Because IF we had a Congress, that is a real working Senate
and House of Representatives, then things would get DONE.
As it is, the only thing that has actually excited the
loudest members of Congress is trying to grill our ambassador to the United
Nations. It seems that only certain Republicans
misunderstood our UN ambassador, Susan Rice when she made some simple
preliminary statements on behalf of the intelligence community, because she was
asked to do so. I say this, because it
seems that most of the rest of the country and the rest of the world understand
that a ‘preliminary investigation’ is just that. These folks apparently don’t want to find out
what really happened in Benghazi or they’d be talking to the folks who are
investigating Benghazi.
Nor do they want to get our tax situation settled in a
sensible way so that everyone pays their fair share. The
only other thing I can figure out that the members of Congress really want to
do is to set up drastic cuts on the Social Security and Medicare programs, as
well as Medicaid, so that the oldest, poorest, and most vulnerable in our
country can reduce the deficit these same members of Congress created with
unfunded tax cuts and unfunded wars, while at the same time making sure that most
wealthy folks in the country are protected inside their cocoons of wealth and
privilege. In fact, it is a fact that in
order to maintain their illogical positions, these same members of Congress
have suppressed the report they themselves ordered from the Congressional Research
Service that found that “reducing the top tax rates has no
correlation with the nation’s economic growth, but does contribute to the
growing gap between the wealthy and the rest of Americans.” And why did they suppress that report? Because it didn’t agree with what they wanted
to believe or what they were told to believe.
Amazing.
So here we are, thirty-one days from
the end of the year, with more posturing and drama than most modern movies,
with a Congress that seems hell-bent on embarrassing us in front of the rest of
the world by demonstrating, with every press conference they call, that they simply
cannot do their jobs.
So maybe we should all mark our
calendars, and in a couple of years, say November 2014, when all of the members
of the House of Representatives, and lots of the Senate, come up for
re-election, we can consult our notes and give them all tickets back home to
manage the wealth they have accumulated in ‘government service’, and maybe we
can find some folks who understand that when you are given a job, you show up
and do it.
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