T.W.I.T. #2 (This Week In Thaddeus)

Seeing as how the US House of Representatives has been on recess since December 19th, this week's edition of T.W.I.T. is going to be pretty short:

• On January 4th, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), who chairs the House Financial Services Committee on which Rep. McCotter sits, issued this statement regarding disappointing unemployment and job data for December:

  “Today’s employment numbers unfortunately confirm that the weakness in the economy is getting worse. These numbers are deeply troubling in themselves because it means more men and women are unemployed in a system with an inadequate social safety net. Additionally, these numbers are a cause of great concern for the economy as a whole and what started out as a financial problem is now spreading to other sectors of the economy. Today’s job numbers should be a wake up call that a public policy response is needed to help the economy recover more quickly and to help average Americans deal with any downturn.”

  Reuters reports that unemployment nationally is at a two-year high of over 5%, but nowhere could I find anything recent from Rep. McCotter on the subject...

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• One thing this blog CAN agree with Thaddeus McCotter on is the danger of Communist China. This week it was reported that a US Government panel has asked to extend its review of a proposed acquisition of the networking company 3Com. The proposal by Bain Capital - founded by Mitt Romney - includes a partnership which would give a Chinese firm a 16% stake in the company.
  

  ...U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter, a Michigan Republican, has called on CFIUS to reject the deal. Huawei's take in 3Com, which markets intrusion detection systems, would "gravely compromise" U.S. national security, he said in a House floor speech in October.

  The U.S. Department of Defense uses 3Com intrusion detection products, and Chinese hackers have targeted the agency, McCotter said. "Given this and other instances of communist China's persistent cyber warfare against us, approving this sale would be an abject abdication of CIFUS' duty to protect America's vital defense technologies from enemy acquisition," he said.

• This blog does NOT, however, feel that the appropriate method of action to solve our nation's problems as they relate to China is to introduce this kind of legislation:

  WASHINGTON D.C. - Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (MI), Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, today denounced Communist China’s ban on Bibles during the 2008 Olympics. He introduced a Congressional Resolution condemning the Communist government attack on Christianity and all religions.

  It is this sort of pandering, time-wasting uselessness that causes the American public to lose faith in its government. We get it, Thad, you're a Christian. When it's convenient, that is. The next time a bill comes up to expand health care coverage to American children, remember these words:

  On the last day, Jesus will say to those on His right hand, "Come, enter the Kingdom. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was sick and you visited me." Then Jesus will turn to those on His left hand and say, "Depart from me because I was hungry and you did not feed me, I was thirsty and you did not give me to drink, I was sick and you did not visit me." These will ask Him, "When did we see You hungry, or thirsty or sick and did not come to Your help?" And Jesus will answer them, "Whatever you neglected to do unto one of these least of these, you neglected to do unto Me!"

  And let's not forget what you said when Catholics United -

  a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting the message of justice and the common good found at the heart of the Catholic Social Tradition. We accomplish this mission through online advocacy and educational activities.

  - confronted you with the SCHIP issue:

  Catholics United...is not a Catholic Church sanctioned organization; it is a Leftist political front group. No one should be fooled when this devil cites Scripture for his own purpose.

  Read his own words here in the National Review.
  

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