They Did Their Job

Today is Memorial Day, 2019, an American holiday established to honor the men and women who died in the U.S. military serving their country.

Yet today is also a day when politicians of both major parties are acting like badly behaved children seeking public approval with outrageous and nonsensical press releases.

It is a day when despite the majority of the American citizens having voted for a Republican President in 2016, his elected term of office is being constantly assailed with investigations, subpoenas, and other legal assaults. Impeachment has become the word du jour in D.C.

It is a day when despite the funds, time and energy of the country being spent on the Mueller Report, his political foes are not accepting the final analysis.

It is a day when little or nothing has been accomplished to fulfill any of the promises made by either party when elected to Congress in 2016

What has been accomplished is a futile escalation of insults from both sides of the Congressional aisle, duly reported daily by the press. The vitriol easily fills pages of otherwise lackluster news.

The character, personality and now mental and/or medical accusations verge on ludicrous, and yet they are being uttered hourly by once respected politicians. The once esteemed leaders of both parties are guilty of this lack of judgment. The rhetoric has become infantile and insulting to everyone who voted for them. It ranks below childish and verges on being absurd.

No one seems to comprehend the average American citizen is interested only in the wellbeing of their country, not the past tax returns, or bed partners of politicians. Digging in mud has never appealed to the ordinary man or woman, most are far to busy following their own challenging life struggle.

Sadly, all those quoted seem to have succumbed to the emotional whiplash of notoriety. They are either being tweeted, emailed or recorded for TV.

None appear to comprehend the reality they were elected only to do a job, not become part of a sideshow spouting insults and demanding redundant investigations costing taxpayer money and ennui. Their choice of derogatory vocabulary is not impressive.

However, there would be a landslide of approval for anyone who returned quietly to work, moving forward and accomplishing something before the current term of office ends.

I believe the men and women honored on Memorial Day set an example all the political leaders of America should heed this last Monday of May, 2019.

They did their job. Now do yours. Legislate.