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One of my sources in DC sent me this little gem from Pelosi. Earlier today, President Bush met with most of the GOP House members at the White House. After the meeting, Bush met with reporters and stated that Congress is not getting its work done despite all the promises made and little to show for this year with few bills passed.

The president said Congress has “wasted time” on many different issues and an endless series of votes they knew were going to fail, (troops out of Iraq as an example) and Bush asserts its the first time in 20 years that no appropriations bills bills have been sent to his desk. He called that “a record to not be proud of.”

“Poor president,” says Nancy Pelosi in mock sympathy. “One would think that the president would take some pride in bipartisan accomplishments…he signed the bills!”

The speaker was responding to President Bush’s assertion this morning that congressional Democrats have “wasted valuable time on a constant stream of investigations” and not done the people’s work of passing legislation.

“No Mr. President. Your conduct of the war as been a waste of money,” Pelosi said sharply. “No bid contracts to Halliburton?.. We call that criminal,” she exclaimed.

She ticked off a list of bills that Congress has sent to the president and that he has in fact signed. 9/11 recommendations; student loan expansion, lobbying reform, etc. “Perhaps he has forgotten,” she said, again with the sarcasm.

“I think the president’s statement in many respects was a waste of time,” Pelosi concluded.

Pelosi was asked to respond to the president’s remarks this morning during an unrelated press conference.

— ‘The Commish’ A.J. Sparxx

First, let me say I just love the use of the word “rare” as if a majority of Iraq’s provinces aren’t mostly stable. Anyway the good news continues,

For veterans of Ramadi, it seems like a different place and a different war.

Just last year, soldiers were breaking down doors, hunting insurgents and struggling to secure the city block by block. U.S. troops now are invited into the homes of sheiks for lunch.

Marines and soldiers also have adopted different roles: urban planners, community relations managers and political operatives.

“We’re knee-deep in counterinsurgency here,” said Marine Capt. Brian Cillessen, who’s in charge of a group of about 150 Marines living and working in a house they rent in southern Ramadi.

“We came here with a very conventional mind-set. We weren’t expecting this. … I joined the Marine Corps to be a point man on a patrol,” chuckled the San Juan, N.M., native.

Instead, Cillessen and his troops are conducting a census and registering weapons, repairing sewer systems, ensuring fuel for cooking and heat is sold for fair prices, approving contracts to build new schools, parks and playgrounds, and perhaps most important, cultivating relationships with Iraqi police and citizens.

But, but, but Bush had “no plan for the peace”!!!!! Aren’t we just indiscriminately killing women and children? Iraq was all kites and smiling kids prior to OIF, wasn’t it?
More,

As U.S. troops walk patrols, they’re swarmed by children asking for candy, chocolate or pencils. Basic phrases in Arabic — hello, how are you, what is your name — fly back and forth to the delight of both the children and adults.

Attacks, including those by small-arms fire, explosive devices, have decreased from about 30 a day in January to fewer than one a day now, according to the U.S. military. Last year, during the holy month of Ramadan, there were 442 incidents in the area; this year, there were four, the military said.

Occupiers!!! And here I thought all the troops were despised and busy guarding the (stolen) oil pipelines!

Democrats are going to have so much egg on their faces next year that if we had an objective media they would be mocked out of existence. Sadly they won’t be, but those “progressive” defeatists should be held account for their disgusting behavior.

— The Ace

And yet all those leftists concerned about “corruption” are utterly silent on these matters,

The powerful U.S. congressman has used his clout onCapitol Hill to create thousands of jobs and steer billions of dollars in federal spending to help his hometown in western Pennsylvania recover from devastating floods and the flight of its steelmakers.

Johnstown’s good fortune has come at the expense of taxpayers everywhere else. Defense contractors have found that if they open an office here and hire the right lobbyist, they can get lucrative, no-bid contracts. Over the past decade, Concurrent Technologies Corp., a defense-research firm that employs 800 here, got hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to Rep. Murtha despite poor reviews by Pentagon auditors. The National Drug Intelligence Center, with 300 workers, got $509 million, though the White House has tried for years to shut it down as wasteful and unnecessary.

Reading things like this makes me sick. This man is a disgrace to Congress and our country.

— The Ace

Courtesy of the “progressives” of America at the Daily Kos:

I wrote a diary a short time ago about how the Bush administration helped ruin my marriage. It wasn’t because my husbandwas a Bush supporter or anything…it was because of all the stresses from job loses, living without health insurance and getting sick, to my husband being forced to take a job where he wasn’t home much that helped ruin my marriage.
…
Please share your stories about how the bush administration has taken it’s toll on your relationships; they can be stories from economy related to the personal.

Ok, here we go!

Before my head began exploding a few years ago in response
to Busharama, I’d exercise a lot… I mean, almost daily, joyous-type
exericising. Now I come home with a slight frown on my face and
come here to hear the news & be a mojo-mama even if too
tired to comment, and hang for hours here and on other blogs,
as if the light will shine again and I’ll be present to hear the
BREAKING news about that.

Bush, I blame you for my new-ish extra 20 pounds.

Awww, turn into an angry leftist fatty, Bush’s fault!

For several years I turned down invitations from a dear friend because I was afraid I would lose control and call her and her family fools and worse. The are very nice people who come from narrow backgrounds and are lifelong repugs and listen only to fox news
…

He is really easy to hate, from the first debates where he announced his favorite polititical philosopher is “Jesus Christ, because he changed my life.”

I knew I was in trouble, and the country too. And then 9-11, when he was handed authority by the Democrats, with someone central to the party announcing, “President Bush is my Commander in Chief now.”

H0w about that for tolerance! Anyway, the mother of all comments,

After I actually took the trouble to inform myself about politics a couple years ago, and learned the true extent of the damage Bush has done to this country, I have a constant boiling rage inside me. Absolutely constant. Never ceases, though sometimes I can get it down to a simmer so I can go out in public and hang out with friends without doing something stupid. On top of the anger is a generous dose of fear and anxiety, coming directly from the Bush administration’s march to fascism.

Frequently, I’m so intensely angry that I hit things. I just broke my bookshelf today because I hit it. My knuckles have decent callouses on them from hitting things, and various pieces of my property show signs of my rage.
I’ve also developed a venomous hatred of Bush and his cronies and the 23-percenters that support him.
By all rights, I should be getting help, but I’m not going to. I was soured on the psychiatry business by my experience with anti-depressants - I ended up nearly emotionless, apathetic, and lost my motivation and creative drive, and as a result, I was unemployed for three years and had to move back in with my parents. I was your classic anti-depressant zombie.

Sounds like the perfect caricature of today’s typical leftist. Losers. Remember this woman?

– The Ace

When Hurricane Katrina hit we were told that global warming was the causeand to expect more such storms. How’s that going?

During the past 30 years, only 1977, 1981, and 1983 have had less activity to date (January-TODAY, Accumulated Cyclone Energy). For the period of June 1 - TODAY, only 1977 has experienced LESS tropical cyclone activity than 2007.

But don’t worry! I’m sure some leftist somewhere is busy explaining how this too is proof of man-made global warming!

— The Ace

A pro-illegal lawyer’s take on New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s decision to give illegal aliens a special driver’s license:

“What we’re going to have,” he said, “is a list of undocumented aliens, and there’s no way New York will be able to keep the federal government’s hands off this list and protect the people whose names are on the list.

— PoliPundit

— W.C. Varones

Nice,

ON HIS THOUGHTS ON HILLARY CLINTON AS A PRESIDENT:

“I think America would not remain the great nation it has always been if she were the leader, and that’s because this is such a critical time.”
“And despite being a very lovely person, I think she’s just fundamentally wrong in the course that she would set for America.”

“She hasn’t run anything, and the government of the United States is not a place for a president to be an intern. You need to have experience actually leading and running things.”

As far as I’m concerned that is too kind.

— The Ace

Can he be successful? I hope so,

A career Army member left the service two years short of retirement to move here and try his hand at politics by challenging longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. John Murtha.

First-time candidate William T. Russell, 45, a Republican, acknowledged that taking on a popular, 18-term congressman in the 2008 election will be “an uphill battle.”

“But it’s one that must be fought,” Russell told the Tribune-Democrat in Johnstown.

Russell, who moved from the Washington, D.C., area to Murtha’s district specifically to take on the congressman, has a long Army and Army Reserve career that includes tours of duty in the Balkans and both Iraq wars. He and his wife, Kasia, were in the Pentagon when a hijacked airliner slammed into the building on Sept. 11, 2001. Both escaped unhurt.

Murtha’s call for troop withdrawal from Iraq “is just flat-out wrong,” Russell said. Like Irey, Russell also criticized Murtha’s public allegations that unnamed U.S. soldiers committed “cold-blooded murder and war crimes” against innocent Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005.

Remember that silly meme leftists were peddling about “all the war vets” that were running as Democrats? I guess that means since they’re for “war vets” they’ll support Mr. Russell, right?

— The Ace

The Ross Report
by Richard Ross of Conservatives with Attitude!

My sources in DC have toldme that Tom Tancredo has decided not to seek another term in the House.

A spokesman for the Colorado Congressman has confirmed he will not seek a sixth term.

Tancredo is running for the Republican presidential nomination, but the spokesman says the decision not to seek re-election is separate from that effort.

More than a dozen House Republicans have recently announced plans not to seek another term. Several, like Tancredo, aren’t seeking re-election but are running for other offices.

The champion of border security and immigration enforement has been trailing the front runners since he threw his hat in the ring.

— ‘The Commish’ A.J. Sparxx