Pat Dollard

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For too long now our Senate and House in Congress have been filled with and run by elitist snobs who wouldn’t know how to actually sweat and ache for a paycheck … or work within a REAL budget that some bill collector(s) might come repo-ing things from you.

When the Founding Fathers imagined and set up our federal government they designed it with the “land owner” … the working man in mind. Someone who actually knew what his neighbors wanted and needed from their government … and what they didn’t want. Someone who went home to his land/property more than a couple times during the calendar year to work his fields or run his shop or store. Someone who knew most, if not all, his constituents by first and last name (and I realize that is impossible now, but I am talking principle) because he remained among them in the community, not seeing himself above them and ruling over them. Nor would he ever have deemed his neighbors’ money/holdings as belonging to the government.
Someone who, if you could catch up to them in a hallway or a street, would stop and talk to you and answer your questions … but more importantly, would LISTEN to the common citizen, even if the citizen was not from their district.

Here in the 21st Century what has taken ‘residence’ over the passage of time, and the laziness of the electorate, in this nation’s Capitol is an elitist elected class that lifts its collective nose and giving nothing more than lip-service to the American people while lending their ears to lobbyists and special interest. Few, if any, directly represent their constituents. They serve their own agendas, and desire power either individually or collectively with their party in order to oppose the other party … even if, individually and personally they do not agree with their party’s agenda they “play ball” and tow the party line or be lap-dogs to their Congressional elders.

Which is why a Joe Lieberman or Zell Miller are treated as a leper or pariah by their own party, or thrown under the bus if it’s a mouthy Jim Traficant and railroaded off to the fed pen … or a republican in name only (RINO) drags down the typically and historically conservative party to the point of losing elections because their voters are disgruntled and either don’t vote or vote in opposition to “teach a lesson”.

Here is where a Joe The Plumber, or even a Sarah Palin comes in. While in the course of the last two media crazy weeks since Joe from Ohio dared ask presidential candidate B. Hussein Obama a tough question, and managed to catch him so off guard that he answered honestly in his ideological direction for this country, Joe, whether or not he believes this, has become a ‘politician’. He hasn’t advanced yet on the political spectrum that Sarah Palin has because she has been at it longer, but he has been thrown into the soup. Why the two are what we need in this country’s government is because they still connect with the American people. Both are wise in the ways and knowledge of the common man, and aren’t tainted by the trappings of a corner of the country that has absolutely no idea what the rest of the country is about unless there is a natural disaster, or they are flying over it and can now leave their seats and walk about the cabin …

We more than ever desire to “throw the bums out” of The Swamp that is Washington D.C., and replace them with people who aren’t rich and elitists, and who have actually developed executive experience by either running a business, a family or a state.

Some things need revised here in the dawn of a new century.

We need term limits on these elected officials … No more singing Happy 90-odd or 100th birthday to someone who has spent their adult lives sitting in the same chair in the House or the Senate. And members of Congress should have to have a real job on the side, and I don’t mean teaching at a university or lecturing or writing books. Something where they have to punch a time card and collect a pay check with their co-workers. An actual job where a boss could fire them if they aren’t efficient at what they are doing or if they don’t show up when they are supposed to be working.

The Congress needs a “credit rating” … one where if they don’t pay-up responsibly, and spend outside their means, they don’t get anymore money … period. Either fiscally, or by way of their own paychecks.

And we need to move the Capitol building out of Washington D.C. to somewhere like Fargo, N.D. … or Casper, Wyoming … or Corn-belt, Nebraska. Not because they are “red states” … But because they defy the Washington social set, and force them to move about with the ‘regular’ folks whose money they seem to deem as belonging to the government by way of their sticky hands.

In the last two weeks, and the better part of the last over two months, we have wanted to listen to what a Joe or a Sarah has had to say …

When was the last time YOU really wanted to hear what a Pelosi, Reid, or Kennedy has had to say … as much as THEY have wanted to hear themselves saying it?

But more importantly a Joe or a Sarah would listen to you … and have an open genuine dialog with you.

THAT is what has been missing for a very long time now in our Congress … and we really need to get it back.