Scott R. Sullivan

October 15th, 2008 by Scott

Nov. 7, 2006

“The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history. ” - Nancy Pelosi, Democrat Speaker of the House

Dec 14, 2006

“Congress should establish an independent ethics office to restore trust in the institution. Congress will not re-establish its credibility and trust with the American people until accountability and oversight is established in Washington” Tim Mahoney, D-Fla. (on a Republican sex scandal during the 2006 election)

That was their ‘promise’. This is their delivery.

October, 2008: Democratic Congressman Tim Mahoney admits to TWO extramarital affairs

A married congressman who faces accusations that he had an affair with a former aide and paid her to keep quiet about it also was having an affair with a second woman around the same time, a person close to his campaign told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Details of the second affair came hours after Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney held a news conference to address a story, first reported by ABC News, that he had been involved with the former aide. Mahoney acknowledged he had caused “embarrassment and heartache” to his family but denied doing anything illegal. (Source)

ABC: FBI Launches Probe into Democratic Congressman

The FBI has reportedly begun its own preliminary investigation into an ABC News report that West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL) hired an alleged mistress to work on his official staff and then paid her $121,000 to keep her from going public and filing suit after she was fired.(Source)

September, 2008: Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel under investigation by Congressional Ethics Panel

The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct voted today to form an investigative subcommittee to probe multiple allegations of impropriety against Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.). (Source)

And then there’s the whole investigation into Obama’s involvement with ACORN, which has had offices raided for what has been reported as fundraising and election registration.

July 20th, 2008 by Scott

In one of Obama’s recent ads, he says:

He passed a law to move people from welfare to work, slashed the rolls by eighty percent. Passed tax cuts for workers; health care for kids.

The truth of the matter is, he was mandated to sign that law by a bill written by the 1994 Republican Congress and signed into law by President Clinton:

First, the law in question wasn’t dreamed up out of thin air by its sponsors. It was the follow-up to the welfare reform act, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, that President Clinton signed on Aug. 26, 1996. That law gave states the ability to design their own welfare programs as long as they met certain federal requirements, including limits on how long recipients could get benefits.

Welfare reform was successful in moving people off public assistance. There was about a 78 percent drop in the number of families receiving public assistance in Illinois between 1998 and 2006. It was the federal law, hammered out by Clinton and the Republican Congress, that set the wheels in motion and forced states to act. Nationwide, the number of families on welfare declined quite a bit as well, going from 3,146,870 in ‘98 to 1,805,900 in ‘06, a decrease of almost 43 percent.(Source)

So why are we interested in putting Obama in the White House, when it was the 1994 Republican Congress and their Contract With America that initiated this action?

It was the Republican Congress that helped get people off welfare and become responsible, productive citizens. Let’s remember that.

July 8th, 2008 by Scott

Democrats took control of the congress in January 2007. From Rasmussen Reports:

The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.
Last month, 11% of voters gave the legislature good or excellent ratings. Congress has not received higher than a 15% approval rating since the beginning of 2008. (Source)

The Democrats loved to harp on President Bush’s low approval ratings last year. I find it ironic, that since the Democrats have taken control of the congress, its approval ratings have plummeted to an all time low!

Yet, we have not heard a peep in the mainstream media, who is still trying to blame the President for a recession that never showed.

By the way, the President’s approval rating is currently more than 300% higher than that of the Democratic congress.