Tea Party members of Congress and Repubs taking oaths?

My Opinion is worth what you just paid for it! A minute or two of your life. I hope you consider it worthwhile when you finish.

This is a relatively short Hub, as a reaction to what I got out of the speeches by the President and the Speaker of the House last night.

I write out of my sense of rage, and for comments.

I will delete it soon, after my head clears and this issue is a piece of history and not an ongoing staged Circus where the Clowns are in charge.

OK! I Understand!

Politics is a dirty business. But, last night as I watched the President and the Speaker make their lame speeches as they tried to blame everything on each other, one thing was said that really inflamed me.

I think I heard right. The President made a statement that, and this is not a direct quote, so bear with me.

He said that there were over 100 Tea-Partiers and Republicans in the house that had taken an OATH not to accept any new taxes in the present budget negotiations.

An OATH!

An Oath not to do what might be the right thing for the people, in an effort to save our country's economy, but an oath to one single financial directive. In an Economy as complex as ours?

Now, as I have said in the Past, I am not a Democrat nor a Republican. Rather I vote for the person, or issue, that I can accept, in every election. I just have not been able to follow any one groups dictates. It's just me, I guess.

Rather, I end up not liking the total package that any large group of people puts together.

Oh, I always have, and still do, understand that the more people that are involved in a public statement of purpose, the more compromises that are worked into the final document to amke it acceptable.

But, an OATH to stand on one single politically motivated financial statement, and damn all efforts to some level of reasonable overall compromise, is a truly Facist thing to do in politics.

Did no one tell all of these new "representatives of the people" that their job was to represent all of their constituents, and not one single philosophical stand, as they performed their jobs in Congress?

Did no one tell them that they were put there to learn from their peers, and work together towards the best decisions for their nation as a whole?

Did no one tell them that they represent the great "mixing pot" of America ..... all of it?

Sure, they got elected by some level of a majority back home.

But, they were elected for a number reasons. In each one of their cases they were elected to take their political statements of purpose, and use them to represent the whole of their constituency, and not just one group's ideology, much less to enforce one single political campaign slogan.

I really don't care what party you are a member of, when you are so single minded and blind to the overall needs of all of your people, then you have discarded the purpose of your election, and our whole country suffers for your stupidity.

An Oath, to one unbending, item of a political statement, not only scares me, but makes me wonder at what these people think they are there for.

Don't get me wrong. I can sit here and make reasonable arguments; for more money to spend as well as for spending less, for more spending on SS as well as less, for more taxes as well as for less. And on and on.

But, you see, that is not my job. I personally elected people to represent ME, as best they can when they got to Congress. As we all did across this great country of ours.

I never expected to put someone there that would have an ideology that was a mirror of mine. But I did expect them to use intelligence and reason, and work with their peers to make the best decisions that they could, while keeping me in mind.

At this time, I just don't see it happening when people can be so unfocused on their true purpose.

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