Prickly City by Scott Stantis for July 03, 2023

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Will Rogers

Congress has to be functional before it can work. Right now, I’m cool if they just took the test of the year off.

The less Congress does, the less they do to US.

hah hah, hey Stanti, instead of being Ted Rall’s toady on y’all’s podcast, how about calling him out for not addressing in any way the Russian insurrection?:

And Will Rogers said: “We cuss Congress, and we joke about ’em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn’t in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.”“Now these fellows in Washington wouldn’t be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?”“The “Ways & Means Committee” is a committee that’s supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.”“Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, they don’t hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.”“The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.”“In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it’s the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.”

ANY concept that includes “work” for them goes out the window there.

Seems like the only thing they work at is trying to get reelected.

you do know to congress work is a four letter word.

Work weak!