Reflections From a Murky Pond

Domestic maintenance, in the form of house cleaning, is a necessity. If one’s house is not kept clean it will attract a plethora of vermin which will, in turn, bring myriad diseases to plague one’s self and one’s family and rob from them their health and happiness.

As this is true for one’s house so it is true for the People’s house, the US House of Representatives. It must be swept clean and sanitized, and any disease-bearing vermin within it must be expunged in order for America to regain its health and vigor.

It would be both wise and prudent for Americans to remember that the 2012 Elections encompass more than just a presidential election; the entirety of the House is up for reelection as well, with all 435 seats being in play on November 6, 2012.

Securing the White House is certainly important, both functionally and symbolically, but all federal laws start in the US House of Representatives. Completing the “spring cleaning” started with the 2010 mid-term elections is imperative if the renewal of America is to continue and it’s rebirth is to come full term.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down.

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President Obama has, in his ever-nuanced manner, weighed in on “Weinergate.” What would be surprising in anything other than an election year is that Obama didn’t come out in support of Rep. Anthony Weiner staying in office – though he was careful to mouth the right words about it being a decision that Rep. Weiner and his constituency must be the ones to make.

I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign. Because public service is exactly that, it’s a service to the public. And when you get to the point where, because of various personal distractions, you can’t serve as effectively as you need to at the time when people are worrying about jobs and their mortgages and paying the bills, then you should probably step back.

– President Barack Obama
NBC’s TODAY, Durham, NC, June 13, 2011

An interesting question, and one that Obama might actually be asking himself, is what should a politician do when he’s the distraction preventing effective service at the time when people are worrying about jobs and their mortgages and paying the bills?

Others in high office have asked themselves that hard question and answered it by placing their constituency before their self-interest. One wonders if Obama will do the same.

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More than a few people are confused as to why Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY 9) would risk throwing away his career by “sexting” with a bunch of young women and girls. This understandable confusion can, however, be quite easily laid to rest…

Heh, Henh, Henh, Henh. He Texted His Weiner

Weiner’s pathetic and buttheaded behavior was and is nothing more than a simple case of form following dysfunction.

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