Just Too Cushy For Their Tushies

Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello, who hopefully only has five more months in his job, claims that he’s the hardest working man in congress. Well, nobody will ever accuse Perriello of being overly modest. And while he’s down in the polls in his re-election bid against Republican opponent John Hurt, he seems to be very up on the Internet that is.

With ads, ads everywhere many “Perriello for Congress” ads are saying “Tom Creates Jobs,” “Tom Means Jobs” and “Jobs for Southside Virginia. No One Works Harder. Guaranteed.” He almost sounds like a hair loss product. The only thing he didn’t promise was a money back guarantee. Coming from a congressman, that statement is automatically guaranteed to be “too good to be true.”

Click on the ad and a video appears where Tom literally gets dirty. At one point, he even spills coffee on himself. At the end, he’s in a soiled shirt and a stained face. It’s a wonder that he didn’t have sweat beading down from his brow.

So, after almost two years of passing bills furthering the greatest takeover of the private sector by government, Tom has finally got to the point of trying to save only one job, his own. But, Tom isn’t the only Democrat congressman working hard on that front. New York congressman Charles Rangel seems to have gotten himself into a bit of a tangle.

Income tax evasion in the form of not reporting income along with many other ethic charges is the highest hypocrisy for the former chairman of the Ways and Means committee, which just writes the tax laws. If even the chairman can’t even get his IRS taxes right, who can? It’s not like he’s the Treasury Secretary. Oh, wait that guy can’t his taxes right either.

After years of pointless investigation, mainly because Democrats were hoping the charges would go away, Rangel has decided to fight them as well as for his seat leading to a juicy trial right before the 2010 elections. Because of Rangel’s tenacity, Democrats are now hoping that just Rangel goes away. When even the president says it’s time to “end his career with dignity,” Rangel is getting a clear signal from the powers that be that they want him, a 40 year veteran politician, to be a power that’s gone.

Yet, Rangel won’t be alone in his troubles. He’ll have a fellow Democrat traveler who herself has her own ethics charges. Congresswoman Maxine Walters (D-CA), considered one of the most corrupt congressional members in the Democrat caucus, has conflict-of-interest charges because she urged federal aid for a bank where her husband had not only served on the board but also had substantial stock holdings.

And although not charged, Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. a.k.a. “Senate Candidate #5” in the Blago affair, through third parties he attempted to buy Obama’s senate office. It’s a wonder that Democrats just didn’t use Ebay to sell the seat.

It should be noted although it should be totally irrelevant that all three congressional members are black. But in America today, which should be in the most racially unified period of its existence having abolished slavery and segregation, it is not. Now anytime a pro-regressive black politician (note conservative blacks need not apply) is in political hot water, the counter charges of racism always fly rampant.

Since these three CBC members, the congressional black caucus (no racism here), are in deep doodoo simultaneously, it’s a racist conspiracy. So much so, that Walters had to issue this warning, “We got to say to folks in leadership whether it’s the White House or anybody else, don’t be so afraid of white folks that you treat black people bad. Whether it is the White House or the NAACP, you cannot live in the moment of responding to the right wing press.”

One thing Walters apparently is very good at is working her mouth and putting her foot in it, but many in congress also work their mouths excessively hard. Congressman Barney Frank always a sputter (spitting while uttering) has been second to none in that regard. But lately, other Democrats have been working hard to dethrone the queen.

At a town hall meeting, Congressman Pete Stark was asked how he could declare health care a right when it forces others to render slavishly their services, and such government could do anything. He responded, “The Federal government, yes, can do most anything in this country.” This caused an immediate raucous uproar.

Ole' Pete has unwittingly admitted what was always suspected. Democrats are working feverishly hard to dismantle that yoke on power known as the US Constitution. In the final analysis, what is unquestionably true about congress is that none works harder than one trying to save his own derriere.