Agreed; here is an article I wrote earlier castigating the 113th Congress: Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Colonel, USA (ret) Word Count: 854
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Why is the 112th Congress so Lacking in Courage?
By Tom Davis
By lacking in courage, I am referring to their collective inability, lack of will or simply cowardice to perform their obligations to their constituency, We the People. In Article I,
Section 1 of the United States Constitution, in good faith, placed into the hands of the two houses of Congress, the duty to manage specific affairs of all the people. The Congress was not given permission to waste time arguing among themselves and with an obnoxious Chief Executive. We demand that both houses and the President do that for which they are paid an exhorbitant salary and great benefits.
Neither the President nor either of the two legislative bodies has earned their excessive stipends since January 20, 2009. It is patently clear to even a casual observer, that all 535 Legislators have either abdicated their responsibilities in violation of their oath of office or they are under the false impression that they are going to do as they damn well please without reaping the hurricane of infamy they have earned.
Leadership is not simply lacking, it is not present in that entire garbage dump otherwise known as Washington, D.C. President Obama hasnt lead by example, he threatens, lies, ignores the law and hires thugs to populate the oval office. He has on numerous occasions violated the Constitution, denied it, lied about it and Congress has failed to take him to task for his failings. Is any one incompetent to blame? Hardly. The Speaker of the House, Mr. Boehner, the de facto leader of the majority and Eric Cantor the Majority Leader and Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip and Senators McConnell the Leader of the Minority in the Senate and Senator Kyl, Minority Whip have failed miserably to lead.
There are those who ask, Why doesnt the Supreme court intervene? Their role is not to act against either of the other two branches of government. Their role is to interpret the laws passed by Congress and signed into law by the President. The Courts role is not to interpret the Constitution. Such a role would conceivably put them in a position to second guess every act of the other two co-equal branches of our government.
The major problem facing us today is the lack of courage, foresight and perseverance to take the major troublemaker to task by the methods available to them. The House holds the purse strings; threats by Mr. Obama to keep on spending are without merit or force as long as the House stands fast. The big talkers and troublemakers in the Senate, Reid, Schumer, Durbin, et al simply stir the mess, heap blame on the House for doing their job and sycophantically lavish praise upon Mr. Obama who obviously cares nothing about America, its people, its history or customs.
It is all too apparent that there is not one single member of Congress with the courage to step up to the hopper and place therein the necessary documentation to begin the process of impeachment against Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder as starters. Impeachment is the next real tool after the purse strings that can hit Mr. Obama in a soft spot. Mr. Boehner always pleads that they dont have enough v**ed to impeach. That too is a blatant falsehood. To impeach requires a simple majority. True, conviction may be difficult but not impossible if that bunch of lawyers decides to play hardball.
I suspect that there is more than a handful of Senators with plenty to help them remember whose team they are on and it is not the Obama team and it must not be the Democratic team. It must be the American team. If they can locate a cow with Mad Cow disease in one pen and find the source from whence it came, and if they can track down Usama bin Laden and subsequently his successors, surely they can dig up the dirt on a substantial number of omnipresent US Senators and their peccadillos, bad habits and clandestine fooling around. No! That is not dirty pool. Drop one hint in the mens room and the whistleblowerss will come right out of the woodwork. A little forceful persuasion would likely work wonders with Obamas Chicago playmate. Andrew Breitbart had the goods and his associates are not buddy-buddy with Obama.
It is absolutely necessary to neutralize Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Frank, Waters, Holt and others. A close scrutiny of the House hearings will disclose that both Pelosi and Holt lied when they both stated that they had never been briefed by the CIA on waterboarding.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/us/politics/16cong.html? http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/07/pelosis-advisory-on-abu-zubaydah-and-torture/http://www.factcheck.org/politics/pelosis_tortured_denials.htmlhttp://www.bluejersey.com/diary/17202/rush-holt-on-the-destruction-of-cia-waterboarding-torture-tapeshttp://moremonmouthmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/rush-holt-is-threat-to-national.htmlThere are so many shady activities going on in Washington, particularly in the Legislative and Executive branches which require a thorough cleaning and replacement of 535 legislators and at a minimum a dozen or more t*****rous bum in the Executive Branch. Americans are entitled to be rid of ineffective overpaid hirelings who are breaking the piggy bank.