Do-Nothing Congress
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Sunday February 11, 2007
This past week’s announcement that our US Senators were unable to come to an agreement to debate what is perhaps the most pressing issue of our day, namely the War in Iraq, is, to this Leftwing Nutjob, indicative of the isolated and laissez faire attitude that our national representatives continue to embrace.
Over the past several years, Congress has become quite adept at avoiding their Constitutional mandate of governmental oversight and have instead embraced the role of bickering spectators, alternately criticizing or cheering their adopted role as emasculated power-brokers. In addition, their abdication of power to other branches of government — namely the Justice Department and the Executive Branch — due to their almost constant partisan squabbling, is not only dangerous to the future of our Republic, but it is also directly responsible, in my opinion, for continued involvement in Iraqi’s sectarian civil war.
I believe it says a lot when the more senior members of the Congress, men like Arlen Specter, who has arguably borne witness to power grabs by the White House over the year, are sounding the alarm to their junior colleagues about what exactly their role is in government is — and what perils will befall their chamber and the country if they fail to do their job.
The problem is that nobody appears to be listening.
The results of 2006 election may be notable in that it returned control of the legislative body back to Democratic Party, but I would also like to hope that it may be viewed some decades hence as the end of the perennial “do-nothing” Congress and the beginning of a return to Washington of brave men and woman yearning to do the people’s business.
I’d like to hope that 2006 was just a precursor of what’s to come. For if our representatives in Washington continue their antics — and I see no reason why things should change with this bunch of overpaid buffoons — then 2008 may just see another round of voter anger send even more of these lazy incumbent bums back home and make room for people who want to make the tough decisions.
And that, my dear readers, would make this Leftwing Nutjob very happy.
Source:
GOP Stalls Debate On Troop Increase — Washington Post
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Podcast #117
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Leftwing Nutjob Podcast, Episode 117, for Sunday, April 13, 2008
Penn hits the bricks, Iran in the spotlight again, the Obama money machine, al Qaeda’s rising star and more!