Now, I’m starting to feel the love in DC

I am basking in the sun of this new era of love, bi-partisanship, cooperation, and brotherhood. Just like our “leaders” in Washington:

Sen. John Kerry says Democrats should ignore Republicans’ demands about the stimulus plan if they’re going to vote against it anyway.

Reacting to Wednesday night’s vote in the House — where not a single GOP member supported the stimulus package — Kerry told Politico that “if Republicans aren’t prepared to vote for it, I don’t think we should be giving up things, where I think the money can be spent more effectively.”

“If they’re not going to vote for it, let’s go with a plan that we think is going to work.”

The Massachusetts Democrat and 2004 presidential candidate suggested tossing some of the tax provisions in the stimulus that the GOP requested. [source]

Thanks, Lurch. How about someone else? Anyone?

Can I get any love from the mortician from Searchlight?

Last September, Louisiana’s David Vitter strode to the podium of the U.S. Senate to offer an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2009.

What’s so significant about that?

Amazingly, it marks the last time that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid permitted a Republican amendment to be voted on — a period of 125 days that can only be described as a diabolical, dictatorial suppression of democracy in what we still like to pretend is the world’s greatest deliberative body.

If open, honest debate and a full, fair discussion of divergent ideas are prerequisites to representative democracy, then the unavoidable reality imposed upon us by “Dear Leader” Reid’s heavy-handed tactics is this: the United States of America is no longer a representative democracy.

Of course, as depressing a reality as this is — are we really surprised?

After all, Reid and the vast majority of Washington politicians in both parties have been steadily eroding the democratic ideals this nation was founded on for years now. They’ve been telling hard-working Americans of all income levels that they must pay higher taxes and fees on everything under the sun — crippling their ability to survive in a land of dried up opportunities, a land where political correctness trumps founding wisdom and individual liberties are granted or withheld almost exclusively at the whim of the state.

Most recently, these Washington “leaders” essentially gave up on our free market economic system to the tune of at least $8 trillion in socialist-style government interventionism — all within the past four months. [source]

Damn. Strike two. Maybe I can go to the top?

HOPE® and CHANGE®? Well, maybe not:

Two impressions emerge from President Barack Obama’s first week in office:

Partisanship has reached a tipping point when the new president is circling the fire hydrant with a conservative talk-radio personality.

And, the new president is sounding an awful lot like the old one.

Let’s roll the tape.

“I won. I will trump you on that.”

That’s Barack Obama a few days ago, according to The Associated Press, speaking to Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona during a meeting with congressional leaders about the proposed stimulus package. Kyl had the audacity to question giving tax credits to people who do not owe federal income taxes.

Rewinding to 2004: “I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style.”

That’s George W. Bush after his re-election, explaining his assumption that the American people approved of his many plans, including Social Security reform and the war on terror.

Obama and Bush each mistakenly assumed that his election was a national mandate for his policies, rather than a rejection of alternatives.

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