CONGRESS OF BABOONS

We all know that a group of sheep is a flock, and fish, a school.  But what is a group of baboons?  It’s a congress!  You see where I’m going with this.

We now know what was a virtual certainty last summer when Congress created the Super Committee.  Its job was to do what by that time the President and the Congress would not do—enact deficit reduction measures and raise additional revenue over the next decade to put our economy back on track.

The co-chairs of the Super Committee were Republican Congressman Jeb Hensarling from Texas and Democratic Senator Patty Murray from Washington.  Hensarling has a two-word vocabulary—cut taxes.  And Murray has been known for years as The Queen Of Pork.

Back in December of 2010 the Bowles-Simpson Commission that President Obama created charted the course that we needed to follow. They told President Obama, Congress, and us that it would be necessary to cut about $4 trillion dollars over the next decade.  They told us doing that would require significant reductions in discretionary Government spending; cuts in entitlement programs; cuts in Defense spending; AND; tax increases.

But President Obama immediately fled the field of battle.  As soon as he went missing, the Congress of Baboons ran for the hills too.

The Red Baboons insisted that no taxes could be raised.  And the Blue Baboons insisted that no entitlement programs could be cut.  Of course, that guaranteed the impasse that occurred last summer and resulted in the creation of the Committee of super Baboons.  And now they have failed.

Now the Red Baboons will run home and blame it on the Blues.  And the Blue Baboons will run home and blame it on the Reds.

Isn’t it about time that we wised up?  Who put these baboons in their high priced cage on Capitol Hill?  We did.

If you really want to fix this problem, there’s a way to do it.  And it can only be done by us.  Basically it comes down to whether we are smarter than the baboons or not.

The name of their game is getting reelected.  That is why they won’t grapple with these tough issues that are killing America.  What we’ve got to realize is that these Red and Blue Baboons have their most important interest in common—getting reelected.

And up until now we have been stupid enough to accommodate them.  That is what we must change.  What the American people need to do is to rise up and DEFEAT FOR REELECTION EVERY INCUMBENT BABOON THAT RUNS IN 2012.    

If we do that, change will occur.  If we don’t, we lose, the baboons win, and we deserve our fate.

LeRoy Goldman

November 21, 2011

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