Our Elected Hypocrits

What a show today, watching our elected representatives to Congress spit fire and brimstone at Liddy for A.I.G. agreements entered into by Paulson, the previous administration and Congress, before Liddy ever came on board. Liddy is the only one who looked honest and good on the air. It was even more fun than watching the self-righteous "talking heads" who know how to inflame public opinion with little or no knowledge for the sake of increased audience. Congressmen and Senators see their job as bringing the bacon to their constituencies through pork, making certain that statements no one listens to are on record and posturing on the air, whenever possible, in order to score points at home and achieve their main goal: getting re-elected. Where were they when the TARP was passed without string attached and Paulson chose to save his friends at Goldman Sachs by sinking Lehman Brothers? Where were they when Washington catered to Wall Street, deregulating everything and thus bringing back a 1929 scenario? We should form public committees to question all our elected representatives and pass judgement on their performance and, if necessary, with the power to jail them for the ruin they rain upon us regularly. The adage used to be: " A good beginning is one thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean." A really good beginning would be to drown with them most Congressmen and Senators as well as many journalists, particularly television hosts of political shows; not all of them, maybe, but many for sure. Fired up by the press we are approaching mob rule and our elected representatives, instead of leading the nation, are bent on following and satisfying the mob. Let's not generalize and throw the baby out with the bath water. Let's take the time to identify malfeasance and then punish it as deserved and needed.