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An Important Message to the Congress from the President
By Vernon Crumrine send a private message
Washington : DC : USA | Mar 22, 2010
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Today is the day after the passage of a monumental health care reform bill. Yet not unlike earlier attempts at other kinds of massive reform, the contentious debate involving that legislation would seem hardly over. As a matter of fact, we appear destined to continue hearing more almost endless counter-posing thoughts and ideas on the subject; some of them maybe valid; some of them maybe not.
Yet I think in looking beyond the legislation itself there are the actions of our elected officials which may be the most troubling. The predictable political fight over the specifics of health care reform and even the need for health care reform itself both promised and ultimately delivered vociferous highly vocal arguments as well as often fruitless discussions and frustrating impasse. And all of these would appear to show few signs of abating during the coming months or even in the coming years.
Knowing all of this, then, take a look at what the President had to say to the Senate and the House of Representatives concerning their duties and obligations:
…Permit me to bring to your remembrance the magnitude of your task. Without an unprejudiced coolness the welfare of the Government may be hazarded; without harmony as far as consists with freedom of sentiment its dignity may be lost. But as the legislative proceedings of the United States will never, I trust, be reproached for the want of temper or of candor, so shall not the public happiness languish from the want of my strenuous and warmest cooperation…
If you happen to believe that Barack ObamaBarack Obama sounded particularly eloquent in his words and in his even-tempered approach or if you’re thinking that you must have somehow missed the media coverage of the President’s speech, that’s because this speech never really made the sound bites on CNN, FOX, MSNBC or any of the media networks. In fact, even radio and the print media failed to carry the President’s timely words of advice.
But there was good reason for this apparent oversight and for the lack of wide-spread media coverage, for these were the words spoken by GeorgeGeorge Washington during his fifth annual address to the Congress in Philadelphia, on December 3, 1793.
Maybe it is time our current President repeated the wise words of one of his worthy predecessors; reminding this 111th Congress of their responsibilities to the electorate and to the American experiment in democracy. After all, it appears that some who now serve us may have forgotten some important details concering civility and decorum with the passage of almost 217 years.
Source: Yale Law School; The Avalon Project
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washs05.asp
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Posted By a211423 a211423 | about 2 hours ago
Vernon
Thank you for the historical pespective. Indeed, we can always learn from statesmen and women from the past!
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Posted By robertweller Robert Weller | about 2 hours ago
Thanks for sharing. We elected both the House and Senate. When they have completed their work it would be anti-American to contest it, in my view. It's America, love it or leave it.
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