Soap Box

There are a lot of things about politics and politicians that make me want to drop a brick on somebody's toe, scratch that, make it a cinderblock, and I am very bipartisan in these less than noble feelings.

There is a situation going on in Washington right now that perfectly exhibits the nature of my anger and if I hear one more Democrat, pay attention Chuck Schumer, say that Republicans don't want poor people to have health care or some other bit of other worldly hyperbolic crap, I'm apt to throw said brick or cinderblock at a television screen.

In the first place, and I speak as one whose overall opinion of both political parties is a couple of cuts below my opinion of carpenter bees, even I, would never accuse any congressperson of not wanting poor people to have health coverage.

But I do want to flip this coin over and, hyperbole totally excluded, I'm beginning to think that Mr. Schumer and his ilk had rather that the whole nation go without health care if the plan is created and instigated by the opposition party.

In case you haven't noticed, Obamacare is disintegrating right before our eyes and if something stable and sane is not put into place soon the whole program is going to do what it was designed to do and totally implode.

In the first place, Mr. Schumer, if your party hadn't put this monstrosity together and threatened, courted and bribed members of Congress to pass it we wouldn't have this two ton albatross around our collective necks to begin with.

I know, I know Sir, Hillary was supposed to be president and I'm sure that the one payer system she would have introduced to save the day when Obamacare finally went belly up is in a locked desk drawer somewhere on Capitol Hill gathering dust, and I know it must be hard to swallow but it ain't gonna happen, at least for the next four years.

So why don't you and your disgruntled colleagues do what the rest of the people in this nation have to do and learn to work together. If you're a truck driver and don't like the guy who runs the fork lift that loads your trailer, you can't refuse to haul the load, you can�t stick your petulant thumb in your mouth, take your ball and go home.

The rest of us working stiffs don�t have that privilege, Mr.Schumer, we have to hook up the trailer and take it to the destination, and Sir, you shouldn't have it either.

Refusing to try to help win the game just because somebody else made the touchdowns is the attitude of a spoiled junior high, jock wannabe.

How �bout you folks on both sides of the aisle cowboy up and start moving in the same direction for a while, instead of putting your accursed party first, remember who sent you to office.

This is not the United States of the Democratic or Republican Party, and We The People still hold the reins to this buggy and, unfortunately, right now we're just about as divided as you folks are and the shame of the situation is that you people are supposed to be leaders, setting an example, encouraging us to come together as one people, and to your shame you do the very opposite.

And for what?

So you can spend a few more years on Capitol Hill?

Time to go home, you're ruining the neighborhood. 

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem 

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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