Incompetent Congress Passes House Resolution 194

The most recent NBC/WSJ Congressional Job Rating poll reports an abysmal Congressional approval rate of 15%. President Bush has twice as good an approval rating from Americans at 30%. Yet, if you read the Washington Post, New York Times, or tune in to a major network's evening news broadcast regularly, you might get the feeling that those ratings are inverted and Bush is less favored. Funny how most of the blame from the media goes to someone accepted twice as much by the American people themselves.

However, today is a good example of just exactly why Americans despise our Congressional "leaders". While the average citizen is thinking about how he's going to pay for the next tank of gas, pay off a credit card bill, or keep his home, Congress members in Washington are apologizing for slavery and the Jim Crow era. APOLOGIZING FOR SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO. NOT approving offshore drilling (which the majority of Americans desire), NOT approving stricter border control, NOT providing supplies to our soldiers, but making a formal apology about slavery. Here is some of the apology:

"Whereas slavery was not officially abolished until the passage of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865 after the end of the Civil War, which was fought over the slavery issue;

Whereas after emancipation from 246 years of slavery, African-Americans soon saw the fleeting political, social, and economic gains they made during Reconstruction eviscerated by virulent racism, lynchings, disenfranchisement, Black Codes, and racial segregation laws that imposed a rigid system of officially sanctioned racial segregation in virtually all areas of life;

Whereas the system of de jure racial segregation known as `Jim Crow,' which arose in certain parts of the Nation following the Civil War to create separate and unequal societies for whites and African-Americans, was a direct result of the racism against persons of African descent engendered by slavery;"

I thought that the 13-15th Amendments were an apology. I thought the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was an apology. I thought we enacted Affirmative Action programs as an apology. What makes today so special as to require a new, formal apology from Congress?

Could it be that the Democrat-led Congress is putting forth this guilt-ridden subject for purely political reasons? You know, just before a historic election involving a black man? Could that possibly be the reason behind this? (Gasp!) Are they really just doing this to help their candidate get elected? I'm sorry, but there is NO other reason this issue would come up today if it were not for Barack Obama's candidacy. This Congress is a disgrace to the citizens it represents. When will something PRODUCTIVE ever come out of the National Congress again?