Y’know, when we go to the polls every other November to vote for people to become our senators and representatives in Congress, we expect them to take their oaths of office seriously, to legislate in what they truly believe is the best interest of not only their district or state, but the entire nation, for the bills they pass will affect people in every state from coast to coast.  And when we get up each morning and go to work to that we can earn a living, knowing that a percentage of our earnings will be withheld for taxes, and part of those tax dollars will be used to pay these people we elected, we expect them to earn those salaries and related perks.  We rightly expect them to act in a professional and honest manner, to do the job we are paying them to do … to act like adults.

When I look at the shenanigans going on in the House of Representatives today, I do not see a professional body of lawmakers, but rather a circus show filled with clowns.  Since the 118^th Congress took their seats six months ago, very little actual work has been done in the House of Representatives.  Instead, they are wasting time with crap that serves absolutely no purpose and would be better suited to a show at a Barnum & Bailey circus.

A few examples …

Since certain members of the ignoble “House Freedom Caucus” did not like the fact that Kevin McCarthy finally came to the table with President Biden to agree to terms for raising the debt ceiling and preventing a major economic disaster that would have roiled the nation and sent shock waves throughout the world, they decided not to do their job for a while.  Nope, they refused to even consider doing such things as working on new legislation or bringing anything to the floor for discussion or for a vote.  In effect, we had no functional Congress.

A CNN headline reads, “It’s censure and impeachment season again”.

More recently, just this week, the House ‘censured’ Representative Adam Schiff.  Schiff is, from everything I’ve seen, a serious lawmaker who has the interests of the nation at heart, and his ‘censure’ was issued for … doing his job.  The House Republicans claim that Schiff “falsely” accused ex-president Donald Trump of collusion with Russia during the 2016 election.  Seriously?  The evidence is clear that there was collusion between the Trump campaign/family and Russia in the runup to the election.  I thought we had put that one to bed with the Mueller report, but apparently House Republicans haven’t bothered to stay informed.  The reality is that Adam Schiff led Trump’s first impeachment trial and the Republicans have never quite forgiven him, and then to add insult to injury, he served on the January 6^th committee!  The initial movement to censure Schiff would have imposed a $16 million fine on Schiff, which was ultimately ruled unconstitutional, so they removed the fine, tried again, and this time the censure passed muster.  Schiff took it all in stride, saying, “Your words tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy, and I am grateful.”  THAT is the mark of a professional, the kind we need more of in Congress.  A man who takes his oath of office seriously.

And then there’s this UTTERLY RIDICULOUS motion brought by clown Lauren Boebert to impeach President Biden.  Now, talk about a clown show … a bit of background.  Margie Greene has filed impeachment charges against President Biden a total of six times, the first being the day after his inauguration.  When Lauren Boebert brought her impeachment she did so by filing a “privileged resolution” that allows a member to bypass House leadership to bring a measure to the floor.  Her ‘reason’ was she doesn’t like his immigration and border policies.  The measure would not have passed in the House, but instead of bringing it to the floor, the House voted to refer it to committee, stalling any further action for now.  But then Greene and Boebert got into a shouting match on the House floor … with Greene calling Boebert a “little bitch” and saying she stole her own articles of impeachment.  Apparently they nearly came to blows and disrupted the business of the House for several minutes, not that the House gets much actual business done anyway.

Yesterday, two representatives, Elise Stefanik and Margie Greene (doesn’t this woman ever shut up???) introduced resolutions to expunge both of Trump’s impeachments!  Poof!  Just make them disappear … impeachment?  What impeachment?  This, like the effort to impeach Biden, is about as likely to pass as I am to sprout wings and fly, but the point is … look at how they are spending their time and our hard-earned tax dollars!!!  I say to each and every one of them:  GROW THE F*CK UP!!!!  DO YOUR JOB, OR GET THE HELL OUT!!!

These are just a few of the things they are wasting time playing games with, and they are NOT the sort of things we elected them to do nor that we work hard to earn money to pay them for!!!  These frivolous moves are naught but distractions from the serious problems they ought to be addressing, and attempts to gain attention, to keep themselves in the spotlight.  A damned circus is what they are turning our legislature into!  Please, my friends, let’s vote these clowns out of office next year!!!  Our sanity depends on it!