Let The Games Begin

The finger-pointing blame-game of mistakes made in the lead up to the Boston bombing is now being played by the posing, preening, pontificating politicians.  These sorry excuses for public servants known as the Do-Nothing Congress are the same boneheads who could have done something a few weeks ago by voting for more stringent background checks or for attending to the sequester debacle they created.  Yet here they are, hogging a microphone at every chance so they can spew their inane rhetoric and create more drama so they don’t have to do their real job.

One reason they want to clutter up the airways ranting about the bombings is to cover up the latest stunt that these sleazy members of Congress pulled off.  They just voted to gut the Stock Act so that they could continue to make millions off of insider trading, which of course is totally illegal for anyone else to do.  

I get it why both Alaska senators — Democrat Mark Begich and Republican Lisa Murkowski voted against background checks for guns even though Alaska has the highest death rate from guns than any other state in the union.  I’m pretty sure they thought someone would shoot them if they voted for background checks.

Most people thought Senator Max Baucus of Montana voted against background checks for buying guns because he was up for re-election.  Turns out he wasn’t worried about being re-elected after all since he announced today that he is not running for office next year.  Obviously, he’s just another NRA Yes-Man who thought not having the gun owners inconvenienced in any way took precedence over savings lives.

The shame of all of this is that we, the American public, have a large responsibility in this situation.  We keep sending incompetent people to Washington D.C and then are upset that they turn into greedy power-hungry Congressmorons and Senaterribles.

If you’re not feeling the effects of the economic recovery of the last couple of years, this is probably the reason why.   The Pew Research Center released a report today saying that mean net worth for the 7 percent of American households at the top of the wealth distribution rose by 28 percent between 2009 and 2011 and the mean net worth for the other 93 percent of American households fell by 4 percent during that period.

Charges have been dismissed against the man who was thought to have sent ricin-tainted letters to President Obama and others.  Once authorities discovered he was from Mississippi and was an Elvis impersonator they said he probably couldn’t write and most likely wouldn’t know who was President.

Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford who is now running for a Congressional seat is finding that hiking the campaign trail is little more difficult than hiking the Appalachians. 





Stay tuned for future adventures.