I am tired, I admit. Part of it is being ill- noone is at their best if they aren't a hundred percent physically, and as we say in Texas, I have been rode hard and put up wet a time or two. Part of it is that I am tired of these hacks that think they are politicians screwing up the political landscape with their diatribes. They would be dismissively amusing if they were not screwing around with our country. The truly scary ones wish you to believe that they are sincere- has anyone else seen the insane look that is in Nancy Pelosi's eyes? Whoa. Breed her with Howard Dean, and you would have the liberal version of Damien, spawn of Satan.
Ok, ok- the Right has their True Believers also, and they can be just as spooky. What happened to people who believed in serving the people of this country, not just the special interests,( and by special interests, I mean the NAACPs, the Planned Parenthoods, and the other allegedly do-gooder groups, not just the evil wicked corporations that actually give jobs to people).
I tell you where we went wrong- a person should have a job if he or she wants to vote. They SHOULD NOT be felons, or illegal immigrants. If someone is voting on what to do with tax money, they should have a stake in the decision. You wouldn't let someone into your poker game if they could not ante up, would you? The same rules should apply here. You pay to play, plain and simple.
Next, we really do need stringent ethics laws, and the people, not congress should vote on the rules. Why put the fox in charge of the henhouse. If someone is found guilty, they should be stripped of their pension, and any other perks they maay have accumulated.
And we really, really do need to remind these lawmakers that they work for us, and we need to set their pay scale, not have them vote themselves a raise everytime they feel the need. Would voting yourself a raise work in the real world? I think not.
One way or another, we need to impress upon these people that they are playing with our money, and what they do not NEED to govern, should be sent back to us in the form of a rebate.
IT IS NOT YOUR MONEY!
Perhaps there should be a new, required position that every lawmaker should have on their staff, that being one person whose duties are solely that of slapping said lawmaker on the back of the head every few minutes. Perhaps then they might pay attention to their duties, and not their pleasure.