $5 million in the past and implied he would give more if that's what it took to win elections. That's not his only cause. He funds a network of organizations that have critical uses to the Democrats, such as a think tank closely associated with Hillary Clinton's supporters and ex-aides called the Center for American Progress, and plenty of others.

Small wonder that the MoveOn.org organizers feel confident to carry on. The group's organizers claim to confer with Democratic representatives or their aides in Congress every morning.

MoveOn's leaders declared in a 2004 e-mail that its cash contributions ensure its control of the Democrats: "Now it's our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back."

With a slew of senators who won't even condemn their worst excesses in a mere symbolic vote, it's hard to dispute that statement.”

“Gee, that looks familiar,    LOL”

“Anyone able to track down and post the line of questioning (to "Big Oil") from Congress yesterday? LMFAO! These blowhards (Congress) prove once again they are absolutely clueless about how anything works.”

“They figured out the campaign money thing, did they? Markit bell, ding ding.
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“1979 all over again. (F) FlOoReD Motors is down today , because of a future earnings downgrade in truck and large car dropping sales.”

“American is now charging $15 for every checked bag due to the expense of fuel.

It is the beginning of the end!”

“Call or email your dumb congressmen. Tell them we need to drill for our own oil. Tell them we need to stop handcuffing ourselves.”

“Yeah. That's the solution! Forward thinking! Drill more oil!”

“That would be $.7894736 per box knife for 19.”

“I suppose the better solution is to do nothing but pi$$ and moan---even though all that does is get $4/gallon gas and going higher, but....whatever.”

“I think there is a future for my plan to market cars powered by harnessed seagulls.”

“No, non, the solution is to provide solutions that help obviate the need for a terminal energy source and set society up to better operate in that arena. I don't doubt that we will have to cut into some of our domestic sources of oil, but that shouldn't be the solution, only a bandaid.”

“I'm with ya there.”

“I don't know if more drilling is the answer or not. We need to start exploring cheaper forms of fuel for our cars. It is clear that we will never stop driving. Sure, a lot of people will seek alternatives if gas climbs past $5 bucks, however you will still have the douchebags driving the Hummers after it hits $10 a gallon.

If we don't start this now, we never will.

A big #&%!$ you to the oil companies would be giving up these vechicles that suck their product down. I would trade my Jeep in right now on a new car, except I do not want 2 notes. I may start checking our used smaller cars.”

“I may start checking our used smaller cars.

Okay, oil has hit the top , I'm a seller of oil and buying hat foil.”

“Anything 3-cylinder will get you 40+ mpg...”

“#&%!$ that, I plan to buy a used SUV that gets mid 20's mpg at basement bargain prices and use the money I save on car payments to pay for the extra gas I use plus going out to dinner from time to time. Then when gas prices go back down will have even more free money to spend.”

“cnbc.com/id/24775533

Where's 'all of the above'?”

“Who is to blame for America's oil crisis? * 3182 responses

OPEC
4.7%

President Bush
19%

Congress
35%

Speculators/Investors
22%

Big Oil
3.8%

Consumers
15%

LOL!!!”

“or the rise of the Euro as a stable currency?”

“Or, the communese lead imports that sunk the dollar?”

“We need to keep buying chinese products. As long as we are a major market for them they won't dump all the dollars they hold. If they ever decide to divest themselves of their dollars, the US will be like pre-wwII germany when you needed a wheelbarrel full of currency to buy you a loaf of bread. We'd have to default on all our loans and probably end up in more wars than we can handle.”

“probably end up in more wars than we can handle...

Newflash: we're already there.”

“we are handling these wars just fine. I don't see a draft in effect.”

“http://en.sevenload.com/videos/5R0Ex3l-Waters-oil
Watch the short video!

Maxine Waters (D-CA) threatens to nationalize America�s oil industry

Befitting the stupidity of this idea, she doesn�t even know what the proper term for it is. Watch the people laughing at her!”

““Anyone able to track down and post the line of questioning (to "Big Oil") from Congress yesterday? LMFAO! These blowhards (Congress) prove once again they are absolutely clueless about how anything works.”

Yeah, it kind of goes like this;

*Congress blocks drilling ANWAR
*Congress blocks drilling in Gulf of Mexico
*Congress blocks drilling off the shores of Florida and California
*Congress blocks the use of shale oil
*Congress blocks the development of coal to oil
*Congress proposes a new bill Cap and Trade that will raise gas by at least another $1.25.
*Congress refuses to lift federal gas taxes for even the summer.

So Congress drags the heads of big oil up to capitol hill for all the world to see and they ask, "So why is gas so high? Why are you guys making so much money?". All the congressmen get their time in the light looking like they are fighting for the little guy and then in a few weeks when they release the findings that, yet again, oil companies are not colluding to gouge prices it won't even be a blurb on page 6.

It's all supply and demand. There's more demand than we can supply. Oil companies are making 8% profit which is less than most daily living items such as food and things. And let's not forget who makes the most profit from gas and oil...the federal government who makes more than double what big oil makes off of every gallon (18.4%).”

“I used to watch a lot more C-Span. It was too depressing. So many of these guys simply spoke to hear themselves speak. The people being questioned are always smarter than Congress.”

“There's more demand than we can supply.Nigal

Shouldn't that read; We demand more than they can supply?
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“More euphemism; Take the sentence,It's all supply and demand., silly yes , but why does supply always precede demand? Without demand, supply is unnecessary. I have never owned a 'buggy wipe', but if I dwere that lucky, I should wipe myself for posting this crap.hehe”

“Maxine Waters, (D) threatens to "socialize" US oil. Says it should be under government control. LMFAO!!


Here's a surprise: she's from California!
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“Some of the questions were stupid, but to portray big oil as some sort of hapless benificiaries of factors beyond their control is naive in the extreme.”

“Pemex del Baja Norte Mas. Sounds about right.”

“I have to say a lot of people here show they have little idea of how the oil industry works. It's effectively a series of cartels from the top to the bottom.”

“Funniest part of it all is bush going and holding hands in Saudi and being told to #&%!$ off. Great foresight in your energy policy there boys.”

“but to portray big oil as some sort of hapless benificiaries of factors beyond their control is naive in the extreme.�
Y2
12:41:18 PM
5/23/08


And to portray them as the the problem behind high gas prices is equally naive and/or dishonest.”

“They are part of the problem NonC. They have a major major role in the production of oil globally.

Incidentally - you guys laughing at California, just how are things in your part of the world compared to those wackos out west?”

“We have our wackos too, lol.


Okay, just how major is "major major"? Got a ranking?”