With the Iraq cleanup going on...gas prices...food prices...energy prices...Russia threatening her neighbors, and all kinds of other really important things going on right now, you're probably wondering what our congress has been fervently working on this year...

I give you the Top 10 Congressional Resolutions of the 110th Congress

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10

I'm so bummed that I missed "National Watermelon Month." Then again, thanks to rising food prices, I probably couldn't afford to buy one anyway.


Mission accomplished, congress. Enjoy that "much needed" vacation. At least there's still time for them to come back to work and wast..err..spend a week to officially recognize Talk Like A Pirate Day.

EDIT: Don't ask me why the stupid software keeps breaking out that "10." Idunno.

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I don't think that list is very fair, you didn't list all of the post office renamings they did. This is totally slanted.

pssff. Man that was some hard fought legislation right there!

Just to think I was campaigning against "Idaho Potato Month", as an advocate for healthy eating choices, a potato is about the worst thing you can eat.

Those Dastardly Democrats! I will stop the legislation on "Jelly Club of the Month" coming up in November! You have my word!

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If I had the option of voting 2000 and 2004 over again, I would still vote Bush.

You can thank your master Bush for all those high prices. He's the one that has allowed the Fed to print money out the whazoo, which is the sole cause of inflation, as the current chairman of the Federal Reserve once admitted when agreeing with Milton Friedman's proofs on the matter:

"The "Great Inflation" of the 1970's challenged and permanently altered economic theory. It vindicated the once-controversial analysis of Milton Friedman, then at the University of Chicago.

"Friedman's monetary framework has been so influential that in its broad outlines at least, it has nearly become identical with modern monetary theory," said the Federal Reserve governor Ben S. Bernanke, at a recent conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. (The full text of his speech is here.)

Mr. Bernanke is not a former Friedman student. He did his graduate work at M.I.T. Someone reading Milton Friedman's monetary economics today is likely to miss its significance, Mr. Bernanke noted, much as an apocryphal student called Shakespeare's plays "just a string of quotations."

"His thinking has so permeated modern macroeconomics that the worst pitfall in reading him today is to fail to appreciate the originality and even revolutionary character of his ideas, in relation to the dominant views at the time that he formulated them," he said.

Against the conventional wisdom, Mr. Friedman argued that "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." Inflation had nothing to do with aggressive unions, greedy businesses or even oil cartels -- the bad guys who took the blame in the confusing 1970's. Prices shot up everywhere because the federal government made the supply of money grow faster than the real economy created value. Based on the historical record, he argued, the effects of monetary policy were fairly predictable.

In a 1970 lecture, "The Counterrevolution in Monetary Theory," Mr. Friedman outlined 11 propositions about how monetary policy affects the economy. All were wildly controversial, almost disreputable, at the time. Most are accepted today."


Absolutely pathetic. We need a complete housecleaning, except for Ron Paul of course.

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The Democrats were in such a rush to oust the Republican controlled congress that they voted in people who aren't willing to get the job done. And now this is what we get...

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Right...watermelon month is the reason our government sucks....not a trillion dollar war based on lies and profiteering.


Great effing perspective, man

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ROTFLMAO!!! That was a slow build for me - it didn't hit me immediately, but my stomach is hurting right now.

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This is no surprise I hope they enjoy their pina colades at their vacations homes.

The resolution for "Idaho Potato Month" was sponsored by Republican Michael Dean "Mike" Crapo (ID) and cosponsored by Republican Larry "men's room loiterer" Craig (ID).

Furthermore, "National Watermelon Month" was sponsored by Republican Saxby Chambliss (GA) and cosponsored by Republican Johnny Isakson (GA).

Which Republican is sponsoring "Jelly Club of the Month" Hat?

In fact, five of the bills on that "top 10" list were sponsored, and heavily cosponsored, by Republicans:

2. Sen Saxby Chambliss (R)
3. Rep Bill Shuster (R)
4. Sen Mike Crapo (R)
6. Rep John Shimkus (R)
8. Rep Peter Hoekstra (R)

So, this is what we get...

Very true. But you'd think the Democrats would at least try harder than this to fix the problem. There was no reason they couldn't just have waited a bit longer for their vacation. After all, other working folks have to do the same sometimes.

The gridlocked government definitely also has plenty to do with it, though.

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