The media for the past few days has been crying foul and running rampant over the news that Wall Street CEOs were given something to the extent of 18.4 Billion dollars, which is contended to be tax payers money due to the bailout passed last year. President Obama has gone so far as to call "shameful". Strong words from someone who voted to give them the money.

Here's the thing. Congress voted against what America wanted. I watched C-SPAN during the debate on this issue and time and time again, Representatives and Senators came up and said something to the extent of "I know most of my constitutents don't want this bill, but I feel as though it is in the best interests of the country, so I'm voting for it anyway." Essentially, that 700 billion bailout bill was something Americans, by and large, did not want. We didn't understand it, we didn't like what we heard about it, and in the end, we told our elected representatives to vote against it. And they didn't. Thanks.

Flash forward to the news about the bailout money being blown. Suddenly, Congress is outraged! Suddenly, Congress has decided something it knew would happen happened. Sen. Claire McCatskill, D-MO, went so far as to say bonuses should have been banned in the original bill, as she was wailing against it.

The nerve of the Congress is that they are pointing the blame on Wall Street. Yes. A bill which Americans, by and large didn't want, goes all screwy and suddenly it's not your fault, it's Wall Street's fault for doing business how they do business. Lets be fair too. Wall Street did show restraint. But you wouldn't know it from how crazy go nuts Sen. McCatskill went or how disappointed sounding President Obama sounded. Wall Street cut down their bonuses by over 44% from 2007 to 2008. Which is ironic, because Mayor Bloomberg of New York City contends that is part of the reason there is such a huge gap in the city's budget for this year. Because there is ove 20 billion less in the economy this year than last year.

So in short, stop giving the GOP such shit for not voting for this even more insane bailout bill. I've started reading it. It's crazy. There are lots of zeros. And unless my taxes get cut in half, you can take your billion dollar advanced battery research and $600,000,000 global climate study and shove it (seriously. We determined it's happening. What more do you want? Oh? A six hundred million dollar program to be sure? Oh, okay)

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I have sooo much disdain for Nancy Pelosi.

Essentially, Pelosi can't answer a question. Here is my paraphrasing...

"Why won't you let offshore drilling come up for a vote?" - George Stephanopoulos

"Because it's not a good tactic or solution." - Nancy Pelosi

"But you have the better arguement, so why not let it come to a vote? " - GS

"Because the oil companies make lots of money." - NP

WHAT?!

Then George asked her if she thought that her prior quotes regarding the minority being allowed to have a voice regarding amendments to bills were contrary to her not allowing a vote on offshore drilling. Her answer was something to the extent of them having to use their imagination on how to bring it up to a vote.

Keep in mind, that the Speaker of the House has the sole choice of allowing bills to come up to a vote in the House.

AND YET SHE ALLOWS EVERY SINGLE IRAQ FUNDING BILL TO COME TO A VOTE IN THE HOUSE WTF?!

Apparently, bad policy is only worth voting on when you know that you will lose. Because Pelosi knows Iraq funding will pass, she allows the vote on the issue, DESPITE being so vehemently opposed to it. Because allowing it to pass allows her to then criticize the GOP for voting for it. Conflicts like Iraq or Viet'nam end when the funding is cut off. But Pelosi has so far refused to block a funding bill from coming to the House for a vote. Yet with offshore drilling, she somehow decides that she block every attempt to bring it up for a vote.

Essentially Pelosi is playing the worst form of politics. She refuses to exercise her power in something so vitally important while exercising it in an issue that the vast majority if Americans supporting, such as more drilling in America.

But she can't stop a military conflict most Americans do not support.

Dear Pelosi. Please get off the fail boat.

Dear Senate Democrats,

It's not considered a 'victory' just because you got a bunch of Republicans to sign on to adding even more spending to the Iraq spending bill. It's called you failing at doing what you were elected to do, which is to end the war in Iraq.

However, you have continuiously funded the war every step of the way. Even as two Senators vie for the nomination, vowing to end the conflict over there, you still vote for the war. Every time you vote to spend money in Iraq, you are voting for the war, again and again and again. Every time to authorize the Administration to use more and more of our tax dollars over there, you are simply saying that you agree that we should stay there and continue fighting.

Just because you increased Veteran benefits and threw in domestic spending into an 'emergency war funding' bill doesn't make you some big god damned heroes. It makes you exactly like the neo-con wing of the GOP; a bunch of war mongers content with keeping our troops in a fight they should never have been asked to wage.

So Senate Democrats, I hope you feel good about keeping the war machine rolling. I hope you grease your hair with the same grease you've put into the wheels. Thanks for being no different. Thanks for voting for war again. Next time a democrat tell me the democrat party is that of peace, I hope a little part of them laughs inside, knowing it's really not true.