On Dealing with Congress – Properly!

June 12, 2019 Posted by Stu Cvrk, Retired Naval Officer, Constitutional Conservative

The nation has over $22 trillion in long-term debt. We have been engaged in “overseas ventures” (aka “small wars”) continuously for almost 20 years. The Chinese have been stealing our lunch for 40 years while US manufacturing has been “off-shored” to China and elsewhere as a result foolish US policies. Obamacare was foisted on an unsuspecting public, resulting in skyrocketing premiums and loss of long-time general practitioners. And Congress has, in general, fought the implementation of the MAGA agenda for the past two years while spending (wasting) much time “investigating” POTUS.

 

Congress fiddles; the country burns (apologies to the Emperor Nero and the historian Suetonious). And the only accountability that exists is to the voters although the election decks are stacked against outsider-challengers (over 90% of incumbents win reelection!). Let’s take a trip down memory lane to understand just how unaccountable Congress really is. Let’s start with ABSCAM. Do you recall that scandal?

On February 2, 1980, details of ABSCAM, an FBI operation to uncover political corruption in the government, [were] released to the public. Thirty-one public officials were targeted for investigation, including Representative John Murphy of New York, five other representatives, and Harrison Williams, a senator from New Jersey. In the operation, FBI agents posed as representatives of Abdul Enterprises, Ltd., a fictional business owned by an Arab sheik. Under FBI video surveillance, the agents met with the officials and offered them money or other considerations in exchange for special favors, such as the approval of government contracts for companies in which the sheik had invested.

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How about the House banking scandal in 1992? Congressmen were routinely overdrawing their House bank checking accounts by writing checks to themselves to obtain cash for convenience purposes. Here is a list of the top 22 offenders:............

Then there was the House Post Office scandal.........

 Here’s a list of other “privileges” and perks enjoyed by our congress-critters:.............To Read More.....

My Take - Another list of good reasons to force term limits on all elected officials, and the judiciary.