8 October 2004
Spectator
The Parliament of Whores
The Spectator has long decried the lack of outrage in this country over the way we are being governed but recent developments in Washington strike a new low, even for the Parliament of Whores. What kind of scum are we allowing to represent us in Congress?These pandering, pusillanimous popinjays fell all over themselves to give tax cuts to the wealthiest segment of American society. Then they sent the nation to a "pre-emptive" war. (Try looking that up in an volume of American history. You won't find any precedent for "pre-emptive war.") They sent our troops off without the requisite equipment like body armor and protective covers for vehicles. They even found time to pass their own salary increases.
And now they're heading home, their raises safely enacted, the country sinking deeper in the morass in Iraq, and nary a care. These scumbags now filter back to their districts and slap their ubiquitous "Support Our Troops" magnets on their luxury cars and SUVs. They will make pious pontifications about our brave fighting men and women and the necessity to stay the course in Iraq, much the same as a previous generations said the same thing about the misadventure in Vietnam.
What they won't tell you though is their refusal to do anything even remotely supportive of the casualties from their "pre-emptive" war. Take HR4500 for insistence. This bill didn't warrant a bumper magnet. It won't get mentioned in any election debate. It won't make it into a campaign commercial. It was not significant enough for the gluttons in Congress to enact it before they left to pursue their self-interest. HR4500 would extend the payment of a $51 a day stipend to the family of seriously wounded soldiers recovering in military hospitals across the country. $51 a day is tip money to the brain trust that fancies themselves to be keeping the country safe from tyranny but it can be the difference between a distraught mother being at the bedside of devastated son and that boy languishing alone and scared.
We should expect that our congressmen and women would be inured to the suffering their war has caused. As a body, they have long been insensitive to anything but self-interest and self-indulgence. But what about us? What does our apathy about such outrages say about us as a people? Who are we? What have we become when we allow ourselves to be so shabbily represented?
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