So High Above

The Republicans showed their true colors today in a series of unrelated events. When the House of Representatives adjourned for the August recess the Republicans staged a mutiny on the floor led by Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and other Republican Congressmen.  At the motion to adjourn the Republican Minority Leader rose to oppose adjournment claiming that the failure of the Democratic-controlled House to schedule a vote on offshore drilling was hurting the American Economy. What a joke, what is hurting the American Economy is eight years of Republican Policies and the leadership of the Republican Bush Administration. You can stick the drills in the ground right now, right this instant and there will not be any discernible effect on the price of gas or on the health of the American Economy.  What will have a discernible effect on the American Economy is to admit that the Fossil Fuel Era is ending and point America on a path towards renewable, sustainable, alternative ...

Today The House of Representatives started their day with a message from the Senate that they passed without amendment House Bill, H.R. 2356 which is a Bill to encourage the display of the American Flag on Father's Day. It would seem that with Food Prices skyrocketing and Energy Costs tripling and the Middle Class falling into Poverty and those in Poverty falling into despair, with an illegal occupation of a foreign Country, and Americans dying and being maimed and disabled by an insurgent civil war that thew House of Representatives would have a more meaningful agenda that encouraging that the American Flag be displayed on Father's Day. Does the House of Representatives think that displaying the American Flag is a way to honor the Nation's Fathers? Maybe a better way to honor the Nation's Fathers would be to have a serious legislative session that would reverse the most egregious violations of American Principals that the past seven and a half years of Republican polic...