YAH ! YAH! I know that I promised that this weeks posting would not be political ..................but.........with so much happening....................or NOT happening in D.C. that I just have to put my 2 cents into the equation.. I've tried to follow these happenings ....with some kind of senility, ........adamantly listening to so many different versions of what's going on. The only conclusion I come to is a comparison to my son and my daughter at age (3) and (4) arguing over who was going to ride the tricycle with the bar in the middle...................and the tricycle didn't even have a bar in the middle ....... and then mid-sentence changing their thoughts on who said NO first. "I said NO first"........"NO ....I said .NO first" that went on for a good hour with each time the word NO became louder and louder. Finally, Dad had to step in between them...............tell them to........ SHUT THE HELL UP!!! and take away the tricycle. Now, I guess it is the same as what is happening with our supposedly intelligent half witted idiots..that we put into place.....................and now comes the time for someone to step in and say.........SHUT THE HELL UP.............AND get to work. " I want the ball" NO " I want the ball". Just take the ball away from them and send them to their rooms.
Now along with this.................if the kids decided they were not going to do their chores..............Dad decided they were not going to get their allowance, until the chores got done!!!! Suppose we do the same with our legislatures. Establish the system of ............. work first and then get paid. Treat them just like we do with any other........contractor. Fix my shoes, than get paid........cut my grass..then get paid. paint my house....then get paid. If they supposedly work for us............let them get treated that way. They want to bankrupt the nation............(Wow!!!....what an idea. Declare bankruptcy under chapter 11 and reorganize ...change the name to Divided States of Grover (( since so many of our politicians have pledged alliance to Grover)) instead of the USA..let them share that consequence.) , BUT DON'T TAKE AWAY MY SOCIAL SECURITY OR MY MEDICARE!!!!!!..............Meanwhile crazy Grover and his lock box of IOU'S can have tea in his pretty flowered inlay teacup. Just a technical question for me to ponder..........................These politicians that have signed this pledge to Grover or whoever.........should they have their passports taken away for pledging allegiance to some other than the USA???
By the way.................whatever happened to .......one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for ALL.
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Here is an article taken from the New York Times (July 19,2011) No wonder we are in such a mess. Legislatures working for their own interest, along with Grovers.........rather than the people they represent.
It shows that they are only where they are because they can't do anything else. Another reason to have term limits on ALL elected officer's positions.
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Signing Away the Right to GovernPublished: July 18, 2011
It used to be that a sworn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution was the only promise required to become president. But that no longer seems to be enough for a growing number of Republican interest groups, who are demanding that presidential candidates sign pledges shackling them to the corners of conservative ideology. Many candidates are going along, and each pledge they sign undermines the basic principle of democratic government built on compromise and negotiation.
Both parties have long had litmus tests on issues — abortion, taxation, the environment, the social safety net. The hope was that the candidates would keep their promises, and, when they didn’t, voters who cared deeply about those issues could always pick someone else next time. Human beings, after all, do not come with warranties.
But iron-clad promises were just what the most rigid Republican ideologues wanted. They had seen too many presidents — specifically Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush — bend when confronted by a complex national reality. Both those presidents agreed to new taxes and some Republicans said they did not fight hard enough to outlaw abortion or cut spending to the point where government was unrecognizable. In other words, they compromised a bit, to keep divided government from destroying itself. Washington, the ideologues decided, corrupted true conservatives into moderates.
More was needed to keep them in line, which gave birth to the signed pledge — no more enforceable than a spoken promise, but a politician’s actual signature was seen as more binding. The oldest and most pernicious of these modern oaths was dreamed up by Grover Norquist, the leader of Americans for Tax Reform, who has managed to get 95 percent of all Republicans in Congress to pledge never to raise taxes for any reason. If they end tax deductions, Mr. Norquist’s pledge-takers say they will match the increase in revenue with further tax cuts.
That pledge is the single biggest reason the federal government is now on the edge of default. Its signers will not allow revenues in a deal to raise the debt ceiling.
Its success has now spawned dangerous offspring. There is the Susan B. Anthony pledge, in which candidates promise to appoint antiabortion cabinet officers and cut off federal financing to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. It has been signed by Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum. There is the cut, cap and balance pledge to gut the federal government by cutting and capping spending, and enacting a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. It has been signed by all of the above candidates, plus Mitt Romney and Herman Cain.
And there is the particularly bizarre Marriage Vow, in which candidates agree to oppose same-sex marriage, reject Shariah law and pledge personal fidelity to their spouse. Until it was changed after a public outcry, it also contained a line saying that a black child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by a two-parent family than a similar child raised in the Obama era. It was signed by Mr. Santorum and Mrs. Bachmann.
Only one candidate, Jon Huntsman Jr., has refused to sign any pledge, saying he owes allegiance to his flag and his wife. It is refreshing in a field of candidates who have forgotten the true source of political power in America.
