thank you! most enjoyable..I'm sleepy..good night
jim in virginia

I am sure that the Chinese feel this is an adequate period of time to nap. But they are amateurs compared to our professionals. We have over 500 hundred mentally challenged experts that have been doing this for hundreds of years in Washington D.C.

Our own Congress & House of Reps fall asleep constantly at sessions....and they only have 4 day work weeks with MORE time off than probably 90% of "avg American workers".

There are no surprises there and here alike.  Here, Liberal America fialed to hear the loud snoring of  our do-nothing Democratic-controlled congress ever since they took control back in November of 2006.  Instead of keeping their eyes open for the signs of an impending economic collapse, they chose to sleep through those issues.  It was important to wait until a Democrat was in the White House, a huge mistake that could have been avoided had they chose to act and solidify their political future.  A prime example was last summer when the president needed Congress to enact measures to help the gas crunch.  what happened was the snoring got louder for they went home on vacation and you know who they gave the shaft to.  When you hear the current preident and leaders of the congess point fingers at the former president and his administration for a failed economy, they fail to point out that the Democrats were in control for the last two years of Bush's presidency and played a huge role in our country's demise by doing absolutely nothing to keep it from happening and the people touting a change was needed gave those leaders a pass and heaped all of the blame on one person, G.W. Bush.  The Chinese may be the topic of this blog but the Democrats wrote the book on turning a blind eye to important issues.  Sleep well, America!!  The change you voted for is fast becoming a real boondoggle for oue well-being.

This might help those of us who would like the work day shortened to 7hrs. Cut back on absentism at work.
If I could sleep that extra hour a day I would most likely never miss work as I am a healthy person

I wish our politicians would sleep through proposals. Getting nothing done would be an improvement at this point.

Maybe we should all try the "Rip VanWinkle"cure...sleep for 20 years...wake up and this whole world mess will be over with.

Montgomery from Texas just like the rest of the Republicans who screwed up this country you're trying to blame our current woes on the dems.  Oh come on you know that isn't true, it was six years of a GOP controlled congress, senate and white house and a war they lied to get into that tanked our economy. Are you people from Texas moronic? It's typical though, the Republicans make a horrible mess and leave someone else to clean it up and then fault the clean up crew for the mess. We should have left Texas to it's original owners, Mexico.

We've got them one better... we don't nap during session in our Congress. No sir, we twitter! It's how our paid Senators and Congressmen keep in touch with their constituents. Never mind that their constituents are sitting in the same flippin room and are all supposed to be listening to what's going on... but we twitter. We are so hard core.

Mike from Texas I guess never heard of the 60 votes needed in the Senate to move anything on. And you also had a president that would veto anything that was not from the Republican party.

Dear, My Fellow Americans, it seems that we are all asleep. Take the big "Bail Out Stimulous Package". We have millions of fellow Americans out of work. and guess what about 15 to 20% of that bail out money is going to go to contractors that are not obligated to check out as the simple thing of checking the Social Security number of their employees. That only means that a lot of our fellow Americans will be losing a job to an Ilegal Immigrant that crossed the border ilegally. "NICE". Now tell me who is really asleep "We" are for electing all of those "bleeding heart" politicians that "DON'T WANT TO PUT A STOP" to the ilegal immigration.  Wake Up America..Z Z Z zzzz zzzzzzzzzzz. Did you read, or are you still asleep.
Thank You, for letting make some noise to wake you up.

A 2006 Siena College poll of 744 professors reported the following results:[6]"George W. Bush has just finished five years as President. If today were the last day of his presidency, how would you rank him? The responses were: Great: 2%; Near Great: 5%; Average: 11%; Below Average: 24%; Failure: 58%."
"In your judgment, do you think he has a realistic chance of improving his rating?” Two-thirds (67%) responded no; less than a quarter (23%) responded yes; and 10% chose no opinion or not applicable."
But what do history professionals know about judging history, right, Montgomery Mike?  Besides, they only asked 744 professors & I'll bet none of those professors were illiterate & therefore don't represent your views or the views of other true-believers/Republicans/Nazis.

I think our biggest problem is people blindy voting for one party since there dad did or what ever reason change in washington has to be demanded from us. I believe Obama was the first sign of the people taking back the country from corperations and the rich.

David from Bronx.  I agree Mike from Texas was a little off base, much like yourself.  We didn't need the federal govt. to "free" us from Mexico, we did it ourselves.  Just like we have a 6 billion dollar budget surplus right now.  Just remember that next time you and your ghetto buddies are lining up for another govt. handout because you can't make it on your own.  Moronic indeed!

Well, the IMF and World Bank were asleep at the wheel when the crisis developed. So the Chinese are granted their beauty sleep in this assembly, where the snooze may do less damage than that of the above-mentioned organisations.

In my opinion most of the US has been napping for years.  The majority of voters either never heard of the book "Sadam's Secrets" by Iraqi General Georges Sada, couldn't be bothered to read it, or don't know how to read.  In the book, Sada tells about the WMDs
that Sadam had, when and how they along with many of Sadam's cabinet were transported out of Iraq to Syria
with the help of the Syria based SES International Corp.  My oldest son has been in the Air Force for many years and is right now in one of the hot spots in that area, he agrees with what General Sada has said.  The problem isn't so much a fight between Dem-
ocrats and Republicans, liberal and conservative but
a fight between those who want a republic in which the supreme power rests with the citizens entitled to vote or those who want a country ruled by socialism where the gov't holds the supreme power!

You can't blame them for falling asleep...Nine days straight of people going "doing-doing, bing bing!" and pretending to communicate gets tiresome, I'm sure!

To Harry Dalton

Harry , I agree with you...but only in part....

Speculating on the probable failure seems a weak excuse for their (Dems) not having tried...they could at least then point to the effort..and take the high ground politically as well as morally...

They campaigned to get in on getting us out of Iraq with the "Decider" in th whitehouse.

That said there was only one way to do that ...and when the time came to make good on their campaign promises, they blinked at removing funding becasue of the political fallout in presidential election in 08.

Seriously folks we have become so indoctrinated, so brainwashed, and so polarized that the debate is always grounded in partisan mentality rather that factual issue based.  

For RNC charirman Steele to have to turn around and apologize to Rush for his remark about hoping the President's policies failed,..is a classic example !

If a Republican comes up with a good idea.....it's a good idea..If a Democrat comes up with a good idea...it's a good idea.....if we are able to reason ..?

Ben Franklin said "Men of good conscience may yet disagee"...but that concept has sadly become lost in today;s packaged media pablum deigned to pander, polarize , and placate the already determined demographic mentalities!  

It seems as if all our elected officials have been a sleep at the wheel of power for way too long, both Dems and Repubs.  I'm sorry, but taking it out on each others parties is just ridiculous.  Both parties are just at fault, we the people are playing the blame game according the media, and once the media starts telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth then I might start believing in the news.  The Chinese NPC may be a sleep at the wheels of power, but we have been a sleep for way too long and it's costing us JOBS, MONEY, FAMILIES, and our way of life.  DEMS and REPUBS, "GET OVER IT," let's wake the sleeping giant within our own country and leave the politicians to their own!!!    

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