EXCUSE ME!!

I am listening to the TV drone on as I go through my email this morning, and my ears suddenly pick up a tidbit of information that innocently floats by:  There are only 31 legislative days left for Congress to be in session before Labor Day…….wait a minute!  It is June 6 and there are only 31 working days left for our overburdened legislators?  There are 90 days on the calendar until Labor Day!

OMIGOSH!  Do they get the entire month of August off because they are so exhausted from all that legislating??

Am I to understand that these arrogant malingering sluggards who represent us, each of whom has a base salary of $174,000 + benefits, are only good for another 31 days in the next 90 to do the people’s work?  This is outrageous!  Look at the published legislative calendars from the Congress:

I’m sorry, I work AT LEAST 256 days a year and I make nowhere near $200K a year.  These deadbeats who can’t define the word ‘compromise’ in their dictionary, and who reportedly spend at least 50% of their time looking for money for re-election, are operating at a level that would get most of them fired if they were working ‘for a living’.

And all I hear on TV are Republican legislators bemoaning the fact that their ‘agenda’ is not getting realized.  Never mind that they hold the keys to power in all three branches of government!  Somehow those pesky Democrats are holding everything up:  won’t confirm appointments to 550 plus jobs that require Senate approval even though over 500 have yet to be nominated.  How about the fact that all the recently fired US Attorneys have not been replaced by even one appointment by the administration.  Let me see…..do you think that slows down the nations judicial system at all?? 

Oh yeah, where is the newly appointed FBI Director---- tucked away in some dark recess of the President’s mind, I guess.  And what about all that legislative action promised on health care, infrastructure, tax reform, fabulously negotiated trade deals, etc.  If the GOP can’t make any of this happen with all three branches under their control, why should we believe they can govern anything?  Why should they be there at all?

After whining for 8 years about all the horrible things the past administration did to the American people and obstructing nearly every initiative attempted by the Democrats to fix anything, now we are supposed to believe that it is impossible for them to breach some sort of Democratic Maginot Line against any agenda they present.  Puh-leese!