(3/22/09)

TITLE: How to Keep Your Promises and Tell the Truth

If you want to work on how to keep your promises, please don’t take the examples of Barack Obama, Her Highness Nancy Pelosi or His Greatness Harry Reid. Remember the pledges by Reid and Pelosi to have completed legislative pieces (prior to final voting) on the applicable website for at least 48 hours so that we (the people) and their constituents on Capitol Hill could make a final review. Guess what: THEY LIED (NO SURPRISE THERE, WOULDN’T YOU AGREE). The previous Omnibus “spending” package was changed again and again to the point that the special commission was still putting final touches on the House version while they were being forced to vote on the bill in the House. Granted John Boehner complained about this, but let’s ask this question: John, what are you going to do to prevent this from happening again? My answer for John: stick to your principles of fairness and honesty; talk to your constituents across the aisle until they are sick of hearing from you. Then continue talking to them. I’ll wager that you will eventually get some support from representatives that you never expected. In other words, QUIT WHINING WHEN TALKING TO THE PRESS AND START BEING PRODUCTIVE. We, the people who elected these representatives to office, are sick and tired of being lied to. Capitol Hill is being put on notice that if you can’t govern in the name of your constituents who elected you, be prepared to receive pink slips in 2010 and 2012.
Now regarding our President, let me say that I was disappointed that we, the people of the USA, were not able to find a better candidate in this past election. But I started off by giving B.O. a chance and see if he could live up to some of his promises. But, alas, he apparently does not have it in him to do so. Remember the promises to not select lobbyists who previously lobbied in the area of expertise (such as a particular department or two). HE LIED (TWICE); undersecretary to the Defense (lobbied for Raytheon) and Treasury Secretary (do I really have to tell you what he’s done in the recent past). B.O. also promised that all bills submitted to the White House would be available on the White House website for at least 4 days before signing (earlier in his campaign he said 5). HE LIED AGAIN!!! B.O. has signed into law at least 3 very significant bills (that I can account for at this moment) and yet no chance for review by We, the people.
How can we trust “Washington, D.C.” to tell We, the people the truth about their actions. They have forgotten that they work for us, not the other way around. We, the people deserve better representation and leadership. This old “Washington” game, which has been going on long before this year’s antics, has got to stop NOW. It’s up to We, the people to demand fairness, telling the truth and honesty within our government at all times or there is going to be a lot of pink slips in the near future. By the way, how have your state and local governments been doing when comes to practicing these principles and values? That bad, huh!!
But what do I know: I’m just an American.