Congress bad? The worst is yet to come
Forget about landmark legislation or even a budget deal. And all those votes on the floor? Most will be meant to influence the November elections.
Welcome to the second session of the 112th Congress, when a divided and unpopular group seems poised to ignore the basic aspects of governing and turn the House and Senate chambers into full-time campaign stumps.
The bar is so low that “even a hard-charging fast-digging mole” couldn’t find it, as Sen. Joe Manchin puts it.
“The gridlock we’ve seen is because of the election cycle, so just think of the election year,” the West Virginia Democrat said grimly. “If you think this is bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet.”
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We need to get themall out of powere & start over, it sure could not be any worse than the mess they have us in now
-PatWhen your elected official votes to ensure his reelection instead of the country and people's interest,
-marylou5it's way past time to retire him/her to the unemployment line they created for their constituents,
I doubt there are enough good politicians to refill both houses. I doubt there are enough people to vote correctly. I know that man can't solve the problems in his country. I keep saying this because it is true according to God's Word. We need more people to turn back to God and His Word before this Nation turns around and follows the Constitution again. It may take a great disaster from God's discipline before this happens unless it is time for His return for the exit resurrection. We don't know when the Rapture will take place so in the meantime we are mandated to…
-msjallenII Peter 3:8… but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Jer 17:5 Thus says the LORD," Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD
It's been commented that the first 535 people listed in the phonebook could do a better job then these political hacks. I don't doubt it.
-topperjCongressional gridlock is just another symptom of America's spiritual crisis. By rejecting God in much of the public sphere, by the evident moral decline of our land, the situation will get worse and the hand of God's discipline will come upon us as He has dealt with civilizations and societies of the past.
-John J FlanaganCan't let this one pass without a couple of gems from Mark Twain:
–"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
–"Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man."
-KenHow'd you miss
"I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman."
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
-SteveThere are two statements from Scripture that would our current situation. Neither are related, but that's okay…
"Judas hanged himself…"
"Go and do likewise…"
Now why do these two Scriptures seem to fit?
-Michael G.That thou doest, do quickly.
-SteveThe fact that Congress has always been held in low esteem does no more than prove Richard Hooker (1553-1600) and G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) right:
-Steve"He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers."
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."