Capitol Hill is Going to Hell

Capitol Hill is in Hell now.

No.  That’s an understatement.  If Congress were in Hell now, they would have been in Heaven in just about every congress prior to the 112th.

I’m not joking.  Maybe the era after 9/11 was threatening.  But at least Congress could easily pass bills then.  I know they were bad bills, but still……..

Now all we’ve got is a useless anti-abortion bill from the House; a Farm Bill that also won’t go to the Senate; an Immigration Reform bill that we hope Boehner will bring in; doubling student loan rates; and nearly forty attempted Obamacare repeals.

You’d think they would have just realized that as long as Obama is president Obama-care is not going away.

Except they won’t.   Despite obsessing over the national debt, those folks don’t give a damn to how many times they repeal Obamacare, which would  be completely irrelevant except that CBS News estimates that it’s costing the government $1.45 million, per vote.

But that’s not all:

Really.  The Daily Show needs to stop freaking out over Anthony Weiner’ s misconduct and take on John Boehner.

You know there are some really good laws out there that make America a nice place to live.  For instance, Title IX is a law.  So is the Violence Against Women Act, which the GOP hates because they hate all women who are not conservative like they are; and believe that those women are protected by church.    The women probably aren’t.  There are some pretty bad people at churches these days.

Considering that and his stances on topics like gun control; I’m starting to wonder if John Boehner is an anarchist.  The anarchists who set off bombs during the Haymarket Riot believed every man should carry around dynamite; there’s not that much difference if you ask me.

But that’s not all.  Remember Obamacare?

Fifteen GOP senators are threatening to shut down the government if Obama doesn’t repeal Obamacare to prevent it from going into effect.

Okay.  If America wanted Obamacare to be repealed, they would have voted Obama out and Mitch McConnell would be the Senate Majority Leader.   And the GOP would actually have won the combined national house popular vote, not filibuster themselves free seats.

I believe the minority should have rights in government.  But there’s a difference between blocking a couple bills and blocking ever goddamned thing that comes to the floor.  And there’s a big difference between that and threatening to shut down the government because there’s one law you strongly dislike.

Here are the fifteen senators who want to shut down the government.

And that’s not all.  I’ve not even gotten to Darrell Issa yet.  But he can wait till he does something newsworthy again.  I think we’re all sick of hearing stories about Congress like this one.

Top Seven Reasons why we Need to Stay out of Syria

I’m no foreign policy expert, but I have a duty; as America is on the brink of WAR.  Be sure to contact Obama regarding this issue:

• 7: It’s religious: The war in Syria is as much religious as it is political. Shiites are fighting mostly with Assad; and the country’s Sunni majority is fighting with the Opposition.  The government should not be involved in such a display of religious affiliation; in fact it is somewhat unconstitutional.
• 6: No one in America likes it: Only eleven percent of the public supports intervention.  Should we really be sending Americans to die  and spending all this money for a war only eleven percent of the public supports?  No.
• It Would Further Strain our Relationship with Russia: It already has been straining our relationship with Russia, in addition to Snowden’s escape to the airport terminal.  Let’s not make Putin angry, okay?
• 4: It’s the Sequester, Baby.  Due to the federal budget deficit, we’ve had to cut spending on lots of different programs that could have helped many Americans.  Although the war would create jobs, it would strain our coffers and drag us deeper into debt.    Obama’s not been spending much, but with a war; all of that will change.  Why should we destroy things overseas when we could be rebuilding bridges and solving other problems here at home?
• 3: We did this ten years ago in Iraq.  Look what happened: Seriously.  The only thing that’s motivating Obama is faulty intelligence, which motivated Bush in Iraq.  Except, for reason number two, this time, it’s a lot worse.   A New York Times article said that a conflict in Syria will last us a really long time.  Do we really want to invest all this time?
• 2: We’ll be helping Al Qaeda: Obama has been warning us about this.  However, he’s not heeding his own warning.  Prominent members of the Syrian opposition are members of Al Qaeda.  Ronald Reagan aided Al Qaeda members in the 80’s.  Look what they did to our buildings less than twenty years later.  This will be bring us full circle; maybe to another 9/11 and Afghanistan.  It will also bring us to reason 1:
• 1: American Imperialism has failed for over a century.  Stop trying it.   They say the dumbest people are the ones who trying something again when it doesn’t work.  This has been America’s foreign policy for over a century now.  Our imperialism led to WWI, which in turn led to the Holocaust and WWII, which in turn led to the Cold War.  The Cold War led to our relationship with North Korea.  Whenever America chooses war and violence, in the end we fail miserably.   Probably the greatest thing  for American foreign policy was when JFK peacefully ended the Cuban Missile Crisis.  Because peace won over war then, we avoided a possible nuclear holocaust; and all the other effects of a war with the USSR.  I can’t wait for the day when this country’s leaders decide that wasting government money on “democracy” in the Middle East is the biggest waste of government money, as well as human capital, in this era.