OH PLEASE! Am I the only one who notices the disconnect and hypocrisy in former Congressman Lee Hamilton’s article, “This Is No Way to Run a Government?” Can he seriously deride the current Congress because it can only pass a budget in the “last minute” while purposely ignoring the fact that the only reason Congress is wasting their time doing this is because the previous Congress, represented by his Party, failed to do the job while they were in office?
According to Mr. Hamilton, “the way Congress used to work, budgets were crafted by a series of committees holding public hearings and debating separate appropriation bills.” I assume he is acknowledging that if this had been done in September 2010….when it was supposed to have been done by the Democrat Congress…these “last minute” measures in April of 2011 would not be necessary. And are we to assume that Mr. Hamilton was never involved in measures of Continuing Resolutions as a Congressman himself? Check the records!
Of course, it’s easier to criticize the Republican majority in Congress for using Continuing Resolutions to reduce the deficit than it is to blame the President of his own Party for producing the debt in the first place…a debt which threatens to make us slaves to our creditors (the Chinese) for generations to come. It sounds to me like someone is “stumping” for next year’s elections for President and Congress in an attempt to get rid of those who would actually expect us to be accountable for our excessive spending and our debts.
Lee talks about a “deal put together behind closed doors by a handful of people” which was “presented to the bulk of Congress for a take-it-or-leave-it vote”. Is he talking about the budget or health care? It is always effective to use the same arguments against your opposition as they used against you to get elected. That way, we might forget who and what got us into this mess in the first place. Oh, and Lee, we are a Republic, not a Democracy. If our Congressmen don’t know the difference, how can we expect our high school students to?
This is the same, tired old rhetoric that is used every time we actually get representatives who try to bring spending back under control. Congress has gotten into the habit of out-of-control spending that must stop. It is time to take the credit card away from Congress and cut it up. We don’t need more taxes….we need less spending. Let’s see, is there any other way I can say this? Stop spending like drunken sailors……no disrespect to drunken sailors. You get the idea.
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