US Congress Makes al Qaeda Obsolete

Your first reaction to the title of this article may be – “what the heck are you talking about?” Or “are you the same person who, a few days before the 2008 election, wrote that it was time to clean House… and Senate?”
Hear me out. al Qaeda wants to destroy America. Congress IS destroying America. al Qaeda attacked us on September 11, 2001, not expecting to kill us all, but to ruin our financial markets. They dragged us into a hugely expensive war. We have a spiraling debt that is far more the fault of an irresponsible Congress than it is the fault of al Qaeda. And without strong, swift action by Congress, that is where we are headed.
al Qaeda is an extremist organization that considers us their enemy, and they are trying to destroy us with their swords. But it turns out that the old adage “the pen is mightier than the sword” is so true. Congress is destroying us with the bills they write and, at the moment, by the bill that they are failing to write. And what is their motive? What is Congress’s reason for wanting to destroy us? Oh yeah, they are pandering to their own extremists and special interest groups in the hopes that they get elected again to do a job whose purpose they have lost sight of long ago – a job that they don’t deserve to hold in the first place.
The members of Congress seem to have forgotten that they serve not only those individuals who vote for them or contribute to their campaigns. They serve the entire country. They are supposed to be doing what is right for the whole, not just do what some fundamentalist, extremist, ideological wing-nuts want them to do.
Who needs enemies like al Qaeda when we have Congress? I hope the pen shows its power when it’s time to go to the ballot box next time. I maintain more than ever that it’s time to clean House… and Senate.

Tags: al Qaeda, Congress, debt crisis