The Stinkin' Sphinx
WASHINGTON – Good evening sunshine, America says hello, you light up our evenings, we light charcoal below.
That right folks, it's time to fire up the old grill, Daylight-saving time is returning with that extra hour of sunshine after work.
The official moment is 2 a.m. local time Sunday, though most people will set their clocks ahead by one hour before they hit the sack on Saturday night.
A few will forget – they're the ones you'll see arriving at church when everybody else is leaving.
Daylight-saving time ends Nov. 7.
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(Just another reason for them to steal an hour a day away from me for 8 months of the year. Bastards)
I've taken the position that since it's free to email my elected employees, I'm going to keep after them. Maybe not EVERY day, but at very frequent intervals. Yep - I'm going to be the "squeeky wheel" in hopes that there are enough others doing the same thing to make an impression. Today's directive:
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[recipient name was inserted here],
I want to take just a moment to remind you of something. It is NOT your
job to "get something done" in Washington. Your job as part of the federal
government is to take care of the business of the Republic. NOT to "take
care of" The People, and NOT to devise plans to set up entitlements of any
sort.
You have no Constitutional authority to do anything whatsoever OTHER THAN
those things that the Constitution says you are ALLOWED to do. That's
right, ALLOWED TO DO. The government of this country is, at it's base, THE
PEOPLE - and NOT a bunch of egotistical elected employees. It will serve
you well if you would keep that in mind.
The entire reason there are two houses in our government is to PREVENT a
runaway government from "doing things" that they should NOT be doing. Like
passing some sort of onerous health care entitlement bill that provides
charity to millions of people at the expense of everyone else. Or
instituting taxes whose purpose is not to support the proper functions of
government but is rather to curb emissions of a gas that every (living)
human being emits.
Stop trying to "get things done" and stick to doing onLY the things the
Constitution charges you with doing. If you don't know what those things
are, please refer to the United States Constitution for guidance. For
Congress, that is Article 1, Section 8.
Sincerely,"
I hope everyone else will help out on this and do whatever can be done to bring those fools into line. www.congress.org makes it very easy
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 22% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President
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Washington (CNN) – Steve Hildebrand was one of the top advisers who helped put President Obama in office, but he has a stark warning for his old friends at the White House and on Capitol Hill.
"I think that there is a real shot we [Democrats] are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren't leading the efforts to reform Washington," Hildebrand said. "We campaigned in '06 and '08, and if voters don't see that change, we haven't lived up to that promise."
Hildebrand, a highly regarded strategist in Democratic circles who helped deliver the crucial state of Iowa for Obama, is an outside consultant pushing issues such as campaign finance and lobbying reform.
He came to the White House on Wednesday for a quiet meeting with the president's senior adviser, David Axelrod, to express a fear that Republicans are seizing the high ground on cleaning up Washington, on issues such as the ethics probe of Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-New York.
Hildebrand is pushing for a strong outside body to oversee congressional ethics so that lawmakers are no longer policing themselves, and he is lobbying on behalf of the Fair Elections Now Act, which would limit federal campaign contributions to $100 to try and cut the influence of big money donations.
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"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems", Rene Descartes
