© 2016 Jim Spence - A person would be hard-pressed to locate 100 people in one
location who are more self-centered, ego maniacal, and astonishingly arrogant
than those who refer to themselves as United States Senators. It is virtually
impossible to overstate the gulf between what these 100 people are actually worth
and what they think they are worth.
For seven long years New Mexicans listened to GOP Senators from
other states promise over and over that on “day one,” when Republicans regained
control of the White House, they would repeal Obamacare. Most Americans realize
that Obamacare is a bureaucratic monstrosity that is wrecking both the quality
and pricing of health insurance for millions of Americans. It has been a great
financial atrocity that those Americans who actually set aside money in their
family budget to PAY for their own health insurance are getting screwed daily
because the GOP Senators are no better than Democrat Senators who also refuse
to fix this horrific problem.
Senators have a curious way of making decisions as to what
they will support and oppose. They don’t actually care what works or what
fails. And they will often vote against what they said they would support five
minutes earlier.
GOP Senators are particularly infuriating these days. While
they talk a good game at their fundraisers, ultimately they do not care how
all-encompassing the control by Washington D.C. becomes when it comes to running
the lives of Americans who are more than capable of running their own lives. There
is a fundamental truth here. GOP Senators are cold calculating bastards who
serve themselves first, last, and always.
The system stinks. Senators live lives that are all about unearned
privilege. They don’t pay for much of anything. Instead, practically everything
Senators need is paid for by someone else. So many Senators go to Washington
with very little, only to retire five or six terms later with great gobs of
money. Retired New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman is a prime example. Bingaman
and his wife milked the system like few others ever have.
Last week a really bright man, Jamie Dimon, who is the CEO
at J.P Morgan, admitted it is actually embarrassing to be an American who
travels abroad. He indicated this is true because of all the stupid excrement
(I cleaned up what he actually said) that goes on in Washington. What Dimon was
alluding to is all the really simple things that could be done to solve
problems in America……that never get done. Again, I think you need look no
further than the U.S. Senate for an explanation as to why America cannot do even
the most simple things like tax reform and health care reform.
GOP Senator Mitch McConnell is supposedly the majority
leader of the Senate. He is neither. He cannot lead and he has no majority. How
this guy continues to head up the GOP in the Senate speaks volumes for what the
criteria is to be voted in as a Senate “leader.”
And of course here in New Mexico we contribute mightily to
the dysfunction in Washington D.C. in general and the Senate in particular. In
Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, New Mexico sends two of the most deceptive
and disgraceful politicians to ever occupy public office to a place where 100
of the most disgraceful politicians from other states congregate. Udall and Heinrich do
nothing but fundraising when they are not telling bald-faced lies and pissing away other
people’s money.
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