Hypocritical Congress:FBI Raid Bad-NSA Raid - So What?

Gridlock is reaching all time highs this year on capital hill. The scandal of the week is currently a result of the FBI raids on a Louisiana representative accused of taking $100k and putting $90k in his freezer where the FBI later found it. The controversy surrounds the FBI's search and seizure of the representatives Capital offices. Its controversial because an executive branch of the government (Attorney General working with FBI) raided an office of another branch.

Now it appears that the evidence in the news would point towards justification in this search if the target was not a congressman. To this effect a court even granted a search warrant. However, justification and court demands have been present in many cases where the situation was reversed and Congress was attempting to seek evidence or documents from the executive branch (Watergate (70's version), Iran Contra, WhiteWater, Lewinsky, Cheney's Energy Counsel, and the recent Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of the number 3 at the CIA, Contracts and Hookers and limos and gambling, Oh My!.

Just before this latest outrage occurred many 'normal' Americans were quite upset over recurring and new revelations that the Executive Branch of the Government was using the NSA to spy on 'normal' Americans. Analyzing our phone records and conversations for traffic patterns, reading our email and checking up on the websites that we search in real time if they like, while we search them. Congress apparently could care less about 'normal' Americans, I know they seem to forget that they should be normal Americans too and the Executive Branch was probably spying on their phone calls and internet searches too. It wouldn't be the first time afterall, just ask G. Gordon Liddy.

So right as outrage is building about a government that would use their most capable intelligence agency to spy on everyday Americans, what happens?

1. The General responsible for the spying program is promoted and put in charge of the CIA, which required the approval of Congress.

2. A media frenzy is whipped up over a single congressman, who's office was searched by the FBI and this frenzy dwarfs the searches that have occurred and continue to occur everyday for millions of Americans.

Congress is jumping to the aid of what circumstantially appears to be a corrupt politician (I don't like the search of his office any better than they do). Congress seems to have their priorities turned upside down, twisted sideways around their head and pulled back down the length of their spine, between their legs and pulled up their front picking them up off the ground in an Atomic Wedgy of Priority Mis-Management!

Their yelling about the Fox carrying an egg out of the hen house. They aren't paying attention to the fact that the Fox just wired up the Hen house with 1 million tons of TNT and set a timer to detonate in 5 seconds.

So what is all this noise?

Its Gridlock! and this has been your editorial of Gridlock-On-Rye

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