The Breakfast Club - June 29, 2010

From Uber-liberal Alan Colmes commentary headline/story: "Byrd evolved, unlike many of his critics" * "Robert Byrd evolved as a man. Isn't that something we all wish for ourselves? And isn't that the truly Christian way? " -- Speaking of unevolved critics, Alan Colmes, heal thyself. When was the last time, no, the first time you thanked Bush & Cheney, or even Strom Thurmond for their service, and apologized for your bashing?
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Online headline: "10 Alleged Russian Secret Agents Arrested in US" -- Ooops, my bad; thought their had been a raid on a DIM/DUMBorat Congressional Committee caucus.
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Online headline: "Supreme Court Extends Gun Owners' Rights Nationwide" -- WRONG! The US Supreme Court just upheld the rights guaranteed to all law abiding American citizens by the US Constitution.....unfortunately, just barely.
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Online headline/story: "Congress blasts Medicaid hole in states' budgets * Massachusetts lawmakers had to make these and other difficult cuts last week after discovering they had to slash another nearly $700 million out of the state budget. The Bay State had assumed Congress would pass $24 billion in additional Medicaid funding for states before their fiscal years start on July 1." -- Why would Massachusetts, GA for that matter, even look for Medicaid help? Massachusetts is basically the HELL-thSCare poster child, and potUS Nero-bama has already promised to reduce Medicaid $500,000,000.00 annually as part of HIS HELL-thScare.
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L-E headline/story: "Obama spectrum plan would boost wireless broadband * One such social benefit could be the development of the Next Generation Air Transportation System, which seeks to transform the ground-based system of air traffic control into a satellite system. "Getting GPS into planes is a central goal of NextGen," (Jason) Furman (the deputy director of the National Economic Council) said. "If we can find the funding to invest more in it, we think we could make it more effective."-- Excuse me....why would satellite GPS control of air traffic be less likely to be interrupted than say satellite TV transmissions? Can you imagine the havoc a thunderstorm around Atlanta, Chicago, or LAX could cause? What dangers would one plane's GPS system being short-circuited by lightning cause? Back to the drawing board...
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From online story: "Byrd was a master of the Senate's bewildering rules and longtime chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which controls a third of the $3 trillion federal budget. He was willing to use both to reward friends and punish those he viewed as having slighted him." -- In others words, he was vindictive and coercive. Those, my friends, are not character traits we consider complimentary, or that we want to hold up as a role model for our children.
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With DIM/DUMBorats praising Senator Byrd as though he was "a messiah", will they wrap him in a shroud that has eye-holes cut out?
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With his background in the KKK, how can his fellow DIM/DUMBorat comrades extol his character and not get steamrolled like Senator Trent Lott did when he placated Senator Strom Thurmond?
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How can Senator Byrd be canonized as a 'saint' when his whole existence was about perpetuating his name on every building , dam, and highway he could get built with earmarked tax dollars?
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The deaths of Senators Kennedy and Byrd should be a wake up call, not just for term limits, but for a reasonable retirement age for Senators and Representatives. When elected officials are not able to attend and contribute daily when in session, it puts their jobs in the hands of their staffs who are not elected. Do I think age makes one disqualified for election, NO, but when age and health undermine one's capabilities, there should be a solution for the people they represent, and even though such representatives are elected by the voters in their districts, their input/decisions affect us all, and when age and health affect their abilities, everyone suffers.
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The L-E's "LATE LAUGHS " : "MEXICO has filed a brief against Arizona’s new immigration law. It’s a precedent because it’s the first immigration law Mexico has paid any attention to. Jay Leno" -- While it is a joke Mexico has done this, it's sad the only reaction by the media is to accept it only as a joke; it should be a wake-up call.
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