When the good guys start peeling off, we get left with …who? It’s obvious. And it’s not going to get any better. We’d like to add until it’s all cleaned out, but that’s been said and said and said. Fact is, the mess won’t be cleaned out until America is really brought to her knees. Because the only ones who care are leaving in disgust.
Evan Bayh, who has served two terms as a democratic senator from Indiana, and even been trumpeted as a possible presidential candidate, said it this way as he announced yesterday that he wouldn’t be there after this term:
“For some time, I have had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is too much partisanship and not enough progress — too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem-solving. Even at a time of enormous challenge, the people’s business is not being done.”
Americans are right to be disgusted. Not with Bayh, but with the people who are killing America by going to and staying in Washington with nothing but their selfish interests in mind.
Blame the lobbyists? The arch enemies, the “special interests?” We have seen the special interests. And they are the ones we elected, not the ones who are paying them to do the wrong thing.
Who’s to blame when someone takes a bribe? It’s obvious. The bribee’s the real bad guy. Pass anti-lobby, anti-influence laws? Ridiculous! Those who put the laws in already know how to spin around them. Long before they become laws. And they already know how to blame somebody else long before they need to.
The solution is with those who take the bribes and reward the bribers. DON’T TAKE THEM! Be honest, for crying out loud. Be a patriot. Be a lover of America. Imitate those who founded this place, and were so obsessed with doing the right thing that they put their lives on the line to get it done.
Don’t we wish it were possible to vote them out! But there’s no “none of the above on the ballot.” Maybe that’s that’s the way to get it done. Not just a tea party with speeches. We’ve had speeches about change to the point of vomit.
A “none of the above” on the ballot? But wouldn’t that mean there’d be nobody there to run it? YES! And how would that be different from what we have now?
