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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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As a perfect example of the ineptitude of our 535, go to the comedy central websit and find  Episode #18080 on the Daily show. I can make no better comment than this show’s episode.

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