When Congress Returns …

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Congress will return in the next couple of weeks, after a more-than-month-long paid vacation.  Now, there is much that needs to be addressed when they finally decide to take up their seats, the most urgent being passing the appropriations bills to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September.  Or, short of that, passing a stopgap continuing resolution bill to keep the government functioning until the appropriations bills can be agreed upon.

And then there are other critical issues such as voting rights, climate & environmental issues, education, guns, and more that really need to be addressed by the lawmaking body.  So, what is their first priority?  Well, if Kevin McCarthy and his cohorts in the House of Representatives have their way, it will be impeaching President Biden!  Yep, you heard me right … even though they admittedly have zero evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of the president, even though they have admitted that this is simply retaliation for Trump’s two impeachments, they plan to follow through.  WTF???

Not even all Republican legislators agree that an impeachment inquiry is the highest priority … some are even angry about it … but McCarthy and his band of merry men will plow forward anyway.  Even some members of the ignoble House Freedom Caucus (HFC) do not support McCarthy’s plan.  Ken Buck, a member of the HFC, slammed all the impeachment inquiry talk in July saying, “This is impeachment theater.”  And another Republican lawmaker who remains anonymous said, “There’s no evidence that Joe Biden got money, or that Joe Biden, you know, agreed to do something so that Hunter could get money. There’s just no evidence of that. And they can’t impeach without that evidence. And I don’t I don’t think the evidence exists.”

My own representative in the House, Warren Davidson who is also a member of the House Freedom Caucus, sent his usual weekly newsletter yesterday.  He began by bragging that he had attended 768 meetings and answered some 5,000 emails since January (I suppose that’s to justify his long, paid vacation and his salary?) and then plunged right in to talk about what he calls “Biden family corruption”.  The entire rest of his newsletter was dedicated to impeaching not only the president, but also FBI Director Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland, among others.

Let’s get one thing straight right now.  Whatever Hunter Biden did or did not do would not be grounds for investigating or impeaching President Biden.  Throughout history, I am sure that presidents’ family members have committed crimes or engaged in improper behaviour, but we did not blame the president or try to overthrow him.  Hunter Biden should not, by any stretch of the imagination, be headline news, nor should he be the primary focus of Congress!!!  And Congress, at least a large number of the Republican members of Congress, are NOT DOING THE JOBS WE PAY THEM TO DO!!!

Their behaviour is more reminiscent of a bunch of high school kids than serious, elected lawmakers.  I would suggest that their pay be withheld until they stop playing retaliatory games and address such things as the appropriations bills, climate change, guns, and VOTING RIGHTS!  I would suggest it, but … they don’t need their pay, for they are already wealthy, and they have all those lovely donations coming in from the likes of the NRA and fossil fuel industries!  Their reward isn’t the nearly quarter-million dollars they are paid each year, as much as it is the fame and power they derive from their position.

Next year please, please, PLEASE my friends … vote every Republican out of office and let’s hire some intelligent, conscientious, honest lawmakers with integrity and values who will take their oaths of office seriously and remember that they work for We the People, not the other way around!

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34 thoughts on “When Congress Returns …”

  1. Sadly, they don’t care about America, only their pockets. The are the party of chaos, that’ s all they know. I wouldn’t bet against the shutdown. I’ve already heard the gruesome Traitor Gangreen state they have many (ransom) demands, including impeaching Biden before they’ll stop a shutdown. They are pure evil, inhumane, and an embarrasment to your country. Anything they do is for something that’s in it for them, NOT AMERICA. 😦

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    • That is the biggest problem we have today … the politicians are more concerned with personal gain than the good of the nation and its people. But the core of the problems is the people … they seem to prefer a circus atmosphere to serious governance. As long as people like Marge Greene, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and others can keep entertaining the masses, and as long as the masses care more about entertainment, then we will not return to the days of serious government by, for, and of the people.

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    • I wouldn’t count on that, Michael. Sadly, it’s all about power and wealth, not We the People. I fully agree … I’m so sick of hearing about The Orange that I wish he’d just vanish overnight! xx

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  4. One thing about their pay-I found out through our then US Rep, a tea partier who was a W supporter-that US Reps are required by law to be paid, and the salary level is part of the law. They can (and, of course, do) vote themselves raises, but even during gov’t shutdown, they are paid because that is the law. I found it back then on the website, and it is a fact. Of course, they could revise that law. But, honestly, who would revise a law that requires one to be paid…

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    • Yep, and while they have granted themselves numerous pay INCREASES through the years, they have never, to my knowledge, voted for a pay cut. Personally, I would love to see a tax rebellion with everyone refusing to pay their income taxes for a month, stating the ineffectiveness, inactivity, and misguided priorities of Congress as the main reason! But alas, this nation is now so divided that we’d never … ever … get everyone or even a majority onboard for any united front.

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      • Actually if you really want the IRS’s attention overpay your taxes. By accident I filed two tax returns and double paid. It wasn’t a priority at the time so I put it on the backburner intending on getting to it later which, surprise, didn’t happen. Tax time came and I went ahead and filed a new return which apparently sent the computers into a spin. It still makes me smile to reminisce (he was great) getting a phone call from the agent starting the conversation with “Please Mr Yinger”. Sales is a battlefield, if you don’t like to fight stay out but sometimes your on the right side of the table and it is unbelievably fun.

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  7. Jill, Kevin McCarthy is one of the most disappointing Speakers to my knowledge rivaling Newt Gingrich who was ousted by his own party. He lags behind several Republican Speakers and well behind Republican bugaboo Nancy Pelosi who can count votes. Keith

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    • I fully agree! He is not qualified to lead the House, but then who among House Republicans is? Lisa Murkowski, possibly, or Mitt Romney maybe. I don’t look for McCarthy to remain Speaker until January 2025, but fully expect him to be ousted at some point, probably sooner than later. I just hope they don’t exchange him for the likes of Marge Greene or Matt Gaetz or James Cromer.

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