Congress, Obama and his administration are guilty of obstruction of justice in cover-up of torture and other War Crimes.

They are complicit in War Crimes and should be prosecuted.

Greedy SOB’s are everywhere. Their percentage in Congress is most likely a bit higher than anywhere else save Wall Street.

That link above provides Congressional pay rates, which is $174,000 annually. Add on excellent health care and other benefits and many of us would salivate over that kind of money. I never in my 37 years ever came within even shouting distance of money like that, in fact the NYC Human Resources Administration’s Commissioner, with 20,000 employees and multi billion$ in funding, only made $145,000 before I retired from that Agency.

However, neither that Commissioner, nor I had to raise and spend multi million$ at specified time periods to get our jobs. Why do people go through the expense of running and the discomfort of the campaign trail to get these jobs, when a good sales person for a large Corporation can make as much or more? Perhaps there is more than meets the eye beyond ones’ commitment to public service for most of them. The first reason is of course ego and the sense of being in the “in crowd,” but except if one is a raging narcissist (probably only about 30% of Congress), it seems a steep price to pay for the proffered rewards. The truth is of course that they are in it for the money, even if that money’s source is not readily apparent. Most rather than being leaders are some one’s, or some entity’s stooges and are paid well for it in some form or other. There are no doubt some who actually do this out of a sense of purpose, but really we’re talking maybe 15% at most.

Now as far as the foreign trips are concerned the congress in general has become so used to their exalted status that I really believe they would be shocked that anyone questioned their rights on this. Years in office, with the deference it brings you in some circles and the DC party circuit has bestowed upon them a sense of entitlement and destroyed any sense of shame, or guilt.

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/07/iraqs-april-30-4th-of-july-irans-win.html

Paul Krugman had an excellent column on the disaster that is our Congress concerning global warming. It should be obvious to anyone that the climate is strange, the evidence for global warming, overwhelming. Yet we have Congresspeople ready to sink the planet on behalf of their donors.

Likewise, on the financial scene, the majority of both Democratic and Republican members are willing to abandon the poor, working and middle class while again taking steps whose only beneficiaries are their wealthy donors.

I do not expect sainthood from the president or congresspeople. I know most of them are greedy SOBs intent on gaining power and money. I can live with that. Where there is a lot of money, there is always skim. But the wholesale abandonment of any obligation to our planet and other people besides their donor class, is repulsive.

It is my contention that we have come to the point of having a parallel govt. which functions only to serve the elite. This govt. acts without regard to the rule of law. It does not even operate under the terms of science, let alone incorporate concerns of social welfare. These people will take us down. I don’t know what the answers are, but we must PEACEFULLY stop them.

155 countries have lists of the U.S. Nazi Warmongers in the illegal Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Politics should not be a career. Senators should be limited to 2 terms, and Congressmen/women should be limited to 6 terms.

However I doubt that even that change would knock sense into these guys. They might take the view “well I’m only here for X years, so I better get it while the getting’s good.” Truly they must be made to suffer somehow.

They all talk a “GAME” not even a good one at that.

If A president can only serve (2) terms why should’nt they be held to the same standard.