Impressive. A Senator and a Congressman from little old Vermont are on the front lines holding Bush accountable and changing the direction of this country. I can start to see a way out of the mess that Bush has foisted upon us for the last 6 years. It makes me proud to be a Vemonter!
 

If you were watching the House debate on C-SPAN yesterday afternoon, you would have seen that as soon as Welch stopped speaking he was upbraided by the the presiding officer (a Democrat -John Tierney of Massachusetts) for the words he used to refer to the President. The YouTube clip doesn't show this.

As quoted from the Congressional Record:

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. TIERNEY). All Members are reminded not to make improper references regarding the President's character.
 

Same old Leahy; the dims had to hide him during the CIA-Plame leak "hearings" lest anyone remember his treasonous actions outing two Egyptian CIA agents in the late 80's which led to his own party throwing his worthless butt off the Senate Foreign Relations committee. But, hey, he still can be counted on to grab the spotlight when ever a microphone is spotted! Welch is still a pathetic little ambulance-chasing shylock who fits right in in today's Vermont!
 

GO Pat and Peter, Give them Hell!!!
 

This is why we voted for them!
 

I'm with Bill Mahar. GW and his junta are the real anti-patriots, outing a CIA officer THAT'S ONE OF OUR OWN! Reeks of treason. People like Bubba conviniently ignore that fact. Just because her husband exposed one of GW's numerous lies he floated to get people like dumb ass Bubba to buy into his ill-advised war. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can always fool the Bubbas.
 

Right, no one has ever been charged with leaking file clerk Plame's "cover" except Richard Armitage, a career State department employee. And yet the biggest example of treason goes unpunished! I'm talking about Sandy Berger, who destroyed incriminating evidence from the Clinton years that pointed the finger at Clinton and company's efforts to hide their malfeasance with regard to terrorism in the 90's. Berger should be hung as a traitor.
 

Berger didn't get us into an illegal war.
 

I guess you're right anonymous. I just can't think straight 'cause I'm an angry right wing hater, yo.
 

Berger and Clinton got us into a war because they did nothing to stop terrorism, sending the green light to the muslim animals that America was too cowardly to do anything.Oh by the way, it is not an "illegal" war since it was voted on by the U.S.Senate, remember? And "right-wing" hater, you really should change your diapers and stop listening to the idiot left-wing bloggers.
 

I think they're all republocrats anyways. Not that the independants are any different.

Politics these days is so predictable. The politicians bicker and accomplish nothing, while your average american suffers.

While everyone is playing armchair foreign policy expert, our domestic policy has suffered. We can't use national guard troops to rebuild the gulf coast because they're fighting wars in two countries overseas.

Republocrats talk, but its really a balk. Americans are more and more, forced to walk the walk.

Rednalsi
 

And Vermont is one of the worst for expecting handouts. I just read a sob story by some parasite that was so happy because some government entity was using tax dollars paid by OTHER Vermonters to improve the energy efficiency of her house; big deal, why the hell shouldn't people do this themselves? Just like the "prebates" and "rebates" - the liberals have figured out they get more votes from the people receiving handouts then those paying for them. And Vermont just keeps electing these morons. (What's going to happen when one day you wake up and all of the golden-egg laying geese have left Vermont?)
 

Bubba, I think someone shot the golden geese a long time ago.


Rednalsi :: On Being A Vermonter

Stephen A. Douglas besides debating Lincoln was a native of Brandon, Vermont. His famous quote went "Vermont is a great place to grow up, provided you leave shortly thereafter." This is as true today as the 1800's when Vermont first started loosing its native son's and daughters. Vermont began documenting a loss in the 1820's as canals opened the way to the west.
Today we loose Vermonters because of economic disadvantage. Wages are low, good jobs and gainful employ are few. The costs associated with living here are outrageous.

The problem is Vermont is dominated by low paying service jobs because we are a "tourist state". These jobs are most often seasonal, and very few come with benefits. We need winter and summer clothes, fuel and transportation costs drive up other goods. We need heat in winter, and energy year-round, very little of which comes from here in Vermont. It is a lose, lose situation.

There is the problem of land and taxes here in Vermont. Land is sold at the premium development price here, that often Vermonters are unable to buy into. People who want to put up a house, have a couple kids, maybe a small farm, are being crowded out by McMansions and Condo's. On top of this you add some of the highest property taxes in the nation. Not to mention our sales and excise taxes.

Vermont is dominated by a consumer economy, there is a trade imbalance across our states borders. We produce all sorts of specialty products for export, but need to import nearly all the things we require to live here.

The Yankee tradition of making do has gone by the wayside and we've moved on to bigger, better, even broadband, in the backwoods.

What have we lost along with those landless son's and daughters? Look around, the signs are everywhere, community is what has suffered. When a town needed something done they pitched in and made it happen. Now its who's the low bid, and where can we get grant money or aid.

Local control used to be something Vermonters prided themselves in, but now most of our decisions are being made in Montpelier and Washington. How many can say they like the decisions that are being made?

As a youth I had but one dream and that was to grow up, live, and die, in the town I was raised. My future in Vermont is questionable. I'm getting married this year, and Vermont is a hard place to start out.


Rednalsi
 

Hey Red. See ya!

And it's "lose" not "loose"
 

What the Republicans have always known is that Welch is controlled by the Jews.

They've tried to warn us.
 

WElch is controlled by money.
 

and who controls the money???

Hmmm??
 

Watching the Vermont congressional delegation is like watching the original three stooges movies.
 

The three of them together have shot fewer of their friends in the face than Cheney has.
 

But unlike Fat Teddy Kennedy's "friend", Cheney's didn't drown.
 

Hey Blubbo. How about something from this century little man. The Kennedy harping has been beat into the ground by the GOP. How about something a little fresher.
 

DUMP WELCH '08

Welch supports the War.
Welch voted to Fund the War.
Welch is a liar!
 

Welch is a fair weather democrat.
He would not be a congressman if not for the war.