Saturday, April 26, 2014

Who’s in charge here!!


 
 
Who’s in charge here!!  (sorry, no humor in this one)  Metzger

 



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



3 comments:

toadold said...

As was pointed out in the Federalist Papers, somewhat indirectly, government attracts the corrupt so it is best if the checks and balances is setting one group of thieves and power seekers against another. Almost inevitably two or more of the groups will eventually cooperate to game the system, however they will sooner or later cheat each other or some other group, and the fun will begin. We are starting to see rats leaving the ship, weasels turning on each other, regions vs. region, "minority group" vs. "minority group, and mopery on a steamboat landing with an attempt to gawk.

Tom Smith said...

They are fortunate to live in a civilized country because they deserve an uncivilized death. I am afraid some level of violence will be needed to extract this cancer. Other option is for good people to stop watching and run for office.

gunnypink said...

For many years, now, I have advocated changing the forms of address to remove "The Honorable" from elected officials names. Sadly, it has been a very long time since we have associated "honor" with the majority of congress critters. Consider how I nearly lost my cookies when I saw Sebelius being questioned by congress, and the sign in front of her reading "The Hon".

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