Watching Congress Is Like Watching Paint Dry

Five hundred and thirty-five men and women (though some may be from other planets) represent us in congress. With few exceptions, very few, they are dull. I’m not sure their reflections show up in mirrors.

What do they do to serve us? Pretty much nothing, well, they did get to kick the can down the road so planes could fly, but that seemed a bit of self-interest rather than public interest. If they don’t do anything why can’t they entertain us? The President is pretty entertaining, but think of a joke a member of congress has told; unless you just consider them a joke.

The least they could do as other governing bodies in other countries do, is get into a fistfight every now and then as the Venezuelan and the British have from time to time. How about be real donnybrook between Chuck Grassley and Michelle Bachmann. 

 

Perhaps there could be a good bout between the good, the bad, and the ugly but I’m not sure who would play the parts.

South Koren

Taiwan

Venezula

Where good ol shoe thumping Khrushchev when you need him.

Jesse Ventura showed you could run a state as an pro wrestler, why don’t we just draft the World Wide Wrestling League to occupy congress.

Woody Allen said, “90 percent of life is just showing up.” We probably don’t have fights because our congressional leaders just don’t show up. The house averaged 135 day in session each year and the senate 160 and it is getting worse. They can’t the spend 25% to 50% of their time fundraising. But we don’t want work them too hard as they only get 3.4 times the average salary of their constituents; that puts them in the top 5%, they just get elected by the top 1%.

And I vowed to stay positive today. Messed up again.