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http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/555
I. The Republican Congress That Tried to Bail Out Enron

Mere days after 9-11, the Republican controlled House put together a “financial stimulus” package that would have given the failing Enron billions of dollars of your tax money to flush down the toilet with all your other money that the company had already stolen. They did not call it the “Enron Bailout of 2001 Bill”. But that is what it was. The White House lobbied for it. The Democratic Senate considered it…

And Democrats decided that Enron did not deserve a bailout. Too bad if their hopes of building a Trans-Afghanistan pipeline had been crushed by the collapse of the World Trade Center. What were Ken Lay and the Bush administration doing promising a “carpet of gold” to the Taliban anyway? We do not negotiate with terrorists, and we certainly do not sign contracts with terrorists!



II. The Republican Congress That Tried to Take Away Your Right to Die With Dignity

Remember Terri Shiavo? Remember how the GOP decided that they needed to “excite the pro-life base”? Remember how they wrote a law, known as “The Palm Sunday Compromise” that applied only to Shiavo’s parents---breaking the law in the process, since Congress is not allowed to pass laws in respect to persons? Remember how President Bush staged a flight back to DC to sign this bogus piece of legislation? Remember the many hours of TV footage we were shown of poor Ms. Shiavo in her vegetative state? Death with dignity? Don’t make me laugh. The Republican Congress under Tom Delay turned that poor woman’s death into a three ring media circus.

III. The Republican Congress That Threatened to Go Nuclear

The 109th U.S. Congress did things like give Big Oil a multibillion dollar tax break---as if they needed an incentive to drill with gas prices over $4 a gallon. And they saddled you with credit card and medical debt until the end of time.

But…but…Democrats did not filibuster it!

Remember the so called “Nuclear option”? I am not here to argue for or against the legality of the “Nuclear option”. I want to discuss the mindset of politicians who do not simply threaten to hold their breath until their faces turn blue. No, they declare that they will drop a great big atomic bomb on the Government if they do not get their way. There is something very disturbing about this image. It shows a lack of respect for the rule of law---and human life. Remember how Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) offered to fly a jet over Syria and drop a couple of nukes on that country?

IV. The Republican Congress that Killed the Federal Government

1995 was not a very merry Christmas if you were a veteran in need of services or a retiree dependent upon your Social Security or a federal employee with bills to pay. In 1995, Newt’s Republican Congress decided that the country did not need a federal government---and so they shut it down. Remember why Newt did it? Because Clinton made him sit at the back of Air Force One.



V. The Republican Congressman Who Shoots Watermelons….and Harasses the President

Remember Rep. Dan Burton (R-Indiana)? The GOP stuck a sock in his mouth after Bush stole the 2000 election. But before that, he used his position on the House Government Reform Committee to investigate Clinton. And Clinton again. And yet more Clinton. Did not matter what the president did. Old rootin’ tootin’ shootin’ Dan was there to mail out subpoenas and call witnesses.

Dan Burton became a legend in his own time by inviting reporters to watch him shoot watermelons in his backyard. No, he was not drunk (I don’t think). He wanted to prove his theory that Vince Foster did not commit suicide.

I have deliberately avoided cluttering this OP with links, however, I could not resist this one. If the GOP takes over the House, they have a new “Dan Burton” just waiting to take over the 24-7 job of harassing President Obama. Darrell Issa, the Republican Congressman from California, who got Democratic Governor Gray Davis kicked out of office in California, so that Arnold could quietly shut down the Enron civil suit. That case could have been a serious embarrassment to the Bush administration had witnesses been deposed.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/07/darrell...
Darrell Issa has already proven that he can take out one elected Democrat. In the new, Republican 112th Congressional House of Representatives, he is going to set his sights higher.
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