Politicians Smoking Pot... Voters Still High!

So let me get this straight, the Republicans throw the Democrats a historic beating, giving the power of the house to the Republicans, and Harry Reid has the gall to say that what the voters really want is for the Republicans to stop saying "no" to all of the ridiculous policies that he and the President can come up with before the power transfer is made official in January??

Harry Reid is a moron.  He comes in second in the moron category only to his delusional friend in the White House. 

Let's not pretend that the Republicans are going to do anything useful with their new found power, they are as big a wind bags as the Democrats.  If you think that the Republicans are all of a sudden going to forget about the Lobbyists that line "THEIR" pockets and employ their wives and children, you are smoking something of which the politicians themselves will be jealous.

You may forget, but they had the House for some 14 years, and never once saw a spending bill or pork project that they couldn't pass.  If you think this is going to change, you are delusional.  Sure, the house will send some $10m, maybe $100m spending cuts to the senate to get rejected soundly, but it will be nothing short of a drop in the hat to the federal debt and ongoing Trillion $ deficits we are running RIGHT NOW.

Remember, you did not elect Chris Christie (Gov NJ) to congress.  He may be the only politician that can be trusted keep his word as much as is reasonably possible, you elected spineless weasels who will cave in to the cash machine for which they were just given a shiny new card to use.

Let's be honest, Bill Maher, for as big a wind bag liberal apologist as he is was almost right, he said, "Americans are stupid"  that is not quite right.  He thinks Americans are too stupid to understand why government should run healthcare, I don't think they are, I think they know exactly why, Americans know when they are paying for something they are not getting.

If you want to see what kinds of stupid things Americans do, and Americans do a lot of stupid things, look no further than 2008.  They vote for "Hope" rather than leadership (not that any of the general election or primary challengers would have been any better in the leadership category), they believe that Republicans will slow government spending and reduce the size of government despite all of the evidence.

So when your Republican version of hope fails, remember that the only way to send them a message is to vote them out, and vote them out and vote them out until you get the government you want.  You cannot continue to hate Congress and love your Congressman, it doesn't work that way.

My short list of things that the Republican House WILL NOT DO:

1.  Shut down Fannie Mae/ Freddy Mac that is currently underwriting 95% of all new mortgages because no other commercial bank will touch these newly written, soon to be defaulted, mortgages.

2.  Pass legislation ensuring that corporations (banks) will be liable for the contracts they sign and forcing them to take on 100% of the risk they sign up for (right now they just make the assumption that excess risk will be paid for by taxpayers via bailouts, so they have no reason to not do a bad deal).

3.  Restructure Social Security so that it will become solvent.  This would basically cut future payments to reasonable levels in line with the amount of money that will be available to pay them.  They would also have to take young people off of SS who don't pay into it, but have some kind of disability that congress feels is worthy of making payments under this program, when they should set up a separate program for that.  They won't have the guts to touch this because old people vote, and politicians are spineless.

4.  Restructure/Eliminate Medicare.  Basically tell people that they have to think ahead more than 1 week into the future and plan for the fact that they will get sick when they are old.

5.  Eliminate Sallie Mae.  Congress won't tell students if they want to go to college, they should take on the risk that the investment they are making will pay off for them.  Likewise grants should be merit based, not needs based, and should be paid out after graduation, not before.  Subsidizing this risk has only inflated the cost of higher education, and made it so that stupid people can go to college without the pressure that they have to do well.  I expect a big fight about this point in my comments section, and I welcome it.

6.  Cut defense funding.  This is key because there are billions and billions of wasted dollars here.  Do we really need an arms plant in every state just because politicians need to show that they are bringing home the dollars?  We should really consolidate military operations to a small handful of domestic locations where it can be more efficient.

Additionally, we should send a bill to every nation that has eliminated their own military power and actively uses the protection of the US military, else we should relocate bases and tell countries to defend themselves (of course we would jump in and help, because after all, despite Obama's belief that America is a hateful destructive force in the world, we really are a compassionate people who run to the aid of our neighbors in their time of need).  Other nations should fund their own strategic deterrence measures.

7.  De-fund the Department of Education.  There is no need for this department, states can take care of this just fine and nobody has anything good to say about this department anyway.

8.  De-fund Amtrak.  Amtrak should charge enough to cover their costs, and if nobody is willing to pay those prices, well, they should just shut down.  If you live in Connecticut and can't afford to commute to NYC everyday, get a job in Connecticut, move to NYC, or telecommute.

9.  De-fund the Post Office.  I don't need paper sent from anybody to my house.  Give everyone a government supplied email address and a map to the local library.  If you want to entrust the government to get a bill from your electric company to you, they can do it digitally.  Otherwise, you can make your way to the Post office to pick up your mail.  Otherwise force the post office to charge enough per letter to cover their costs, then when people who use the post office see the real cost of doing business like they live in the 18th century, they will stop using it, like many already have.

10.  Eliminate federal public sector unions.  The government should not be negotiating with a union that uses member dues to pay for political campaigns.  This is the worst kind of graft, governments making promises they can only keep by bankrupting the country so they can get a 2 year extension on their political career.

So in short, the guys that got voted out:  Morons
The Guys that kept their jobs:  Morons
The Guys that got voted in for the first time:  Soon to be Morons
All of the voters that think anything is going to change:  Morons
Brig:  Moron