At the 2012
Republican Convention Clint Eastwood appeared on stage next to an empty chair
Optics that
when it came to productive domestic and foreign policies Obama’s cupboard was
bare
In today’s http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2017/08/august-5-2017-ridleys-believe-it-or-not.html
a photo of the empty Senate Pro Temp chair
A painful
reminder that in a time of gridlock and tax cuts stall, our Senate is no longer
there
People
hearing news of ACA premiums going through the roof are in rightful anxious
distress
But their
pain moves the 535 Gang not one wit as they have gone to the August Recess
Leaving
behind the shards of seven years of promises to the ACA to repeal and replace
Only one phrase
to describe the Reds and that phrase is total disgrace
The 535 Gang
and their staff are exempt from the ACA and feel no pain
Most of them
without term limits as long as they can raise money will a long time reign
Six months
into the term and not one dime has any tax has been cut
When the
market and the economy believes that will not happen the door to three percent
will be slammed shut
Worse the
over four trillion in new wealth created by the Trump Rally will disappear
Slamming
401ks, public pension plans, university endowments something even the leftist
Blues should fear
While the 535
Gang is blissfully sipping wine and munching on brie,
A tidal wave
of national debt smashing through the ceiling is easy to foresee
Before the
days of air conditioning the Swamp in August was a heat and humidity hell of
Earth
No wonder
the 535 Gang exercised their privilege and gave it a very wide berth
That excuse
is over and the Gang is in irremissible mode of dereliction of duty or MIA
Before the
internet, podcasts, tweets, Instagrams or Facebooks trips back to constituents
for town halls one might justify
But
typically the only people the Gang listens to are the donors and lobbyists with
checks so the August recess we should deny
Should never
have been allowed to leave with business undone and should return today
Like the
German machine gunners at their guns in the ending days of World War One
Chain them
to their desks until compromise on Obamacare, tax cuts, infrastructure and
immigration gets done
No one in
the private sector gets paid the full amount until the job is complete
Apply the
same rule on the Gang and gridlock you will quickly defeat
Bring them back
and keep them there until votes are taken by simple majority on the Trump
agenda up or down
Then and
only then do these elitists be allowed to leave on these excessive vacations from
this Swamp town
© August
5, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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