Kick Them In Their Senatorial Seats

It's finally over.

Bloggers, activists from all over the political spectrum, talk radio - not to mention millions of average citizens who shut down the Capitol Hill phone system with their flood of calls - these forces combined to explain in no uncertain terms where the members of the United States Senate could stick their "bipartisan attempt at comprehensive immigration reform".

Everybody wants controlled immigration, handled fairly, from all countries, all races and creeds. And this must be done through safe and secure borders. Yes, we have to deal with twelve (to twenty) million people who are here already, but we need to understand the cost of various options first. And Americans strongly feel that the most pressing issue is enforcement. There are already plenty of laws on the books that, in theory, would help in the matter of security.

But the political take-away here is simply the vast divide between incumbent, elected officials - some of which have been entrenched in their Senate positions for upwards of twenty years - and the regular citizens of America. They are shockingly out-of-touch with their constituents. They get arrogant and angry when they discover that the people of the United States disagree with them, when there are questions, when vox populi expresses it's forceful disgust (witness the implosion of George Voinovich, R-OH).

When it comes to politics, I'm jaded. It's easy enough to say "it's always been like this, it only gets slightly better or worse, by degrees". But after this most recent despicable show of condescension, pique, and temper by these entrenched, legislative jack-wits, I'm ready and willing to eagerly support every anti-incumbency campaign from here to Walla-Walla. It's time for an old fashioned, come-to-Jesus political house cleaning in Dodge City.

We need a new bunch of jerks.