Michael1942's Blog

It has been reported that the two (2) major political parties have raised in excess of 50 million dollars in campaign funds for the upcoming elections in 2016. Given that the very purpose of being elected to Congress is to serve the people- why does it take so much money to campaign for the position and for the long termers, what does it take to stay in office beyond doing the job you were elected to do? The minority party at this time is fighting hard to have complete control of the both houses and hopefully the Whitehouse but to what end? We have seen the legacy of neer do wells in the Congress on both sides and between the two of them no work of any importance has been done without a lot of media coverage and hyperbole. This media coverage has accomplished little more confuse and confound  us with a lot  more  inanity and absurd  assertions about the economy, the other party and the current President. It is easy to weigh in on events even if you have zero to a lot of knowledge about them but to really understand an issue you have to learn to raise your self above what is presented and involve your  “mother wit” (common sense). What is most important currently is to step out of your comfort zone of thought and embrace the obvious events we see and hear.

The idea that we can trust our Congress is a fallacy, the idea that “politricians” (not a misspell) have your interest in mind is now a national joke to anyone who pays attention to the news and looks behind the curtain. Too many of us are concerned about our personal issues to realize that we are all affected by the same events sooner or later. The Politricians use our own issues against us in order to stay in office. One example: The Senator from Kentucky used the statement that President Obama is “anti coal” since he wants to push the country towards clean energy to assist in curbing global warming and more efficient and cleaner energy sources. These measures will futuristically improve the lives of our children and generations to come. It would be more practical for that Senator to work on improving the use of coal in a cleaner manner and look to providing more jobs aside from the coal mines for his constituents. Since this Seat filler has elected not to do that then where is his concern for his constituents? If one would look at all of the 535 it would be surprising how many speak with “forked tongue”. The two definitions below are very much alike but the 2 party’s we follow in this country are not. This brings about the question, who is really representing who?

Democracy :  a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

Republic: a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen

We all should be reminded that there is another factor in all of this and that is the supper rich whose largess has fueled the political scene for years and now through the actions of the high court is allowed to fund and back l groups with tax exempt status and who act like Political Action Committees (PAC’s) without having to account for their funding sources. These groups are as subversive as any enemy we have had in the past and the worst is that they are often our neighbors. It is not to say that they are actually against us but they certainly do not necessarily have our” backs” in the way we commonly perceive it. Every warning we have known is in play here especially-“Caveat emptor” (let the buyer beware) and we are being sold a  future that may not include us!

The long “Ruining ”  saga    of Congress has moved to a new low. The Dupublican lead House is prepping for the upcoming elections by not doing the work required by the job (They were elected to do) but seeking to sue the President for doing what they have been requested and required to do. This tactic is designed to cast a pall on the Scamocrats who will be running for election and re-election. This ploy is designed to pull the political wool over the eyes of the voters of America. There are and will always be people who dislike the Scamocrats no matter what they do good, bad or indifferent and vice versa with the Dupublicans yet those hardened voters who adhere to the party lines apparently fail to realize that this tight line thinking is why we have an ineffectual Congress. All of the “labeled” factions of the major left, right and center political party’s   have specific agendas that most often do not help or aid the mainstream voters. These today decisions (good or bad) will have a long and often disastrous affect for years to come. The key is READ as much as is available on what the party’s are proposing and listen less to people who are selling books, getting advertising money to present outside the box opinions and the special PACs that represent special interests who want to keep the ineffective legislators in office.

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T.E. Lawrence attempted to tell the British high command how the Middle east should be handled and was ignored, Generals Patton and Mac Arthur attempted to tell the American high command about Russia and China but no one listened. We now have desperate situations in the Mid east and  Eastern Europe yet our  Congress is intent on following the same path of illogical thinking of how they can win control of the government and avoid assisting the President in any way at all. This Congress has spent all of their political capital on winning elections instead of serving the people who elected them. Anyone who believes that Congress is OK doing what they are doing is either blind or completely cut off from the everyday. Our current ability to receive news in a timely fashion has put us at a disadvantage rather than an advantage as we have become so inured by  events and especially events that have been in evidence for centuries (middle Eastern religious wars), Russian pogroms and other mass human near extinctions in other near third world countries. America has just 250 years of existence as compared to Europe and the Far to middle east having thousands of years in existence while committing the same criminal acts against their neighbors and citizens.t  Our Congress unfortunately has adopted a “cut off your nose to spite your face” attitude that has divided our country in a way unseen since the Civil war. The Congress has been bought and paid for by deep pockets, by association the highest Judiciary which has all but gutted the civil rights act of 1965 along with all associated changes. This Congress has said no to Presidential initiatives and publicly denounced them with misinformation and innuendo hoping to sway us toward voting their party into the “driver’s seat”. Our option is accept them no matter what or vote against them to save our nation.

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The GOP (John Boehner) has blamed President Obama for Eric Kantor’s primary loss and also for the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan where many American and UN troops were killed by Afghan soldiers who were being trained to fight the Taliban. So if I calculate correctly, this is an election year that Dupublicans hope to own the Congress after the elections but unfortunately they have performed so poorly and worse than the Scamocrats that their chances are becoming slimmer. We have as I have stated before the worst Congress overall in 20 to 30 years. These pimps (or are they the workers?) have  spent more time (and our money trying to win a popularity contest and elections than just doing some real legislative work. Our Media only covers what’s available to them and often have information (misinformation too) leaked to create a stir which creates enough time for them (Congress)  to think of something worth while to issue, even then it is just so much tripe. These legislators somehow hold onto the belief that we trust and believe in them. They do not and have not for years had a handle on the pulse of the nation (us) yet they pay pollsters millions to get a consensus on what they think we think  and want to believe we think. SO much for character since there is none in Congress.

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Press Releases May 8, 2013

WASHINGTON – Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement after hearing the compelling new testimony of three career diplomats about what occurred before, during and after the Benghazi terror attacks of September 11, 2012.

“Today’s hearing offered officials at the State Department the opportunity to be heard. These witnesses revealed new information that undermines the Obama Administration’s assertion that there are no more questions left to answer about Benghazi. Numerous questions are still unanswered, despite months of dogged investigation by the Oversight Committee,” Issa said. ‘ This Congressional seat filler continues to publicly debate an issue that at best was a tactical error at a time of  unrest in an unstable country. There are always other actions that could have been taken in retrospect but to continue  (seemingly) forever is a waste of voters money. The Agriculture department is being pressed by conservative Congressional members to a make cuts in the food aid program for needy Americans because it costs too much. I ask what is too much to feed the needier Americans? AKA Seniors, low income, single parents, unemployed and underemployed. The sequester is still pounding the economy since the Dupublicans and Scamocrats can’t seem to do the job that should have been done months ago. We have 535 representatives(?) who we know are good at getting media coverage as their smoke and mirror policy while the public suffers for their inadequacy. many of us advocate for Congressional term limits but we must remember that Congress enacts such laws and given their track record so far -“it aint happening”. The limits are controlled by the voters with a simple “X” , filled in circle  and pulling a lever.

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Several recent opinions in the WSJ  having to do with the complexity of the Congressional and federal law making process. Each one asks and wonders why and how  laws are presented and enacted yet many in Congress have not read them at all or completely. The reason is the sheer size and complex language in these articles. I am in agreement that this process could be streamlined by making simple statements out of complicated ones to the point that any American, no matter education level can read and understand the contents. This certainly a worthy objective but we will never get it from the current or future legislators because it is not in their best interests. In order to keep us voting them in office they need a secret language which is buried in thousands of pages of legislature on any and everything. If as one opiner wrote: what if an amendment to the Constitution were put in place that limited all laws to no more than 20 to 25 pages?. Could the lawmakers get more done in less time therefore reducing their positions to the part time jobs they were designed to be in the beginning?

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