And just what have you accomplished, my precious little congress?

I was in the car today and caught part of Ambassador Crocker’s opening testimony today. As he was speaking, one of the issues that he touched on was how much actual progress the Iraqi legislative body has made since September. Crocker listed several important pieces of legislation that the Iraqi’s have proposed, debated and approved of, in addition to passing a budget, designing a new flag, establishing the next round of elections, and some other stuff. Here’s a link to a pdf which contains his testimony:

http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Ambassador%20Crocker%20-%20SASC%20Testimony%208%20April%202008.pdf

Now, you can decide for yourself what you think about Crocker’s testimony, I’m not about to shill for the administration.

What I would like to know, and if any of you can help me with this, is during this same period of time, just what significant pieces of legislation has our own august legislative body (i.e. congress) accomplished? Except for passing the tax rebate legislation, (which I still haven’t received, thank you very much), just what exactly have all of our elected windbags been doing down in Washington for the past seven months? Certainly there have been some significant developments here during that period of time, including the economy melting down, the mortgage crises, the falling dollar, massive bailouts for banks and other financial institutions, and sky rocketing gas prices, just to name a few.

So, with all of that turmoil, just what the hell has Congress done during that period of time to fix all this shit? I mean, unless I’ve really missed something, none of them have had to operate in an environment where they are worried about assassinations, car bombing, family members being murdered, a low level civil war, or any of that shit, which could really distract you from getting your job done.

I know that some of these shills haven’t been at their desks much anyway, since they’re too busy trying to convince us that they are doing such a bang up job that we should give them another one.

So, as someone on Adri’s page so eloquently said earlier, if Bush “sucks ballz” (lovely spelling), does Congress suck balls and give rim jobs as well? And, what gives these lazy ass fuckers the right to accuse the Iraqi’s of doing nothing, when they have even less to show for the same time?

Just asking, you know?