C060526 Late Spring Cleaning

One would think that agreeing with your liberal minded Congressional
nemesis might sound your internal conservative alarm bells. Not in the
case of Speaker Hastert's recent romp to the White House to
complain about the FBI searching the Capitol Hill office of Rep.
Jefferson with a warrant provided by a federal judge. One would have
thought from the Speaker's reaction that the FBI was breaking into the
Congressman's office in the middle of the night without a warrant to
snoop for damaging evidence of secret democratic party plans to take
control of Texas.

The primary argument put forth by the Speaker of the House and other
out-of-touch long-term legislators in Washington D.C. was that this had
never happened before in the Constitution's 219-year history and it was
an infringement on the separation of powers between the Executive and
Legislative branches. Never happening before was probably something
that the congressman from Louisiana, Mr. Jefferson, was counting on
after investigators found $95,000 hidden in his freezer at his home in
August 2005 that matched the serial numbers of the $100 bills that the
Congressman accepted from an undercover FBI agent.

And yes for today I'll skip past wondering why it takes the FBI 9 months
"after" finding the money hidden in the Congressman's home before they
decide to search his office. Sounds like plenty of out-of-line respect for a
member of Congress...yet again.

There should be no thought on the part of the FBI or any other
investigating unit about giving a member of Congress some slack when
investigating suspected wrong-doing. The history of not searching a
member of Congress' office before last weekend just proves that it's
long overdue. I wonder how many cartons were moved out of offices this
week collectively by all members of Congress. Probably just some late
spring cleaning.

The new careerism job of Congress must be changed so that we elect
more people that were not offended by the FBI searching a suspected
and probably soon to be indicted Congressman's office. Changing the
Constitution so that members of Congress have limited term-limits is the
best way to reduce federal spending by both political parties, reduce the
impact of lobbyists, and bring about better governing.