Posted on 05/17/2016 8:17:09 AM PDT by NRx
A devastating inside look at the dark side of Congress as revealed by one of its own! No wonder Congressman X wants to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. His admissions are deeply disturbing. . .
"Most of my colleagues are dishonest career politicians who revel in the power and special-interest money that's lavished upon them."
"My main job is to keep my job, to get reelected. It takes precedence over everything."
"Voters are incredibly ignorant and know little about our form of government and how it works."
"It's far easier than you think to manipulate a nation of naive, self-absorbed sheep who crave instant gratification."
"Fundraising is so time consuming I seldom read any bills I vote on. Like many of my colleagues, I don't know how the legislation will be implemented, or what it'll cost."
"We spend money we don't have and blithely mortgage the future with a wink and a nod. Screw the next generation. It's about getting credit now, lookin' good for the upcoming election."
"The average man on the street actually thinks he influences how I vote. Unless it’s a hot-button issue, his thoughts are generally meaningless. I’ll politely listen, but I follow the money."
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
- Autobiographical dictation, 24 January 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (University of California Press, 2010)
Go Trump, win win win.
If I were Trump, I would have paid someone to ghostwrite this book.
Nothing fits more perfectly with the anti-establishment, anti-Beltway upheaval currently taking place.
Well, the ‘big difference’ is that the cop isn’t (illegally) EXEMPT from every ‘law’ on the books.
Equal under the Law only applies outside the halls of D.C., or their donors/lackeys.
Add in the Judiciary, whom knows who butters their bread (more lawyers = more laws = more court = ...), and an Executive whom is selective in the enforcement of ‘laws’ and you have the trifecta of tyranny.
“A hundred years ago....people felt it was corrupted. Nothing has changed in the whole period....just more of the same!”
My Grandfather was one of three brothers in their early 20’s in the early 1900’s.
Two of his brothers knew how to play the political game and became very wealthy and passed those skills on to their sons and daughters. Their off spring became even wealthier. The third generation became basically worthless due to being lazy and thinking the world owed them a living.
My sophomore year in College, I was able to have an adult to adult talk to my grand dad, and I asked why he chose a different path. He had developed a valuable skill and worked for a good corporation most of his adult life using that skill until he retired.
His answer to why he chose a different path than his rich brothers was simple. He was a Christian, loved his wife and children and didn’t want to sell his soul and short time on earth to be rich.
I was in my late thirties, when I realized what he had done was correct and opted for a similar life path. That was one of my best life decisions.
Seems to me a possible solution to this is to have term limits on all political and judicial offices. IMHO, way too many politicos and judges become entrenched and live to be reelected.
Limiting the affect of lobbyists would be good also.
This all boils down to money. As in follow it.
Yeah, they want Trump to take on the Congress, but keep voting the same jerks back into office. Schizoid.
Love your story.
How fruitless is the egotistical desire for fame and fortune...and so many people attaining it have watched their lives destroyed from under them. Recently I’ve been doing a lot of geneology work (my family is from Europe)—and by far the vast majority of my ancestors have been peasants. Born, married, had children, died. Most in the town they grew up in.
There’s a maturity and beauty in the simple life that I wish more people knew.
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. Mark Twain
Thanks.
Your family genealogy is similar to my wife’s. She is from the midwest, and most of her large extended family were born in the town or at the nearest hospital. They worked in the same area where they grew up. Even the guys, who served in the military, for the most part went back to live and work in the area. The local graveyard has 3-5+ generations buried in a family plot. Easy genealogy just visit the graveyard.
On one of my wife’s visits with her mother in their hometown, She and her mother played bridge with two retired teachers. Who had taught her parents, her uncles, aunts, her cousins and her brothers, her and a couple of her nieces and nephews.
My mother worked on the Hill as a secretary to a committee in the late 1930s. She knew a congressman from Boston, a former long-time ward heeler, who was completely illiterate. He always voted according to the direction of the party whip. Mother quoted him saying, “Ah Ril’, it must be a great thing to be able to read and write.”
“You’d be horrified to learn how small the cabal is that really runs your government.”
While taking my morning walk this am, I met a neighbor finishing up her walk.
Our discussion got into what is happening on both sides. She and her husband are old type democrats. He still works as a contractor, and she retired two years ago.
She is totally disgusted with the Clintoons and knows we can’t afford Sanders. She knows that my wife and I are broken glass Trump voters.
She brought up this new book and said that she had preordered it from Amazon.
I told her about the book that I am reading, Shadow Men, an Encyclopedia of mind control. She ordered the Kindle version with her Iphone while I was talking about it.
As we parted, she said, you know what we used to call these people. I said I would embarrass her if I told her my definition.
She said, we used to call these guys, the Kitchen Cabinet or the power behind the throne.
He’d be in the cross hairs quickly.
A hundred years ago people were much more willing to overthrow their government when they suspected corruption; our overlords granted concessions to workers to prevent the spread of communism (and the mayhem that ensued when communists seized power). The 1% knew they could end up like the Romanovs...
Thinking about term limits,if a politician spent 3 yrs. of a 4-yr. term seeking reelelection,what would he be like if he only served 2 yrs. total? Would it mean actually working for the public good,or would it meaning ONLY working towards reelection?
Thinking about term limits,if a politician spent 3 yrs. of a 4-yr. term seeking reelelection,what would he be like if he only served 2 yrs. total? Would it mean actually working for the public good,or would it meaning ONLY working towards reelection?
It is probably someone like the rest of us who want Washington to work for the people instead of the other way around.
Either that or he’d spend 18 months of his 24-moth term seeking reelection. I’d be inclined to think that most would lean in that direction probably.
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