{"id":21072,"date":"2010-11-04T13:32:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21072"},"modified":"2010-11-04T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:48:54","slug":"there-is-no-leadership-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21072","title":{"rendered":"There is no leadership in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading the Huffington Post<\/a> this afternoon and stumbled over a post by Norman Lear – you know the guy who created Archie Bunker or something. Well, it seems for all of his success, Lear still hasn’t figured out our political system. His main complaint is that he heard something he didn’t like yesterday morning;<\/p>\n

Wednesday morning the Republican Party held a press conference. John Boehner, Haley Barbour and Mitch McConnell held forth, and if they mentioned “The American People” once, they mentioned them sixteen thousand two hundred and forty four times! They shoved “The American People,” almost literally, into every other sentence. All they did to win in this election was listen to “The American People.” “The American People” affirmed their Republican positions because the Republicans understood “The American People;” and “The American People” understood that they understood “The American People.” And on and on and on and on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then Lear goes on for few more paragraphs about how smart and informed he is – all of his reading that led him to the polling place on Tuesday and how woefully uninformed are “The American People” – because we don’t take the initiative to inform ourselves about issues like he does. Mostly, says Lear, it’s because we’re all unemployed and homeless. he sums up with this;<\/p>\n

With our votes we “send you to the hill.” That’s what we did yesterday. On the hill we sent you to it is you who have the 360 degree view. We, the American people, do not. We call you our leaders and put you in a position to be just that. Why, then, do you seem to wish to follow our lead? We ache to be led, not polled. We are the American people as you repeated this morning again and again. Remember as well, YOU are the Congress. Lead, gentlemen. And you Democrats, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, what Lear doesn’t understand is that Congress isn’t there to lead, they sit in The People’s House and do the bidding of their constituency – that’s why they face re-election every two years, to account for themselves. The Constitution begins “We the People of the United States…do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States” It doesn’t say say “We the Congress” for a reason. It’s our country and Congress serves at our pleasure.<\/p>\n

And that’s what happened Tuesday. Congress decided two years ago that they know better than The American People in regards to health care and the economy. They decided to lead and they faced the consequences. The Congress is supposed to REPRESENT the people and when they don’t..buh-bye. REPRESENT – it’s right there in the name of one of the Houses of Congress. The President is supposed to lead the country, not take polls and represent the people – he executes the laws that the people write through their representatives.<\/p>\n

Maybe Mister Lear should spend less time spouting off on Huffington Post about how smart he is and use that time to take a civics class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading the Huffington Post this afternoon and stumbled over a post by Norman Lear … There is no leadership in Congress<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,89,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}