Michael1942's Blog

A recent primary ended with a long time Congressman who worked with both sides of the aisle to enact legislation that benefitted ALL  Americans. The backers of the new candidate determined that the old-timer sided with the Democrats too many times and should be more “Republican”. Isnt the purpose of bi partisanship to allow each party to serve their constituents in the best way possible? The Tea party factions are simply single issue voters who have no interests other than their own. These “Oners” (single issue voters) do not care that their issue  are not in the best interests of all of us and that many of us have the similar issues but we understand that we cannot have exactly the way we want it. The problem we have with Congress now is the singularity of purpose that has delayed action on issues vital to us all. Our Congress overall has failed us time after time in spite of member like the now deposed Congressman who sought to achieve valuable action for all of his 35 years of service. The “tea partyers”apparently took issue with the Congressman relocating to Washington instead of spending public funds to travel back and forth to his home state. (doesn’t that action save taxpayer dollars). We have come to the point where  misinformation , personal gain and  any dishonesty is the order of the day for some voter groups. These groups cause more problems than they solve, they serve to elect people who in the end have an agenda unrelated to theirs since no newly elected official can appreciate the scope of the job until they actually get it.