The record-breaking, irresponsible and unaccounted-for spending and bailouts have sobered a good number of people including many of those heretofore enamored of President Barack Obama and his administration. Now, we have a knock-down, drag-out fight over health care, congressmen willing to pass a bill they have not read and a president who feels he must push something through before his majority fades.
The Republicans are happily watching and hoping that the Democrats self-destruct. And I’m sure a lot of folks feel like me: the Republicans would do no better if the roles were reversed. Bipartisanship, so touted by both parties during the campaign, is once again dead on the battlefield of the ever-increasing, fratricidal war being waged between the two parties.
If Congress could come together and wage war on terror with the same will and intensity they now wage on each other, terrorism could be stamped out within a week. It is a shame that our country, so rich in talent and resources, cannot get its government to quit fighting long enough to do what’s best for the country.
Congress has evolved into an inept, lamentable gaggle of career politicians focused entirely on being re-elected, thus they band together into self-destructive parties, bond with any agency or person willing to fund their campaigns and/or line their pockets, and champion any scatter-brained issue that might insure their longevity.
Term limits for congressmen and senators might help. It might attract candidates motivated to do something good for the country rather than for themselves. But how can we persuade the “good ole boys” to vote term limits for themselves? I don’t know, but I know what I’m going to do, and if everyone will join with me, I believe they will get the message. From now on, I will vote a straight non-incumbent ticket.
It’s high time we the people exercise our power and right to limit our congressmen and senators to a single term.
Dick Hollars
Glade Spring, Va.
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