I have spent many times on this blog blasting the collective, race baiting pimps that make up the Congressional Black Caucus of the US
Congress. People for the most part who are elected based solely on their race
because of either white liberal guilt or because they live in predominately
black areas; so it’s a vote based of their color of their skin and NOT the
content on their Character. No, this is not the dream Dr Martin Luther King envisioned
some 49 years ago.
I have spent other times berating the K-Street connection
including, but not limited to, the interchangeable seats between public servants
and public leeches; however hard to disambiguate the two may be. People like
Chris Dodd, Trent Lott or William Delahunt (just to name few of many), scum bag
elites who wouldn’t know what a moral compass was if it was stuck on their
dashboard GPS giving them directions from one
lobby to the next back to Capitol Hill.
But above all and connected to the former two examples (and
this by no way means there is not other examples of dead beats and crooks with
their fangs in the public coffers) are this notion that being elected into
public office is a job. The founders never envisioned people would want to spend
their careers in politics.
They had work of their own to do and they made more money doing it. Insert raise after raise, health benefits and a lucrative pensions plan and don’t forget them paid junkets and viola… federally elected officials have one of the most lucrative positions someone with no real world skills can obtain. Don’t believe me, ask recently "retired" Jesse Jackson Jr for his resume.
They had work of their own to do and they made more money doing it. Insert raise after raise, health benefits and a lucrative pensions plan and don’t forget them paid junkets and viola… federally elected officials have one of the most lucrative positions someone with no real world skills can obtain. Don’t believe me, ask recently "retired" Jesse Jackson Jr for his resume.
Now with this in mind, one of the best quotes I have seen in
some time came this week over the “Fiscal Cliff” debate.
"We are concluding one of the most unsuccessful Congresses in history, noteworthy not only for its failure to accomplish anything of importance, but also for the poisonous climate of the institution."
This was from Democratic Representative John Dingell of Michigan.
Dingell, 86, is the longest serving member of the House, who was elected for
the first time in 1955. It was in his Inaugural Address, when Lincoln
said that the American people:
''have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals.''
Its safe to Mr Dingell never read the address. Over 50 years in congress it’s apparent he’s been inside the beltway too long that he cant see that the real reason for this poisonous climate of the institution is his (and others like him) refusal to return that power of mischief back in short intervals. Instead, he and his ilk have done nothing but rape the virtue of this country and kick & scream when a little gridlock prevents them from getting their filthy hands in the till. Where is the Queen of Hearts when we need her?
