Nothing Will Be Done

By Semperpapa

It is patently obvious that the Democrats in Congress are on the path to self-destruction and that they will not address any of the issues that could further impact their already slim chances of retaining the majority in both Houses after the Nov. 2 Elections.

Beside the refusal to address the Bush tax cuts and their pending expiration in January 2011, the House Ethics Committee is refusing to address the ethics violations of Rep. Charlie Rangel and Rep. Maxine Waters.
All five Republicans on the Committee, Reps. Joe Bonner (R-Ala.), Michael Conaway (R-Tex.), Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) and Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), have addressed a letter to the Committee Chairperson Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) calling for hearings to take place before the Nov. 2 elections, accusing Lofgren to be stalling the proceedings and refusing to establish a specific timeline.

Of course the Democrats are crying politics for the request, stating that they have been attempting to set up specific times but have received no collaboration from the Republicans on the Committee. They state that the bipartisan efforts the Democrats have been putting forward was met by the Republicans running to the first reporter they could find.

I am sure that the forceful request on the part of the Republicans has everything to do with the atmosphere of demise that must be pervading Congress, and especially the Democrats. At the same time, the ethics violation charges leveled by the Committee against Rangel and Waters date back to last July which means that they have had enough time to get to the bottom of the matter.
The stalling on the part of the Democrats is obvious, even if the re-election bids of the two corruptocrats Rangel and Waters is pretty much secured. But the move is clearly aimed at avoiding further inflaming of anti-Democrats sentiments across the Nation, as so many races, which only few months ago seemed locked up, appear today to have become very close (case in point is Barney Frank in Massachusetts, where things got so uncomfortably close for Barney that the DNC dispatched Bill Clinton to shore up the situation).

Similarly, it is also obvious that the move of the Republicans is aimed at exactly the goal the Democrats fear so much: showing even further the level of power corruption that these individuals have reached.

Ultimately, the politics of a very pivotal election cycle are in full swing these days, in its unaltered ugliness. The result is that nothing will be done in the Nation’s Congress until after the elections.
Unfortunately, if my prognostication of a massive advance of Republicans materializes in November, there will be two months of pure hell in Washington, as the outgoing liberals will do whatever necessary, during the lame duck session, to pass as much garbage legislation as possible, sort of a going out with a bang approach that will leave the American people holding the bag as usual.

But I will take that chance.

Just my thoughts!