The 110th Congress

If the 110^th Congress was a private corporation, its common stock would be trading for pennies. Portfolio managers would shun it. The SEC would be investigating its officers and Board of Directors for its deceptive statements, lack of oversight and squandering company assets.

The 110^th Congress has accomplished nothing. It’s all sound and fury. Thus, it’s not surprising that its leadership wants to be judged on the merits of its efforts rather than on the results of its reign.

Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid must be disillusioned creatures. They interpreted their rise to power as manifest destiny. They were so blinded by the mantel of leadership that they smugly expected everyone to rally around their agenda and never question their judgment.

Then they bumped their heads on reality—discovering their ascendancy and exalted opinions of themselves fell a little short of ruling by divine right. In fairness, this self-deception is natural for politicians who espouse the divinity of the state.

Their little world crumbled when confronted by heretics. You know, people that believe in God, low taxes, secured borders, personal initiative and respect for the military. That’s why Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi are constantly seen anguishing in front of the cameras.

Between these emotional outbursts, they have kept busy flogging the same legislation over and over and over. Between these futile attempts to weaken America’s economic engine and undermine its national security, they attend meetings convened to discover wrong doing.

Believing that most Americans shared their vision, they fell on the mercy of the crowd, begging them to stop the unfair practice of score keeping. This tactic would have generated some forgiveness, if they had publicly attributed their dismal legislative record to arrogance and gross incompetence.

But using arrogance and stupidity as an excuse for failure—even in Washington DC—can have damaging political consequences. Besides, no one believes they are stupid.

But they have been woefully negligent. A fine line separates incompetence from negligence—a foggy legal area which shelters malfeasance. And the Democrats have homesteaded this domain for over fifty years. It’s their comfort zone.

They are sitting on a legacy of failed social programs and the nation is drowning in debt.

Yet rather than compromising on sustainable solutions—tied to fiscal sanity—Reid and Pelosi have resorted to blaming their paltry record of achievement on the competition—those nasty moderates and conservatives.

This tactic is akin to the president of a car company excusing its lackluster sales performance because its competitors build better vehicles at a lower cost.

The leftwing doesn’t understand the absurdity of this defense, because they don’t correlate ambition, productivity, profit & loss and investment with success and failure.

They don’t appreciate that the power driving the economy is an independent steed—not a mule behind a plow.