Cheryl Seal
The US Congress is packed with idiots
Fri Jul 18 13:55:31 2003
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Congress: A Confederacy of Dunces
by Cheryl Seal

It's no wonder the US is sliding toward oblivion. The US Congress is packed with idiots, cowering codependents, drunks, senile cranks, corporate minions, psychopaths and criminals, with a tiny band of exceptions (notably the black caucus, Jim Jeffords, Ben Cardin, Dennis Kuchinich and a few others). Why is it so few reasonable human beings opt to run for - and/or are elected to - Congress? The guality of most state and city governments is so superior to that in Washington now that it is scary - like living in the shadow of a teetering inverted pyramid.

Look at the track record of this pack of misfits! You want anything from them, just make either a terror-inspiring or feel-good speech and it's yours, no questions asked, no facts required. These are the folks who gave us, quivering and cowering, the Patriot Act. The folks who gave us, for that matter, John Ashcroft by approving, despite buzzers and bells blaring, his nomination. These are the folks who, after singing "God Bless America," teary-eyed, on the Capitol steps, disgraced America's ideals of fairness and gave us the war in Afghanistan, though all the known guilty in 9/11 were Saudi nationals. The folks who, after seeing the carnage and cost of the war in Afghanistan, and seeing not one shred of reasonable proof of Al Queda ties to Iraq, or of an active WMD program there, gave us the war in Iraq.

When it comes to inanity and self-interest, however, no one can top Congress. This is also the same group that gave us months and months of hearings focused on Monica Lewinsky's blue dress and talent with cigars. The same group that allowed French Fries to be renamed in one of their cafeterias as a show of "patriotism." The same group that votes themselves nearly bi-annual outrageous pay raises - while failing to pass a minimum wage hike in nearly seven years. The same group that calls social security and other benefits earned by citizens after decades of work as "entitlements," while they themselves enjoy one of the most lavish pension schemes in America in exchange for even two to four years part time work. This is the group that, in the wake of revelations that scores of Americans and thousands of Iraqis died in a war they sanctioned based on false evidence, gushed like aging groupies over a slick salespitch by Tony Blair ("progressive" Diane Feinstein was particularly pathetic). The same group that, while sitting in air-conditioned offices, approved awarding con artist Tony Blair the Congressional Medal of Honor while thousands of Americans swelter in 110-degree heat in Iraq, laying their lives on the line EVERY MINUTE.

Yep, that's the United States Congress. I, for one, believe America deserves better.
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