Folks in the Palmetto State – like most in the country – are extremely upset with the actions of the President and, especially, Congress. And for good reason. Both have shown an arrogance – nay, disdain – for the American voter/taxpayer by creating and foisting upon the nation unpopular and expensive legislation.
No matter what the people say through emails, phone calls or town hall meetings, our national “leadership” have ignored what the people want and need in order to promote wild agendas, pork barrel projects and lucrative sweet-heart deals for themselves and their cronies.
It’s shameful and the call to “throw the bums out” is resonating across the continent. In an NBC/ Wall Street Journal poll earlier this week, 79% of respondents disapprove of the job Congress is doing. At the same time, President Obama’s numbers, though not as bad as those for Congress, are taking a nose dive as well.
No joke! These “leaders” are not just running the country into the ground, they are destroying the fundamental principles that created and maintained the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
But this abandonment isn’t isolated in Washington. Look, too, to the State House in Columbia.
For a generation (at least), the South Carolina General Assembly has spit in the eye of the citizenry it is supposed to represent and allowed sub-par government to stifle progress and prosperity in the state.
The disgusting state of education in South Carolina alone is enough to indict the legislature, but it goes far beyond schools. A disastrous unemployment rate, taxes that hammer small business, fiscal corruption, unfettered development at the expense of farms and traditional neighborhoods, the inability to attract needed manufacturing and other true job-creating investments … and on and on and on…
No… it ain’t all Washington and the problems facing the country and state can’t be blamed just on “blue” states that put liberal politicians in power in D.C.
YOU – the South Carolina voter – are to blame because you allow the same bunch of good-ol’-boy thieves to go to Columbia every year and rob you blind. YOU let them make South Carolina’s classrooms dumber every year and YOU keep the jack boot of oppression firmly planted on the throat of progress.
It can’t even be called “status quo” because things don’t stay the same, they get worse.
So for those of you who get so indignant at Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, think about what South Carolina House Speaker Bobby Harrell, Senate President Glenn McConnell and others like Senators Hugh Leatherman and Jake Knotts are doing to the state. TO the state, not FOR IT.
Ya wanna get mad? Fine! Good! But make sure you realize that much of that anger should be directed locally and not just at Washington.
~ G.S.
Exactly!!! Look how long “Republicans” have basically been in control in this state and tell me what they have done other than run us into the gutter while lining their fat pockets. I’m not saying that we need to elect democrats, either. They’ll take it as a mandate to turn us into a socialist utopia. What needs to happen is the good ole boys need to be shown the door and truly great people that stick to principles and values need to be herded into the halls of the state house. The no good evil-doers have been in power long enough and screwed us all long enough.
This is why it discourages me to see the good ole boy McMaster in the lead for the Republican gubernatorial ticket. He IS the problem and good ole boys just like him are what is running this state into the ground. How the hell can the people of SC not see this!? These people are worthless, fat, old white men who sit on high and talk down to us underlings all-the-while doing nothing but ruining us. Oh and I mean no ill-will towards fat, old white men when I call politicians that. I already fit 2 of those 3 descriptors. I’m just fed-up with the politicians who are in power in this state. They are the worst form of nepotism and need to be kicked out summarily.
Want to know how bad it is? What is already the first item on the agenda when they re-convene in January? Roll call voting? NO! State Sovereignty? NO! wait for it, wait for it… Censuring Governor Sanford! Yep, that is the kind of thing that should be moved to the front of the line! Screw things that matter! You scum bags need to quit using the bible and your fake (by fake I mean you don’t follow them) holier-than-thou values as cover to attack people who don’t play along with your good ole boy network. Sanford stood up to you puss-sucking losers over the stimulus and now Jackie never-met-a-hoagie-he-didn’t-love Knotts and his good ole boy butt kissers are trying to make him pay for it. No wonder this state is in the crapper. The government is either screwing us or wasting our tax dollars. If that is all you little school yard cry babies can think of to do with your time, GO THE HELL HOME. We’ll function fine without you.
You hit the nail on the head with this article, I have recently gotten active in SC politics, and the more I find out how things are done here, the more outraged I become. CNChapin is right also that when the SC legislatures do reconvene they will overlook needed legislation (State Sovereignty, and Roll Call)in favor of more political posturing with the aim of protecting their own interests (their job).
This is why the Columbia Tea Party is teaming up with variuos grassroots organizations throughout the state for a “Freedom Rally” at the Statehouse on 1-9-10. It is the saturday before the legislation reconvenes. The sole purpose of this rally is to draw attention to State Soveriegnty, and Roll Call voting. We need to bring pressure on our representatives and make sure they understand that they work for us, not the other way around. This Rally is just our first step in taking back Country/State we have many other plans in the works and we are becomming very active.
Allen Olson
Columbia Tea Party
“all politics is local”, right?
But wait, what about the ES&S voting machines that leave not a trace of honest accounting?
Nikki Haley must win the GOP primary next year. Bauer and McMaster cannot be allowed to win. I’m trustin’ y’all down there to do it. All I can do up here in NC is send her money, and I will.
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