If I Told You Congress Was Wasting Its Time, Would You Believe Me? | Eastern North Carolina Now

    I started pecking out this Foolishness...Or Is It in July 2007. I put it into my "New in Process" folder (that's where I put blog ideas I am working on) and proceeded to forget about it.

    Time marched on but it is as valid today as the day I forgot about it.

    Nothing has changed. Actually, a few Members of Congress have been voted out of office but the sad truth is A Few Is Not Many. To be more precise, A Few Is Not Enough.

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    Here is my blog about what Congress was doing in 2007...

    The Congress is wasting its (our) time. They appear to believe that they can pass an Amendment, a Law, express a Sense of the Congress, hold someone in Contempt of Them and something out in the real world is affected by what they do.

    Today (July 17, 2007) our Senate passed the amendment shown below by a vote of 94 to 3. It appears only 3 Senators saw this amendment the same as the Smartfella saw it... A Colossal Waste of Time.

    Senate Amendment 2100

       Sponsor: Sen Cornyn, John [TX] (R) (submitted 7/11/2007) (proposed 7/12/2007)

    AMENDMENT PURPOSE:

    To express the sense of the Senate that it is in the national security interest of the United States that Iraq not become a failed state and a safe haven for terrorists.

    No matter what they do from now on about Iraq (they could vote to stop giving our military in Iraq bullets to defend themselves) and 94 of them could say to their constituents, "I voted that Iraq not become a failed state and a safe haven for terrorists. The fact that it became a failed state and a safe haven for terrorists is not my fault because I voted against it."

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    Since they seem intent on going about passing useless amendments, they should do something about all the mosquitoes that keep biting the Folks Back Home (that's us). Here is what I propose that they should propose:

    To express the sense of the Senate that it firmly believes it is in the national security interest of the United States that something needs to be done about all the mosquitoes in the Good Ole USofA biting the folks back home. Since we also have lots of flies, the Senate hereby directs our flies to start eating our mosquitoes.


    Did I just hear you say to your collective selves, "That's silly"? Well, the Fella has this to say about that... This Flies Eating Mosquitoes Amendment Makes As Much Sense As Senate Amendment 2100.

    Would I kid u?
    Smartfella
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