It's time to get rid of the children in Congress

Jeff Miller, Rugby

In most homes with small children, there is always an additional resident. Whenever something is broken or spilled and a parent asks who is responsible, the answer is always “not me.” As the children grow and mature, Mr. Not Me usually moves away. It has always been a mystery as to where every Mr. Not Me goes to.
We now know the answer. Every Mr. Not Me ends up in Washington. No matter what happens in D.C., the culprit is always Mr. Not Me. Whether it is Congress or the administration, Mr. Not Me is the bad guy who stops Washington from working. Listen to any career congressman trying to explain why nothing ever gets done and he or she will always say the magic words, “It’s not me!!”
Mr. Not Me seems to flourish in settings where cronyism, corruption, careerism and complacency are the norm. No place is more awash with those four “Cs” than Congress. They have more excuses for failure than a 6-year-old caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Of course, in case of Congress, it is the taxpayers’ cookie jar that is being raided.
Since it is not very likely that our elected officials in Congress are going to mature and grow up, as our children did, the only way to get rid of Mr. Not Me is to get rid of the children in Congress. In other words, they all need to be voted out. These career cookie-jar raiders will continue to fail the American people until they are given a permanent time out.