Congressional Leaders, Intimidators of the American People

It seems to be increasing clear that our congress people are little more than intimidaters of the American people, but otherwise they are without power. As in my previous article we see that people generally can be considered cowards or bullies when the only people they go after strongly are the people they can intimidate.

We need only look at the Holder situation. He and the Obama administration has continued to stonewall the congress and they continue to behave as though there’s nothing they can do about it. Oh they continue to say they are going to get to the bottom of it, but they are like toothless, clawless lions. They make a lot of noise, but the Obama administration recognizes that they are largely irrelevant. They are more than happy to be bold and domineering with the American people when it comes to passing more and more regulations that stifle our freedoms, but they seem powerless dealing with any of their equals in Washington and it is clear that the Obama administration recognizes this.

Holder should have been gone a long time ago. 30 years ago if a man had been involved with something like fast and furious as the attorney general he would have simply stepped down rather than continue to embarrass as well as possibly bring down the sitting president, but now they are bold as brass and don’t mind sticking to their guns. We have seen this with various representatives who have been caught in various illicit relationships or showing their private parts on the internet.

We are constantly told that we should not look at their personal lives and that those things should not make any difference and as a result many of these man do all they can to stay in their positions. There are few calls for resignation and even fewer actual resignations till these people are absolutely forced to resign and even then those that force them to do it seem almost as demonized as the one who committed the offense.

When are these people going to actually be called to answer for what they’re doing to the American people? When are we going to start holding our representatives responsible?

We have come to expect so readily that our leaders are slimy liars who will say whatever they need to say just to get elected and then will frequently do something quite different. When will we find men and women that don’t feel that morality and ethics are dirty words? Currently many of the men and women we have as representatives snicker at the such terms and it is well past time that we made them feel ashamed of doing so instead of allowing them to make us ashamed.

A long time ago I worked at a juvenile hall and found that it was common place for both staff and kids to raz you if you had not had sex even though you weren’t married, but I rapidly found they had no response when you told them that you were not ashamed for doing what was right and that it was they who should be ashamed for doing what was truly shameful. You could see the shame on their faces as soon as you said that. We need to have the courage of our convictions and stop backing down when shameful people with shameful actions try to  make us feel ashamed for doing that which is right.

We need to show more guts to stand up for what we believe than our current leaders are willing to do. It is little wonder that we have leaders of such low moral character; after all we tend to pick people to lead us who are much like we are. People do not ever want to be told they're doing the wrong thing or even worse that they're being immoral. It is in large part for this reason that our current society is so busy trying to redefine morality. Rather than change their behavior they simply redefine what morality means and feel that by doing this they are no longer being immoral.

The world is turning upside down and yet we find nothing but spineless people who are unwilling to address the issues and deal with them firmly in the way they really need to. We have spineless people as our representatives because they come out of a society of spineless people. Where will we find people of true character? It seems only obvious that you will only find people of character in a society that shows at least some esteem for those who are people of character.