Everytime I read an article about the latest Congressional shenanigans, I get depressed. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position anymore to do anything tangible about my beliefs. I must leave that to the younger conservatives. All I can do is write about it and hope people listen.
I read today about the latest omnibus bill [Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 - S-22] from Harry Reid and Company. It's 1200 pages long---which only the Democrat legal aides can understand---and it's filled with pork. So much for the change we were told to expect. For the most part, the Democrats are ignoring the Republicans and common sense in their ideas for our collective future.
One part of the bill wants to allocate about $500,000,000 to 'restore' a river with at least 500 salmon. [What's that you say? $1,000,000 per salmon? Yup!] Aren't these the creatures which swim against the flow and up the river to spawn? Yup! And then they die---with no guarantees that the little salmon will survive. Harry Reid apparently wants to change that natural fact.
All this is occuring, of course, while we're facing multi-trillion dollar bailouts that won't work in the long run. We'll incur debt while we pay for the mistakes of businesses in the free market system. A grand cleaning is necessary, and bailing out supposed 'vital' industries is poor judgment for our Country's future.
Reid [and sadly one Conservative-Republican ] want to transfer a pile of land that has any chance of containing drillable energy into the federal responsibility acreage where even bicycles won't be allowed. If we continue to leave things up to Reid and the Liberals/Democrats, we'll soon live in one big federally operated reserve, where no drilling or other human activity can take place. Of course [again], that would make us easy pickin's for an enemy, but at least the environment would be Liberal pristine---until the enemy turns it into war-like uses.
One can only be happy that Reid and the Liberals and the Democrats weren't around in the ageless past. They'd have tried to stop the dinosaurs from dying [by edict if necessary], put the Mastadons on the endagered species list, negotiated with Yeti, built fires along the northern border of ice to melt it during the ice age, and then blamed the fires on George Bush as promoting global warming.
I thank God that I'm not a future historian who has to look back to this chaos. I feel like Oliver Hardy, as he dead pans the Democrat leadership: "Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into!"
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