Mr. Boehner goes to Washington

I watched John Boehner (R-Ohio) for a few minutes on C-SPAN this evening. He's the House Minority Leader. He was doing a "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" thing. He has a great voice, too.

The cap-and-tax bill was 1200 pages or so, and the Dems added a 300-page amendment onto at 3:09 am the morning it was due to come to a vote. So Boehner announced that congress should be aware of what's in the amendment (at least), and he began to read it on the floor of the House.

Thought that was cool, but I had to work and couldn't watch much more. Apparently he didn't read the whole amendment. I'm sure that would have looked too much like a filibuster. Maybe they should have done a filibuster, but I don't believe they are allowed in the House.

One of those silly bitches from Maine -- remember the Brewster Aunts from "Arsenic & Old Lace" -- in the senate is suggesting some kind of compromise now. Idiot. Just vote it down, you brainless twit. The thing is, though, Maine is a big state in the paper industry, and the paper industry LIKES this bill because they got the consideration out of it that they wanted (see the AFandPA.org website.)

So time for this sell-out senator to do her part to shove this stinking bill through, even though killing this piece of drek is the last hope we have to save the country. I suppose selling out the Republicans, when this senator is a Republican, makes her feel important. "Hey! Look at this! I may be small and have a silly squeaky little voice, but I can screw up the whole country! Na-na-nana-na." I truly do hope the Republicans refuse to fund her next campaign.

What happens in a republic when the representatives no longer represent? When they're more concerned about sucking up to some blockhead like Pazzo Pelosi or an industry organization than protecting the principles behind the nation? The paper industry is on the skids, anyway, especially in Maine. And, hey, buttheads -- Those jobs are gone! They aren't coming back no matter how many congressional butts you kiss!

But I guess the reasoning is, if you can't cut down trees anymore to make paper, you might as well burn down the forests and call it "biomass," which is, curiously, an acceptable option to the tree-huggers. Whatever happened to savng the ancient forests? Aren't they afraid of losing their homes up there in the high branches?

I mean, everyone says "Write your congressmen." My congressmen are a little to the left of Vladimir I. Lenin and/or got their senate seat by paying off a disgraced governor who's being tried for accepting bribes. In Illinois, we don't even get to elect senators. We buy them; or rather, they buy somebody, who buys somebody, who...

What good does it do? Congress doesn't listen. They're otherwise engaged -- eyes popping, tongues lolling out, watching their betters glide along Constitution Avenue in limos, so impressed at eating pineapple at a White House luau that they completely forget their principles -- if they had any to start with. Which is certainly debatable. Although I do commend Boehner, McCain (like him better now than when he was running for prez), and a few others.

Nothing about Iran on the news lately, either. I suppose the so-called "freedom fighters" got the message: "Speak up and we'll bust your head. Your humanity has no value weighed against our power."

I'm getting the message, too. Only in the USA, people can own guns. It's the 2nd Amendment, AKA "The Enforcement Clause." Jeez, I wonder whose side the military would take? Comrade Osama's or the peoples'? I begin to see the advantage of "citizen soldiers."

Is that what it takes? When representatives in a republic fail to represent, that's usually where it all ends. Seems to have worked for Abracadabrajab in Iran.

Unfortunately, in politics, violence almost always does work. You start pounding people into bloody pulp and killing their families and they usually do what you want them to do.

I don't think the majority (and I don't mean Dems, I just mean more than half) of the people in congress really understand that we don't automatically love or admire them. We don't regard them with the same high opinion that they regard themselves. We tend to suspect they're liars and thieves. And they usually prove themselves to be just that.

Take Conyer (D-Mich) for example. His wife's going to jail for taking a bribe. Well, she was convicted anyway. She could get three-to-five, I understand, but what do you want to bet she'll end up picking up trash along the highway for a couple weekends and the judge will call it even. Apparently Conyer (D-Mich) was asked to investigate Acorn for fraud and whatever the hell other range of criminal behavior they perform as federal contractors, but Conyer announced that "the powers that be" have decided against the investigation. Turns out, Conyer (D-Mich) himself is "the powers that be." Note the use of the royal plural. Another crook.

I should start listing the crooks, bribe-takers, people who can't honor their marriage vows, and those who have invested heavily in yet-to-be-born "green" industries (those who voted "yea" on cap-and-tax) and the like, but then there would be no end to this blog. And the liars... just call the roll, know what I mean?

Let's hope Kim Jung Il comes up with something that can hit Washington DC the next time he decides to get frisky -- in a couple days. Heard he'll probably do something on the 4th of July to add insult to injury. Like anyone in Washington understands that the 4th of July is anything but an excuse for a cook-out and fireworks. Be nice if a little nuke could cauterize DC, though. We'd all be better off.