Incompetent Democratic Congress

It's a good thing this Democrat Congress is so incompetent, otherwise they could really do some damage. Reid blunders on from one bad-bill farce to another. 6 months into a new majority and their 'accomplishments' are a list of acts of grandstanding. Maybe that's why the Democratic Congress' ratings are abysmal. Approve: 27 percent. Disapprove: 65 percent. Harry Reid's at 19%.

There is only one thing the Democrats in Congress are getting right: Corrupt and wasteful spending that makes the prior GOP era of earmark spending seem tame. From Rich Galen:

The Democrats -- elected because they promised to clean up the system -- have struck that rule and decided that earmarks and earmarkers would not be make public during debate where they might be struck by a vote of other members of the House, or the earmarker might just decide that the water slide isn't worth the public ridicule which would accompany the debate.

So, they have decided to go to the good old days when folks like Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Cellblock E) were riding high. Earmarks now will be dropped in during the conferences between House and Senate appropriators.

Why is this important? Because (a) conferences are very often closed to the press, and (b) the output of the conference -- a conference report -- is not amendable on the floor of either the House or the Senate.

Caught with hands in the jar, they attempt to relabel "earmarks" as "legislative directives" - "Just Forget the Word 'Earmark'", Pelosi says. The House GOP Minority Leader Boehner responds with a war on secret earmarks.

As the Democrats spend us into bankruptcy and turn DC into an acronym for "Democrat Corruption", they can only do one thing can could possible top this ignomy: Spread Defeat and Failure in war. I'm hoping they fail.