“I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God I have had this Congress!”
Actor William Daniels, as John
Adams, in 1776 (dir. Peter Hunt; with
William Daniels, Howard da Silva, Ken Howard, et al.;
Columbia Pictures, 1992)
Worst Congress of all time?
Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today I
will try to make the case that this current Congress of the United
States, the representatives of the people of this nation, the
people’s house is perhaps the worst ever. In professional sports it
is currently in vogue to debate the question of who is the GOAT in
that particular sport with the word GOAT an acronym for greatest of
all time. Who is the greatest of all time in the NBA, the NFL, in MLB
so on and so forth.
No one bothers to debate who is the WOAT or the worst of all time
because I suppose it would be in poor taste but it is still of
interest to me. I am going to apply the world of sports to the world
of government and ask, could this congress be the WOAT or worst of
all time? It seems reasonable to think so given what has happened
since the 2016 election and especially what has happened in the last
few weeks. Here are just a few of many examples for the WOAT premise.
Worst Congress example 1: the Equality Act
Last Friday, one week ago, the Democrat controlled House of
Representatives voted 236-173 in favor of the Equality Act. The
Democrats were unanimously in favor of passing the Act and 8
Republicans crossed over and voted with them. The Equality Act is
another one of those government ideas that government chooses to
misname in order to deceive us of its true meaning and intent. The
Equality Act actually means the opposite of what its name implies.
The bill amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make sexual
orientation and gender identity protected characteristics under
federal anti-discrimination law.
Boys on girls’ teams
One of the real effects of the bill would be to force public
schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males
who identify as transgender girls. Every House Democrat but one, Dan
Lipinski of Illinois, co-sponsored the bill and he eventually
succumbed to pressure from leadership and signed on as a co-sponsor.
Many people including many of those involved in women’s sports in
states where this has already been tried, believe that it will
destroy women’s sports if it is enacted into law. This bill is a
good picture of the fact that the congressional Democrats have lost
their hold on reality and descended into the world of fantasy.
At cross purposes with Title IX
Connecticut is already allowing male trans-sexuals to participate
in girls sports at the high school level with predictable results.
Two male runners have dominated girls high school track since then.
Some of the female competitors have described it as “demoralizing.”
Title IX was passed after a long struggle to bring equality to the
amount of money spent in public sports on girls and boys programs. I
certainly had my doubts at the time, but it worked to the benefit of
everyone. The Equality Act, if ultimately enacted into law, will most
likely destroy all that and destroy the credibility of girls’
sports along with it. Why not just abolish the separation of girls
and boys sports and have sports where everyone competes equally for
spots on the team? The reason is that it would not accomplish the
gender blending that is the real purpose of the Equality Act.
The Senate will likely stop this
The good news is that it will have to pass the Senate in order to
become law and that will be very difficult, but still it looks like
the wave of the future for Democrats. The Democrats have to keep the
radicals in their midst happy or I suppose the Legions of the Woke
will arise from their slumber and voice their displeasure at their
leadership.
Worst Congress example 2: childish invective
The second example of why I submit this Congress as the worst ever
is its constant feuding back and forth with the President like
children on social media. Many of the social media exchanges are
based on outright lies and unsubstantiated opinions just like the
kids in our middle and high schools.
From Somalia to Congress
For example Ilhan Omar, Democrat member of congress from
Minnesota, is also an immigrant from Somalia which it would be fair
to say is a failed state. Currently about 1% of the population of
Somalia lives in the United States a great many of whom are in
Minnesota and therefore it is possible to elect a Somali immigrant to
Congress in Minnesota. One might conclude then that she came to the
United States for several reasons and that at least one of those
reasons is perhaps that she likes the United States better than she
liked Somalia, otherwise why leave Somalia.
…or does she like America?
Ms. Omar never has a kind word to say about her chosen country,
not even that she likes it let alone that she is grateful to be here
rather than in one of the most poverty stricken, war torn places on
earth. I wish I could tell her that being grateful is no disgrace; in
fact, it’s a compli9ment and a desirable trait. Most of her
criticism seems to involve what she perceives to be the racism of the
American people which, according to her, seems to have been inherited
from the founding as original sin. I, like the President, don’t
understand this woman and her attitude. Why come here if it is such a
terrible place that should be more like her native Somalia.
The Squad
People grow weary of hearing her rants and criticisms along with
the three other members who have joined her as “women of color”
in Congress. Those would be Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna
Pressley of Massachusetts and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York
better known as AOC. These ladies are all very outspoken in their
criticism and even the Democrat leadership in the house seems unable
to restrain them. Disagreement with them on any issue means an
accusation of racism for the one who dares to disagree.
The Squad: faces of Democrats in Congress?
The interracial cat fighting has for the most part been restricted
to the Democrat Party as House majority leader Nancy Pelosi tries to
lead her party to victory in 2020. Ms. Pelosi has the unenviable job
of convincing those four women that there are more people in this
country than them and that many of those people are growing weary of
them and therefore they are about to make victory in 2020 all but
impossible. Ms. Pelosi would, I assume, love to find some way to
convince the American people, many of whom are potential Democrat
voters, that the four are not typical of Democrats. In other words,
she would like to tip toe away from them as quietly as possible
without anyone noticing.
Donald Trump, being the kind of psychological master manipulator
that he is, refused to let that happen because I assume that he wants
the four ladies to be the faces of all Democrats and the spokes
persons for the Democrat Party in 2020.
The Tweet
He tweeted the following:
So interesting to see Progressive Democrat Congresswomen,
who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete
and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in
the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now
loudly__and viciously telling the people of the United States, the
greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to
be run. Why don’t they go back and fix the totally broken and crime
infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us
how__it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave
fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to
quickly work out free travel arrangements!
Applicability of the tweet
That tweet is not the way I would have said it and Twitter would
not be my choice of communication but it does allow him to speak
directly to the people who can then read his words without the real
possibility of false interpretation by others. Democrats and the
media may falsely report what he said but people can read it for
themselves
The tweet is reasonably accurate in expressing the thoughts of
what I would guess to be the majority of Americans of all political
parties, but the line about “who originally came from” applies
only to Ms. Omar. My understanding is that she is the only one of the
four to have been born in another country and then immigrated to the
United States. By a strange coincidence she is usually the one most
critical of her new country and that does tend to make some people
want to tell her to go back if she doesn’t like it here.
Pelosi rises to the bait
Perhaps Nancy Pelosi should have said something like, well that’s
his opinion and I don’t share it but he’s entitled to it, but she
couldn’t resist the bait he set for her. Congress normally moves
like molasses in January, but within one day she had the Congress
pass a resolution condemning the President’s “racist “tweet. I
did not see his remark as racist and I’ll wager that many other
people who can read didn’t either. She probably thought it would
pacify her four unruly members to pass the resolution, but it won’t
because it never does. A pacifier will never satisfy when there is
whole food remaining to be eaten. When you grovel and appease, it
just sends a message asking for more of the same behavior.
Very thin precedent for Congress so to act
Keep in mind that the Congress has not publicly condemned the
actions of a sitting president since James Buchannan about 160 years
ago so it was reasonably unprecedented. The resolution itself was
mostly a recitation of the way the country was founded and who
founded it and most of that part is true. The second part, which
draws conclusions about how the nation looks at immigration, is
largely untrue, and fails to recognize that there exist immigration
laws duly passed by congress when we had sanity in government.
Perhaps Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have started to believe
their own press clippings and there are plenty of those. The New
York Times has trouble printing the word Trump without also
printing the words racist and hate or hateful. Last Sunday’s
edition carried an opinion piece entitled “The Joy of Hatred” in
which the author reported on a Trump rally in which many in the crowd
screamed “send her back.” Remember, any disagreement or adverse
opinion is racist and hateful.
Righteous anger is not hate
Could what the Times and the Democrats tell us is racist
and hateful be simply righteous anger? I think what I felt and feel
now is righteous anger, not hatred and certainly not racism.
Americans have always been generous, kind hearted people to others,
but when the others continually show us ill will and continually
criticize our founding and our way of life it gets tiring. The print
media especially, printed the same story over and over unceasingly.
We know, but apparently they don’t know, that just because the New
York Times and Washington Post say something is true doesn’t make
it so, in fact it probably makes it false.
…and nor is stating the obvious
Any reference to any obvious fact that reflects badly on a
protected group is now defined as racism. This tactic is probably
designed to prepare us for when we will no longer be allowed to think
for ourselves because our elite bettors and our machines will do the
thinking for us. Well, while we still can think, I suggest that we do
so, and we refuse to include every disagreement in the category of
racist hatred. That tactic cheapens and waters down real examples,
both historic and current, of actual discrimination.
Leave us alone!
I run a law firm in a large city and I see people all day, five
days a week from all walks of life and from many different racial
groups common to our country. When see people in my office or I run
into them casually in the elevator. I make a point of asking people
how they are, what their problems are and what they think is wrong,
and almost universally they say the same thing: If they would just
leave us alone we would be fine.
By that statement they mean that if the television, newspapers,
and especially congress would just stop telling us what a dark,
racist, hateful, scary, place this city is we would never think such
things about each other to be true, because we all get along just
fine otherwise. Those in the media must want us to think that way in
order to keep us divided, weak, and dependent on them and the
government.
Congress rejects reality
We have to turn our logic and senses off if we are to be accepted
among the legions of the woke because reality is not a permissible
state in which to live. Unity is not permissible either because the
only thing accepted is a divided state of fear, anger, and despair. A
recent poll taken by Pew Research concluded that Americans don’t
trust the government, the media, and they don’t even trust each
other. A low trust environment is potentially disastrous and is a
sign of a culture in decline.
Congress has many other failings
Finally folks, these are just some of the reasons that I would
vote this Congress the WOAT. There are many others such as the
Mueller investigation and Mueller’s testimony. It’s hard to make
a case when you have no evidence no matter how determined you are to
do it. There are way too many reasons for the time I have with you,
but this Congress deserves the award and so it is theirs.
At least that’s the way I see it,
Until next time folks,
This is Darrell Castle.
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