By Michael Reagan
Thursday, October 10, 2013
“Waaaaa! You’re not playing fair!”
“Waaaaa! You’re going to bankrupt America!”
“Waaaaa! You guys started it!”
The crybabies in Washington are at it again.
Arguing, name-calling and throwing heated rhetoric around
like “extortion” and “blow the whole thing up,” our so-called leaders are
acting like out-of-control little kids in a sandbox.
They haven’t begun hitting each other over the head with
chairs or waving weapons around on the Senate floor, but give them time.
It’s government by tantrum again. It’s government by
threat and scare tactic and selective shutdown of federal programs.
It’s government by and for the people in government,
instead of government by and for the people who elected them.
It’s the petty, partisan kind of government we’ve been
getting for too long and the kind we can’t afford and don’t deserve.
And it’s time for the bums in Congress and the president
to quit trying to score political points over the debt ceiling, and start
acting like responsible adults.
The House and the Senate need to get their legislative
acts together.
They need to pass the 13 appropriations bills like
they’re supposed to, negotiate their differences in conference committees and
then do the job they were elected to do -- pass the darn legislation.
We all know Washington is not going to let the U.S.
government default on Oct. 17, so let’s cut with the fear mongering and
rhetoric.
All it does is make the markets fearful. It makes
investors fearful. It makes retired people fearful.
By delaying and dithering and crybabying, our so-called
leaders in Washington have made everyone in America nervous -- and angry.
One reason the D.C. crowd can’t lead is because they’re
so politically spineless. They can’t decide how to vote on anything important
without reading a poll. I bet they don’t pick a tie to wear until they’ve
consulted Gallup.
But leadership is not looking at polls. Leadership is
leading.
My father was a leader. He went through six government
shutdowns under Tip O’Neill. But Ronald Reagan led, and we came through the
1980s with a growing economy that benefitted all Americans.
We need leaders in Washington. We don’t need whiners. We
don’t need fear-mongers.
We don’t need poll-watchers and wimps who can’t make a
principled vote on issues of national importance like the debt ceiling, the
budget or Obamacare.
If no one has the courage to stand up and lead in
Washington, maybe we should default.
Maybe we need to show the rest of the world that America
has finally hit bottom.
Maybe we should admit that we’ve finally become Europe or
Greece. That we’ve finally become the United States of California.
All because we lack leadership.
As far as I can tell, most of the people in the United
States are completely fed up with all the B.S. in D.C.
I think they’d agree with me that starting today the
message from all of us to our federal politicians should be, “Get the job done
or resign -- all of you.”
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