Our
Washington legislators just don’t get it. To all those voters who
exercised their right to vote in the most recent election, I offer my
condolences, for you have been deceived. Apparently there will be no
meaningful governance yet again in both legislative houses in Washington.
I hate to
agree with Bobby Jindal, but he got it right when he recently stated it was
time for the Republicans to move beyond the anti-Obama agenda and show the
nation that they have meaningful, constructive, alternative legislation to move
this country forward. The elections are over, and the winning campaign
theme that, if elected, candidates would undo all of Obama’s policies, is old
hat. It’s time for innovative replacement legislation, but instead the
new power in Congress is preoccupied with symbolic legislative maneuvers to
repeal Obamacare, reignite the push for the Keystone pipeline, and undo Obama’s
immigration executive orders. All are subject to override by a
presidential veto, and both houses of Congress are aware of this fact.
Nero continues to fiddle while Rome continues to burn.
Consequently,
I fear there will be little new, positive legislation because of a fatal
character flaw which exists within most Republicans and Democrats in Washington,
as highlighted so well in a recent media editorial appearing Ash
Wednesday stating, “Vanity complicates our politics.
Constructive compromise requires humility, and where it’s absent, governance
degrades into a hundred fiefdoms of personal conceit.”
That pretty much summarizes the current situation in
Washington, where pride will continue to trump the common good.
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