Our world would be better off if Congress were dround in a bathtub.

There is certainly two sides to an issue. And Medicare surely has it’s fractious partisan dichotomies. However, what most older Americans like Medicare the way it is. And believe it can be fixed. The fixing part is to keep partisan politics out of the mix. If anything, Americans want it fixed. Not tampered with and turned into a cash cow for private insurers.

When will law makers get it. Americans want a government run medical system. Oh of course, if you wish to pay double the cost to a large insurance company instead. You know, big profits paid out and hundreds of stock holder to please.

This is not to say Americans want free health care. They are certainly willing to make reasonable payment to support the system. However, private insurers and their congressional supporters would rather have the money sent directly to the corporate level. By passing the doctor patient level. Almost guaranteeing a huge increase for profit and paying out to stockholders. This is not what most Americans want.

Health care should be out of the realm of free enterprise and capital management. Instead placed in a public trust. Whether it be state run or federal run. It doesn’t matter.

What does matter is good health care is made available to most or all Americans. It’s our god given right. Good health. Good citizens. And good middle class workers. Healthy, productive, and contributors to the total public good. God bless America. We need good, affordable health care.

Congress is where it should be at. But, it ain't.

You can talk about your two pretty white men, with nice hair. You can talk about a couple of mixed cultured progressives. But the real game in town(Washington DC)is in Congress.

No matter who wins the Whitehouse this fall, the real ground battle will be on Capitol Hill. Mostly in the House of Representatives. The place where bad ideas and dead wood exists side by side. The incubator of legislation reversal and partisan hysteria. The hiding place of John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and Paul Ryan. All hunkered down in ‘The House of Misrepresentatives.’ Sometimes known as The lobbyist’s massage parlor.

Never the less, the US Congress needs every bodies attention. Every voter. Every reporter. Every camera needs to be focused on the horror that goes on in the halls of Congress. And, it’s out in the halls where the dirty work goes on and money is exchanged. Like money changers in the hallowed temple of the people that were angrily tossed out. Remember the New Testament narrative that cleansed the Temple?

To make this short and not so sweet, Congress needs to be turned over. Fixed and flipped. All incumbents swiftly hosed out the back door. Voted out of office. Just being a congressman does not a career make. Get in. Get out.

Vote incumbents out. Let’s try some fresh faces. New ideas. Then, move on with more new faces. This my friends, is the American way. God bless America. God forgive Congress.

Oh, were we suppose to do something while we're here?

A bad year for vintage congress. The worse congress ever! What a distinction. “Do nothing congress” doesn’t even describe this current congress. A comatose congress which is DOA and MIA at best. Ladies and Gentlemen, get rid of your incumbent congressman or woman. Do yourself and your neighbors a huge favor, if you read on the ballot this fall the description “incumbent” next to the candidate’s name be sure to vote instead for the challenging candidate. And if you need a good reason, read the USA Today article below. Think smart. Vote Smart.

61 bills By Susan Davis, USA TODAY Congress is on pace to make history with the least productive legislative year in the post-World War II era. Just 61 bills have become law to date in 2012 out of 3,914 bills that have been introduced by lawmakers, or less than 2% of all proposed laws, according to a USA TODAY analysis of records since 1947 kept by the U.S. House Clerk's office. In 2011, after Republicans took control of the House, Congress passed just 90 bills into law. The only other year in which Congress failed to pass at least 125 laws was 1995. These statistics make the 112th Congress, covering 2011-12, the least productive two-year gathering on Capitol Hill since the end of World War II. Not even the 80th Congress, which President Truman called the "do-nothing Congress" in 1948, passed as few laws as the current one, records show…
Read the rest of the article in today’s USA Today.

Back to the future

If Romney and Ryan want to take America back to a 1950s sociology, then politics is fair game as well. I remember vividly many debates over electing a Catholic president. Fearing the president would be subjugated to the Holy Sea. So maybe we should revive that battle cry. Also, in the fundamentalist church I had belonged to, Mormonism was disdained as a secret cult. Something to avoid and persuade others to avoid as well. Should we start this political/religious mind set all over again? What do you think?

Ryan is just the last nail in the pine box.

Paul Ryan? Hmm. All I know about Paul Ryan is he formulated a very mean spirited house budget. A budget favoring the rich and dismantling Medicare. Is this what we want?

Perhaps just for a minute or two it will take the heat off Romney but not for long. Romney still has his issues. Not paying taxes is his biggest hurdle to jump. Along with a hundred other Romney warts.

None the less, the two men now are two lightening rods. Making it two targets to shoot at instead of one. But anyway, Romney will still get his licks from the media. Ryan is not a big enough shield to protect Romney. Matter of fact, the heat will be turned up even more on Romney. As it should be. How stupid of Mit Romney to think Ryan would be a distraction. Romney is already a political distraction. A distraction from the RNC and its regressive policies. Oh how idiotic. One has to feel sorry for the Republican ticket.

Congress is the big 'speed bump' in the road.

All America wants to do is work at a reasonable job, own a home, educate it’s children, maintain good health, and help others. However, standing in the way of America’s beneficent is a recalcitrant congress. A dysfunctional Congress bought and paid for by ill intended corporate lobbyist with deep pockets filled with reelection money.

And we are talking about Corporations ably aided by congress purposefully filtering all available money away from middle America. Money diverted into private corporation bank accounts. Then generously distributed to all participating congressmen and women. A reward for congress changing laws that unfairly advantage the rich and take away from the working class and poor.

All the while congress is blaming the federal government for wisely taxing the rich and distributing benefit to preschool children, to the elderly, the disabled, and working class poor. Certainly a Biblical concept. RememberWWJD?

So why do we Americans allow this? Why do we keep on reelecting the same old congress whose only interest is to enable the rich and oppress the poor? Why do grass root Americans vote against their own interests? Often voting for a nebulous mysterious ideology and not voting for an American belief. Beliefs as in “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

America! Wake up! Smell the coffee and go do your job. Your job is to know your district congressman or woman. Let them know you are not interested in subsidizing the rich but advantaging the middle class. Helping the middle class take care of its poor, homeless, sick, and cleaning up the environment. Congress! Get out of the way!

It's time for Spring Cleaning. Clear out the rotten wood.

Congress is public enemy number one. It’s time to get rid of all members of the House of Representatives. Vote them out. Clear out the dead wood. Remove the Reps on the lobbyists dole. Sweep it clean. Vote against all incumbents. Search and destroy the ambivalence. Clean up the political mess in the halls of congress.

Get rid of House Speaker Boehner. Remove the anti-American US Rep Paul Ryan. Stop the flow of lobbyist money. Vote them all out. Gone. Good riddance and don’t come back. Tell the Koch Brothers to stick it!

Why is it we have voted against our best interest? Haven't a clue.

I would like to believe Republicans and conservatives are moral and decent people. However, that’s not what I see and hear from our American Congress. Especially from the House of Representatives. A body of politics lead by hypocritical and self-seeking Over-lords. Men and women whose only intent is to thwart any legislation introduced by Democrats and President Obama. Never mind if the proposed legislation is in the best interest of most or all Americans.

But anyway, a misguided but concerted effort by most House conservatives to fulfill the grand wishes of the “Master Demigod” and assumed GOP leader, his lowliness, Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh had proclaimed at the outset of the Obama administration, wishing the new administration quick and sudden “Failure.” Which is to say, “Wishing failure to all America.” A statement only an anti-American would ever say. And Republicans agree with his Rushness.

None the less, Congress’s leadership is a group of power mongers driven by plenty of money from ill intended corporations. Big corporations solely dedicated to bring down most Social institutions. Institutions which served our parents and grandparents well. And their goals are to kill Social Security and Medicare. And, it doesn’t stop there.

Is this the people we want to serve us? It’s more like people intended on destroying our American way of life. An American way of life dedicated to help and serve each other. Responsible, benevolent, sharing, and protecting our American life.

It is our responsibility as voters and citizens of America to remove these political quacks. Vote them out as soon as possible. They are destroyers of the notion of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Do it! Remove them now! And, God Bless America and all lovers of peace in the world.