Today’s Big News:
The news that has dominated the airwaves today, about Sen. Ted Kennedy suffering from a malignant brain tumor leaves me with mixed feelings. As a priest and a Christian, I pray that Sen. Kennedy recovers from this terrible disease, and my prayers are also with his family.
On the other hand, I am disgusted by the rhetoric that has been coming out all day on Fox News about what a close knit club the Senate is and how close all the Senators are with each other no matter what their political party affiliation, and how they can reach across the aisle and broker deals with each other. According to various senators who spoke today, about Kennedy, all stated how Senator Kennedy was a leader at reaching across the aisle and brokering deals with the Republicans to get things done. It was also mentioned many times today how Sen. Kennedy had worked hard with Sen. John McCain to graft the Kennedy-McCain Comprehensive Immigration Bill (which calls for amnesty for the illegals) on behalf of President Bush.
Is it any wonder that we conservatives always end up holding the shitty end of the stick? We go to the polls to elect members of Congress to represent us and to fight to pass legislation that will benefit the country in a positive way, but once they get into office they sit around and make deals with the other side, deals that benefit the other side at the expense of the Conservatives, much the same as all of the Free Trade agreements that our country signs with foreign countries that always end up benefiting corporations, stockholders and foreign workers, all at the expense of the American workers. As I have stated before, in a blog posting a while back, I cannot remember a single time, in all the years that I have been around, that the Conservatives have won a single thing of any great importance, and that goes for the times that the Republicans have controlled Congress as well. Why is this? Because, it appears that the Republican members of Congress have brokered away every chance they had to the Liberals. The reason I can think of for doing this was for passage of pork benefits for their home states to get themselves re-elected and perhaps money in their pockets.
In the words of some of the members of Congress, when talking about Sen. Kennedy, politics is just a game and Sen. Kennedy really enjoyed playing it. That is much the same as our legal system today. The law is less about truth and justice and more about a game being played between the defense and the prosecutor and it is the defendant who pays the ultimate price. Politics here in the
The politicians don’t care about you or me, because no matter what happens they win. If they should be voted out of office, so what. They will get a retirement package, when they are old enough to retire, that will be equal to the salary they made while in office, and they will write books, go on speaking tours or enter a private law practice. Some will be hired by private firms that they may have helped while they were in office or they may even become “news contributors” for Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC, etc. If they are re-elected, they have more chances to make their little deals while building up the amount of retirement money they will get.
While way too many of us can not afford to take a real vacation, even though we work our butts off, the members of Congress get to travel all over the world on the taxpayers dime, calling it “fact finding” missions, often taking their spouses, some even take their children. If they become sick, as in the case of Sen. Kennedy, they all have access to the absolute best medical, and no matter what people like Hillary or Barack might say, concerning their plans for “Universal Health Care”, it will NOT come anywhere near equaling the health care that the members of Congress or the President gets at our expense. And, you can bet that their health care is not rationed either.
But at least we console ourselves with the fact that in the end, we will all be equal in the grave. Oh sure, people like Ted Kennedy may have a bigger and fancier tomb then you or I, but they will still be just another individual before God.
NOW THIS!!
Did you that pro “Open Border” and amnesty Senators are blackmailing the American people into accepting amnesty for more than 3 million illegal immigrants and their families? Yes, you have read me right; we are being blackmailed by the very people we have elected to represent us.
The very idea that our lawmakers would use our military and their need for boots, ammunition, gas and protective clothing as a way to get you and I to sign off on their latest amnesty push is downright immoral and sickening, and such treachery should be met with lighting fast condemnation from every single American citizen.
This is the kind of crap that we are up against by the self-serving, treasonous lawmakers who are more than willing to put our troops and the security of our country jeopardy for their personal gain. The Pentagon is eager for the money to help the troops. The Senates Supplemental Bill that contains amnesty for illegal immigrants working on farms could be voted on as early as this Thursday or Friday. It is for this reason, that I am urging each of you to call or fax your Senators and tell them to either remove the amnesty portion from the Bill or to vote against the Bill as it stands.
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