Don’t They Must Have Something More Important To Do? They Do But They Are Going To Wait Till When They Don’t Have Enough Time Left To Do It To Do It. | Eastern NC Now

    Is there an answer to the subject question of this Foolishness...Or Is It? Yes there is an answer. It is a very loud and emphatic... You bet there is! The problem is I seem to be the only person who sees the problem.

    What the heck am I talking about? Again what I am pontificating about involves our Elected Representatives in Congress. I hope I'm not getting into a rut but the Foolishness just continues to flow out of the Halls of Congress. Please, allow me to explain...

    My research tells me that, during the reign of any Congress, our representatives take valuable time to issue hundreds of Congressional Commendations. I tried to research just how many had been promulgated during the most recent session of congress but I could not pin it down. I did hear a Talking Head say it was 700 but I could not verify that number on the Internet. Therefore, I will not say it was 700 because, I may be Foolish, but I try to be accurate about my Foolishness. I'll just say it was a whole bunch. Trust me.

    What I did find out while doing my research was Congress Commended a lot of why-did-they-bother things. Here are three examples...
    •A female Little League baseball player who did well.
    •Any number of people whose major accomplishment in life appears to have been that they lived long enough to become old.
    •Acknowledged the man who established the first bakery on Saipan after American troops successfully defeated Japanese forces in 1944.

    The problem is the cart is before the horse here. If Congress had taken time left over after all important business had been concluded and then enacted some Commendations at the end of a Congressional Session, I would not have been inspired to write this Foolishness.

    Somewhere back in the prior eleven months that any Congress is in session it always finds time to do what seems like a never ending bunch of feel-good Congressional Commendations. It is only at the very end of the session they get around to a whole bunch of the Really Important Stuff.

    This Really Important Stuff is hammered together in a wild, cantankerous, finger pointing, pressure filled, news making, shouting, up against the upcoming break bunch of craziness.

    If you are one who spends time watching the CSPAN Channels and you see a member of our 9% Approval Rating Congress step to the podium and say, "I rise today in recognition of...", use those words as your signal to take a nap, go to the rest room, go get a beer or turn off the TV.

    If you stay in your chair, you are going to waste your time watching one of our members of congress waste his time.

    Would I kid u?
    Smartfella