Some time back (and this kind of list comes out somewhere about every
year or so), I saw a list of crimes, accusations, and arrests involving
the 535 members of Congress. It’s never an accurate
representation of
the misdeeds of any particular congress because the statistics have
been gathered over a number of years.
The numbers and varieties of crimes, however, are staggering when
considered in light of the fact that Congress and the Executive Branch
are supposed to be our leaders, the ones who crank out gazillions of
new laws and regulations for the rest of us to be confused and stifled
by.
Just a partial list of the crimes and misdemeanors includes
fraud,
spousal abuse, public intoxication, DUI, tax evasion, delinquent
payments, bounced checks, insider trading, assault, drug possession,
contempt, swearing to false official documents, abuse of power,
mismanagement of public funds, lewd and lascivious behavior, sexual
harassment, money laundering, perjury, arms trafficking, bribery,
conspiracy, obstruction of justice, consorting with prostitutes, and
even shoplifting.
Add to that the fact that members of Congress cannot be charged with
certain crimes while in office. For example, Harry Reid
frequently and
deliberately spreads rumors, disinformation, and lies about political
opponents, as he did when he said Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes in over
10 years. Harry loves to toss around tidbits of unfounded gossip,
tantamount to slander and libel, as he is doing about the Koch brothers
and Bundy. The problem is that he can do it with impunity while
in
office.
I used to be proud that the US was undeniably and unquestionably the
best place in the world to live for security, opportunity, and personal
liberty. Well, it just ain’t that way any more. Yesterday
while out
pulling weeds in my back yard I managed to twist my ankle, so I spent a
lot of time indoors listening to the news. In one day, just ONE
DAY, I
heard mention or discussion or updates on the following:
- TSA excessive searches and corruption
- HHS disinformation and ineptitude (mostly over the
ACA)
- IRS employees failing to pay income taxes
- Scholarship athletes trying to form unions
- Students prohibited from passing out copies of the
Constitution on college campuses
- BLM bullying and land grabs
- Government gun running (mostly the Fast & Furious
scandal)
- Various security agencies spying on private citizens
- Selective enforcement of existing laws
- Complete surrender in the illegal alien situation
- Leniency releases of prisoners on drug convictions
- STILL no arrests or prosecutions in the Benghazi
fiasco
- Iran elected to the UN Commission on the Status of
Women
- Putin gob-smacking US influence
- Iran still enriching uranium
- The current administration hasn’t produced a budget
in 6 years
- The current administration’s foreign policy is speak
softly and carry a linguini
- Veterans dying while administrators play peekaboo
with appointment schedules
- The US could be energy independent except for
politics (Keystone and ANWR)
- The US AttyGen says states do not have to enforce
laws they don’t like
And the list goes on and on and on. And that was just ONE DAY’s
worth
of news. We’ve reached a point at which life is imitating art,
and the
“art” is porno, rap, and pulp fiction. The fish stinks from the
head
down, and when the people in the White House are spendthrift wastrels,
race-baiters, hypocrites, and lawbreakers, the people eventually figure
that if the gubmint can behave like thugs and arbitrarily select which
of its own rules and statutes it will follow, they can do likewise.
No way any of my direct descendants will ever experience the freedom,
the good fortune, and the faith in government that I had for the first
50 or so years of my life. The past 25 years of it have been
characterized by partisan politics, selfish public servants, monstrous
mismanagement, and dangerous decline. And I don’t see it getting
any
better soon, because by the time Soetoro leaves office, we’ll be so
deep in old, stale, borrowed kimchee that we’ll never be able to work
our way out and be competitive in world economics as we were back in
the 50s and 60s.
Rome, Britain . . . move over; the American Empire is about to join you
on the road to ignominy.
Ron Metzger
