Why all right thinking Americans must loathe the current apparatchiks in power in DC

Is it my imagination or do they cut off his mike at 1:41?

I didn't feel nausea so much as an overwhelming urge to wrap my hands around that fat neck and strangle the life out of her.

Posted by JewishOdysseus at November 30, 2010 2:07 PM

rope, tree, politician.

some assembly required.

repeat as necessary, but no less than every 20 years.

Posted by pdwalker at November 30, 2010 2:28 PM

Who was the moron with the gavel?

Posted by bill at November 30, 2010 3:32 PM

That POMPOUS BITCH should be horse-whipped!!!!!

Posted by Hangtown Bob at November 30, 2010 3:39 PM

The acting speaker's sullenness is really extraordinary. Your country has been directed for two generations by these people. Can you, as individuals, maintain political focus for the time it will take to undo their damage? For the sake of the entire @&*$ing human race, I hope so.

Posted by jbeckett at November 30, 2010 4:11 PM

The Acting Speaker is a stupid cow who has apparently never held the gavel before and is utterly ignorant of parliamentary procedure. I have to assume she was elected by some people somewhere, but who? And why? And how many of her votes came from dead convicts?

She's unable to proceed without staffers after every phrase, much less whole sentences. Is she capable of going to the little girls' room by herself?

Oh, and did I mention she's a stupid cow? Oh, yeah . . . .

Posted by Don Rodrigo at November 30, 2010 4:17 PM

This is what decades of affirmative action has bought you......In her smug ignorance, she can't grasp the irony that while she tries to muzzle the intellecutally superior she is incapable of even forming the right procedural words without being told what to say....like a parrot.

Posted by Blastineau at November 30, 2010 5:03 PM

Gerard, posting this affront to the senses (the left side) next to the photograph of the soldier hugging his parent(the right side) is brilliant. We send our bravest and brightest to die in foreign lands, and send our stupidest and most corrupt to rule over us. I can only shake my head in despair.

Posted by Jewel at November 30, 2010 5:31 PM

The Acting Speaker of the House you see is the honorable Laura Richardson (D) Sacramento. Here's a little background on this wonderful representative (apologies for the long quote):

After her election to the California Assembly, Richardson purchased a home in Sacramento with no money down and a subprime mortgage. According to county records, Richardson received a default notice and Notice of Trustee's Sale in late 2007. In December 2007, Richardson was behind in payments by more than $18,000. According to the couple that sold the home to Richardson, Richardson was not maintaining the home. Sharon Helmar has stated: "The neighbors are extremely unhappy with her. She didn't mow the lawn or take out the garbage while she was there. We lived there for a long time, 30 years, and we had to hide our heads whenever we came back to the neighborhood."

The real estate broker who bought Richardson's Sacramento house at the foreclosure sale accused her of receiving preferential treatment because her lender had issued a notice to rescind the sale. James York, owner of Red Rock Mortgage, said he would file a lawsuit against Richardson and her lender, Washington Mutual, but settled out of court with the terms not disclosed. Richardson had not been making payments on the property for nearly a year, and had also gone into default on her two other houses in Long Beach and San Pedro. Richardson, D-Long Beach, has said that the auction should never have been held, because she had worked out a loan modification agreement with her lender beforehand and had begun making payments.

Richardson also initially did not disclose a loan from a strip club owner when on the City Council, public records show.

What a fine, upstanding citizen, certainly worthy of holding the Speaker's gavel, yes?

Posted by Johnny Beigler at November 30, 2010 5:48 PM

pdwalker, on the theme of your post:

rope, tree, banker.

some assembly required.

repeat as necessary, but no less than every 5 years.

rope, tree, lawyer.

some assembly required.

repeat as necessary, but no less than every 5 years.

Now, if all three of these utterly corrupt, self-serving piles of malodorous excrement can be got under control, the rest of us who actually work for a living (as in make things or provide services people actually want) might have a decent life. Until the next bunch of crooks come along, that is.

Posted by Fletcher Christian at November 30, 2010 11:46 PM

Buyer is a good guy but like many modern conservatives he's more interested in putting on his traditional "Red Coat", holding precise formation, and waiting for the order before waging war. Now, the fact that this "play by the rules" has ceded most of the culture and country to the Leftist radicals, is not important. What is of ultimate importance, it seems, is to show the other "Red Coats" that our rule-following is second to none. Victory is an afterthought or a wish.

The Left doesn't control all that it does because they played by the rules better than their enemies. They own the battlefield because they put victory above everything else and will go anywhere to make that happen.

"Get in their face and punch back twice as hard."

Posted by Scott M at December 1, 2010 3:11 AM

"The Left doesn't control all that it does because they played by the rules better than their enemies. They own the battlefield because they put victory above everything else and will go anywhere to make that happen."

Yes, everything and anything for their victory.
But that's not the only reason the left controls all...

Americans have abdicated their responsibility to ensure that we have a government of, by and for the People. The ignorance, indifference and just plain selfishness is now going to cost us more than most can imagine.

Posted by Uncle Jefe at December 1, 2010 12:03 PM

Uncle Jefe your point is the Rosetta Stone of American decline.

Posted by Scott M at December 1, 2010 1:06 PM

Always play by the other side's rules. They'll hate you for it. The screaming, crying foul and stamping of feet lets you know that when you put one in the morgue, you are winning.

Repeat, don't stop to rinse. Wipe your hands on their shirt front.

Posted by Vermont Woodchuck at December 2, 2010 5:32 AM

We need to get rid of the public employees unions.

Posted by Fat Man at December 2, 2010 8:15 PM

who is responsile for putting in someone to act as speaker who doesn't have a clue about handling the job. the only one worse then that person is the people that elected this total incompetent.

Posted by tommy mc donnell at December 13, 2010 10:26 PM