Recipe for disaster

If Congress was cabbage, it would be sauerkraut by now. The mini-organisms causing the fermentation would be mostly Republicans. The timid ones letting it happen? That’s the Democrats. The brine permeating the whole thing? Unlimited money pouring in, mostly to the servants of anything wealthy. And the clueless enablers who prescribed the ghastly recipe? That’s our activist U.S. Supreme Court, which often chooses to function as lawyers for the political right wing.

Congress has done nothing for six years, unless you consider blatant obstruction doing something. Let’s say our vegetating Congress has not yet reached spoilage. We would need to oust at least half of them to stop the process.

But here’s the catch: There are legions of low-information voters who actually seem to prefer the rotten sauerkraut. I call it voting against your own best interests. The huge right wing propaganda blitz, led by the baloney king Rush Limbaugh, has successfully rendered them politically disabled. We can only hope they wise up and become informed, not misled, voters.

So now that Congress has slipped to the level of sauerkraut, by 2016 they should be ready for canning, don’t you think?

Stan Carpenter

Spokane Valley