I was shocked at this morning's cartoon on the editorial page.  Our president dancing with Dracula?  I agree that President Obama has crossed the line with regard to abusing the powers of the presidency, but that was way over the line, disrespectful, disgusting, inappropriate, and not at all true.  It isn't the president that is sucking the blood out of our country. He does not control the purse. 

            Now picturing bloodsucking members of congress dancing with Dracula would at least be metaphorically applicable.  Grijalva and his ilk, for example.  They feed off the public, sell their souls for another election.   

         We pay members of the house a salary of  $200,000 a year and provide them with MRA's (Members Representative Allowances of  $1,400,000 year.   Senators get an additional $3,300,000 a year.   All of them are fully vested in the retirement system after only 5 years and by the time they retire, which is always none to soon, they are all millionaires. 

          Martha Stewart went to prison for insider trading, but members of congress get to do it without penalty.  They know they are passing a law on Monday that is going to affect the stock of a company, so on Friday they call their investment advisers.  It's perfectly legal for them.

         I am not a mathematician, so I would appreciate your correcting me if I'm wrong (http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid='0E%2C*PL%5B%3D%23P%20%20%0A), but I think that means that we pay those bloodsuckers a trillion dollars a year and they can't even pass a budget.  Their one duty, their only real responsibility is to meet every year and establish a budget, and they can't get it done.