Unmitigated gall of a lawmaker
Sorry, America! We are just too profitably engaged in
servicing private interests to burden ourselves with your constitutionally-promised
common defense and general welfare.
McClatchy News and sources caught up with a U.S. Senator pontificating
nonchalantly on a domestic tragedy.
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chool shootings —
“I don’t think at the federal level
there’s much that we can do other than appropriate funds,” U.S. Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell is quoted telling a group of Danville, Kentucky, community
leaders.
The honorable Senator expands in the manner of aw-shucks,
guys, I just work here! And barely that!
“It’s a darn shame that’s where we are,” his honor is
quoted, “but this epidemic is something that’s got all of our attention … (and)
the attention of every school superintendent in the country.”
Really?!
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ith all the intelligence capabilities and alphabet agencies,
fancy high tech surveillance equipment, and access to a cast of thousands of
experts turned consultants plus all those aides and other lackeys at their beck
and call, it is hard to believe that a member of the federal government only
recently discovered America has a problem or that it takes another mass killing
(besides all the daily domestic homicides) somewhere—in a school, a newspaper,
a church, a cinema, a child’s birthday party—to finally get the “attention” of
a public servant or school executive.
It is hard to believe that public officials in Washington or
in any state house or municipality don’t know that they, themselves, as well as
ordinary Americans, have had, for a long time, a human relationship problem, a character
and human sensibility problem. Washington cannot or does not relate to the
world without killing thousands of people.
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hy would a person in a schoolyard act any differently when
he or she doesn’t get her way or what he or she wants? Washington partnering
with CNN splattering blood 24/7 all over wide screens in public and private
arenas is a great teacher and modeler of violence—everywhere, anywhere, against
anyone, anytime, and with impunity.
Aw-shucks, y’all, I just don’t know what to do—from an elected official who has been hanging out in Washington for generations—is unacceptable! Yet Kentucky voters have been entrenching him on Capitol Hill for thirty-four years!
Kentuckians first
elected Addison Mitchell (Mitch) McConnell in 1984 and returned him through 2014
with a term ending in 2021.
In the
1960s, before entering the Senate, McConnell was a legislative assistant to
Senator Marlow Cook (1968-1970); and in the 1970s Deputy Assistant United
States Attorney for Legislative Affairs (1974-1975) and Acting Assistant
Attorney General (1975).
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entucky and
the nation as a whole can do better, much better. And not to dump on one public
servant, McConnell is just one of a huge concentration of cross-party/both
sides of the aisle entrenched, often corrupt do-nothing know-nothings couched
in easy chairs from Capitol Hill to Pennsylvania Avenue to K Street.
The common
defense and general welfare of America sacrificed to make public servants millionaires.
Sources
McClatchy “McConnell
says there isn't much federal government can do about school shootings” Daniel
Desrochers herald-leader.com July 03, 2018
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article214224494.html
Congressional Biographical Directory http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000355
Insight Beyond Today’s News, CLB
