Every morning when opening the daily paper, I cross my fingers and hold my breath that alas there is not another juvenile and highly embarrassing antic committed by a member of our city council. The prayer goes like this, "Please, please let there not be another article about how the Racine County Sheriff has to come and investigate some stupid issue again, please if there is a Civic God out there, let them hear my prayer." The amount of drama that plays out in the civic world of Kenosha is akin to an episode of Jersey Shore if they were to take a booze cruise. But it is frustrating on a level beyond embarrassing in the fact that, lets say my husband behaved that way in "corporate America" he would be fired. If we all behave that way in social setting, we would be the laughing stock or completely reviled. The thing is, though it highly disgusts me, in a smaller city with established families, social hierarchies, allegiances, and a surprisingly rich history it is not totally unsurprising. What is surprising, something that gives me acid reflux amounts of disgust and embarrassment is the letter 47 members of our Senate, sent to a foreign country in the middle of a multinational negation on one of the most important matters in the freaking world. Which is about as juvenile and embarrassing as putting glue in another councilperson's car key holes.
Aside from the embarrassing standpoint that it totally solidifies the dis-functionality of our Government to the whole entire world, it is unnecessarily and comically condescending to the addressed foreign nation (whose cabinet of advisers holds more American PHDs than our own) it is an outright form of disrespect to our President, his cabinet and every other nation involved in the negations. The way I feel about Kanye West's antics towards Taylor Swift and subsequently Beck, pales in comparison to how I feel about this stain on the intelligence of our own Congress of a letter. It is naive and extremely insulting and I am enraged that my Senator signed it. Not one person that signed this represents how I feel about this matter, not to mention many people for that matter and it wholly shows their ignorance to how our country actually solves these matters.
Like middle management going to the board, over their CEO's head, because they heard a rumor that he might be screwing the CEO of their competitor and it could effect their stock options. Or a group of teenage girls going the school board over the teachers and administrators, because they heard a rumor that they might allow sophomores to prom this year. Seriously, if it is laughable for normal people to behave this way, it is highly farcical for the people to be leading our country, like unbelievable. Yet here we are.
It is naive and condescending to actually think that a foreign government has no idea how our government works. I can not decided if they actually believed this, the naive part. Or if they are almost threatening Iran's government (and others in the future who would like to negotiate anything with the United States) and trying to coerce them into something, which if I was a country anywhere in this world would be disgusted then by the conduct that the American Government is participating in right now. Like any prudent person in this great nation, if we want to succeed at something, we study up and learn how to do or deal with the situation the correct way. So, are these 47 Senators trying to convey some notion that the Iranian Government does not do the same thing? That they are third rate, not up to par, need your coaching because they are that dumb? That even though they are negotiating with our government, they have no idea how it works so they need an inaccurate lesson on our constitution? Or is an empty display of dominance by intellectually and emotionally immature people who are trying to prove something?
This not only sets a precedence with foreign countries on the weakness of our own governments unity, but also for every predecessor to the Office of the President of the United States of America. The letter might has well read;
"Dear Mr or Ms. Presidents, your efforts here are unwanted and unneeded. We will do everything within our power, no matter how detrimental to our country, foreign policy matters included, to destroy any sort of credibility you, your office, your cabinet and half the American people may have mustered. Purely because we do not like you. Not because we actually read Edmund Burke, or Thomas Paine or Jefferson for that mater, or William F. Buckley, or Jean Kirkpatrick or even Reinhold Neibur, we actually do not know who any of them are because we hate university and critical thinking (learning in general)....we just do not like you because you have cooties that abort their babies and marry people of the same sex. We can not really have an intellectual conversation about what is happening, because we are still waiting on our congressional aides to give us script as to what to say. We actually do not have time, with fundraising and general dick s@#king of the upper class, to actually understand the history of what is going on, much less what the consequences and repercussions of any actions may be. So as a precaution we are going to send a totally disgusting and juvenile letter out to the world, just to make sure they know as much.
In Regards
47 Senators who have the mental and emotional maturity as a junior high school government"
Consequences of our actions. What angers me the most is just like the City of Kenosha's council people's behavior reflects on me as a citizen of the city so does our federal government's. Our government for the people, of the people and by the people. I do not care if you are the most ardent Republican or Democrat, you cannot do this. If you are a person in general you will suffer the consequences if you behave this way. That is not democracy, or a republic, it is not an honest form of government, it is not how our government, especially in dealing with foreign policy was meant to operate and the worst of all it is utterly embarrassing. In our 200+ years as a country, multiple wars, almost wars, diplomatic guffaws, working with the UN, working with NATO, forming sanctions or alliances has this ever happened. There is a reason why. For once in our lives why should these 47 Senator not suffer the consequences of their ignorant actions. They undermine the United States of American and its place in the world, it should grind the gears of both Democrats and Republicans alike. Here is a quote from one of their more experienced colleagues-
"I believe in a strong presidency. I don't know if I would have signed
the letter. I don't trust the president on this, quite frankly, though I
don't know if I'd go public with it to a foreign government," he said,
adding that it sets the wrong "precedent" to publicly go to a foreign
government to undermine the president of the United States while he or
she is dealing with that country.
-Peter King Repbulican-NY
Though our Vice President may have summed it up best-
"In thirty-six years in the United States Senate, I cannot recall
another instance in which Senators wrote directly to advise another
country -- much less a longtime foreign adversary -- that the
President does not have the constitutional authority to reach a
meaningful understanding with them. This letter sends a
highly misleading signal to friend and foe alike that that our
Commander-in-Chief cannot deliver on America’s commitments -- a
message that is as false as it is dangerous."
-Vice President Joe Biden (36 years folks, that is 1973 folks and Pres. George W. Bush, Pres. Bill Clinton, Pres. George H. Bush, Pres. Ronald Regan, Pres. Jimmy Carter and Pres. Gerald Ford.
Not to mention the vast amount of foreign policy shit that happened. Things
like, oh, the end of the Cold War, fall of the Berlin Wall and USSR,
multiple operations in Central and South American regarding Communist
Rebels, the whole Bosnian genocide and Rwandan genocide issues...god the
list goes on. Through all that, he has never seen or felt the need for
anything of the sort that these 47 Senators did.)
2016 I will be fighting for the candidates who have the intellectual, emotional and mental maturity to run our nation the way it deserves. No, it is not a bad thing to have a wide breadth of knowledge on a ton of issues and yes, it clearly does matter, read above. I have said it once and I will keep saying it, WE DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS- I am tired of being embarrassed, my country being embarrassed (especially when people have died for its tenets) by the people who are voted in to represent us- Every action has a reaction, if our leaders are too dense to understand it, are too dense for a little self-reflection, too dense to see beyond themselves to a greater wide world out there, then they deserve to go-
