Harry Reid = Horse's Rear

I don't mean to offend the many fine, upstanding equines in America, but Senate Majority Leader "Brain-dead" Harry Reid certainly is about as sharp and proactive as a horse's patootie, and produces just about the same thing.

The Senate hasn't produced a budget in the last three years. About the only times the Senate has been allowed to vote -- by its daunted leader, ol' Brain-dead -- it was only to reject the rather ridiculous efforts of the Comrade to formulate a budget. Apparently the Comrade's budgets stunk so bad, not even his fellow democrats would support them.

So now Brain-dead has determined that the Senate will fail to do its budget again this year. After all, 23 senators are up for re-election this November. Brain-dead doesn't want to compel them make any decisions that would jeopardize their shot at keeping their jobs.

Actually, I think most senators -- excluding Dick(head) Durbin, who fails to represent me in Illinois, and a few others, probably are capable of much more than they're doing. If they did any work, they might actually be able to get America going again. 'Course, they'd have to part ways with the Comrade's stupid policies, and ol' Brain-dead doesn't want to see that happen. It would be so embarrassing, wouldn't it?

Who elected Brain-dead to any position of responsiblity? Most particularly, in the Senate? Better question: what the hell does this blockhead do all day?

You know, U.S. Senators make about $180,000.00 a year. Plus they get tons of perks and a cornucopia of health insurance benefits and all that stuff.

For what? I mean, is anyone really interested in keeping these folks alive and healthy?

By contrast, the U.S. House of Representatives have been busy, busy, busy, conducting all kinds of hearings, devising pretty good legislation (in some cases) based on sound reasoning (in some cases) and demonstrating a sincere (if sometimes misguided) concern for the nation. The House has even managed to form coalitions "across the aisle" of both dems and Republicans -- sort of a miracle.

However, if the House passes something, it then must go through the Senate, and there any legislation suffers an untimely death -- Brain-dead won't allow anything to be heard or debated or considered in the Senate. Under guidance of Brain-dead Harry Reid, the Senate has become a legislative morgue. All those hopes and efforts from the House pigeonholed on ice in some dusty Senate shelf.

Apparently the Tea Party, and its many and varied parts, are focusing on congressional races in the upcoming election. Good idea. It's about time to sweep these blockheads out of office.

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Federal government -- just enough rope?

A long, long time ago I knew a guy who had been relatively upstanding and respectable. He probably drank too much, but with his buds. He wasn't married. And the usual pattern is, once you get married and "settle down," you don't have to worry about developing liver cirrhosis any time soon.

One problem, of course, the guy never had "enough" money. He had a pretty good, technical job, and was pretty reliable about showing up sober and on time. But no one ever has "enough" money do they?

Then he inherited something like $80.000.00 from a relative he'd hardly known.

And this guy killed himself on drugs and alcohol in less than a year.

Money isn't always the answer, and if you're totally irresponsible with it, it can hurry your downfall -- big time.

Take the GSA -- U.S. Government Services Agency -- for example. The GSA finds and rents and supervises the maintenance of government-owned and rented facilities. They take care of buildings, are supposed to find space for employees, appropriate equipment and supplies, and stuff like that.

I happen to know that the IRS is going a bit screwy right now trying to find space for an influx of thousands of new agents who are supposed to persecute us all about our socialized medicine "taxes and/or penalties," whichever you prefer. IRS personnel are practically sitting on each others' laps, sharing workstations and computers... and where's the GSA?

(Don't get me wrong. I think anything that cripples or hinders the IRS is probably a good thing.)

However, apparently the GSA has been partying in Hawaii and Las Vegas and are nowhere to be found, as far as the IRS goes. Hey, look under the craps table, you might find a couple GSA critters, busted out and passed out from last night's festivities.

And now we have the Secret Service caught with a dozen prostitutes in Cartegena, Colombia. (Or, Co-lome-bya, as the Comrade says, in his very best Juan-Valdez-the-coffee-guy impersonation.)

I'm really pretty appalled. I believed the Secret Service was above reproach, definitely several notches above the FBI. But it seems the hotel housing a couple hundred SS agents and a few Marines was literally writhing with whores -- many of whom may be under-age, according to US standards.

That's really kind of sad. It also makes you wonder, what the hell is going on? If it was one or two guys, I could see it. But 11?

See, that $800 billion in stimulus went largely to the government -- state, federal, whatever. And apparently these people now have so much money they just don't know what to do with it anymore. So let's get a regiment of whores? Might be better for everyone if they simply invested it in the private sector -- or left it in the private sector to begin with.

And then we also enjoyed the spectacle of this Neely guy from the GSA, being questioned by Darryl Issa's House Oversight Committee, or whatever it is. He was asked, "What was your budget for the conference?" "Who authorized the expenses?" He pleaded the Fifth -- just like all those button-guys from the Mafia. Apparently a lot of Neely's superiors already have been fired. He hasn't been. He just got a $9,000.00 bonus. Maybe he made the best rap video for the Vegas bender? Why not just throw out his sorry ass and refuse the pension? You'd think "contempt of congress" would be reason for termination. I mean, what is he doing that benefits his employers -- the taxpayers?

So it seems that under the Comrade's policies, all these feds from all these agencies are just awash in tax dollars. And the Comrade doesn't seem to give a damn what they do with it. After all, it ain't his money. So they're hanging themselves. They apparently aren't skilled or experienced in handling this kind of dough, and it just overwhelms them, drives them to drink and buy young women.

Sort of Social Darwinism, you know. The morons and idiots drop first, cleansing the gene pool. The only trouble is, this is only after they've squandered the wealth of private citizens.

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