People are Disgusted with Them and Congress Doesn't Have a Clue!

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/8241

People are Disgusted with Them and Congress Doesn't Have a Clue!
by Timothy Gatto | Jun 22 2007

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This so called “War on Terror” has become anathema to the American people. Most of our citizen’s are tired of the government playing on the fear of another 9/11. There are quite a few Americans that think the truth behind 9/11 has never been told. Most Americans no longer trust their own government. Maybe that’s because the most of the people that have suffered since that day of terror have been American citizens. We have seen law after law written proposed and passed in Congress that takes away our freedoms. It wasn’t Americans that bombed the World Trade Center, how come we have to have passports to go to Mexico or to Canada? The Patriot Act is a direct attack on American rights. No Patriot that fought for independence would have allowed that foul and evil bill to pass in the legislature. How come this government can change over 200 hundred years of tradition in a scant five years and they can’t even raise the minimum wage?

Sometimes I feel that the terrorists are laughing hysterically at us. First, they send nineteen terrorists into the United States and lo and behold, by some quirk of fate, they manage to grab four airliners and without NORAD doing a thing, manage to cause tremendous damage. The President, feeling that he now has a blank check to run rampant, decides that he’s going to pin this entire thing on Iraq, who for years had managed to keep Al Qaeda out of his country. Thus, Bush has now given the terrorists two victories instead of one. Nice going George. Now we are stuck not only in Afghanistan, but in Iraq also. Then they see us giving up our rights to the Federal government, in morbid fear that the dreaded Al Qaeda may strike the United States again.

Britain endured years of bombing during years of fighting in World War II and never did they permanently surrender their rights to the government. They endured wartime curfews and occasionally surrendered rights for the “duration” but they never gave up the right of Habeas Corpus. We should be ashamed. Here’s where the politicians don’t get it. The American people ARE ashamed. We are ashamed that our government can’t do the will of the people. What the politicians don’t realize is that the American people believe that most of their elected officials are bought and paid for before they get into office by their corporate masters that fund their political races.

For the most part, American doesn’t trust Congress to do the right thing anymore. The approval rate for Congress is at the lowest point since the poll was started. Meanwhile, Congress goes about its daily job oblivious to how the American people feel about them. I like to say that they are oblivious but the truth is Congress just doesn’t care. They believe that the two party system that we have created will sustain them and the Democrats believe that they only have to show a modicum of believability over the Republicans, and their Presidential and Congressional aspirations will be met. The truth is that they just don’t understand!

The American people are almost completely fed up! I don’t hear a kind word from anyone about the government. The only thing that the Democrats have achieved from winning the 2006 Congressional races and the Congressional majority is that Democrats are now hated as much as the Republicans are. Nice going Pelosi. You and Reid have finally made it to the big time.
What will be the result of all of this anger directed towards Congress? You only have to look towards the history books to find out. History has a funny way of repeating itself. Eventually, you are going to see a hard shift to candidates that stay on the fringes of party politics. Sooner or later another political party will emerge, and one or both of the parties now holding center stage will cease to exist. Personally, I believe they will merge. There isn’t too much difference between them now, and that isn’t just my opinion. All I hope for is that the usual change from the two major parties that we have now doesn’t happen as slowly as it did during the past.

These politicians that occupy Congress really don’t have a clue that they are pretty well despised. In fact Congressional approval ratings are 27%, the lowest in a decade. So something has got to give. I predict that unless something is done about this war, Immigration, The Minimum Wage, and the curtailment of Habeas Corpus and other American rights, approval rating will get lower. Still, Congress doesn’t have a clue. This might be a good time to run for office.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Wll, it's hard for them to see us from way up there in their Ivory tower.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Congress rarely gets good numbers. Everyone loves their own MofC, but loathes everyone else's...

and Congress as an institution.

The problems derive from everyone else's rep.

[DKRC]

4. Not my Congress critters

Put all 3 on notice that we'll be working to replace them with progressive representatives at the end of their terms.

Fact is I suffer from CCE (Congress Critter Envy). I want my own Kucinich, Feingold, Conyers, or Waxman dammit!

[monktonman]

3. "personally, I believe they will merge."

I believe they already have. I believe the terrorist are laughing at us as well but, the Russians have been laughing much longer.
Conventional wisdom was that the Soviets had only one party and that was bad. What are they to think of us now?
Sometimes it doesnt seem like there is a difference at all.
I still wrestle with myself about which is better.
Multiple parties, each with their own perspective. Sounds healthy to me.
Or party America, where oath to party is trumped by the oath to the Constitution. Afterall, they work for us dont they?

Also, I find it sad that Americans really do feel shame when thinking about their country. At least I do sometimes.