Newt On The Offensive Against Pelosi

SQUEEKING OF PELOSI

She’s out hawking her tripe, and will be answering questions posted to The Washington Pest for when she is interviewed by them.

Do you have a question for the Madam? Ask it, here…
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/content/submit_books5.htm

Go ahead, you know you want to! Just remember to keep it stupid, otherwise she won’t be able to relate to it.

I constantly play the “If I were the President, I’d…” mental game. When I saw the Republican protest the other day, and again after I saw Newt’s comments about the book tour, I thought to myself,

“Man, if I were President I would SO force Congress to come back, and I’d tell them that they’re not to adjourn until an energy bill is passed that I could sign, not to adjourn until judges are approved, and so forth”

GWB’s got three real powers left as President
1) he can attack a country like Iran
2) he can veto crap from Congress
3) he can call Congress back to session

He’s not gonna do #1
He’s done #2 well, but
WHY?! doesn’t he do #3?

You’re right Missy. He can’t technically set the agenda. He can call them back, and they could sit around doing nothing-err, more of nothing. Still, it’s no skin off his poll numbers if he were to say, “I’m gonna keep calling you back until….”

imo, it needs to be done-not for politics, but for the nation. The American people are paying big money to members of Congress, and trust those people with trillions of dollars-as well as our lives, and yet these people who complain about “recession! recession!” go on recess themselves for over a month? No. That’s not acceptable to me. I don’t care if my Congressman was a D or an R, I’d want that smeghead to get back to DC and do his/her freakin job! That means Obama AND McCain too.

Curt, one of the objectives to calling them back would be to point out the recession/recess hypocrisy to the American people. I think calling them back would do that. Dems don’t bring it up for a vote, then as every day passes, the press is increasingly compelled to cover it. If they do bring it up for a vote, GWB just has to say it’s not the one he wanted, OR in the best case scenario he’d finally get the bill America needs, and it’d be because Republicans forced it.

Recall if you will, The West Wing episode where Martin Sheen walked to Capitol Hill, and sat, and waited outside a committee room until they gave him the budget he wanted. The press went nuts. The left still goes nuts. It’s what a President is supposed to do imo. He can’t control Congress, but he can-as Truman did-demand they come back and do their own jobs.

People who voted for Congressional Democrats in 2006 must be reminded of all the excuses, flat out lies, and failures of those Democrats. They created issues, cried about them, demanded action, promised solutions, and did nothing.

nothing.

This is the worst Congress since the Civil War imo, and that is the issue that needs to be taken to the American people in the most dire kind of way. I think the continuous, deliberate misleading, inept, and partisan dictates of the Democrats’ Congress should be shown to the American people at every opportunity. There are hundreds of Democrats running=hundreds of Republicans should be running ads showing the before/after 2006 promises. It truly bothers me that with approval ratings as low as the Democrats’ Congress…they are likely to GAIN seats rather than lose them. I blame that on a lack of exposure.