Which member of Congress said this? Which truth-teller had the stones to utter these words?:
"I think the major cause is that deep down in our hearts we believe that we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy.""We have defrauded the country to get ourselves elected."
Which colleague of that member of Congress said the following:
"In what I regret to call a conspiracy of silence among all of the presidential candidates and most members of Congress, few of us are willing to talk about the real problem. Why/ Because of the fear that, if you address the issues honestly, you will lose votes and possibly the elections."
It was, respectively, Sen. Jack Danforth (R-Mo.) and Sen. Warren Rudman (R-NH), back in 1992. Both chose to leave the Senate in frustration after their terms expired.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.The day of reckoning upon us now has been a long time coming.
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"Dear God, are you listening?"
Be careful what you pray for, Reaganite. Two very well known Christians (Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy) who prayed for God to change the Supreme Court into their image of justice found themselves in the presence of the Lord shortly after making such statements. God also removed William Rehnquist, a reliable conservative vote, from the Court not long after Falwell and Kennedy made their requests of God.
On second thought...go ahead and pray away, Reaganite.
I vividly remember an interview with Sen. Rudman in which he described the circumstances that lead to his leaving the Senate. He held private discussions with many members of the Senate. In each one, he pleaded with them to do the right thing, to reign in spending, balance the budget and eliminate the debt. He asked them, “What is the worse thing that can happen to you by doing what you know to be right? You lose your re-election, you return home, set-up a comfortable private law practice and spend time with your family.” The vast majority of the senators had the identical response. “Yeah, but in the Senate, I am one of the 100 most powerful men in the world.” That was it. He knew it was a lost cause.
“Yeah, but in the Senate, I am one of the 100 most powerful men in the world.”
The irony is that by abdicating their responsibility to do the right thing as they saw it, they wasted their power. What power do you have if you're just a yes-man?
What power do you have if you're just a yes-man?
The power to satisfy one's individual passions. For a Senator, lust for power, influence, and money. It gets easier and easier the more one gives in to the system.
The largely egocentric, selfish, ideological filth spewed on most of these comments explain in a nutshell what is wrong with this country. Everyone is out for himself, me first, and who gives a s*** about anyone else. If there is anything left after the Baby Boomers pillage and rape what is left of this country, I am hopeful that the future generations will learn the lessons of history. Our current generation "incurious" or "incompetent" or "inebriated" at this time.
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