by Stephen Fournier, Opednews.com
Conyers, and the others don’t have impeachment on the table is that it would spoil their summer. Member of Congress is a job, just like yours, and it comes with a month off in the summer (unlike yours). For most of these people, it’s the only job they’ve ever done well: shaking hands, smiling, hugging celebrities, congratulating winners, excoriating losers, raising money from people who want something, finding ways to enrich friends and relatives, and generally being exalted among men. Are we going to begrudge them a little well-deserved leisure?
Thus do our leaders prove yet again that they are not the best of us, but the worst. They recognize no duty and are devoid of honor. Spoil their summer? Let’s be sure to spoil their summer wherever they go. We’ve stopped counting dead and maimed GI’s, but you can be sure that many thousand summers will be spoiled because of the war our thuggish leaders wage as a political diversion. Let’s follow them around with flag-draped coffins, bad news to us but good news to them, for whose political aggrandizement the dead sacrifice themselves. Let’s remind them of their venality.
Instead of spending a hundred bucks I don’t have to join a couple of hundred protesters in Washington, I’d like to find a way to spoil my representatives’ summer. I’d like to spoil the summers of most of the presidential candidates, maybe dogging them with soldiers’ caskets and big photos of dead Iraqi kids. Congressman John Larson and Senators Lieberman and Dodd, who claim to represent me, are going to be somewhere this summer, and if it’s nearby where I am, I hope I can spoil a day or an hour for them, and I hope you’ll do the same for your local hack.