where is Al Haig when you need him the most? Hey MAD (mutual assured destruction) worked during the Cold War, after all nothing like an ICBM loaded with multiple nuclear warheads to keep people in line and not do anything really stupid. We’ll tell them that if they mind their own business that our stand ins with itchy fingers won’t nuke them. Give the Russians and Chinese, the Iranians, Al Qaida, the European Union and everyone else a message that we’re busy the next month so don’t bother us. Let the clerks of the court do their thing, let the White House staff do its job and congressional aides deal with constituents.
What I mean is both houses of Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court. Now before you think that you won’t get what the government owes you I don’t mean the people that actually do the work. First we shut down the government for a month. Instead it is based on relationships built from shared suffering and since we are suffering why shouldn’t they suffer too? So here’s my idea. My suggestion is definitely not politics as usual. This is my idea of how we fix this situation. Since they all spend far too much time inWashingtonor raising money to stay there it is high time that they get out of Dodge so to speak.
If you ask me its all out of whack and they really all should be whacked. The political class doesn’t live in our world, thus they do everything that they can not to look at what is best for the country but rather what is best for them, for their party, their supporters and their agendas. As a result for at least the past 10 years and I am sure a lot more they have for the most part forgotten the people that they are supposed to represent. Thus they can coddle up to their big financial supporters and most demented party extremists and unseemly lobbyists representing some of the vilest elements of our society. This city has become the symbol of all that ails the country and since our political class only leaves it to raise money for their next campaigns they have no earthly clue of what the rest of us are experiencing. Part of the problem is that our political ruling class, the Federal Government particular is completely out of touch because they live in the netherworld ofWashingtonD.C. Since we all get spun up about different issues usually in tune with our own political or social viewpoints I leave it to you my readers to fill in the blanks and comment on what you think they are screwing up. I won’t list them here but they include notable Democrats as well as Republicans, nor will I go into all the idiotic things that our government, both Democrat and Republican controlled administrations or congresses have done as the task would be ginormous. The number of ethics violations, criminal charges and convictions and resignations due to shady financial dealings, backroom deals, sexual scandals and sometimes rather nasty criminal cases are too numerous to catalogue unless you are Matt Drudge. They are out of touch with the everyday concerns of real Americans and have done their best to destroy the fabric of our society in their quest for power and they are many times an unseemly lot who do things that regular people could never get away with. Then to top it all off they pass laws that make no sense and that you have to have an army of lawyers to understand. The corruption and malevolence of the career politicians on both sides of the aisle have bankrupted the country, cost American lives in war, cost American jobs, destroyed our manufacturing base, placed the interests of financial traders who produce nothing except promote the evil practice of usury because it makes them money which they in turn contribute copious amounts of said money to their political patrons. Our political ruling class appears to be hell bent on destroying the country all to satisfy their respective need for power and to satisfy the basest wants of their most strident supporters.
I don’t know about you but as a passionate moderate I am fed up with the nasty politics as usual that is killing our country. Since I have been rather morose of late I figure that this should break things up a bit. I wrote this about a year ago and after the fiasco that we have endured during this long and all too painful year think that it is time to revisit the topic.