Here Comes the New Congress

 

This is going to be an interesting year. The new Republican controlled Congress will have a fairly short period of time to prove that they are actually interesting in helping the country as a whole rather than just helping those with tons of money that really don’t need any extra help.

I read some fascinating comments by Tom Donahue who is the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in an article on Fox News.

The Chamber spent quite a lot of money helping Republican Candidates that they believe will actually help the nation. We shall see how that goes.

The following 2 statements are direct quotes from the article.

“Mr. Donohue warned lawmakers to move beyond intraparty skirmishes and partisan bickering that paralyzed the last Congress, hinting that his group might look to oust lawmakers who try to derail the legislative process.”

“We had candidates who were fundamentally more interested in turning over the apple cart than they were in governing,” Mr. Donohue said of the congressional elections in 2010 and 2012.

Hopefully this will be a start to bringing back the Republican Party of my youth that was actually focused on helping absolutely everyone not just the rich.

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Everyone Should Vote

 

We all need to put a great deal of effort in the next month into trying to get every single registered voter out to vote in November and we need to make sure that it continues to happen every election.

We are a representative democracy and by getting everyone out to vote we will have local, state and federal governments that are doing what the majority of the people want.

Granted that this was originally put in place to prevent minorities from being completely disenfranchised but in todays world the 1% minority has managed to “purchase” most of the elected officials to some degree or other and by getting everyone out to vote we can tell the 1% to go screw themselves and start treating the rest of the country like real people instead of peasants.

This will also more than likely remove this partisan crap that is preventing the economy from growing in the correct direction to help all rather than just the very wealthy.

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The Political Circus

 

The Supreme Court has ruled against Obama’s recess appointments. They are correct based on the constitution but the “pro-forma” sessions were being used specifically to prevent appointments that the Senate refused to vote on.

The constitution gives the Senate the right to Advise and Consent to appointments but I have seen nothing in the constitution where it gives the legislature the right to just stonewall everything and I am not pointing just at Republicans. Both parties are guilty of just doing as little as possible.

The problem is easily solvable but there are too many people out there that will just vote for the incumbent. If we just voted out every single person who was up for re-election I suspect there would be some pretty damned quick bills passed to bring back the economy and to hopefully restore the middle class and help destroy poverty.

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