HODGE PODGE OF MALARKY

Where do I start? Do I dwell on the pervert TSA agents who are getting paid to grope, fondle and feel-up the traveling public and who are going to be unionized at the behest of the President so we’ll have a hard time firing them? Do I talk about the Bush tax cuts or the immigration problem? I could spend two posts talking about the continued arrogance of the “political elite” in Washington who have yet to come to grips with the fact that we Americans don’t like them.

Maybe that last sentence gives me a lead into what I really want to discuss. The plain fact is that Congress has declared itself to be above and beyond the law and ethics and they have not changed their ways. To start off with, the Democrats elected Pelosi to lead their House members again, thereby totally endorsing every damned thing she did to us in the last two years, from health care to stimulus and everything in between. This was a big vote and she had a substantial number of new Democrats voting for her, Democrats who lied to their constituents when running in 2010 by distancing themselves from her and the unpopular legislations she championed.

Shame on them. Out they go in 2012. Keep track of their names. 


The real story about the House of Representatives is the Charlie Rangel story. This guy falsified his income tax returns. He used political power for his own personal gain and benefit. He lied under oath. Not only did he do these things, but he did them over and over again. He thumbed his nose at the system in place to deal with people like him. His peers found him guilty and then didn’t even give him a slap on the wrist.  Good God, Wesley Snipes just got three years in the can for his tax problems! How can you justify sending Wesley to the can and letting Charlie off? 

In doing so, his peers told Americans like you and me that we deserve to go to jail for the things Rangel did, but Rangel gets off because he is a Member of Congress and a friend of Pelosi. And, their actions flaunted the law that they swear to uphold when they take office. In short, our government has evolved into a dictatorial body that considers itself to be immune from any prosecution. Certainly, they have just proven themselves to be unwilling to accept an overwhelming public order issued on November 2nd to cut this crap out.

I’m beginning to think that we are going to have to make every single member of Congress subject to recall by the voters. It’s not a good or effective way to run a government, but how else are we going to hold these people accountable for their actions? One thing is certain: 2010 did not get the job done. We made substantial progress, but we are going to have to repeat ourselves in 2012. At least we are all awakened now to what we are facing in Washington and we have two years to study the situation and size up who we are going to get rid of in 2012 well ahead of the game.

In closing, let me say this about Murkowski. She won her seat with less than a majority vote in the state. Yes, she beat Miller, but she did not have 50.1% of the vote; she had somewhere in the 38% range, which means that 62% of the Alaskans did not vote for her or voted against her. How can she possibly justify running around telling people how much the Alaskans really need and support her?

Something has to change. Things in our American political system are not right.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.