Please read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19dowd.html
George Martin, Comments on the Commentary:
July 19, 2009
Response to Maureen Dowds' Column, July 19, 2009
This is a great column, that broadly sums up for me what Ms. Dowd kindly calls hypocrisy, but we, the electorate have to conclude is the incurable insanity and total dysfunction of our Washington elected officials. Not only to they thrive only on chimerical sound bytes, that consistently make no sense, show no reason, conservative or liberal, no legitimate debate. A real conservative would applaud the district court ruling on a complex law that ruled on precedent and established law, but the current crop of both parties just can't seem to do anything that makes sense, shows consistency, or principal. However, the legislation being created is consistent, in representing the voice of the commercial power brokers who surround our capital like fungi. All of this supported by cable news pundits who just regurgitate the official sound bytes with unparalleled vim, vigor, and allegiance to this weeks official party line.
It certainly is leaving us a country that has lost the ability to imagine common sense, carry on a reasonable discussion, or elect repesentatives that can actually do something to address the huge crisis' we are drowing in, and where the rights of the many are being buried by the desires of the few, and where if you tried to find away to fix this believing "That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government", you would undoubtedly be put on the No-Fly list.
Well, how could we do this today, when the clowns that have these responsibilities now, and the media machinery that is supposed to provide information to the electorate just seems unable to do that job of being constructive in securing our rights to solve our huge problems and put judges in place that can make us confident that we do have three branches of government that actually work like they are supposed too? Supposed too, meaning representing the rights and will of the people to fix education, obesity, wars, growing poverty, and stop our mad march to becoming a poor, third rate debtor nation?
I propose that we hold a hearing on capital hill, with Maureen Dowd as the sole investigator and interrogator justice committee of the recent Sotomeyer hearings! And we should carry on this process for all of what passes for "deliberations" going forward! How can we restore these senate and house's responsibility to reason and honesty? Thanks Maureen for saying what is driving so many of us nuts out here!
From george
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