The Congressional Etch-A-Sketch
Dear Friends,
Back during the “olden” days, as my children describe my high school years in the sixties, the Ohio Art Company launched a new toy called the Etch-A-Sketch. It became the must have toy for me and my younger sisters, and it was quite common to see my fellow high school freshman and I using the magic knobs to manipulate a drawing. If a sketch did not work out, we would simply shake it and begin again.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could simply erase something Members of Congress did that would instantly expel a foul statement made about a colleague, opposition political figure, or even some group that is vulnerable to socio/political demonization? Tragically, we cannot expunge and correct the past. Too bad Etch-A-Sketch doesn’t work for correcting do nothingness or hyper partisanship.
When we are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, we are hired by the people of our congressional district for a two year period to make things happen for their benefit. Therefore, we should not waste any time with political mischief. If we are not utilizing the precious time we are given to work on things for our constituents, we are in fact, wasting time.
We have just entered 2016, a brand spanking New Year which, blessedly, God entered ahead of us, and though there are two knobs on the Etch-A-Sketch pad, one on the bottom left and one on the bottom right, it does not mean that either party is providentially appointed to hit their knob at the end of the year and erase their 2016 moments of meanness, mutiny and miscalculations or misleading messaging.
There are 527,040 minutes in 2016 and as members of the House; we squander them at our peril.
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