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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

Rob Kall and John Conyers....

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9141

Excerpt:

I know it is painful to realize that this is not a democracy and that Congress is just a bureaucracy, but unless we face reality we are not going to be able to deal with it. When Conyers tried to deliver our signatures to the White House, he demonstrated to us as clearly as possible that the White House doesn't see Congress as even being fit to shine its shoes. It took a great deal of courage to let oneself be humiliated on prime time TV, but Conyers did what he had to do to show us what the problem is. And, for some strange reason, a lot of people just didn't get it. Conyers is not the problem. Congress is not the problem. WE are the problem because we keep asking them to do that which they cannot do.

If your family wasn't rich when you were a kid, there may have been a time when you asked your parents to buy you something that they couldn't afford. When they refused, you may have thought that you had bad parents or that they didn't love you. But when you grew up, you realized that they simply didn't have the power to get you everything that you wanted. And if you are a competent adult, you may have long since gotten a job, earned some money, and bought whatever it was you wanted for yourself or for your own kids. That's how it works and it is high time that we politically come of age.

(This is another of my little diaries on opednews, so, as usual, I'd appreciate it if you have time to rate it or leave a comment. --Mark)