Did you catch what Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks said yesterday???

WASHINGTON, D.C. – I couldn’t believe my ears. As I was listening to yesterday afternoon’s media funnies, and came across these zingers from Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks, a Republican and member of the infamous Benghazi Committee.

The Honorable Morris J. “Mo” Brooks, Jr. R-AL…

“how many lives she put at risk by violating all rules of law that are designed to protect America’s top-secret and classified information from falling into the hands of our geopolitical foes who then might use that information to result in the deaths of Americans.” – Taken from the [Rachael] Maddow Blog (speaking about Hillary Clinton’s forthcoming testimony to the Benghazi Select Committee) 

And then this little gem from a one on one interview with MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki on “Meet the Press Daily,” or M.T.P. Daily as a follow-up to his previous statement – earlier in the day.

“In my judgment, with respect to Hillary Clinton, she will be a unique president if she is elected by the public next November, because the day she’s sworn in is the day that she’s subject to impeachment because she has committed high crimes and misdemeanors[..]”

What this says to me is that the 114th Republican-controlled Congress is all talk and no action, all bark and no bite. All along and for the last seven years of the Obama Administration obstruction and threats. Callywaging and cajoling all the live long day at Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Democrats. In this Ronald Reagan – Rosco P. Coltrane – esque style,  “Now there you go again, breaking law and government, and now we’re gonna have to impeach you…Ooh I love it. I love it” if you will. What I’m saying can be found in these two short YouTube videos, watch!

But this clearly is the world in which we live, the reality in which we all find ourselves, and where good men; good, decent, honest, hard-working politicians like former Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich are drummed out of the Congress for simply doing their job, and asking invaluably important questions/statements like these, with respect to the Benghazi, Libya attack. Watch!

Or this…

Drummed out of the so-called fife and bugle corps because they dared do the job the American people elected them to do in the first place. It’s so disheartening, and disjointed, and it turns the People, We the People, off to politics, off to the Democratic process, and then politicians like Mr. Brooks have the temerity to wonder, aloud, why they no longer get the plurality of the vote every election cycle.

In all honesty it’s a lot like taking your dog for a walk, walking the dog up to the grass, but telling the dog you can’t lift your leg to go to the bathroom you have to hold it all in. What good is government, especially these days, when all they do is make idle threats and conjecture?

–Rhett E. Column

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Editorial: NOW, that the [Confederate Battle] Flag has come down…Let the ‘Private Sector’ hoist it high!

EDITORIAL:

CHARLESTON, South Carolina – This morning at 10 a.m. est the Confederate States of America’s battle flag came down off the public’s pole after nearly 60 years, when, according to this report from Raw Story, nine young men from a local community college protested the flag then. In defiance. South Carolina’s Governor and State Legislature put it up on Capitol grounds where it stayed until this very day, in some way, or capacity.

Can you imagine? 60 years. 60 years that, that flag flew on public grounds.

Finally! After all of the back and forth. The political hullabaloo over all things Stars and Bars. Slowly. But surely. The flag. Came. Down.

And as Charleston proper, most of America, and no doubt the World stood and cheered that other half, that other side of the debate made a roil and a moan, but they took the flag, their flag, to the Museum and Library of Confederate History in Greenville, S.C. Where the Stars and Bars can long wave or be displayed, as it should, there.

And now, that the [Confederate Battle] Flag has come down I’d like to suggest to all my friends on the ‘Take it Down’ side of the ledger to let the ‘private sector’ hoist it high in their yards, churches, community centers, veterans organizations, and concerned/active citizens groups as much as they want. Don’t say a word. Not a peep. Because now the flag, in the Palmetto State, has gone from public to private property.

What the life preservers of ‘Southern Heritage’ do or say with it, on their own terms, places, and conditions is their own affair. Because no matter how vile, vicious, insane, benign, much maligned or down right hateful that, that flag may be to so many of us it is the right of the few to remember the many who, though a fool’s errand that it was, was their right to be a part and partial of a cause they deemed worthy. The cause of freedom and ownership of others. The right to make, in their eyes, a more perfect separate union. A place where free men could own the unfree man. Silly huh?

Let them hoist that flag as high as they may. Salute it. Pray over it. Pray to it. Hug it. Hold it. Cry over it. Clutch it until, some of them, breathe their last. That is their choice. Their right. Just as it was ours to demand government, public government, united as one, to take it down!

And government, united, and often times petulantly reluctant in the face of the Will of the People it serves, took it down pole and all today. Never. We hope and pray. To be seen or heard from, by us at least, again.

— Rhett E. Column

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