The news media in general have all been reporting that the people are fed up with our elected officials and intend to do something about it in the November elections. One poll by USA Today in the May 28 edition shows 60% of those polled would vote for some one who has never been in congress before. One person polled said, "We are just going to clean house."
It seems obvious to this writer that some people just never learn. Changing elected officials will not change a thing until money and the special interest groups are taken out of the equation. Changing elected officials have already proven that. The tea party people and others who are really interested in change should direct their anger and actions to getting money out of the political arena instead. So called tough talk about voting elected officials out of office is about as effective as Bush's tough talk about terror prior to 9/11. The voting public has a right to vote for who they choose but they also have a duty to be responsible.
The special interest groups with their wealth who control our elected officials laugh all the way to the bank when the voters vent their anger at politicians instead of the special interest groups. That says it all.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
U.S. Representative Steve Scalise: Another Embarrassing Moment
Steve Scalise whose oral pronouncements seem to indicate he is a student of Newt Gingrich and the far right is at it again. In an editorial in USA Today dated May 28 he uses the whole editorial to condemn President Obama's action concerning the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. His ditto head mentality of playing the blame game fits right in with the conservative record of zero accomplishments.
Scalise was part of the Bush administration in Washington that gave the green light to the oil and gas industry to drill baby drill without oversight. After the worst oil spill in the Gulf, Scalise says he is concerned for Louisiana's ecosystems, environment and economy. In Scalise's whole editorial not once does he mention BP or its responsibility for the leak and the resulting damage to the Louisiana coast, ecosystems, environment or the economy. What we see is the typical anti-American ideology Scalise and many other republicans preach.
This is how Scalise ends his editorial. There is no place in this crisis for inaction or partisan politics. We want action, not finger pointing from our commander in chief. That last paragraph actually describes hypocrite Scalise himself and what his editorial was all about. Its pretty hard to think of any other Louisiana representative who served in the U.S. House that was so incompetent. That says it all.
Scalise was part of the Bush administration in Washington that gave the green light to the oil and gas industry to drill baby drill without oversight. After the worst oil spill in the Gulf, Scalise says he is concerned for Louisiana's ecosystems, environment and economy. In Scalise's whole editorial not once does he mention BP or its responsibility for the leak and the resulting damage to the Louisiana coast, ecosystems, environment or the economy. What we see is the typical anti-American ideology Scalise and many other republicans preach.
This is how Scalise ends his editorial. There is no place in this crisis for inaction or partisan politics. We want action, not finger pointing from our commander in chief. That last paragraph actually describes hypocrite Scalise himself and what his editorial was all about. Its pretty hard to think of any other Louisiana representative who served in the U.S. House that was so incompetent. That says it all.
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