Congress: I’d Like to Buy ’em for What They’re Worth and Sell ’em for What They Think They’re Worth

clowncarThe only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. – Will Rogers

I started writing daily, back in April of 2010, as a way to vent my frustrations with the Marxist Buffoon, who was and is living in OUR House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.. and all the chicanery found in the Halls of Congress. Of course back then, the Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress, and they we going ahead with Obama’s plan for radically changing America, regardless of the wishes of the majority of Americans.

Unfortunately, even with the valiant effort of American Conservatives, who voted en masse in 2010 to secure the House of Representatives for the Republicans, things have actually gotten worse.

What we did not count on was the entrenched Republican Elite, settled in the muddy bottom of the Congressional Cesspool, dangling power and prestige to Freshman Congresscritters, like an alligator snapping turtle wiggling his pink tongue like a worm to lure in an unsuspecting fish.

Total power corrupts totally….and, it did.

Now, in Obama’s second term, average Americans such as you and I, are watching in disgust as those whom we voted for , have turned on us like Rosie O’Donnell and Roseanne Barr fighting over the last fried chicken leg.

Instead of getting rid of the abomination known  as Obamacare, as they promised, Speaker John Boehner and Company seem perfectly pleased to stand by and wave at the monster, as “the parade” passes them by.

It’s bad enough when Dingy Harry Reid, shows no shame at all in telling us that our servants deserve to be exempt from Obamacare, because “that’s the way the law is written”.

I guess he finally read it, huh?

The Republican Elite, who are so much smarter than us inbred hicks from the Heartland (just ask them), have decided to delay Obamacare, not defund it, as they promised during the Midterm Elections in 2010 and the General Elections in 2012.

Back on August 23rd, the Washington Post reported that

Speaker of the House John Boehner (Ohio), in a call with his conference Thursday evening, told Republicans the best move would to be secure the sequester cuts in a continuing resolution rather than threaten to shut down the government, a source on the call told Right Turn. As for Obamacare, the House would seek to delay the individual mandate, not defund the president’s pet legislation, a move that effectively pulls the rug out from Senate hardliners threatening to shut down the government.

The source related that Boehner told his members, “The president is desperate to get rid of the sequester. . . . So desperate that he says he’ll shut down the government if

Congress follows the law and funds the government at the levels his sequester

mandates. The president’s threat to shut down the government if we implement his sequester is not a defensible position. The American people won’t stand for it, and we’re not going to be swayed by it.” According to the source, Boehner then said, “When we return, our intent is to move quickly on a short-term continuing resolution that keeps the government running and maintains current sequester spending levels. Our message will remain clear: Until the president agrees to better cuts and reforms that help grow the economy and put us on path to a balanced budget, his sequester — the sequester he himself proposed, insisted on and signed into law — stays in place.”

A senior GOP aide told me that no final decisions have been made on defunding Obamacare as it relates to the continuing resolution. However, Boehner clearly intends to thwart what many sober conservatives see as a suicidal plan to defund Obamacare.

Let’s face it. Obamacare is here…and the Republican Brain Trust hasn’t done squat about it.

But, then again, they also haven’t done anything about the economy, either.

Plus, several of them are siding with Obama and Secretary of State Kerry in their quest to pave the way for al Qaeda to ascend to the Presidency of Syria.

It is behavior like this that led Mark Twain to quip,

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Now, there are several fine Conservatives in Congress, like Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and err…umm…well, I’m sure there are more fine Conservatives in there somewhere.

Anyway, the problem we have with Congress is an age-old addiction. President Ronald Reagan was quite familiar with it. He described Congress’ condition perfectly,

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

As all of us parents and grandparents know, babies are expensive and unruly…if you do not discipline them. 

As we head toward the 2014 Midterm Elections, it time for the Tea Party to reform. We need a complete Grass Roosts Effort  to remind the “dedicated (to themselves) public servants just exactly who pays for their salaries, perks, and pensions.

Being an American by Birth, and Southern by the Grace of God,my favorite play of all time is “Lil’ Abner”. One of my favorite scenes in the movie they made of it, which starred Petter Palmer as Abner, Stubby Kaye as Marryin’ Sam, and the great Billie Hayes as Mammy Yoakum, was when Senator Fogbound (what a great name) holds a meeting with the townsfolk of Dogpatch, to tell them that they had to evacuate, due to an upcoming “A-tomic” Bomb Test.

Sen. Fogbound: I know y’all have been wondering what I have been doing up there in Washington on your behalf.

Mammy Yoakum: We didn’t care…as long as you wuz up there…and we wuz down here!

That’s the way that Low Information Voters feel about Congress. However, we can not allow that ignorance any more.

It’s time to get involved. It’s time to once again, rise up, get organized and ready to go to the polls in 2014.

It’s time to prepare to take our country back.

Until He Comes,

KJ

8 thoughts on “Congress: I’d Like to Buy ’em for What They’re Worth and Sell ’em for What They Think They’re Worth

  1. yoda's avatar yoda

    Our Congress isn’t interested in what their constituents want and need until the election year is coming up. Everyone of them should be primaried and then voted out. Time to drain the RINO swamp!!!!

    KJ, I’ve been reading your blog since your very first one back in 2010.

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  2. Gohawgs's avatar Gohawgs

    The status quo Spelunker of the House will cave every chance he gets…

    It’s past time to head down to Academy Sports and buy that brick of 22’s…

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  3. sappi60's avatar sappi60

    There are only a handful of true representatives of the American people left in DC (from either side of the aisle). Most of what is there now are mere Power Brokers. We are means to their end, not our voice.

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