Posted on 06/10/2016 2:03:03 AM PDT by Jacquerie
My copy of Congressman X* arrived in yesterday’s mail. Since the identity of congressman X is anonymous, I should be hesitant to accept anything inside. But, since nothing I read contradicts my personal beliefs which took decades to form, I admit my bias in accepting his accusations against congress, party leadership, the president, and the typical voter.
Simply put, government is a lie. Voters are too ignorant see through the gauze, the hype, the smoke, the deceptions to realize that everyone in Washington, DC looks out for themselves first, last and always. Money is everything. Worry about the country? Don’t be silly. Oh, politicians including congressman X will easily and sincerely mouth platitudes concerning the middle class, poor, the downtrodden. Just don’t think any of the congressional or administrative glitterati, which includes their enormous staffs, would be caught anywhere near Section 8 housing unless it was for a quick photo-op at a nearby soup-kitchen.
Everything is a charade. Everyone does it. Like the girl who knows when a boy is lying to her, congressional committees know when Cabinet Secretaries are lying, yet both the girl and congressmen expect the lies and perhaps enjoy being deceived.
Here are a few of the very worst admissions from congressman X:
• Congress = corruption.
• Government is its own special interest.
• Screw the common good. Congressmen are willing puppets of special interests and big donors, while bankrupting the country and lining their pockets along the way.
• Fundraising from big donors consumes an enormous amount of time.
• Congressman X doesn’t read bills before voting. Staff tells him how to vote.
• Attending town halls and pretending to care is quite a burden. The average voter actually thinks he influences how congressmen vote.
• The secret to successful lying is repetition.
• The regular appropriations process hasn’t happened this century.
• Congressional members of the president’s party are tools of the president. Forget separation of powers.
• The rules don’t apply to congress. They apply to you.
• The party of congressman X, the democrat party, used to care for the working class. No more.
• Congressman X would prefer to vote as a moderate, but his party has gone loony leftist, and he must vote along with them. He regards Tea Party patriots as equally nuts.
Toward the end of the book, congressman X reveals that he might actually have a soul when he expresses concern over the continuing harm to our nation:
• Spending and the societal damage done by entitlement programs may have reached the tipping point of our survivability. He isn’t hopeful about the future.
• Regulatory agencies do as they wish with little regard to the law.
• His solutions involve congress reforming itself, which he admits is an impossibility, a pipe dream.
• Congressman X closes with, “God help us. “
So, congressman X knows he is a crewmember on the sinking ship United States. While we, the passengers, the American people, will be cast off to an icy death, X and his fellows in congress will be saved and will prosper.
The John Birch Society, Eagle Forum and Article V opponents are determined to go down with the ship. Rather than risk the necessary damage control measures to possibly save our nation, they choose to meekly go to a certain, horrible end.
No way. We are the many; our oppressors are the few. Be proactive. Be a Re-Founder of the American Republic. Join Convention of States.
Please sign the COS Petition.
*This squib dovetails with Sitting Out The November Congressional Election from two days ago.
The John Birch Society, Eagle Forum and Article V opponents are determined to go down with the ship. Rather than risk the necessary damage control measures to possibly save our nation, they choose to meekly go to a certain, horrible end.
...and if you had a clue you would recognize that the millions of people who believe as those organizations believe will not go meekly into the night. There are many other organizations that do not buy into the risks associated with Article V in a world very much different from that of the Founding Fathers.
I am not asking you to quit trying for the goal of an Article V convention of States. Just know that there is another side to the issue and we aren’t about to stop proclaiming the risks. One would think the revelations of Congressman X would be positive proof that not all is well inside the beltway.
Strike the “if you had a clue”, that is a bit over the top. I give you far more credit than that.
In other words, real life is like any typical episode of House of Cards.
A Trump Presidency may be our last chance.
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