WHACK-A-MOLE

Remember the game you used to play at the fair or Chuck E Cheese where to try to whack the mole that pokes its head up from a big board filed with holes? The mole pops up through random holes and goes faster and faster as the game progresses. I’m beginning to think Congress, and the Obama administration, believes it’s playing a giant game of Whack-A-Mole.

Economic “crisis”! Whack; pass a stimulus package that no one has read. Why? Because Nancy has a plane to catch.

“Outrage” over AIG bonuses. Whack; pass a bill (that’s blatantly unconstitutional) to tax the offending bonus at 90%.

Pass an omnibus spending bill so stuffed with pork that it oozes bacon grease. Whack; it was “last year’s business” so we can’t do anything about it.

What ever happened to the legislative branch being the “deliberative” body of our government? The framers of the constitution must be hanging their heads in disgust over what we’ve done to this grand experiment in self-government. Maybe we need to send them all back through a 9th grade civics class, or do they still teach that any more?

We the people, have an opportunity to change the current course of our government. In two years we will have our mid-term elections. We need candidates that will govern as the constitution calls for. We need a Congress that is proactive rather than reactive. One that will act through well thought out, deliberate, plans that address the future of our nation rather than the “crisis dejour.”

Whack-A-Mole is a game for kids. It should not be our model for governing!