Who Does Congress Work For?

The United States Capitol Building is the location where YOUR elected representatives and senators meet to legislate and represent you, the average citizen. The very name of the House of REPRESENTATIVES speaks to the purpose for which its 435 members have been elected by the citizens of this great country. The same goes for the 100 members of the U.S. Senate. These men and women were also elected to represent YOUR wishes, YOUR opinions and YOUR best interests.

Oh, hold on a minute! I am not so sure that this is true anymore. Let's look at a few examples across the country to see just how much these men and women of the U.S. Congress are really interested in hearing from you.

Item 1--Recently, a very large crowd of voters represented by Senator Diane Feinstein arrived at one of her offices in California to express their disapproval of the proposed Obama Healthcare Plan. Not only did Senator Feinstein refuse to speak to her "constituents", she called the local police to have them all removed!! Smooth move, Senator. This, by the way, is the same senator who, in the 1990's, set up a constituent call-in line to poll her constituents on an upcoming budget vote. It was later revealed that 87% of the calls urged a negative vote from Senator Feinstein, but she voted the Democratic Party line and voted FOR the measure, citing "NO CLEAR CONSENSUS AMONG HER CONSTITUENTS"! I suppose she is right, though, because if you use California Math, 87 people out of every 100 probably is not that clear of a consensus!

Item 2--Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett of Texas held a town hall meeting to discuss the Obama Healthcare Plan. Members of the crowd, which was estimated to be several thousand, brought specific items from the plan to present to Mr. Doggett. He was unfamiliar with some of the issues and stated that other issues were not meant the way they were written. The crowd was very unified in their opposition to this bill, but Congressman Doggett stated that, although he heard what they were saying, he was going to vote FOR the bill in spite of the opposition of the very people who voted him into office. ON A HAPPIER NOTE, HOWEVER, REMEMBER THAT THESE SAME PEOPLE WILL BE AROUND TO VOTE REP. DOGGETT OUT OF OFFICE IN JUST ABOUT 15 MONTHS!!

Item 3--A Congressman, whose name I cannot recall at this time, after hearing the general opposition of his constituents to the healthcare bill, stated that he will not hold anymore town hall meetings to talk to his constituents because he would vote as he saw fit and did not want to hear from those not in agreement with his position. Hopfully, this man's constituents will let this POMPOUS, SELF-IMPORTANT SON OF A BITCH hear them loud and clear on the next election day.

I speak now for no one but myself. I am damned tired of our elected officials acting like they are the elite, above-the-law, God-appointed RULERS of our country. When did this happen? When did the term "government service" mean that an elected official had hit the lottery and become imperious all by virtue of the vote?

READ THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION!!

Right now, it starts with President Barack Obama...or is it Czar Obama, or maybe GOD ALMIGHTY!! Tell me, your royal Highness, where in the Constitution, that you swore to "protect and defend", does it give you the rights to re-write bankruptcy laws, to decide who receives how much in a bankruptcy proceeding? Where does it give YOU the right to fire the CEO of a privately owned company? Where did you get the power to appoint (currently) 32 CZARS to oversee everything from health care to banking and business to the Great Lakes? If these appointments are all legal and above board, why are these appointments all made without and oversight from Congress?

In fact, what do we even need Congress for, now that you are appointing all these people to work in the background, answering to NO ONE BUT YOU, THE PRESIDENT? In point of fact, why don't you just dismiss your cabinet members, who have been supplanted by the Czars, and save the taxpayers all those salaries that are paid to the Secretaries and Sub-Secretaries and Assistant Sub-Secretaries?

We, the People of the United States, need to take back our country, our government, and our rights as American Citizens! Those bastards in the U.S. Government will take every freedom we are willing to give them and, once they are properly entrenched, good luck digging them out and getting rid of them.

THE TIME TO START IS NOW!! CALL YOUR REPRENTATIVES IN CONGRESS AND LET THEM KNOW THAT THEIR DAYS OF IGNORING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY ARE COMING TO A CLOSE. ATTEND PUBLIC PROTESTS AND MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD SO LOUDLY THAT THEY CAN NO LONGER IGNORE THE DIN!!

MAY GOD GIVE US THE STRENGTH TO START THIS BATTLE TODAY AND KEEP ON FIGHTING UNTIL WE HAVE RECOVERED OUR BELOVED COUNTRY!!