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Congress needs to get serious
Comments 0 | Recommend 0March 10, 2008 - 6:51 PM
Well, hallelujah, Congress is investigating whether people are using steroids in baseball and I understand it wants to expand it's investigation to other "games."
Shouldn't we be concerned that this is what the Congress of the United States is finding important today? With two failing wars, the economy failing, our president lying to us to lead us into war and using illegal "signing statements" to override laws passed by Congress, Sibel Edmonds' serious allegations of high level nuclear espionage, the approaching financial catastrophe, and so on and so on would seem to be much more important!
Our increasingly irrelevant and impotent legislators in Washington, however, can't seem to move on like the rest of us. Unable or unwilling to grapple with the difficulties presented by the Bush administration's two-term effort to abrogate to the executive branch the legislative powers that, under the Constitution, rightly belong in Congress, lawmakers have turned instead to throwing their dwindling weight around in matters of little consequence and in which they have no legitimate interest or authority.
Instead of worrying about whether or not any rights are still protected by, say, the Fourth Amendment, Senator Arlen Specter is worried about football rights. "We have a right to have honest football games," he said, according to the Associated Press.
We are close to losing our national sovereignty on at least two levels. The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is sitting in the Senate now. There are more than just rumors of trying a formation of a North American Union. Both would give up sovereignty of our country.
Congress as a whole should get their noses out of sports and pay attention to the really important work of returning this nation to its constitutional roots.
We as a nation get the government we deserve. If the people don't start letting Congress know we are tired of them wasting time and our tax dollars this ridiculous nonsense, it will continue while we lose our freedoms and the dreams our founders had for this country.
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BRIAN O'FARRELL
Yuma
Shouldn't we be concerned that this is what the Congress of the United States is finding important today? With two failing wars, the economy failing, our president lying to us to lead us into war and using illegal "signing statements" to override laws passed by Congress, Sibel Edmonds' serious allegations of high level nuclear espionage, the approaching financial catastrophe, and so on and so on would seem to be much more important!
Our increasingly irrelevant and impotent legislators in Washington, however, can't seem to move on like the rest of us. Unable or unwilling to grapple with the difficulties presented by the Bush administration's two-term effort to abrogate to the executive branch the legislative powers that, under the Constitution, rightly belong in Congress, lawmakers have turned instead to throwing their dwindling weight around in matters of little consequence and in which they have no legitimate interest or authority.
Instead of worrying about whether or not any rights are still protected by, say, the Fourth Amendment, Senator Arlen Specter is worried about football rights. "We have a right to have honest football games," he said, according to the Associated Press.
We are close to losing our national sovereignty on at least two levels. The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is sitting in the Senate now. There are more than just rumors of trying a formation of a North American Union. Both would give up sovereignty of our country.
Congress as a whole should get their noses out of sports and pay attention to the really important work of returning this nation to its constitutional roots.
We as a nation get the government we deserve. If the people don't start letting Congress know we are tired of them wasting time and our tax dollars this ridiculous nonsense, it will continue while we lose our freedoms and the dreams our founders had for this country.
--
BRIAN O'FARRELL
Yuma
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