As well as knitting, I garden. I have pretty well tended landscaping and several different garden areas in my large yard. I leave the grass and tree tending to my husband, who is very good at that sort of thing. He digs holes for me and helps me weed the obvious things. He is not allowed near the new plants. His talents do not lie in that area. But if he ever decided to be a groundskeeper at a golf course, I'm sure he'd wow everyone. I know that it is very important to carefully tend my gardens and trees and make sure that they have what they need to bloom and grow. For if I don't, they will die and I will no longer have any gardens.
The most important part of any politician's job is tending his constituency. What does that mean to the layman? It means he needs to dance to the folks that brung him to the dance, as we say in Texas. Before you go all grammar Nazi on me, we do say brung and not brought. Why? Because we're Texan as we talk that way. Build a bridge and get over it.
Let me give you an example. I did not vote for the person who represents my area of the world in the US House of Representatives. Why? Because when I first moved to Waco I got to meet him, his bitch wife and their two brat children. Nothing from those meetings engendered any respect necessary for me to vote for him to represent me in DC. I worked in a car dealership and he and his wife got to come in every so often and pick out new demo models to drive around town. The owner of that dealership recent got a second dealership here in town once GM closed down the original dealer. I don't believe in coincidences, especially since they used our tax dollars to make Government Motors.
I just kept voting for the other guy every two years, as is my right under the Constitution of the United States of America. But a few years ago, as I was driving past the new Wal-Mart in our part of town, I heard a radio ad for this jerk, talking about how he, single-handed had saved over 1300 jobs in Waco by making Raytheon and L3 see reason and stay here in our area. I began laughing. Why? The place where Wal-Mart was sitting had formerly been a Raytheon office with over 100 workers that had closed after the last election cycle and the land was then sold to Wal-Mart for more tax revenue to be had from the retail giant. Some workers were transferred to the other two plants around here, but most were laid off. Chet Edwards saved nothing.
At the beginning of the Obamacare debacle I wrote Chet and told him that as his constituent I demanded that he vote NO for this turd of a bill because it would bankrupt us, our children in perpetuity. Now, I was very careful to use small words that even a politician could understand. One of his staff wrote me back a very nicely worded letter, and evidently attempted to use spell check, telling me that Rep. Edwards was very worried about health care in America but he was afraid of the implications of this bill and how much power it was giving to the gubmint. Then the idiot turns right around and votes with Nancy Pelosi, bitch goddess of the House of Representatives. I then write him a letter telling him that I knew about his deal with the local car dealership and that I was letting his opponent in the November elections know as well. Then I asked if he was any relation to NC Senator John Edwards and wasn't it funny they both had the same last name and were more crooked than a shepherd's staff. This time I received no response. I expect an audit any day, though.
But audits should go easier now that they will have to hire 15,000 more IRS workers to make sure that you are buying health care. Because that is exactly what our Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution, but never got around to actually writing in things like, well, you know, reconciliation and "deem it passed". Hey! Obamacare has created or saved 15K jobs! The recession is over! WOOHOO! Let's party like the unemployment checks won't stop coming! Hey! Maybe I can get a job as an IRS auditor! I mean, I could not possibly be any worse than the morons they currently have making more than the private sector accountants. I hear the math test is adding a column of numbers with a calculator.
The Democrats have gotten so inured in their re-elections that they honestly thought they could shove this crap down our throats and not only would we eat it, we would THANK THEM for it. They thought we weren't paying attention. They thought we were too stupid to realize what they were doing. They thought we could not possibly understand their huge power grab. They didn't realize that by refusing to attend town halls and to tend their constituency that we would not bear fruit for them. We've always borne fruit in the form of votes, so why wouldn't we do it now?
Because Progressive Liberals are an infestation of Biblical proportion and the Dems didn't bother to spray for the blight so that we would keep them in office. They have eaten away the leaves and the delicate blossom that was our trust in their authority to speak in our voice.
Come November, I can assure you, many people who are disgusted with the state of the Democratic Party's gardens are going to till it all up, fumigate from within and we will start new crops who will tend to our blossoms and keep the infestation of social engineering out of our orchards.
And, as we say in Texas, maybe that dog will hunt.
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