The approval rating for congress is at an all-time low, and
the President’s isn’t much better. In California – the land of fruits and nuts
– things are getting nuttier by the day.
Ever since the October 2001 high of 84%, the approval
ratings of Congress have been in the toilet. Today it hovers around 18 percent.
One amazing factoid is that during that high in approval both the Senate and
House were controlled by – you guessed it – Republicans. In fact, the
oft-maligned 43rd President George W. Bush was in the Whitehouse
during that period. How soon we forget.
True, Republicans wrenched the House leadership from Nancy
Pelosi and the Democrats in 2012, but the Democrat controlled Senate and the head
Democrat in the Whitehouse continue to kill any worthwhile legislation coming
from the Republican controlled House. At present there are 352 bills sitting on
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nevada) desk, awaiting action.
Here’s another interesting factoid; 98 percent of those
bills languishing on Reid’s desk – or possibly in his round file – passed with
bipartisan support, 50 percent of the bills passed unanimously – with no
opposition, 70 percent of the bills passed with two-thirds support in the
House, and over 55 bills were introduced by Democrats! Clearly, the blockage in
this process is not with the Republican controlled House of Representatives.
The Democrats in the Senate that are holding up the works!
But what the heck, even if a bill could squeeze out of the
Senate, there isn’t much of a chance Obama would sign it unless there were some
political advantage for the Democrats.
Why are the Congressional approval ratings at an all-time
low? There you have it. The Democrats are fouling up the works.
Then of course, we have the great Blue State super-majority
in California running things into the ground. The California unemployment rate,
while dropping, is 7.4 percent, still higher than the national average of 6.2
percent. Now look at the unemployment rate of Texas, at 5.1 percent. Could the
fact that Texas is so easily sucking businesses from California have anything
to do with the difference in unemployment rates?
This state is leaking jobs faster than a cheesecloth patch
on the Hoover dam. And it is only bound to get worse. Not only has the state
not done anything to stem the leak, they continue to make it worse with more
asinine regulations and additional taxes disguised as “fees.” The trend toward
much higher minimum wages, the ban on plastic bags, and the state grab of motor
vehicle fees from cities are but a few examples of the hostile – there can be
no other word – actions taken by the Democrat super-majority and Governor
“Moonbeam.”
Folks it’s payback time. Time to reverse this assault on
normality. Drive the Philistines out. Purge our government of the foul
insidious virus that is destroying our state and the country at large. Help
change the catastrophic direction of our ship-of-state away from the rocks we
are now headed for. On November 4, vote the Democrats out, and restore some
sense of reason to our government. The course correction is in your hands.
