Undifferentiated Schizophrenia: Politics Today

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) states that to be diagnosed with Schizophrenia two or more of the following symptoms must be present for more than one month:

Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized Speech, Thought Disorder (Disorganized and unusual thinking), Grossly disorganized behavior, Catatonic Behavior (Maybe in some cases), Social Dysfunction, Occupational Dysfunction, Impaired Social Cognition, Avolition (A lack of drive, desire, or motivation to pursue meaningful goals), Anhedonia (the inability to experience pleasure).

Damn... sure sounds like congress to me!

Congress has reached an all time low: A 9 percent approval rating. Don't kid yourselves, it's not an approval rating, it's a 91 percent DISAPPROVAL rating.

According to the LA Times 72% of Americans believe members of congress are more interested in furthering there own careers than doing public good.

Here is where the Schizophrenia comes on the strongest: The Democrat controlled congress blames the Republican minority for their approval rating and things will be better when they have a stronger majority. Don't like milk? Here have some more... don't worry it'll grow on you.

I am ROFLMAO at the blog posts like:

"Once the Democratic Party obtains a much larger majority in the next election cycle, they will be in a much better situation to ward-off the failed Republican policies, and bring our country back to greatness, once again."

Or this one:

"Barack will lead the party to victory in Nov. With a greater Dem najority, more legislation will be passed to allow more government control over policy. This desirable shift to the left is what we the people want. The Sierra Club will play a key role in establishing ground rules for decreased pollution through conservation and reduced driving. 55 mph speed limits should be passed on Day One. SUVs and non-commercial trucks should be reduced as much as possible. This is a new era. Animal rights will be respected."

HELLO? ANYBODY IN THERE? WOW...THAT POKE IN THE EYE HURT...DO IT AGAIN, MAYBE IT'LL FEEL BETTER THE 26th TIME. OW! NOPE! AGAIN! OW!

WOO HOO! look at Congress go! National Watermelon Month! (Hmmmmm......watermelon). Potato Month (Hmmmm, potatoes!) Congratulations Iowa Hawkeyes! Way to Wrestle! GO HAWKEYES GO! Recognized Soil as a natural resource (Hmmmmm.... Soil!)

13% of Democrats give congress a good rating, 8% of Republicans, and only 3% of Independents

I have a proposal... let's tie congressional salary to approval ratings!

Currently rank and file members earn $169,300, at a 9% approval rating, that would be $15237 Sounds like some organization owes the American public $67,017, 405

Tomorrow, the Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence Subcommittee meets to discuss Human Intelligence in the Intelligence Community...

HOW BOUT SOME HEARINGS ON HUMAN INTELLIGENCE IN CONGRESS?

Lets take a look at some of the acts of Congress and see if we can figure out why their approval rate is so low:

House Resolution (HR) 437 To name the post office in Rio Grande City TX "Lino Perez Jr."

HCON RES 44: Honoring and Praising the NAACP on it's 98th anniversary

H Res 120: Recognizing the African American Spiritual as a national treasure (And they said congress could never agree on anything, passed 426-0)

H.CON.RES.34 Title: Honoring the life of Percy Lavon Julian

H.RES.59 Title: Supporting the goals and ideals of National Engineers Week

H.RES.90 Title: Congratulating Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears and Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts on becoming the first African-American head coaches of National Football League teams to qualify for the Super Bowl

H.RES.58 Title: To honor Muhammad Ali, global humanitarian

H.RES.43 Title: Commending the Boise State University Broncos football team for winning the 2007 Fiesta Bowl

H.R.759 Title: To redesignate the Ellis Island Library "The Bob Hope Library"

H.RES.89 Title: a day should be established as Dutch-American Friendship Day

H.CON.RES.112 Title: Supporting the goals and ideas of a National Child Care Worthy Wage Day

H.RES.233 Title: Recognizing over 200 years of sovereignty of the Principality of Liechtenstein

H.RES.467 Title: Condemning the decision by the leadership of the University and College Union of the United Kingdom to support a boycott of Israeli academia.

Flake of Arizona Amendment: I got news for you, you're all flakes!

This is just a smattering of some of the silly things accomplished. Not to demean the accomplishments of any of the aforementioned people, groups, etc... BUT IS THIS WHAT WE ARE PAYING 169K A YEAR FOR?

Can't naming post offices be delegated down to some GS-5 somewhere?

Did we send you to Washington to congratulate football teams?

QUIT WASTING OUR TIME AND MONEY

and you wonder why you have only a 9% approval rating

Okay, National Defense Budget GOOD.... Recognizing Liechtenstein BAD. You should have learned to recognize Liechtenstein in 9th grade geography class!

You could write a book on this: Stupid Congress Tricks!

~Finntann~