Did your senator vote for the president's $87 billion
supplemental spending package for Iraq?
Did your senator stand up and forcefully proclaim to the
citizenry and the troops in Iraq who waited with bated breath his
loud, clear and unmistakable roll-call vote on the floor of the
Senate?
Well, not exactly. You see, neither your senator nor mine voted
for or against the spending package, per se. Rather than voting for
or against some trivial package, they "invest" their precious vote
in accordance with the existing political wind for the purchase of
your vote and mine come election time.
How do your and my senators invest this questionable vote? Well,
you see, on major issues that involve any hint of controversy, our
senators have it arranged so as to just not take a chance of
investing this scary vote at all. To do this, they vote "yea" or
"nay" in perfect voice vote harmony.
And you and I are none the wiser as to how each senator voted.
Clever huh?
Sadly, your senator and mine have just voted secretly for a
course of action solely intended to ensure that they remain
permanently ensconced on their thrones of "royalty."
It's probably of little significance to your senator and mine
that the very course of action upon which they voted was to
facilitate the change in Iraqi government to democracy from that of
"royalty."
