Congress is snowed

The weather outside is frightful. If anyone doubts that severe climate change induced by global warming is real, just open the window. You have freezing temperatures as far south as Central Florida and snow had to be trucked into Vancouver, Canada for the Winter Olympics. Meanwhile, heavy rains cause massive mug slides in California and a blizzard whites out much of the rest of the nation.

Still, the naysayers ask, "where's Al Gore's global warming now?" There is no point in explaining the correlation to politicians who have a different agenda and can't deal with change of any kind.

In the nation's capital the federal government was closed down and Congress took a snow week, which is probably a good thing given the recent performance of lawmakers. Obviously, the lobbyists who play Congress all the time, where able to make it into work. Their hot air cuts through any obstacle, including blizzard conditions.

You can see their footprint on hung-up legislation to overhaul the student loan program and end subsidies to private lenders and to rewrite financial regulations that would protect consumers and encourage lending to small business. Everywhere you turn in the halls of Congress you see the shadowy profile of big financial institutions that want to maintain unreasonable profits and bonuses reflected on the walls.

When the sun starts warming things up again, the shadows will hopefully disappear, like melting snowmen, and Congress can accomplish what needs to be done to get our economy moving in the right direction to stimulate jobs.

And, That's That...