Politicians Playing Political Ping-Pong Places People in Peril
Congress will adjourn for a month-long recess so that the Congressional members can go home, meet their constituents and rest up for the next session. Man, oh man, they have to be exhausted from their work which was mainly playing political ping-pong.
How is political ping-pong played? It doesn’t matter who serves but it goes like this: The House sends a volley to the Senate and the Senate smacks it back to the House and the House spikes it to the Senate and it goes on and on. Is there a loser in this game? Yes there is. The American People are the losers as they get nothing done by their representative except lots of smack talking to other members and those in other branches of government.
Here are some other articles and books about Congress and political ping- pong:
MSNBC article from October of 2013
WatchPaul Website from May of 2014
Ping-Pong Diplomacy– Book by Nicholas Griffin
It doesn’t matter if your work is done or not. Go ahead, keep the humanitarian border crisis burning longer. We don’t need to solve it til later.
From Houston News: (where border issues have an impact)
Congress is about to go on a month-long break without resolving how to tackle the humanitarian crisis on the Texas-Mexico border.
It appears Congress will adjourn for its August recess next week.
Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar of Laredo, whose congressional district is directly affected by the surge of undocumented children entering the U.S. illegally, said, “We cannot have failure as an option.”
Cuellar emphasized, “We can not do that. It would be very irresponsible for us to do that and we have to stay here until we get it done.”
But House Speaker John Boehner has said he is not optimistic Republicans and Democrats can agree on a solution before the August recess.
The White House says it would be “pretty extraordinary” for Congress to leave town for a month without addressing the issue.
Let’s NOT forget, this Congress has already shown us they are capable of some “pretty extraordinary” things.
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