Democrats Blame Jim DeMint For European Airborne Terrorism

Incredibly, Harry Reid & Co. have blamed Republican Senator Jim DeMint for the recent attempted airline bombing.

Nevermind that the flight originated in Holland. Nor that security failures weren't therefore the responsibility of the US.

Or that DeMint has held up the confirmation of the head of TSA, only nominated in September, until he gets a clear response from the nominee as to whether he plans to unionize TSA workers.

None of this now matters to Senate Democrats.

Talk about no shame.....

Avoiding The "Deficit Commission" Trap

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal's staff editorial was an excellent piece warning Congressional Republicans to avoid becoming involved with the Democrats' latest cover for their deficit spending, the so-called "deficit commission."

I like New Hampshire's Republican Senator Judd Gregg quite a bit, but he's being naive on this issue.

The editorial recounts the various steps the liberal Democrats will take to slow roll their GOP counterparts.

By getting some Republicans on the panel, they will automatically have cover for "doing something" about the deficit, thus deflecting their party-line run-up of the deficit by a trillion dollars or more earlier this year.

Sooner or later, the commission's Democrats will force the group to state that higher taxes are the only "solution" to the former's reckless spending.

Instead, the editorial counsels,

"The Democrats will use a tax-and-spend commission to confront Republicans with the false choice between huge tax increases or fiscal disaster. Republicans should respond with their own choice: They'll agree to a deficit commission only if it takes tax increases off the table and forces all of Washington to confront the hard spending trade-offs between guns and butter, old and young, the poor and middle class, and social welfare and corporate welfare. Otherwise, Democrats should be forced to defend and finance their own destructive fiscal choices."

Here's another idea. Republicans beg off of this commission until they take back one or both Houses next November. Then they leave the debt ceiling alone and begin slashing federal spending while decreasing the federal debt ceiling.

Now that would be a path to longer term Republican control of Congress with a conservative slant that would be healthy for the US in the coming decades.

Mitch McConnell On The Health Care Bill

John McCain's rant, the video of which I included in yesterday's post, wasn't the only speech by a Republican Senator worth watching.

Mitch McConnell highlights reasons that it's hard to believe any Senator would have voted for this bill. And just how awful it really is.

John McCain Finally Gets Angry

Here's the YouTube clip of John McCain's recent rant in the Senate regarding the health care bill.

His recounting of Wonderboy's original campaign promises is eye-opening. So is his list of the Senators who took favors for their states to pass this abomination.