Congress has been on a roll; who knew?

HOLD THE PRESSES, alert the media, call Ripley’s Believe it or Not, Lex was wrong. In the post two below, Lex noted that the ONLY thing the congress has been able to accomplish under Democrat uh uhmm “leadership” is a meager minimum wage increase. That’s wrong. It’s the first time Lex’s been wrong since 1974 - that's when I thought for just a second that I was wrong but it turned out that I was right.

The Griffin reminds me that in addition to the minimum wage, the Democrats have initiated over 300 investigations of the Bush administration. They are investigating everything from the firing of eight lawyers, hired for political purposes, who were then fired for political purpose to the half-pardon of Scooter Libby. While our borders remain unsecured, hordes of illegal aliens close emergency rooms and bankrupt schools, American troops display skill and courage in Iraq, Islamo-terror-fascists continue to plot to blow us all up and Social Security gets another day closer to going broke, our heroes in congress are busy bettering our lives by investigating why the Surgeon General, another political appointment, was subjected to political scrutiny. I guess when the Democrats discover that political appointees are expected to tow the administration’s political line the fur will really fly and the impeachment proceeding can begin. Then we can all breath a sigh of relief that our congress is looking after the really important business of the people.

The Griffin fired off the following to his representative:

The following Associated Press article unfortunately captures a frustration that was the topic of our family’s' dinner discussion last evening. I am contacting you, as our House representative, to express our disappointment with this congress to face issues important to us and our community. We have supported you at the voting booth. We are now asking you to let it be known that we resent the waste of our tax dollars in the pursuit of political feuds. We expect pragmatic wisdom, leadership, and honorable people approaching their duties in an honorable fashion. While we do not condemn all within this body for this pettiness, it is all in the House that will receive this citizen's criticism. All that we can ask is that you do your best to explain that minimum professional standards are not being met by this congress and each member should reflect back to their original reasons to be in this body. Respectfully, the Griffith family

7/07/07 ”By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 5, 5:26 PM ET WASHINGTON -

The White House on Thursday pushed back against congressional investigations of the Bush administration and said lawmakers should spend more time passing bills to solve domestic problems.

They've launched over 300 investigations, had over 350 requests for documents and interviews and they have had over 600 oversight hearings in just about 100 days," Stanzel said.”