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BOOK REVIEW: Confessions of Congressman X

The building has a way of wooing even the most cynical person as it represents our government. Second only to the White House, it emulates our sense of the Constitution, puts us closer to our founding fathers... and now, unfortunately, corruption!

Congressman X is a fast read, but the pages are packed with the disdain most representatives feel about we the people. Starting with adjectives as 'Sheeple,' 'Lazy,' and uninformed, it comes clear as glass exactly what the congressman (a senior Democrat) thinks about us. And in many respects, his thoughts are justified. Most people do vote on their party line rather than looking at candidates for proven track records and integrity.

Perfect example is to look to our current election...Look at everyone rallying around Hillary Clinton - a person who is clearly unfit for the White House due to her criminality and blatant dishonesty about Benghazi, her emails and everything else in between. She's psychopathic yet, many support and believe the mythological called the Right Wing Conspiracy. We all know it's pure garbage yet, some of us don't want to believe she could every be so bad, they wouldn't want her moving next door much less leading the country.

He comes right out and admits, he'll do anything or say anything to do his number one job, keep his position on the Hill. Cash is also king in DC. There's no splitting words about it. Therefore, when Donald Trump says he's not pandering to the Special Interest groups, he's in a very rare sliver of a minority. Everyone on the Hill passes legislature with a wink, smile and handshake loaded with pay to play money. Refreshingly, he doesn't parse words - he lays it on the line and tells it like it is.

Much of congressman's confessions are nothing that most haven't suspected. In fact, I'd be very suspicious if he said the Congress was all merry men and women, looking to fulfill some Mr. Smith legacy.

It's a good read and short, so you can get through it in an hour. Worth reading, because while it's a hard pill to swallow, much of what he says is true. It's up to us to stop voting for people based on the D and the R -- those who don't hold any values and quick looking for the next quick fix. Those quick fixes only yield  nonsense, waste, abuse and most fail from oversight. Didn't your parents every tell you there's no such thing as a good short-cut?

The instant gratification voters along with big special interest donors dictating law are the reasons our Republic has suffered many blows. This book provides us with a cautionary tale; its time for voters to start looking and thinking outside-the-box and quit yammering about nonsensical things that are minutia in regards to the big picture items.

Give it a read, you won't be disappointed - well, you will be disappointed but only in yourself...

--TC

Note: A special thank you to the reader whom recommended this read. It did not disappoint. 

1968?

Richard Nixon & Lyndon Johnson

By Thornton Crowe

Never was there a year so pivotal in our history...that is, until now.

Millennials weren't around in that fateful year but many baby boomers  remember 1968 well. Some of us were little kids but the year was so devastating in our history, it was even felt on a child's level. Many young ones, having no idea about '68, don't grasp when political pundits brings it up, how America was torn apart at the seams.

Chicago Rioters

Hippies of love provided a stark contrast because while love may have been abundant in the Haight-Ashbury culture, social unrest was everywhere else. Vietnam had become wildly unpopular. Two assassinations of prominent Political and Civil Rights heroes had come the Spring before the Democratic National Convention, which was fraught with violence in Chicago's streets. In short, the country was in turmoil - in every way possible.

Martin Luther King, Jr. & Robert Kennedy

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in April caused major disturbances throughout the black community everywhere. In Salisbury, the area where most of the black families lived, was ablaze for a couple days as they burned their homes down, which took many years to rebuild. Two months late, in June, Bobby Kennedy, running for the Democrat nomination was gunned down in Los Angeles at the infamous Ambassador Hotel. Ironically, it was Bobby who preached to the black community not to riot upon news of King's death. Both assassinations hit at the heart of America's youth and minorities as both King and Kennedy were their voice against the status quo.

Vietnam

President Lyndon Johnson, by this point, was unpopular with young men because every week, more and more were sent to Vietnam to fight a war many couldn't understand why we were involved. As the first televised war, every night at 6:00pm sharp, Vietnam came into every living room across the country, giving us horror images that have remained ingrained in our minds ever since.

After Johnson decided to not run for re-election, pandemonium reigned the months leading up to the DNC convention. And we all know it worked out; the summer's riots, many believe, have much to do with the outcome.

Presidential Candidates: Donald J. Trump & Hillary Clinton

As we now watch each violent riot unfold on our big flatscreens, we feel the same fears and apprehension felt in that tumultuous year many decades ago. With the brazen lawlessness, a sense of urgency as America spirals out of control with special interest groups taking us hostage with their chants while shutting down free speech - at least, speech they don't agree with - forcing themselves on us.

Is it the candidates' fault? Not really. This kettle started simmering when Obama began dividing people into categories; pitting one against the other. It also comes from local governments issuing stand down orders to its police force, thus, letting physical assaults and property destruction run rampant without consequence.

San Jose Rioters

America is, yet once again, at another fateful crossroads where we must decide whether to restore prosperity to all people rather than a chosen few or continue to spiral down into a country devoid of its sovereignty and the eradication of its 200+ year old Constitution, once and for all.

Is this the last election we'll ever have as a republic...or has the Silent Majority re-awoken?

How say you?

Have John & Ted Outstayed their Welcome?

By Thornton Crowe

I don't know about you, but I am getting wary as this primary continues on and one, seemingly without end.

This morning, in one of my rare moments of watching Fox News these days, an interview with Peter Johnson, Jr., Legal Analyst for FNC, caught my eye. What he had to say made perfect sense, so I thought I would share it with you all.


The problem is that both Cruz and Kasich are mathematically eliminated. For example, Trump has over 10 Million Votes. Cruz has just a tad over 6 Million votes and Kasich has under 3. With a 4 Million vote lead, Trump has already gained an advantage with his 78% to the 1237. If Cruz and Kasich combined, they still would not meet Trump's 956 delegates. There are not enough states left for either of them to gain enough delegates.  Putting their own egos ahead of the country not only demonstrates their illogical persistence but also proves the reality that neither would make good presidents.

So why do they stay? Here's the link located on Fox News.

Super Tueday April 26th Election Results for the Presidential Primary

 

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