Quote of the day -- on a jobs/infrastructure bill from this Congress

“The middle class of America is collapsing … poverty is up and the rich are doing phenomenally well. What do you do? What you do is say that in America we are going to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. By doing that we're going to create millions of jobs,” 

--Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday on The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News.



America needs the jobs an infrastructure bill from this Congress would provide.

We need the infrastructure repair and improvements.

The economy needs the boost.

Why isn't this being done?

Why isn't this a "no-brainer"?

Why aren't we raising hell?

Welfare's a problem, all right

Quote of the day

"I applaud the president's decision and have been advocating that position for quite a while. Our nation has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in recent years protecting the people of Iraq and rebuilding that country. Vermont and America have also paid a very heavy price in loss of life and injuries suffered by our soldiers. Now is the time to bring our troops home, lower our military budget, and use those funds to create jobs by rebuilding our infrastructure and lowering our national debt." --Senator Bernie Sanders (Indep., Vermont). Link: http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=1894e87e-1eaa-40b1-81ac-b2b4563b518e

One of many reasons we don't care for Sarah "The Quitter" Palin

She's still hard at it:

Analysis: Sarah Palin continues to struggle with the facts

It's a very good article, too.  It explains several things that I think a lot of people believe about our current government, this administration and our spending, for instance, that are patently mistaken.

Have a great weekend, y'all.

Congressional Filibuster Reform?

You know, we do need Congress to work, that's for sure.

It's getting to where we, as a country, can't any longer afford lawmaking logjams in the process.

It's ugly. It seems stupid and petty.

And we're all for having Congress in Washington go forward with progress and good, honest, intelligent legislation.

So when I read this that I just read "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledges filibuster reform" , it gives me pause.

On the one hand, we do need to take our country forward.

But we need to do it as a group--as Americans, like it used to be. We can't have incessant infighting between Republicans vs. Democrats vs. Conservatives vs. Liberals vs. Independents vs. Libertarians vs. "Teabaggers", like we've been doing the last dozen or more years.

Yes, we need progress and yes, we need to do away with these, as I said earlier, logjams.

But do away with the possibility of the filibuster?

Be careful what you wish for, Senator Reid.

Be careful what you wish for, lest it's not an option for you and your Party, should you be out of power.

Let's have guts and show strength but let's do what's right and good for the country.

And be careful and wise about it.