The following gems from the American political class cannot wait until next month. They are perfect illustrations of how wasteful, out of touch, and inept the current set of American politicians have become and how inefficient and ineffective the government operations they oversee have become.
1) The Washington Times recently wrote an article that again exposed the reality that many Federal government employees across many government agencies spend a lot of their time and taxpayer wealth looking at pornography on their government issued computers on government work time:
- The latest scandal of government employees viewing pornography on work time is centered at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
- But investigation records obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request shows that the problem is widespread.
- One FCC employee is quoted in the Times article that the reason government employees view porn on the job is that “things were slow, he told investigators, so he perused it “out of boredom.”
- One FCC employee was found to be accessing porngraphy on the Internet about eight hours a week during work hours.
A more detailed description of the problem can be seen at:
2) Quotes from people like Nancy Pelosi are what keep many bloggers knee deep in rich material. Another great place for idiotic quotes is from Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. She recently, and I think unintentionally, said the President Obama does less than work than any other President since Grover Cleveland. Huh? Why would you call the leader of your political party lazy and why Grover Cleveland, what data suggest that Obama and Cleveland are that lazy?
You decide what she was saying with the following quote:
“… by voting for the first time in American history to sue the President of the United States for doing his job. And doing his job actually, less often and at a rate that is lower than any President since Grover Cleveland…”
When Democrats are saying that the President is lazy than something must really be wrong at the White House, which may explain the sad shape of the country. More details and her actually speaking the quote can be seen at:
3) While Wasserman-Schultz’s comment is pretty funny political class insanity, the following insanity is not. The Central Intelligence Agency admitted illegally and immorally hacking into Senate Intelligence Committee computers, contrary to what CIA Director Saxby Chambliss vehemently denied of doing so earlier this year. Thus, even though government agencies like the CIA and the NSA were formed to spy on and protect us from foreign threats, it appears that they have now gone rogue and are focusing taxpayer wealth and resources on spying on anyone in the country, from the lowest citizen to U.S. Senators.
The Washington Times reported, based on an internal CIA audit, that CIA personnel did indeed illegally search a Senate computer system, trying to find a damaging document that the agency believed had been stolen, but which Senators said the CIA had voluntarily turned over to Congress. Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who initiated a Senate probe of the snooping, said the CIA’s behavior was “appalling and deeply threatening to our system of checks and balances” and that agency leaders need to take steps to restore trust.
Great, now the politicians know how it feels to be spied on for no reason and having their Constitutional protections ripped away in secrecy.
4) Okay, back to political silliness. Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has also been a great source for insanity and inane comments. Her most famous quote is when she publicly wondered if the Mars Rover was going to go past the site where Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. You cannot make this stuff up.
Recently she got all up and crazy when discussing the fact that House Republicans have initiated a formal law suit against the President for his continual overstepping of Constitutional bounds.
According to various news reports, Lee not only claimed that the law suit was little more than a forerunner to impeaching Obama, but that she and her Democrat colleagues never considered impeaching George W. Bush:
“I ask my colleagues to oppose this resolution for it is in fact a veiled attempt at impeachment and it undermines the law that allows a President to do his job. A historical fact: President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with apprehending terrorists. We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had his authority. President Obama has the authority.”
Unfortunately for Lee, not only did the House Democrats actually did introduce a resolution in 2008 to impeach Bush but…..Sheila Jackson Lee co-sponsored it.
Liar, forgetful, or senile? You decide.
5) Let’s keep going with the silliness. Congresswoman Maxine Walters' history of saying outrageous and often insulting things is well known. A few years ago in public she actually said that all supporters of the Tea Party should go to hell. Nice language from a supposed leader of the country, telling ordinary citizens to go to hell for simply having a different opinion than hers.
News reports say that Congresswoman Waters recently gave a speech at the Islamic Society of Orange County, California, where she called those who oppose Islamic Sharia law implementation “bigots” and “fear mongers.”
For those of you that do not know what Sharia law is, beware. It is a most intolerant form of religious justice that is barbaric and intolerant of women, gays, and just about everything else. But according to Ms. Walters, those that oppose this type of man-focused harsh rules and judgments are the bigots. Unbelievable.
6) And finally consider this analysis from the Heritage Foundation that shows how screwed up this country is from a priority perspective. We recently looked at a report that showed the prison incarceration rate by country. Unfortunately and embarrassingly, the United States had both the highest number of citizens in prison and the highest per capita imprisonment rate.
Very, very sad that a country with our heritage of freedom and liberty would lock up so many of its citizens. I would bet that a large percentage of those imprisoned are for non-violent drug usage but the discussion on our lost war on drugs is for another day.
The damning research from the Heritage Foundation found the following bad priorities:
- The research shows nearly all states spend more on prisons than on our kids' public education in their states.
- In some states the difference is amazing, e.g. in New York, that state spends about $60,076 per prison inmate annually but only $20,639 per pubic school student annually.
- Which raises the question: if the political class actually knew how to operate successful schools and education, would there be less need to spend money on incarcerating citizens later down the road? Are the two connected?
- Heritage raises the same question: Would you rather have your taxpayer dollars going to an increase in school funding per K-12 student if that helped reduce the cost imposed by poorly educated offenders thanks to the high current outflow of funding prisoners?
Given their complete lack of evidence of any problem solving or strategic planning ability, I see no way that they have the courage or the smarts to fix this situation. Einstein once said: “We cannot expect to fix our problems using the same thinking that created the problems in the first place.” Replace the word “thinking” with the words “incumbent politicians” and you will see what I mean.
To see how your individual state’s expenses for prison matches up to you state’s spending on education, go to the following website:
http://dailysignal.com/2014/08/02/state-funding-go-school-books-orange-jumpsuits/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
http://dailysignal.com/2014/08/02/state-funding-go-school-books-orange-jumpsuits/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
That will definitely do it for this month’s insanity, I just cannot take it any more. I am sure the quotes will keep coming, the porn will keep flowing, and the dollars will still be wasted when we check back in next month on the antics and silliness of our political class.
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