There is a public sense that hackers work quickly and quietly, tapping away at keyboards across the ocean, destroying an organization or company from within before anyone realizes what has happened.
After all, in an Internet age things are supposed to happen "right now" in "real time" and go on 24/7. But if you look at how security experts have named some of the hackers' successful creations, you see a different story. A Trojan Horse goes back to ancient Greece. Worms move rather glacially through the dirt in the backyard after a nice rain. And even viruses can infect the victim for a considerable time before they suddenly reach critical mass and destroy the host (and thus their own home).
While we've been focused on the drama surrounding Sony, there is a much more advanced hack job that has taken hold in America. It's not on the Internet—it's in the United States Congress.
How Congress was hacked
The hack job is that elections no longer matter. A select, well-funded group of incumbent candidates tell those they "represent" a carefully crafted story as they travel from town hall to town hall, to buy their vote.
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Big media, whose payoff is election-year advertising, is in on the infestation. Reporters and editors have their own idea of what is "good for the country" and aren't afraid to explain it to the rest of us, when what they should be reporting is the trojan/worm/viral infestation destroying representative government.
The end result is that "the elect" have commandeered representative government and now do as they please, without regard for the health and well-being of the nation as a whole.
In the last election, an overwhelming majority of the voters who elected Republicans wanted an end to illegal immigration, are deeply afraid of what an unchecked, over-reaching executive will do next and live in legal chaos where powerful bureaucracies make their own laws as they go along.
Thanks for your vote – now get stuffed.
This Republican faithful (and many Independents and some Democrats) voted for Republicans in an effort to derail the runaway freight train the federal government has become, both here and abroad. These voters gave the Republicans a majority in both houses of Congress that was way beyond the expectations of Republican pollsters and pundits.
The only real authority Congress has over the freight train's driver is to let the fuel run out. But the viral leadership infection inside the existing Republican insiders club had other ideas. "We'll fund the freight train for another year."
In so doing, John Boehner and the viral D.C. insiders have removed the only leverage the new Republican majority would have had in dealing with the runaway train's driver. They wrapped up their surrender flag around a pile of cash and handed the money to the over-reaching executive as the train screamed by the station!
Crippling the new Republican majority
The cash was rounded up and the bag full of money and broken dreams handed over by Speaker John Boehner. At this point, does it really matter if Mr. Boehner was sincere in his actions?
No, it doesn't. One man doesn't have the right to thwart the will of the voters and the next Congress, regardless of how good or ill his intentions. His actions symbolize clearly the problem of the insider trojan/worm/viral infestation that has taken hold of America and has a death-grip around the entire nation's neck!
The D.C. culture is poisoning the nation. Regardless of whether Mr. Boehner brought the hack job with him when he came to D.C. or contracted the infestation when he was there, he has to go as speaker. He has lost all moral authority to lead his fellow Republicans, especially those who still consider themselves responsible to the people who elected them.
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