A Good Memory Is A Good Friend

            You can expect too much from people, but the irony can’t be missed: the Representatives dedicated to saving America money, and their outside agitator, precipitated a government shutdown, right here in the fall of 2013, that cost Americans billions of dollars and over 120,000 jobs.  Whew!  They deserve a reward!  A notice posted everywhere in our country would be nice.  A simple document that says:

WANTED

Every Rep who opposed

A clean C.R.

For Cheating America

In it’s time of need

REWARD

For throwing these

Bums our of office

            On the other hand, that would be crass.  Better we should just quietly remember what was done to us, indeed what has been done to us for years, and resolve to recruit and support sensible adults in the next election.  Not the unassuming, smiling liars; not the self-aggrandizing, bellowing heroes; not the self-appointed saviors of “our way of life,” nor those who demand unearned respect, and not the three-day-work-week-wonders, or the “my-way-or-the-highway” road hogs.

            If your Representative did not vote, BEFORE the shutdown, for a clean continuing resolution to fund the government, he or she is partly responsible for the expensive damage done to all Americans.  For nearly one million furloughed employees.  For reduced economic activity.  For lost jobs that we needed.  For the damage done to democracy.  For failing to carry out the Constitutional duty of the House with alacrity.  And for soiling the effectiveness of representative government.  Around here we think it’s fair to expect voters to remember.