Bill Clinton shared this thought the other day:
“I've never seen a time – can you
remember a time in your lifetime when a major political party was just sitting
around, begging for America
I don’t recall a time like this. I remember times when I
thought congressional decisions were wrong-headed and in time I was proven
correct. But that was different. Today
the decision appears to be a political divide: republicans want Obama to fail
so they can win power in the next election. And for some reason democrats are
allowing this to happen.
Consider these points:
- Democrats control the US Senate; yet republicans have engineered the rules so a super majority is required to pass any legislation in the Senate. The result: the minority controls the majority. How did this come about, and why can’t we change it back to a simple majority like it is provided for in the US Constitution?
- Republicans control the House of Representatives. Yet each congressman is elected every two years. If the voters in all the districts continue to re-elect do nothings to office, what does this say about voters? Are they really tuned in to what’s going on?
“President Obama’s new proposed
EPA regulation would reduce carbon pollution from power plants by 30 percent,
which is absolutely crucial at combating climate change. Republicans and the
fossil fuel industry are predictably attacking it.
Urge President Obama and the EPA
to stand firm.” ~Daily Kos
With political powers being what they are, when does the
good of the people in America
get its voice? How do we trump the trumpers?
And another issue: on the matter of the fall of the embassy in
Benghazi, Representative Jason Chaffetz, (R-Utah), made these separate
statements:
May 6, 2014: “It doesn't look right. It doesn't smell right. There is smoke there,
and
we’re going to figure out what’s going on…We have four
dead
Americans. There’s nothing political about this. It’s about
finding
the truth.” Deseret News
October 10, 2012: “Question:
Is it true that you voted to cut the funding for
embassy security?
Answer: Absolutely!...When you’re
in tough economic times you
have to prioritize things.” CNN
Prioritize embassy security?
Did you prioritize matters when we declared war on Osama Bin Laden and
waged that war in Afghanistan ?
Where were your priorities regarding the war in Iraq that quickly followed? Two
trillion dollars have been spent on these military actions. Both have led
nowhere other than President Obama’s locating and killing Osama Bin Laden.
Indeed, the whole concept of recession beginning in 2007
onward was caused by waging two wars while at the same time cutting taxes by
over a trillion dollars annually for the richest taxpayers. Economics wrongly
used dealt the middle class a death sentence. Yet will Jason Chaffetz admit
that?
Quotable Conservatives gave us this citation from Michelle
Bernard:
“When one party can hate one
president so much that they’re willing to destroy the country, something is
very, very wrong. When one party has the loudest voices in their party being
anti-Black, anti-Woman, anti-Gay, anti-Hispanic, Something is very, very wrong.”
Something is very wrong, Michelle. I’m not sure if it is
republican or Democrat. One usurps the power of the nation while the other sits
idly by letting it happen. Meanwhile, the republicans also have the Tea Party
running amok within their party making party discipline impossible. However,
discipline in the Democratic Party seems missing entirely. So both parties are
in control and nothing gets done.
I’m reminded of this quote from John F. Kennedy which now
seems foundational to our way of governance:
“Let us not seek the Republican
answer, or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix
the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”
Amen to that! Are we willing to win for all of us? Or are we
willing to allow failure?
As we prepare to celebrate our nation’s independence and
proud heritage, don’t we have a lot of unfinished business to take care of?
July 2, 2014
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