The lunatics on the far
left and the far right are controlling the conversation
And we are all suffering as a result.
We are tired of the “wars”: the “war” on teachers; the “war” on women; the
“war” on traditional family values; the “war” on religion.
It’s not bad enough that we are stuck in real wars in
Afghanistan and elsewhere, where U.S. soldiers and civilian contractors are
dying. We have to invent new “wars” to demonize
one side or the other for political points.
Everything now is of end-of-the-world threat proportions that call for scorched
earth tactics that would make Sherman uneasy.
Enough already. Please
STFU for a while.
So now, House members and Senators … How about you just do
your jobs for a change?
Stop with the petty bullshit you’re spawning just to get the
support of your lunatic fringes. Stop
making getting re-elected the sole focus of your political career.
Which also means stop making up new laws just to pander to
one group or another.
You have enough on your plate already – like the economy –
so if anything else is functioning passably okay now, don’t screw it up. Stop wasting time on the Defense of Marriage
Act, the Stolen Valor Act, the Dream Act, and other “feel-good” bills that make
a point but ultimately will accomplish nothing.
These are time vampires; you have more important things to
do.
Focus on real answers for our economy – not short-term “popular”
ideas – but ideas that recognize a simple fact:
we’re broke. Party’s over. We can’t
print our way out of this one.
Everybody’s going to have to pony up to get us out of this
mess politicians created and you’re going to have to cut spending at the same
time. So we can’t afford your pet
projects, expanding entitlements, bogus infrastructure-building and
green-energy jobs right now.
We need real long-term solutions, not pie-in-the-sky
experiments.
Plus, everybody – really everybody – is going to have to
accept there will be higher taxes on everyone and fewer services. And there will be fewer credits, deductions,
subsidies and other handouts to corporations as well as the general public – we
simply can’t afford these anymore.
Right now you spend too much time crafting specious pieces
of legislative crap to affix your name to so you can get laid, go to better
parties, get higher speaker fees, be more “popular” or “likeable” and raise
more campaign funds.
Those days are over.
We’re not paying you to be popular, likeable and re-elected. We are
paying you to solve the problems of the country; not simply the problems or
issues of one group or another. And we’re
certainly not paying you to create new problems.
We don’t care if you’re ever popular or likeable. We just want you to act responsibly.
So if you want to start making us more pleased with your
KPIs, you’ll need to stop taking contributions – and advice – from lobbyists
for special interest groups, period, whether that’s SEIU, the Chamber of Commerce,
Planned Parenthood or Right-to-Life groups, among others.
Grow a pair and refuse to be bought and used like a cheap
whore – which, unfortunately, is what an increasing number of us think you are.
If you doubt that, just look at your approval ratings.
You need to push the loonies aside – far left or far right –
and start acting like grownups; adults who’ve just found out their credit cards are
maxed out.
Try that for a change.
You might find there’s room for civility if you all stop acting like
children in perpetual tantrums.
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