The Forked Tongue of Congress
by Maggie Van Ostrand
I enjoy writing about everyday things and the effect they have on an average family like mine. Usually, there's plenty of humor involved: like the time I thought I was roasting a Thanksgiving turkey and accidentally clicked "Oven Clean;" how a single woman is forced to deal with macho contractors; and how clothes made by Chinese kids can turn our laundry pink. Stuff like that.
Thing is, at the moment, everyday things seem to include a lot of dissatisfaction with congress, people we elected who make laws to live by in America. Seems to me that Washington's doing anything but what they should be doing for us. Seems to me like nothing's going on in Congress except a lot of bickering, blaming, and bloviating.
I sure don't remember another Congress whose philosophy was based on personal gain rather than stuff that's good for the whole country, as this one appears to be based. Don't the people in D.C. remember the meaning of "country"? It means all of us. Everyone. All political persuasions included.
So I hope you nice readers will forgive this one excursion by me, an Independent, into what's on the minds of a lot of you who have emailed your anger over what's going on ... or, rather, what isn't going on, in the Capitol of our nation's capital.
I call it "The Forked Tongue of Congress." You can find me grousing about it here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maggie-van-ostrand/the-forked-tongue-of-cong_b_1000518.html
Next time, I hope to get back to the humor in life and not the hubris in Washington.
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