Posts Tagged → Nancy Pelosi
Time for a meaningless Federal minimum wage hike
It doesn’t take anything as fancy as a grandfather clock to know what time it is in Washington, DC this week. The Democrats finally caved to the inevitable this week, passing a relatively clean war funding bill that contains no timetables, no deadlines and no benchmarks.
Common sense and military logic finally prevailed, as well as plummeting approval ratings for the Pelosi-led Congress and Reid-led Senate. Unable to offer any sort of War On Terror victory to their MoveOn.org puppet masters, Democrats fled to less controversial territory by attaching a significant minimum wage increase to the war funding bill, so that at least they had something to brag about.
While attaching unrelated riders to bills in this manner is always a disgusting practice, it could have been a lot worse: it could have been a timetable for leaving Iraq.
The federal minimum wage of $5.15 per hour will be boosted to $7.25 per hour if Bush signs the bill into law, which he is expected to do. While pure conservatives might balk, it’s time to face facts: it doesn’t matter what the federal minimum wage is.
The federal minimum wage is almost irrelevant anyway. $5.15 per hour is a pittance and hasn’t been updated for over a decade, mostly because virtually no employer can pay that little and get any kind of qualified employee to fill a job anyway. Even at $7.25, most employers have to pay more than that these days to fill jobs, so who cares if it’s $5.15 or $7.25? It’s not like any employers … even fast food chains … pay that low anymore anyway.
Heck, most states have a higher state minimum wage than $7.25 an hour, so the federal change means nothing throughout most of the country. And if it’s enough of a victory to get the Democrats to pass a clean war funding bill with no timetables, deadlines or benchmarks, well… fine. It’s a pretty meaningless victory for them, and a big win for Bush, who proves that he’s no lame duck … not yet, anyway.
Pelosi should face censure
“Brave.”
“Bold.”
“Courageous.”
The praise for Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has been flooding in; but it’s not from the “usual suspects” like her Democratic colleagues or her willing accomplices in the press. No, the praise for Pelosi is coming, this time, from Islamic terrorists and state sponsors of terror. And she’s foolish enough to believe her own press.
Here are some samples from the WorldNetDaily.com article by Aaron Klein:
“Pelosi’s visit to Syria was very brave. She is a brave woman,” Jihad Jaara, a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group and the infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity.
“Nancy Pelosi understands the area (Middle East) well, more than Bush and Dr. (Condoleeza) Rice,” said terror leader Khaled Al-Batch, a militant and spokesman for Islamic Jihad. “If the Democrats want to make negotiations with Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah, this means the Democratic Party understands well what happens in this area and I think Pelosi will succeed. … I hope she wins the next elections.”
“The Americans know and understand they are losing in Iraq and the Middle East and that their only chance to survive is to reduce hostilities with Arab countries and with Islam. Islam is the new giant of the world.” said Abu Abdullah, a leader of Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip.
I have some more appropriate descriptions for Pelosi.
“Useful idiot.”
“Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century.”
“Traitor.”
During a time of war, in defiance of her own country’s foreign policy, Pelosi goes overseas to score political points against Bush and allows herself to be used by the enemy, gives aid and comfort to them, while overseas. Nice. Straight out of the Jane Fonda Political Workout video.
Speaker Pelosi needs to learn that there’s a big difference between being president and being Speaker. Republican Newt Gingrich lost sight of that in 1994 when he was Speaker and look where it got him. And Newt never took it this far.
Of course, since Pelosi’s a Democrat and “the first woman Speaker in US history,” she’ll get a pass on this by the drive-by media, just like always. If the tables were reversed and it was a Republican in the folding chairs opposite the president of Syria in defiance of a Democratic president, you can bet the New York Times itself would be calling for the death penalty for the GOP traitors. For Pelosi, though, they’ll look the other way.
Bush won’t go nuclear over this. Pelosi’s lucky Wonderful Pessimist isn’t in the White House; I’d suspend her visa and refuse to let her back in the US.
At least Poland recognizes Reagan’s greatness
At least Poland recognizes the role Ronald Reagan played in delivering the world from the evils of communism. While liberals in America still shudder at the mere mention of his name, citizens of Katowice, in southwestern Poland, have proposed erecting a statue to the memory of the conservative, anti-communist stalwart, according to Breitbart.com.
The statue of Reagan would replace a statue of Soviet soldiers who drove out the Nazi forces of Germany at the end of World War II, and would rename the city’s Freedome Square to Ronald Reagan Freedom Square.
Contrary to Brietbart.com’s report, Reagan did not serve as US President from 1980 to 1988; considering that US presidents are sworn in and leave office in the January following any election year, his actual term of office was 1981-1989.
City hall spokesman Waldemar Bojarun said the city would consider the issue and that he had enormous respect for Reagan, but that the cost of the change could be prohibitive… and estimated cost equivalent to $168,000 in US dollars.
If the Reagan memorial does not occur in Katowice, there are already separate plans to erect a Reagan memorial in Warsaw, Poland, the country’s capitol. While so many at home are still working hard to besmirch the memory of Reagan, it’s interesting that there are those in Europe who still recognize the important role he played in winning the Cold War between communism and capitalism, totalitarianism and freedom.
While conservatives and liberals battle each other over immigration issues like conducting a DNA test for immigration, gay marriage, and how big a plane Nancy Pelosi should jet around in, one has to wonder where the next big vision for our country will come from, once anti-terrorist George W. Bush leaves office.
NOTE: Image of Ronald Reagan is courtesy and (c) Breitbart.com and AFP.
Elie Weisel attacked by Holocaust denier
It’s trendy among some these days to praise Iran for their so-called “intellectual honesty” in “reinvestigating the historical accuracy of the claims and scale of the Holocaust.” Iran’s Holocaust-deniers conference in December of 2006 even drew some oddball Jewish scholars to the conference.
Yet that’s nothing more than a mask to the antisemitic hatred of Holocaust deniers. That was made clear on February 1 at a San Francisco hotel, when famed author Elie Weisel, whose memoir, Night, recalling his experiences surviving the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi Germany, won him a 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, was attacked by a man who’d been stalking him, apparently for weeks, and is a Holocaust denier.
According to a report on Examiner.com, the suspect accosted Weisel with the intent to get him to “admit” that is memoir, Night, was fictitious. However, when Weisel began screaming for help the assailant fled the scene.
In a disturbing development, a poster to the antisemtic Web site, ZioPedia.com, identifying himself only “Eric Hunt,” took credit for the attack, bragging out it and his intent. The San Francisco police are investigating and admit that “Eric Hunt” is the focus of their investigation.
Hopefully, Weisel can recuperate someplace safer, soon; perhaps at an Orlando vacation rental location. One would hope that he’d be safer there.
San Francisco is the home district of Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
