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STUPIDVOTER  (n) a voter who does not bother to look beyond the TV spots and repetitive Democratic talking points,  has no real idea of a candidate's true positions, voting record, history, background, etc., believes everything a candidate says, believes what the New York Times says, follows the party line and presses the  pre-selected choice in the voting booth!

The Democrats counted on STUPIDVOTER  to get them back in control - and it worked!

Five years of having absolutely no plan except to undermine, whine, and criticize Republicans - now they have the power but not a clue as to what to do.  So, they give STUPIDVOTER some sound bites that are first poll-tested to "feel good" and continue to be the hypocrites they have always been

Al Gore has preached to millions about the dangers of climate change caused by profligate carbon emissions. But his mansion and the private jets he has often used burn up far more fossil fuels than what the average citizens whom Gore browbeats to change their wasteful lifestyles consume.

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi promised to end the privilege of Republican elites. But as speaker of the House, she requested a gas-guzzling outsized jet for her personal trips back to San Francisco - at a cost that far surpassed that accorded to her predecessor.

John Edwards laments the "two Americas," one wealthy, one poor. But this multimillionaire trial lawyer just finished building a new 28,000 square-foot mansion. His palace is beyond the means even of most people belonging to Edwards' rich nation who supposedly benefit at the expense of poorer Americans.

DEMOCRATS HAVE A CULTURE OF HYPOCRISY!

 

 

STUPIDVOTER ALERT #1

Here's a fundamental difference between Republicans and Democrats. When Republicans are caught misbehaving, they normally resign. Rep. Livingston immediately called it quits over a sex scandal. By contrast, Bill Clinton, with the solid support of his party, was clinging to power even though he had committed perjury in connection with a sex scandal.

The 1983 case of Rep. Gerry Studds, the former Democrat congressman of Massachusetts, when he was censured by the House for having a sexual affair with a male page. The Democratic Party did not pressure Studds to resign, and he served thirteen more years in liberal Massachusetts.

Foley resigned for just sending emails. Guess only Democrats can have real sex scandals without losing their jobs.

 

STUPIDVOTER ALERT #2

Hillary Clinton keeps talking about the Republican's culture of corruption - what a shameless ploy from a person who has had a lifetime of corruption...perjury...obstruction of justice...fraud...In fact, she has made the Judicial Watch "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" list -  from Whitewater to FBI Filegate to Travelgate to taking over two million dollars in illegal contributions for her Senate campaign.

Do your own research - just Google Hillary + Corruption

Hey New York STUPIDVOTER  - you had the chance to send her packing - but you reelected a corrupt senator in name only!!  Now she's a presidential candidate - remember you asked for it!!!

 
STUPIDVOTER ALERT #3

For five years, Democrats have complained that there are NOT ENOUGH TROOPS in Iraq!!

Now they will hold a symbolic, nonbinding vote on the troop increase. If  they seriously believe that a troop surge "will endanger more Americans," why don't they use their Congressional power of the purse to cut off funds for the war? 

Typical of all those self-inflated egos, Democrats just want to oppose the troop increase rhetorically. What they don't want is to take responsibility for their own policy choice.

So what has changed since the election?  Where's the new direction? Same Bush-bashing and undermining policies we've had for the past four years.

 

STUPIDVOTER ALERT #4 

    1/12/07 - House Republicans declared "something fishy" about the major tuna company in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district being exempted from the minimum-wage increase that Democrats approved this week.
    "I am shocked," said Rep. Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican and his party's chief deputy whip, noting that Mrs. Pelosi campaigned heavily on promises of honest government. "Now we find out that she is exempting hometown companies from minimum wage. This is exactly the hypocrisy and double talk that we have come to expect from the Democrats."
    On Wednesday, the House voted to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour.
    The bill also extends for the first time the federal minimum wage to the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. However, it exempts American Samoa, another Pacific island territory that would become the only U.S. territory not subject to federal minimum-wage laws.
    One of the biggest opponents of the federal minimum wage in Samoa is StarKist Tuna, which owns one of the two packing plants that together employ more than 5,000 Samoans, or nearly 75 percent of the island's work force. StarKist's parent company, Del Monte Corp., has headquarters in San Francisco, which is represented by Mrs. Pelosi.

 

STUPIDVOTER ALERT #5  Well here's the brilliant folks you voted in- doing what Democrats have always done after getting your vote - bait and switch; so much for "working in partnership not partisanship"!

1/20/07 - Nancy Pelosi

"The president knows that because the troops are in harm's way, that we won't cut off the resources. That's why he's moving so quickly to put them in harm's way."

 Is she saying that any time the President intends to send troops anywhere, he should wait until the next Congressional budget cycle to find out whether funds have been appropriated for that particular mission?

Harry Reid

"The president does not have the authority to launch military action in Iran without first seeking congressional authorization."

As a proposition of Constitutional law, that is simply wrong and Dingbat Harry knows it!

The President obviously does have such authority as commander in chief.  What can Reid's motive possibly be, other than to aid our enemies and contribute to our problems in Iraq?

 

STUPIDVOTER ALERT #6

Pat "Leaky" Leahy is now Chairman of the Judiciary committee where he will be in a position to hear many secrets that he can leak to the New York Times

A "Leaky Leahy history:

Senator Pat Leahy was annoyed with the Reagan administration's war on terrorism in the 1980s. At the time he was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. "Leaky Leahy," allegedly threatened to sabotage classified strategies he didn't like.

Leahy ‘inadvertently' disclosed a top-secret communications intercept during a 1985 television interview. The intercept made possible the capture of the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and murdered American citizens. …The report cost the life of at least one Egyptian operative involved in the operation.

In July 1987, it was reported that Leahy leaked secret information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan administration to topple Libya's Moammar Gaddhafi. U.S. intelligence officials said Leahy, along with the Republican panel chairman, sent a written threat to expose the operation directly to then-CIA Director William Casey.

A year later, as the Senate was preparing to hold hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal, Leahy had to resign his Intelligence Committee post after he was caught leaking secret information to a reporter. He should have been indicted, tried and sentenced. But, hey, he's a Democrat.

Leahy's Iran-Contra leak was considered to be one of the most serious breaches of secrecy in the Intelligence Committee's 10-year history

 

STUPIDVOTER ALERT #7 Well...here we go with Dems hypocrisy as usual

The Gregg Amendment is a measure that would have allowed the president to send earmarks back to Congress for reconsideration. By highlighting questionable spending bills that Congress sneaks through, the president would force Congress to take a serious look at these provisions under some public scrutiny.

Senator Gregg originally proposed this idea as an amendment to ethics reform. The Democrats blocked that and the Republicans agreed to re-propose it later. Gregg did so this week, but the Dems (led by ultimate porker Robert Byrd) filibustered. Today, they succeeded in preventing the Gregg Amendment from receiving a yes-or-no vote.

Minority Leader McConnell notes that twenty Democrats currently in the Senate supported a similar measure when it was proposed in 1995, yet today the party would not even allow a vote. The Senate Dems' unwillingness to do so, along with their initial unwillingness to take up Nancy Pelosi's earmark reform bill, demonstrates that they prefer business as usual to spending reform, and even serious consideration of such reform.

The list of Democrats who, in 1995, supported the proposal that the Dems just killed includes Senators Feinstein, Feingold, Biden, Dodd, Levin, Dorgan, and Robert Byrd himself.

 

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