This country is in trouble.  We have a delusional president whose ineptitude in economics and foreign policy, is only exceeded by his arrogance!  Now, let’s talk about congress.  They waste time and taxpayer money playing childish games of partisan one-upsmanship!  The American people deserve better than this.

Why would the House pass a meaningless resolution condemning Turkish genocide during WWI?  Certainly not to placate a handful of Armenian voters in Speaker Pelosi’s district.  Every historical scholar recognizes the Turkish genocide, but if the Turks want to hang on to their national delusion, so what.  Bringing this up now, only opens old wounds and strains our strategically important, yet delicate foreign relations with Turkey.  Why didn’t Pelosi stop this resolution from coming to the floor?  This appears to be a desperate, ham fisted attempt to derail the Bush war machine; which could interfere with supply lines into Iraq, and endanger our troops.

The Sense of the Senate resolution condemning Moveon.org for the “Gen. Betrayus” add, was nothing but nonsense.  The republicans wanted to brand some democrats as unpatriotic.  While the house is burning down…they play games!  Then we have congress mucking around in the Terry Schiavo case.  Their actions were initiated by republicans who were strict constitutional constructionists.  They knew they couldn’t get their nonsense past the Supreme Court!  They were bolstering support from the religious right; not to mention, they needed to shift public attention away from Iraq.  We can’t forget the Defense of Marriage Act.  The religious zealots of the right, and the homophobic neo-cons tried to tell us the nation would become gay, if we allowed gay marriage; they even thought about amending the constitution.  While all this was going on, some of the very same congressmen were chasing House pages!

What must the world think about the reprehensible behavior of our time wasting, tax wasting, theocratic, partisan gridlocked government?  I think our forefathers are probably spinning in their graves!  Nancy Pelosi, and all the democrats that want us to think they are better than republicans, should remember they are all products of the swamp the Speaker wants to drain.

It’s time for term limits, and federally funded elections!

J.R. Lutticken