Lumps in Your Vote-meal

Lumps in Your Vote-meal

            Grover Norquist may be a dangerous man.  More than a few of the people who claim to represent you in Congress have signed his “no tax” pledge because they feared their political careers would wind up in the garbage if they didn’t.  Let’s call them LUMPs for Legislators Undermined by Money & Power.  They seem to think Grover is the Garbage Can Monster.  But he is not the bad guy.  The real Garbage Can Monster is political cowardice. 

            Here’s my question.  If your LUMPs are willing to sell you out for a chance to remain your LUMPs, what else are those LUMPs stealing from you?

            The answer is complex.  But the first thing lost is your LUMP’s ability to consider all options when addressing our nation’s and our districts’ problems.  For example, our LUMPs could not even manage to pass a farm bill.  Their work can’t even match Harry Truman’s “Do Nothing” Congress.  Sixty some bills at $3 million or so per bill.  They have earned the nickname, “Do Damage Congress”. 

The “Do Damage Congress” embarrassed our country internationally, damaged our credit rating, and cost us thousands of jobs fighting over the last “debt ceiling” controversy.  All this is impacted by that cowardly Garbage Can Monster pledge, and no humorist can miss all the congressional finger-pointing toward the Executive Branch.  They are screwing with our lives and think we are stupid enough to blame the President.

            Around here, we think it would be fun if each of you would drop a note to your LUMPs and ask them to wad up that “Garbage Can Monster Pledge” and toss it in the trash.