Soap Box

I have had my run-ins over the years with the Internal Revenue Service, and profess no love at all for the outfit, but I never in my life would have imagined that they would go rogue and pull the illegal stunts that Lois Lerner and company are guilty of.

I come from a day when J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI were national heroes and even though Mr. Hoover's star has been somewhat tarnished over the years, the FBI has, for the most part, maintained a standard of efficiency and honor, but that has all come crashing down over the past year as evidence of collusion, political partiality and high-level corruption have surfaced.

The rot is at the top, in the uppermost echelons of power and blame should not be extended to the rank and file who still do their jobs and have to be ashamed of their superiors who have sullied the good reputation of the agencies.

The debacle in Benghazi, where four Americans died and the president and secretary of state denied that a rescue could be mounted in 13 hours, tipped off the hand of an administration that was completely lost when it came to playing in the real world.

Every president since Harry Truman has known that North Korea was an international loose cannon, that they let their people starve while they used their resources to build their military power, the logical conclusion, that they would one day control weapons of mass destruction, yet they were placated and back-burnered by Democrats and Republicans until now, and due to their totally unpredictable leadership, they are the most dangerous, out of control nuclear menace on the planet.

We have known for the last half century that our southern border was as porous as a cheap sponge, that thousands of illegals, we didn't know who, how many, their intentions, what diseases, drugs or weapons they carried were coming and if they planned on staying.

Yet Democrats and Republicans have basically turned a blind eye to the problems our careless immigration system was causing for the blue-collar and minority workforces, rather favoring their major donors who wanted a pool of cheap non-competitive labor, and in some cases salivating over the number of new votes naturalized citizens could provide.

The fact that Iran is and has been the biggest exporter of terrorism on the planet has been well known for decades, yet both parties have elected to let the situation grow and fester, and in Obama's case to, wittingly or unwittingly, aid them by pulling them back from the brink of national bankruptcy by lifting sanctions and infusing their empty coffers with a planeload of cash.

There are enclaves of crime in some of our inner cities where hard working, tax paying citizens are afraid to walk the streets or send their children to school for fear of becoming another murder statistics.

Yet, the political powers that be refuse to do anything meaningful about it, condemning those citizens to a life of fear and isolation, hoping against hope that the situation will not completely explode on their watch so they can collect their generous benefits and retire to their safe suburban homes.

These and a myriad of other cans have been kicked down the road by local, state and national politicians and now they are rolling up against the implacable wall of reality and have to be dealt with as sound bite hungry politicians rush before the TV cameras with Band-Aid solutions and cosmetic proposals, none of which takes the well-being of the majority of American citizens into consideration.

Passing a federal budget for three weeks is just a weak confession of impotence by a bunch of burnt out old mossbacks that should have gone home years ago.

Even the language has turned from "What's good for the nation" to "What's good for the party"

I get incensed when I hear that "The Democrats don't really want a DACA deal, they want to save the issue to use in the midterms" or "The Republicans are afraid of approving the issue for fear it will hurt their chances in 2020"

Well, you know what? To hell with your midterms and to perdition with your 2020!

WHAT ABOUT WHATS GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY?!!

They need to go, all the power brokers and deal makers, the greedy empty suits who put party above patriotism, the ones who long ago lost sight of why they were elected and corrupt even the starry-eyed young people who come to make changes.

Big government is a failure, it is repetitive, expensive and cannot be managed effectively, it has continuously refused to deal with dangerous issues in a timely fashion and soon those chickens will be coming home to roost, and with the bunch we've got representing us, God help us.

We need action.

We need change.

We need new faces, new ideas, new commitment, new energy, new ethics and a new body of dedicated congressmen and senators, state and local officials, who will bind themselves to actually do what those entities were designed for in the first place.

To faithfully serve the best interests of the people of the United States of America.

Political parties be damned!

You will never drain the swamp without term limits.

What do you think?

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

God Bless America

— Charlie Daniels

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