"WITTLE BOYS...." It may well be that the Founding Fathers of our nation missed a few fine features concerning the basic ideas about precisely how political leaders should act concerning each other.
To many of our present day official seem to think they are some special, sort of gang leaders blustering their way to the top of every major or minor confrontation and taking a stubborn, oppositional view of any situation which might arise.
I find it particularly objectionable when political persons oppose the sitting President of our nation who also happens to be Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces in matters involving the safety of our nation and, more immediately, the very lives of our men and women now serving overseas.
For a Congressman, even ahead of any request for additional funds by our Commander-in-Chief, to announce his adamant refusal to authorize any such funds regardless of how urgent the need may be. Some citizens might well see this delaying act as being on the very edge of treason. A member of the Senate or of the House should see himself more as being a stalwart, dependable, trustworthy man interested in the well-being of our nation rather than see, always, the preservation of petty political positions and death-dealing potions to end forever any hope of cooperative endeavors.
When a Senator or Congressman speaks , he does so with a certain responsibility which goes with the office they hold. This is no little, old lady standing on a street corner haranguing a motley throng of unconcerned passers-by with her loud denunciations of her supposed wrongdoers. These men and these women who speak out are part of an historic and worthy governmental area which we want to continue to speak of with pride rather than with shame.
This is not a new things. It has happened before in other administrations and no one know if, or how much it may have harmed our nation - if at all. It is, however, a things we can change, if we wish to do so.
To start: Let's expect adult conduct from those Congress persons we elect. This week's dialog has seemed like the babble of little boys over some insignificant non-thing they tried to make important. Far to often, statements made are based on resentment held over from election time, which is as the Old Folk use to say is: "like drinking poison and waiting around for someone else to die."
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 1-10-07 [c428wds]
