GOP Left Us With A Flaming Bag of Dog Poo

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By Carol Morgan

Feeling as if you’ve been pelted by hailstones this week?

Yeah, me too. Deadly pestilence, plagues, wars, violence and wholesale disorder lurks in every corner of the globe. 18th century anyone?

Yet, others are underwhelmed. While a child was dying every other hour in Gaza, people were picking sides, as if Israel and Gaza were sports teams. As Syrian refugee numbers crept into 12 million, the headlines featured Kim Kardashian and her grossly fat and heavily-insured behind. Even the AJ took a dip into journalistic frippery with its story about a bare-chested Kingsberry.

Are people really this empathy-challenged? Or is stupidity and shallowness the new American exceptionalism?

I feel sure that most of the corporate media was snickering in the corner, laughing at how they manipulated us. Certainly, you can find truth and an appropriate degree of gravitas in some media, but it won’t be those websites with a lot of pictures, videos, white space, and advertisements.

Even education is drinking deeply from the river of absurdity. An education blogger was fired for writing a blog about homophones; his supervisor said he was promoting a gay agenda. Principals bragged about teaching entrepreneurial skills to kindergarteners. (what happened to teaching them to read and think first?)

Closer to home in Texas, Rick Perry jumps the gun on an election that will cost Lubbock County over a quarter of a million dollars and he attempts some foreign policy to strengthen his new image for 2016.

A portrait of the complete and total corruption of Greg Abbott finally emerged; a beneficial state ruling purchased by Farmers Insurance and more Koch money that compromises Texan’s health and safety. Come next year, if Ken Paxton is elected Texas might have an attorney general facing disbarment and a felony indictment.

In the past, all of this would have been a bombshell, but now everyone yawns and plays another round of Candy Crush.

We’re like the 2006 cult-film, Idiocracy; where America's favorite TV show is "Ow! My Balls!" and the award winning film is entitled "Ass"; a dystopian state with a disdain for intellectualism and love for commercialism, an unthinking population devoid of curiosity, social responsibility, and a coherent notion of justice or human rights.

Sometimes, I have to watch cat videos to prevent me from setting my hair on fire and jumping naked off the MetroTower, out of total frustration with people’s intellectual density and apathy. It’s a writer ethical duty to sound the alarm, but no one is listening.

The last and final straw, the coup de grâce, was the action taken by our comical Congress. So many problems in America are screaming out for solutions and they decide to sue the President. It’s like an eerie déjà vu of the $24 million dollar shutdown, with the same whale-obsessed lunatic Captain Ahab at the helm, Senator Ted Cruz, a man in love with himself.

How Congress spends their time in Washington shows clearly what they value. And the fact that they fled for their five week vacation immediately after announcing their litigious intentions, is an indication of their unabashed cowardice.

Just like adolescent boys, they left a flaming bag of dog poo on the Capitol steps and ran away giggling; hiding in a dark and obscure place to gauge the nation’s reaction.

Our Congressman Randy Neugebauer will be coming home soon; after he visits his son in Puerto Rico to see how the tax-free family business is doing. You know it’s an election year, when the Congressman offers a deadly overdose of newsletters, a constituent survey full of political omissions, a bunch of Right-Wing radio and television appearances and a tsunami of Bernays-like talking points that don’t mean anything.

Mr. Neugebauer will be holding a town hall meeting on August 12 from 5-6 p.m. at the Southcrest Baptist Church, 3801 S. Loop 289.

The location of this meeting puzzles me. Perhaps, he thinks people will be more inclined to civility in a church setting, or maybe, it’s to discourage dancing.

Whatever the reason, we all should be there. We need to ask Mr. Neugebauer why it’s more important to sue the President than take care of the hornet’s nest of problems facing America and District 19.

93 days remain until the mid-terms (not counting the politically-convenient special election in September) and people MUST take a stand.

The U.S. House and Senate has failed to govern.

The U.S. House and Senate has failed to do its job.

Their failure is not an accident, but a deliberate attempt to cause government to fail. The GOP has a severe case of myopia and this short-sightedness is hurting America.

Regardless of their rhetoric, the GOP does not care. They have a united goal. They will not be deterred.

If we want government to work, voters must AT LEAST elect those who WANT it to work.

District 19 voters took a really dumb detour back in 1979 when George Mahon retired and they elected the Ding-Dong-Daddy from Dimmitt to Congress. And we’ve been taking increasingly irresponsible turns ever since, in wrong-headed attempts to get back on the right road to representation.

The further into the dark wood we go, the harder it will be to get back to the main road. Your carefully considered vote will be the one to return us to sanity and away from the P.T. Barnum circus in which we’re now trapped.

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Carol Morgan is a career/college counselor, writer, speaker, former Democratic candidate for the Texas House and the award-winning author of Of Tapestry, Time and Tears, a historical fiction about the 1947 Partition of India. Read her work at the Houston Press and MetroLeader News Service. Email Carol at [e-mail] , follow her on Twitter and on Facebook or visit her writer’s blog at www.carolmorgan.org

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