Enough Of The Politics Of Personal Destruction
Ken Hughes
October 22, 2005
Are we paying congress to go at each other like Gladiators in the old Roman Coliseums? I’m personally offended by the way our congress doesn’t pay attention to business and tries to derail the President at every turn. This isn’t how a democracy, especially the worlds first true democracies is supposed to work American democracy is supposed to lead the world, if we are to be the example, how is that possible when our congress can’t agree on anything, and resorts to name calling that emphasis their distrust of each other. We certainly aren’t sending our best and brightest to the nations capital to represent our interests.
I blame the breakdown of the political process on two things. The media who’s required to provide 24/ 7 coverage of the political process. When there’s no news they make it up to fill the void. Mostly what we hear, see, and read, is speculation on coming events. The media makes few retractions or corrections when they get it wrong. Moreover, more frequently than not the media’s led down the path of misdirection purposely by those with an agenda.
Second, I blame Congress who prefers to act as though they’re in the cast of one of those reality TV shows, always performing. Wake up congress your legislators not celebrities.
We have two Americas, the Beltway, [Washington D. C.] and the other America, [Not Washington D. C.] Most of what the media reports has little interest for that other America, they half listen, and as soon as they hear it, they dismiss what they’ve just heard. A few Pundits, Opinionators for the sake of a better word are able to hold the attention of a vast number of that other America. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingrham, and Fox Cable News. The reason for this is that more than 50% of America’s lost faith in the Mainstream Media. American political beliefs are turning more conservative and the media isn’t paying attention.. The mainstream media is rapidly becoming the fifth wheel of the Liberal Democratic Party. That other America is feed up with the lack of performance by congress. Democrats spend their time accusing. Republicans spend their time defending, In the meantime pork spending rolls out of the treasury.
Seventy-five years of the New Deal has proven to be three quarters of a century of a raw deal for many. A liberal congress from both parties has doled out a meager substance package to minorities, African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and a segment of White America. The billions of dollars wasted on poverty in that 75 years could have provided education designed to lift the poor out of poverty rather than assure they would remain for generations to come. It isn’t so much what they weren’t taught as what they were taught, they’re inferior and can’t learn the skills necessary to function in the White World. The Democratic Party has been the party that oppressed minorities through the generations, and surprisingly made them subservient to the abuse. While Republican have made some efforts in creating equality among the races, such as, abolishing slavery, civil rights legislation, voters rights, The first military units intergraded was by order Republican Governor Berry Goldwater of the Arizona National Guard. The lack of insinuative to curtail pseudo-slavery is apparent in both parties.
At this point, the only way to bring dignity back to congress is to rid the congress of those undignified congressional representatives. My suggestion is term limits of three terms for House members and two terms for Senate members, or a maximum of twelve years combined service. This would rid congress of many of the Good Old Boy rules they follow. New_blood would bring new ideas, it would breath new life in an otherwise Senor Citizens Club.
The coffee’s brewing America wake up and have a cup while there’s still time before the Kool-Aid catches up with us.
I blame the breakdown of the political process on two things. The media who’s required to provide 24/ 7 coverage of the political process. When there’s no news they make it up to fill the void. Mostly what we hear, see, and read, is speculation on coming events. The media makes few retractions or corrections when they get it wrong. Moreover, more frequently than not the media’s led down the path of misdirection purposely by those with an agenda.
Second, I blame Congress who prefers to act as though they’re in the cast of one of those reality TV shows, always performing. Wake up congress your legislators not celebrities.
We have two Americas, the Beltway, [Washington D. C.] and the other America, [Not Washington D. C.] Most of what the media reports has little interest for that other America, they half listen, and as soon as they hear it, they dismiss what they’ve just heard. A few Pundits, Opinionators for the sake of a better word are able to hold the attention of a vast number of that other America. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingrham, and Fox Cable News. The reason for this is that more than 50% of America’s lost faith in the Mainstream Media. American political beliefs are turning more conservative and the media isn’t paying attention.. The mainstream media is rapidly becoming the fifth wheel of the Liberal Democratic Party. That other America is feed up with the lack of performance by congress. Democrats spend their time accusing. Republicans spend their time defending, In the meantime pork spending rolls out of the treasury.
Seventy-five years of the New Deal has proven to be three quarters of a century of a raw deal for many. A liberal congress from both parties has doled out a meager substance package to minorities, African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and a segment of White America. The billions of dollars wasted on poverty in that 75 years could have provided education designed to lift the poor out of poverty rather than assure they would remain for generations to come. It isn’t so much what they weren’t taught as what they were taught, they’re inferior and can’t learn the skills necessary to function in the White World. The Democratic Party has been the party that oppressed minorities through the generations, and surprisingly made them subservient to the abuse. While Republican have made some efforts in creating equality among the races, such as, abolishing slavery, civil rights legislation, voters rights, The first military units intergraded was by order Republican Governor Berry Goldwater of the Arizona National Guard. The lack of insinuative to curtail pseudo-slavery is apparent in both parties.
At this point, the only way to bring dignity back to congress is to rid the congress of those undignified congressional representatives. My suggestion is term limits of three terms for House members and two terms for Senate members, or a maximum of twelve years combined service. This would rid congress of many of the Good Old Boy rules they follow. New_blood would bring new ideas, it would breath new life in an otherwise Senor Citizens Club.
The coffee’s brewing America wake up and have a cup while there’s still time before the Kool-Aid catches up with us.
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