What's Chafing Me

House Democrats

Just a few short months ago, Democratic candidates for Congress were lambasting GOP incumbents on the campaign trail in two critical areas:(1) The war in Iraq, and (2) Big Spending/High Deficits. At the time, I found it totally hilarious that liberals, of all people, were criticizing a Congressional majority of wasteful spending. This is the party that gave us the three greatest boondoggles in American history in welfare, social security, and medicare. This is the party that still advocates for universal health care. This is the party of ABSCAM.

Despite their own abysmal record over the past 50 years of emptying the national coffers, the American people still swallowed what the Dem's media surrogates spoon fed them and elected the Democratic party into the Congressional majority.

So, did the Democrats keep their promise of fiscal responsibility? Of course not, they're liberals! Instead of quickly passing an emergency spending bill to provide the troops in Iraq with life-saving supplies, House Democrats earmarked the bill to death with 21 billion dollars worth of pork for such necessities as peanut storage and more office space for democratic staffers.

That's right folks, in Liberal America, giving extra cube space for little Joanie in the policy shop to hang up her Dixie Chicks poster is equally as important as making sure GI Joe in Iraq has enough armor on his Hummer to withstand a roadside bomb!

What angers me the most is that NO ONE is calling them on it. It's not like this was a super-duper secret bill passed in the dark of night. These douche bags are high-fiving each other on CNN and bragging it up to reporters;

"We have provided all of the money the president requested- and more," boasted House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer.

Only a liberal would have enough balls to boast about adding a farm's worth of pork to a military spending bill, knowing that in January he had said this:

"[House Democrats will] help bring back fiscal responsibility by holding members accountable for their earmarks"--Steny Hoyer, 1/5/07

Of course, the media ignores this little tidbit, instead focusing on the earth shattering issue of whether the Attorney General of the United States fired subordinate political appointees in his Justice Department.
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Dick Vitale

Is there any more annoying blowhard on ESPN than Dicky V? This guy screams unbearably at the camera and uses stupid little catchphrases that make 19-year old dumb asses who are high on the hippie lettuce laugh, in order to make up for his lack of analyst skill. He regularly strokes the manjunk of various ACC programs, most notably Duke, as he picks them to win the national championship nearly every year. Worse yet, is that his tiresome rants end up sucking up more intelligent and coherent analysts' (like Digger Phelps and Jay Bilas) face time on SportsCenter and College Gamenight.

This year, his big pick was North Carolina. Boy, you love taking a stretch in your predictions, huh Dicky. He picked the Tar Heels in preseason, cheered for them endlessly during the season (except when they played Duke, of course), and has been confident that "when its all said and done, baby, the Tar Heels will be cutting down the nets in Atlanta" throughout the NCAA Tournament. So, what happened when Dicky's juggernaut got pounded in overtime by Georgetown in the East Regional Finals? He goes into Alzheimers mode and acts as though he had Florida all along. Wow Dicky, you're really going out on a limb there by picking the #1 overall seed and defending national champions.

Note to ESPN: Your anchors don't appreciate a 70-year old lunatic bandwagon fan posing as a basketball analyst screaming into their ear piece every night. Your other analysts don't appreciate him stealing their face time by ranting for 2 minutes straight about the "heart" of a team or about how "dedicated" their fans are, while leaving them only 15 seconds to actually break a game down. And, your viewers . . . . .well, we just mute him or change the channel. So, wise up and show this over the hill Cameron Crazy the door. Hell, the Detroit Pistons did it and look how well they turned out.