Congress Grew a Conscience?

Mark Twain

Well I wrote this great blog yesterday about how Congress skipped out of Dodge and left 70,000 construction workers and 40,000 FAA employees without a dime to pay their salaries for the next month to eight weeks—or until they got their butts back to Washington.

In the meantime, this little oversight would cost the American taxpayers $30 million dollars a day.

Who cares, the senators said.    Just regular business in our capital city.

Except they weren't coming back to September.   That's what the outraged people said.

So yesterday, after they’d left, Congress suddenly and miraculously came to an agreement, and today, most of the workers are back on the job.   How’d they do it so fast?   Did Congress suddenly develop a conscience? 

Puh-leeze.

Mark Twain once said, “There is no distinctly American criminal class, except congress.”

So let’s not confuse human feelings with these garden gnomes we elected into our hallowed halls.  They had to save face ‘cause they simply got caught with their pants down.   Before they left town, all they had to do was sign off on these employees, and they all knew the problem existed.  The date had been looming for months.  Still, they had no second thoughts about escaping town.  Unfortunately, the media reported the story before they stepped out the door for their beach vacations--like they needed to relax and unwind.   And like Andrew Weiner, they got caught with a lot of  "splaining to do."

Will Rogers

I wonder if the members of Congress realized that if they worked for the private sector, they’d be fired in an instant?                                                                                                                                                                        
"There ought to be a day--just one--where there is open season on senators."  Will Rogers

Now that's a bill I'd like to see passed. 

 “Reader, suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress, but I repeat myself.” 

         Mark Twain.

 (Okay, I had these terrific quotes from yesterday’s column that I wanted to fit in today). 

Congress is that pile on the grass left for the pooper scooper.  Both parties intolerable, but look at the bright side.  At least I dug out a sample of American wit. 

Amen.