Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today upon sending the Ethics and Lobbying Reform bill to President Bush for his signature:

"Democrats continue to deliver on our promises to the American people, as today Congress sends the President the toughest ethics and lobbying reform in generations. We are pleased that the President has now signaled that he will join us in giving the American people a government as good and honest as the people it represents by signing this legislation that independent reform groups have hailed as a landmark bill.

"This bill will significantly reform the way business gets done in Washington. It prohibits gifts and travel from lobbyists and companies that hire lobbyists, puts an end to pay-to-play schemes like the Republican K Street Project, dramatically increases public disclosure of the activities of lobbyists, slows the revolving door between Congress and the lobbying world, requires transparency in the earmark process, and increases penalties for corrupt politicians and lobbyists. The American people are sick and tired of the corruption that has plagued this city for the past six years, and we look forward to the President quickly enacting this sorely needed reform upon his return to Washington."

SOURCE: Office of the Speaker of the House

What the hell is this,(Democrats continue to deliver on promises)? Would someone please tell me what the Democrats have done since gaining control of congress and the senate, besides take a vacation and sit on their asses.
And for sure we are tired of the corruption in Washington, and now they are waiting for the most corrupt son of a bitch that has ever "dis-Graced" the White House to sign this bill into law, Pelosi and Reid are an embarrassment to this Country.

THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.

Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.

Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.

President George Bush intensified the rhetoric against Iran last week, accusing Tehran of putting the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust”. He warned that the US and its allies would confront Iran “before it is too late”.


One Washington source said the “temperature was rising” inside the administration. Bush was “sending a message to a number of audiences”, he said � to the Iranians and to members of the United Nations security council who are trying to weaken a tough third resolution on sanctions against Iran for flouting a UN ban on uranium enrichment.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week reported “significant” cooperation with Iran over its nuclear programme and said that uranium enrichment had slowed. Tehran has promised to answer most questions from the agency by November, but Washington fears it is stalling to prevent further sanctions. Iran continues to maintain it is merely developing civilian nuclear power.

Bush is committed for now to the diplomatic route but thinks Iran is moving towards acquiring a nuclear weapon. According to one well placed source, Washington believes it would be prudent to use rapid, overwhelming force, should military action become necessary.

Israel, which has warned it will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, has made its own preparations for airstrikes and is said to be ready to attack if the Americans back down.

Alireza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which uncovered the existence of Iran’s uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, said the IAEA was being strung along. “A number of nuclear sites have not even been visited by the IAEA,” he said. “They’re giving a clean bill of health to a regime that is known to have practised deception.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, irritated the Bush administration last week by vowing to fill a “power vacuum” in Iraq. But Washington believes Iran is already fighting a proxy war with the Americans in Iraq.

The Institute for the Study of War last week released a report by Kimberly Kagan that explicitly uses the term “proxy war” and claims that with the Sunni insurgency and Al-Qaeda in Iraq “increasingly under control”, Iranian intervention is the “next major problem the coalition must tackle”.

Bush noted that the number of attacks on US bases and troops by Iranian-supplied munitions had increased in recent months � “despite pledges by Iran to help stabilise the security situation in Iraq”.

It explains, in part, his lack of faith in diplomacy with the Iranians. But Debat believes the Pentagon’s plans for military action involve the use of so much force that they are unlikely to be used and would seriously stretch resources in Afghanistan and Iraq.

34 minutes ago


Iran has reached its long-sought goal of running 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium for its nuclear program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Sunday, in a report on state media.

The U.N. Security Council had threatened a third round of sanctions against the country if it did not freeze the uranium enrichment program — which Iran maintains is for peaceful energy purposes, but the U.S. says is to hide a weapons program.

"The West thought the Iranian nation would give in after just a resolution, but now we have taken another step in the nuclear progress and launched more than 3,000 centrifuge machines, installing a new cascade every week," the state television Web site quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

Associated Press.

The first time I voted was 1966 midterm election, and I have voted in every national election since, except for last Nov. I always voted Democrat, however with the action, or I should say
no action of this Democratic Congress and the piss poor leadership of our guttless speaker of the house, Ms Nancy Pelosi, i'm now almost ashamed to admit that I ever voted for a Democrat, I learned my lesson, and it won't happen again!

For the last 2 months i've been bombarding Pelosi's email asking that she bring HR 333 to the house floor, as of this date I have had no response from anyone in regards to my messages. this resolution has of this date 20 co-sponsors but she refuses to even consider the issue.

On thur.August 16 I began circulating A petition in the cities of Columbia, Lewisburg,and Portland Tn., as of today I have 191 signatures of registered voters, both Dems and Reps for the impeachment of George Bush, and Dick Cheney.
I hope to have 1000 signatures by Nov. to deliver to the congress.

I hope that others who are interested in the future of our nation would do the same in their communities, we must make ourselves rid of the criminals that occupy the White House!
***************************************************************

This is just another example of Ms pelosi's concerns for the people who elected her..

San Francisco Bay Guardian

Pelosi won't see pink
Speaker tells Code Pink to buzz off

By Sarah Kai Acker

US House speaker Nancy Pelosi has almost entirely ignored the Code Pink protesters who have been camping outside her Pacific Heights residence since Aug. 12. Except for the first night of the campout, when she called them "nuts."

The half dozen women, several of whom voted for Pelosi, have been on a hunger strike. They said their aim was to get San Francisco's congressional representative to agree to hold a public meeting with peace activists to discuss the Iraq war during the House's summer recess.

Pelosi's response, delivered as she arrived home that Sunday night: she said she would never meet with the protesters. She then told them to get away from her house.

"It sent chills up my spine," Toby Bolme, a physical therapist and member of Code Pink who spearheaded the hunger strike and the encampment, told the Guardian.

Pelosi is one of the few public figures who have refused outright to meet with representatives of Code Pink to discuss the war — a fact that's surprising, given that Pelosi not only has publicly decried the war but also, as one of the most powerful women in the country, bills herself as an advocate for women's issues.

Pelosi's press office didn't return our calls for comment.

US Sen. Dianne Feinstein was a study in sharp contrast. Code Pink had been camping in front of her Presidio Terrace home too, but on Aug. 21, the senator held a 20-minute meeting with the activists, during which she said she was concerned about their health and asked them to end their hunger strike. "I was grateful that she had at least had the respect to meet with us," Bolme said.