Millionaire Congressman Dennis Rehberg skipped out on out-of-work Montanans this week. The workers visited Rehberg’s office to ask him not to slash benefits for the unemployed. They planned to tell Rehberg that he needed to be doing all he could for jobs rather than holding up unemployment benefits with political games.
The workers called ahead to let the office know they were coming, which explains why his office was deserted. Congressman Rehberg’s schedule doesn’t show anything for the date of the visit, February 13.
To be fair, Rehberg was probably super busy composing imbecilic micro-diarrhea to tweet from his luxury jet. Since this was a Monday he could also have passed out from drinking.
Here’s the video:
Maybe Dopey was gettin’ fitted for his uniform! Or gettin’ ready to head for basic training? Or maybe just a’prayin’ for guidance from CEEment JAYsus!
You see, Dopey MISSED his real chance to serve in uniform, but not THIS time! Dopey’s joinin’ up with the First CEEment JAYsus Irregulars to take on the secular humaniods! The Tenth fought for the First, and now, the First will fight for the Tenth! With Gen. Dopey Reeburp leadin’ his men up Whitefish Hill! A la Teddy Roosevelt! Teddy and the Rough Riders. Dopey and the Back Sliders!
Oh what a great day for some military history to be made! Tester best watch out, for who would vote against a moron in uniform charging up Whitefish Hill to SAVE Jaysus?! Not me!
“The Whitefish community and the Forest Service did not ask for this fight, but we’re going to do whatever is necessary to win it. This historic statue honors of the service of the Tenth Mountain Division during World War II – men who fought and died to protect the very freedoms that give groups like the Freedom From Religion Foundation the right to exist. In this case, the Forest Service made the right decision to extend the permit and let the monument stand. They have the overwhelming support of the local community and the American people in their stand against litigious bullies who want to force their narrow beliefs on the rest of us. At the end of the day, the veterans of the Tenth Mountain Division fought for us, and you’d better believe we’re going to fight for them
Fine, fine words of inspiration from Gen. Dopey Reeburp of the First Irregular CEEMent JAYsus Brigade!
Perhaps he was “sleeping at the office.”
Has anyone thought about what we’ll do in the future when Dennis Rehberg is gone and is no longer available to ruin our global economy? Who will we look to then?
A chimp with a balloon?
The Guy tried to weasel out on us as well! I called ahead before we got there, and his staff told us he was in a meeting! But I told them we were staying until we got to see him!
and then the conversation was just a bunch of backpeddling and lies…. 9 people told that he never said Pell Grants were welfare, and the sex slave traffic through Glacier park…. was why he promoted the hundred mile boarder!
The man hasn’t been in our neck of the woods for over a year, sending his office staff instead so he doesn’t have to listen to regular Montana folk ask him why he hasn’t done anything for the state in the Last 8 years! We probably scared the guy for these guys who came later!
Wait, Rehberg’s staff told you that his land grap bill HR 1505 was “to prevent sex slave trafficking through Glacier National Park”? Now we’ve heard it all! Norma, how did you keep a straight face?
Congressman Rehberg skiped out of work this week, why Im just in shock. Hell has he done any work in the last 10yrs?
“The workers visited Rehberg’s office to ask him not to slash benefits for the unemployed.”
That’s funny, shouldn’t they have been working?
Or was this their job?
Ingemar means to say that if the economy put you out of a job, you are only allowed to call yourself a scum-sucking pig. You deserve no self respect whatsoever right? People like this guy are the reason we have politicians like Rehberg.
“Ingemar means to say that if the economy put you out of a job”.
Should read.
“Ingemar means to say that if Obama’s economy put you out of a job”.
Ingy.. this meme is dead. As most people are very aware, it is NOT Obama’s economy. One of the few jobs that Congress MUST do is pass a budget (something they have actually failed to do for quite some time but I digress). The economy is far more the fault of Congress – not the Office of the President of the United States. If you honestly believe that the economy is Obama’s, I have great pity for your complete lack of intellegence and will regard your further comments in that light.
In your dreams MC. Budgets and spending are numero ouno this election season. This “meme” is just warming up.
By the way since your so intelligent can you tell me why the Dems who controlled the Hse, Sen., and Oval office failed to pass a budget the first two years of Barry’s term?
Reps fault perhaps?
Dems put up two budgets both of which the GOP Filibustered in the last 3 years! Infact the GOP fillibustered the Dems over 300 times this year alone…. a record of stupity that knows no Bounds! You obviously hang out with other GOP tools in the Propaganda isle of the Comic book store in your neighborhood store
Oh I am not at all arguing that those issues will be the top issues of this election. I am simply saying that trying to tie Obama solely to the economy/budget is silly and counter-productive. Too many people are aware of Congress’s role in that particular arena. All you have to do is look at approval numbers to know that. Yes, President Obama’s approval numbers are dismal. Every Republican from you to the national pundits are crowing that from the highest towers. What you fail to realise (or are purposely trying to hide) is that the Republican Congressmen’s approval numbers are even lower. The majority of the country believe that the fault of the economic problems lies more with Congress than with the President and they are right about that.
The answer to your second paragraph is complicated (as are most things dealing with Congress). Your statement is flawed though, and therein lies the crux of the problem. Yes, the Dems had a majority in the House and Senate and the President was a Dem. That fails to take into account the actual operation of Congress, though. To actually “have control” of the House or Senate, you have to have a supermajority. The current rules of Congress allow the minority to hold a virtual veto. Unless you have a supermajority – enough to overcome this virtual veto – you still have to be able to get something past the minority. If the minority is obstructionist (as the Republicans have been ever since Obama took office), the minority can actually dictate the terms of legislation – and they have.
Couple that will the failure of the Democrats (Congress, not the President) to be able to stand firm and point out this simple fact, (or even better, to actually institute congressional rules that allow the majority to legislate), the first two years of the Obama’s term were defined by a Congress seemingly unable to legislate about any substancive issue. The fact that the ACA passed is still somewhat surprising, even given that the supermajority of voting Americans wanted Health Care Reform. Had the bill actually been what was proposed though – including a public options that is still desired by a majority of Americans – it probably wouldn’t have. What we got was a Health Care Insurance bailout with some nice provisions added in. This was consistant with what the Insurance Companies wanted so enough Republicans “crossed the line” to vote yes on it.
Congress has failed the American People – more so in the last two years than the first two years of Obama’s presidency. People like you will attempt to tie Congress’s failure to Obama and with some people, you will succeed. I would like to think that the majority of Americans are smarter than that. With the Republicans actively lobbying against moderates and independants (just look at the rheteric coming out of both the Romney camp and the Santorum camp), the Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot and the results in November will prove this true.
All that should go on a bumber sticker.
There is; it says “Vote Democrats In”
No, what really should happen is that the Republicans should wake the hell up and realise that they are doing more harm than good by sticking thier heads in the sand, and being so obstructionist. They have a job to do and they are more concerned with political ideology rather than doing their damn job. While they should represent thier party, they have the job of representing thier constituants first – all of them, not just the crazies.
It looks like some of them are waking up and smelling the coffee. The backtrack they have taken on the current mess over the tax reduction for SS could indicate that they are becoming aware that they are alienating a large portion of the American voters with their obstructionist attitudes. We will see if it continues. Some of them have to be aware that they have likely lost thier chance at the Presidency this time around. One would hope that they will also learn that a hardline, extremist stand on the issues will cost them future elections.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Rehberg should only be paid 1/3 of his salary. He’s only “doing the peoples business” about a third of the time so we should pay him accordingly. If we paid all of Congress like that it would save about $57 million per year in salary alone. And we could also reduce their benefits to…nothing since part time workers don’t get benefits. Then maybe the Federal workers that actually do work wouldn’t have to take a pay freeze.
I agree a merit system might be the way to go…. If we had it in place for the last 10 years we wouldn’t have to deal with Dennys lies about helping America in this election…. Cause he would have been booted out years ago!