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Offline rangerrebew

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February 15, 2024
Why does it seem like most members of Congress are either stupid, rapacious, or both?
By Patricia McCarthy

Given the wholesale disaster that has been the Biden presidency, one has to wonder how it all happened.  We have all seen the Democrat party become radicalized, almost purely Marxist, since the Obama administration.  Obama promised to transform the country and he surely did.  He effectively drove race relations backward by seventy years.

It is common knowledge that Obama despised his VP Biden.  Why he was chosen to be his VP in the first place is anybody’s guess.  Biden was a known jerk, a racist (his mentor was KKK member/aficionado Robert Byrd), rather dumb, a plagiarist, and a pathological liar.  For example, for years he told the story that his first wife was killed by a drunk driver.  That was never true; the accident was her fault and the truck driver was not intoxicated.  He enjoyed humiliating Clarence Thomas throughout Thomas’s confirmation hearings when in fact, Biden is not fit to shine Thomas’s shoes.

So the question remains, with a president so obviously an intellectual lightweight to say the least, a man who is now obviously suffering from advancing dementia, how is it that Biden has been able to do so much damage to the nation.  Answer?  The Democrat members of Congress are stupid, greedy, and addicted to power.  It is more important to them to retain that power than to do the right thing; adding insult to injury, most Republicans are as equally self-serving and incompetent.  Those with both brains and the courage of their convictions can be counted on two hands.  The rest do as much harm to the country as the Democrats.

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Does this writer expect all members of congress to live up to the high standards set by Hank Johnson?
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson

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Does this writer expect all members of congress to live up to the high standards set by Hank Johnson?

If they are NOT stupid, they sure come across as stupid.

Look at the border bill.  Why bother if you thought Schumer was going to hose you in the end.  We lost Santos' seat, in part, because of our ineffectiveness.

I honestly think most of us could do a better job than the morons (like Patty Murphy or Menendez) who are in there now.

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Maybe because it's only 98% of them who are making a bad name for the other 2%.
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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