...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman. - "Foster's Case", New York Tribune, 3/10/1873 - Mark Twain
When I hear that Ben Nelson (D-NE) is crafting an amendment to kick women in the teeth, when I hear some sanctimonious draft-dodging pissant (Dick "Public dole" Cheney) say that he knows the best way to fight a war, or when I hear Barack Obama say that he is against same-sex marriage, I get really, really pissed off. That isn't poetic, but it is true.
Congresscritters are pretty much the lowest form of life on the planet. Why we haven't evolved far enough to stop letting these cheeseheads tell us what to do, I have no idea.
Look, most of the people I know would make better, smarter leaders than anyone in government. Yes, Senator Lugar, I'm talking to you and you should retire. Yet every year or two we vote to put more idiots into office, replacing the older, more senile idiots who have been there the past forty years. And what happens? Their promised change means that they get the money from lobbyists instead of the guy they beat and the lobbyists tell them which state should send kids off to fight wars this year.
Of course, we could choose not to vote at all, which means that the Sarah Palin Glen Beckerheads make it into office and are allowed to bomb Iran and drill for oil in Yellowstone, setting off the biggest wars and volcanic eruptions in history.
This has got to stop. I don't know how, but we can't afford these morons holding high office any longer.
Here's the point I'm trying to make. Congresspersons are corrupt, small-minded, public-money-sucking rabid yellow running dog weasels. Women should not be subjected to their stupidities. Teachers should not have to listen to Congresscritter platitudes and "I could teach yer kids better" sanctimonious slander. Gays should not have to listen to Christianist cretins lecture from the floor of the House. The environment should not be subject to some moron FAIL from Oklahoma telling us that environmentalism is a conspiracy and Jesus is coming back anyway, so who cares about trees and water pollution.
- Dana
PS - Let's send more troops to a land war in asia!
WTF?! Good goddess.. Let the morons over there kill each other in peace, interdict arms shipments in, human traffic out, and if they manage to blow up a building here, then level a mountain there. If they blow up a church here... Well, they seem to have an unrealistic attachment to their local holy sites and a squadron of robot drones are good for that sort of thing. If they send a thousand people into a square with their automatic rifles to protest? Level the square. We don't need to risk real people in a fight for a land we really don't want, and the money we spend over there could have rebuilt our crumbling cities here.
The Klingons had the right idea at the Battle of Organia...
And stop sending money to Israel! If the country is a viable construct then let it prove itself a viable construct or learn to compromise.