Thread: Terminal Virus Spreads Through Senate

A new virus is spreading throughout the US Senate and it appears that an increasing number of our lawmakers have been infected. The last notable germ to contaminate the Senate was this year’s Pro-Illegal-Alien bug that will continue to allow illegal immigrants to enter the US and destroy any continued hope for US sovereignty. However, this new highly-contagious and virulent disease may prove to be terminal—for both the United States of America and its people.
Some of the observable symptoms of this latest malady include:

• US Senators traveling to the Middle East, while rushing to formulate their own—individual—US foreign policies
• US Senators demanding that President Bush meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad to “help” with Lebanon and Iraq—even though Assad has been part and parcel to terrorist activities in the region
• US Senators demands that the Bush Administration open up “talks” with Iran regarding “assistance” in the ‘problems in the Middle East’—despite the fact that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been the largest supplier of terrorists in Iraq, has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and is a weapons’ supplier to both Palestinian Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon
• Bent over US Senators looking under rocks, in order to find the elusive and mythical “appeasement Unicorn”—despite the fact that terrorists only respond positively to strength
• Senators heard almost incoherently mumbling, while gnashing their teeth: “We have to give up. We have to surrender…”


To date, some of the more vocal infected senators include Senators Christopher Dodd (D-CN), Ben Nelson (D-FL), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and—of course—John Kerry (D-MA). Joining the Democrats is Republican-in-name-only (AKA “RINO”) Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), who plans a trip to Syria to meet with thug-in-charge Assad. Specter and the others have made the decision that they will now decide how to affect US policy, when dealing with terrorists and their leaders. In actually meeting with those leaders, the senators not only provide credibility to those “leaders” who are actually causing said terrorism but, place the US in a visible-to-the-world weakened state. This illness, initially dubbed the “Stupidity-that-flies-in-the-face-of-all-common-sense-and-reason”—or SCAR) virus—is also said to be spreading to other senators; those who want to be President of the United States but, “can’t get elected even in their widest dreams”. Thus far, the disease has only affected US senators. But, indications are that is may be spreading into the House of Representatives. Speaker-to-be Pelosi (D-CA) has indicated that she too thinks talking with terrorist nations Iran and Syria could be “helpful”.

Showing that the SCAR virus has moved into areas of the brain, the Middle Eastern-bound senators are making additional seemingly bizarre statements. John Kerry recently said: “I'm going to push them [the Syrians] on a number of different issues. I'm curious about what they might or might not be willing to do as we go forward here.” What “they might or might not be willing to do”, Senator? With its two recent assassinations of Lebanese leaders and Syria’s support of terrorist Hezbollah, I would have thought that question had already been answered—even for the dullest individuals amongst us. And how, pray tell, do you plan to “push them”? Are you going to threaten the use of your infamous spit-balls? Note: This individual could actually have become POTUS.

Joining Kerry on his “I’ll-fix-everything-in-the-Middle-East whirlwind tour” is Christopher Dodd. In Lebanon, the two met with Hezbollah ally and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. The two men then took time for a photo-op with leader of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon’s Walid Jumblatt—who, until recently, was a Hezbollah supporter. No matter to the senators. Besides, Kerry has met with and supported enemies of the US in the past and has said: “I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.” Hard as it may be to believe, this man actually is a US senator.

Commenting on the Iraq Study Group report (AKA “The Iraq Surrender Group Report”), Sen. Durbin said nonsensically: “I believe the clearest way to make this report a reality is to begin redeployment [translation: “cut and run”] of our troops out of Iraq in January 2007.” Senator Ben Nelson was, apparently, the first to contract the SCAR virus (ground zero) and the first to have a dialogue with Assad. However, the disease may not be as potent in Nelson, as he actually said: “I don't trust him [Assad] at all.” Commenting on these peripatetic patriarchs, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow commented: “The point is that even lending a further specter of legitimacy to that government undermines the cause of democracy in the region.” Thankfully, at least Tony hasn’t as yet contracted the disease.

The problems inherent in these trips for conversations with our enemies, as well as attempts to bolster the senators’ self-importance, is that it places the USA in a perceived diluted position while assuming a bent and submissive posture. But, as has for too long been the case, “our” senators don’t seem to care. These are the ones you elected, folks. And, these are the ones who may just destroy us. Considering the results of the 2006 mid-term elections, perhaps the SCAR virus has already spread to the US’ general population. For the survival of the country, we can only hope and pray a cure is found. And, I would suggest, it had best be soon.

Terminal Virus Spreads Through Senate

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Originally Posted by The Victor

• US Senators traveling to the Middle East, while rushing to formulate their own—individual—US foreign policies

Any Senator who doesn't do this should resign. Any person who thinks that Senators shouldn't do this should be stripped of his/her right to vote and be relocated to Hati.

Do more than just travel to the Middle East. Go meet with the men and women serving there, see firsthand what they are up against, and listen to what they have to say.

Originally Posted by mpano66

Do more than just travel to the Middle East. Go meet with the men and women serving there, see firsthand what they are up against, and listen to what they have to say.

And BINGO was his nameo. How in the fuck are you going to lead anything if you don't know the issues? I want representation that has made an effort to come up with a foregin policy. How are you supposed to know if the Admin is on the right track if you have no idea what your policy would look like? If you didn't formulate your own policy, the only option you'd have is to nod your head like a jackass every time someone else was talking.

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Any Senator who doesn't do this should resign. Any person who thinks that Senators shouldn't do this should be stripped of his/her right to vote and be relocated to Hati.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
( Winston Churchill )

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Originally Posted by Sparta

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
( Winston Churchill )

Appeaser? Trust me chief, Winston wasn't directing that statement to people who want an informed government. Maybe you'd rather have a bunch of morons with a hitch in their necks but I'll take a guy willing to figure shit out on his own any day. And if Churchill has a problem with that, fuck him too.

Originally Posted by Sparta

If you didn't formulate your own policy, the only option you'd have is to nod your head like a jackass every time someone else was talking.

That's one of the things politicians are good at-nodding their heads like Jackasses!

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but I'll take a guy willing to figure shit out on his own any day.
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And who might that be?

I don't have a problem with Dodd.

Hi, I’m heading out to the airport here, just coming out of Jerusalem on the way to Tel Aviv, flying to Cairo, meeting with the foreign minister over there, and some folks from think tanks here, some of the opposition in Egypt, to get a good feel for how Egypt looks at the region and at some of their own internal issues.

It’s been a very quick trip. I’ve been traveling with two of my Republican colleagues, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who’s the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who’s the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. We’ve been in five different countries over the last several days. We flew on Tuesday morning into Amman, Jordan, and on Wednesday, I spent the day in Lebanon, while the other part of the delegation went to Baghdad. I had been to Baghdad a few months ago, and they hadn’t been, so we split up on that day. Then we met in Jordan, and spent the last day and a half here in Israel, and we’re now on our way to Egypt.

So we’re covering the region here, as many of these critical areas as possible, meeting with all sides of the various debates here in Lebanon, here in Israel with the Prime Minister, the Defense and Foreign Ministers, and meeting with Palestinian leaders (non-Hamas), to talk about the current events here: the election of Hamas; and the new team that will be announced here. (Next week a new Israeli government will be formed, according to the new Prime Minister.)

There’s a lot of change occurring in the region. The departure of the Syrian military from Lebanon has created some new opportunities for sovereignty, independence and freedom, but they have a lot of work to do on those issues. Obviously Iran comes up quite a bit as you talk to here, and clearly people here are very much aware of the energy pricing implications.

I have a couple of important messages. One, these are all very complex issues, and it’s going to be critically important that we be far more engaged than I think we have been, quite frankly, over the last five years, for a lot of reasons, none of which are all excusable, but we need to be back and fully participating in these issues, (and not just Iraq), if we’re going to have the results we’d like: not only to secure the independence and freedom of our friends who seek democracy, but also for ourselves, given the important questions which also implicate our future as well.

So it’s been tremendously worthwhile, but also rushed in many ways, but it’s an opportunity to see some key people here who play critical roles in these countries.

Obviously it’s important that we try and work with our friends in Israel, and Palestinian leaders (who are not part of Hamas), who are interested in a two-state solution and who are willing to sit down and talk about securing borders as well as providing for the proper needs of people in both communities. My hope is we can play a role in all of that as well.

We’ve been getting a lot of calls, my office tells me, about energy pricing. The announcements that prices are going up, and costs of gas at the pump are causing a lot of concern. I could just say that the issues over here are going to be a very important factor in determining whether or not we’re going to have some effect.

Just to touch on the local angle, I get back to the U.S. next week. We’ll be reviving two bills, one which I’ve offered already on the floor of the Senate and which did not pass, and that was of course the excess profits tax that goes to consumers in the form of a rebate when prices exceeded $40 per barrel, unless the industry was willing to invest more in additional production and in alternative sources of energy (none of which they are willing to do). Given the salaries and compensation of some of these key executives, you can just begin to feel sense of anger that consumers have when they see these price go up and they see the amount of revenues that are being kept by the companies and not being transferred back to consumers who are feeling the real pinch in all of this.

So we’ve got that bill, plus another bill that would make it easier for the government to go after those who engage in price gauging. I’m a strong supporter these bills, (I’m a co-author of the first bill, and a co-sponsor of the second bill), and my hope is that we can get votes on both of those matters, possible during the consideration of the supplemental budget bill which will be coming up on Tuesday when the Senate re-convenes.

Again, I think it’s very important to meet with people in these regions during times like these, given the importance of these issues, and how directly they impact us. The outcome of the issues between the Israelis and Palestinians; what happens in Lebanon; what happens in Iraq; what happens in Iran; what happens in Egypt—all of these issues have huge implications for us. So I think it’s worthwhile for members who are on key committees to have the responsibility of trying to help formulate policies, to spend some time to listen to people directly. It’s one way to really get first-hand information.
Christopher Dodd