Regardless of what you thought you were voting for on Nov.
4, the usual suspects are still running the show in Congress.
You know, some things just don’t change much. If more people
would bother to vote, that might change in the future.
In America today, people have more respect for cockroaches,
more or less, than they do for Congress.
Yet, in the U. S. House, with all 435 seats in play, only 18
incumbents were defeated on Nov. 4.
In the Senate, with 36 seats in play, only 4 incumbents were
defeated.
Both parties in the House and Senate re-elected the same
people for leadership positions, these are people who deserve to have their
pictures on the wall in every Post Office: McConnell, Reid, Boehner, Pelosi….
In the House, with women filling almost 20 percent of the elected
seats, the Republicans named 20 men to be the new committee chairs from the
majority party, and boldly retained Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI) as chairwoman of
the Administration Committee, which serves the American people by overseeing
the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Zoo.
In terms of its membership and leadership and damn near
everything else, it’s the same old same old….
We need more people to vote in 2016.
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2014
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