For the last six years we have had the biggest do-nothing Congress of all time. This has been agreed upon by most political analysts. I find it hard to believe that the American people would choose to have a bigger do-nothing Congress.

President Barack Obama is going to have a rough road his last two years in office. I would guess he is going to have to go over their head and use his executive privilege and go over their head and do what is right for the American people. It will no doubt make the Republicans upset again, and they will do every trick in the book to persuade the American people that Obama needs to be impeached.

What do you think the Congress has to gain by doing everything they can think of to hurt the Obama administration? I will give you my opinion of what’s on their minds. They remember when Bill Clinton was president, and he had a Republican Congress. He inherited the largest deficit this country it had ever had. He used his tact and charisma to get that Republican Congress to do his bidding. His programs worked.

After eight years in office he turned this country over to George W. Bush, and it was in the black. There was no deficit and the American people had the best eight years that they had experienced in a long time. Everyone did well. I don’t know what those years should be called. The terminology of the Gay ’90s has already been used.

So anyway the Republicans saw how Slick Willy out-foxed them, and they weren’t going to let Obama do the same to them. Thus you have a do-nothing Congress. If someone else has a better explanation as to why we had a do-nothing Congress I would like to hear it.

It is hard to imagine how much better this country would be in if we would have had a Congress that would have worked with Obama. No other president in recent times has tried to do as much for the American people and the less fortunate than President Obama. His legacy will show that. This Republican Congress is going to try and get some bills through now that will give the filthy rich more tax breaks and welfare. I don’t know how we can stop them now. I don’t think Harry Reid and the Democrats will be able to stop them.

The only bills the Republicans are for is if the filthy rich benefit from it in some way. We have to figure out a way to redistribute the wealth from the filthy rich to the middle class to get this country back on track. The only solution I can think of is to kick out every Republican we can in the next election.

 

Wayne Thorson

Albert Lea