This brief rant from Democratic Party loyalist Bill Press is too good not to share.
So, I’ll do so today, and will let Press speak for himself.
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Don’t you wish you were a member of Congress? We pay them $175,000 a year to work for us. And what do we get for it?
Well, consider this. Yesterday, John Boehner announced that the House would recess this afternoon, two days early, for its August recess – and they won’t be back in town until after Labor Day. But, of course, they’ll still get paid.
And what about that Highway bill? Oh, no. That’ll have to wait until September.
What about that Iran nuclear deal? Sorry, no time now. They’ll get around to that sometime after Labor Day.
Well, what about climate change, immigration reform, minimum wage, criminal justice reform, gun safety, or all those other pressing issues we’ve been waiting for them to do something about?
Sorry, no time for them now, either. According to Boehner, members of Congress have more important things to do. Like going to the beach. Or going on taxpayer-subsidized Codels.
Yes, don’t you wish you were a member of Congress? We pay them $175,000 a year to work for us. And what do we get for it? Nothing.
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I will add only this: Democrats did the same thing when they ran the place, too.