Did you know Congress largely is made up of “a breed of milksop, politically correct, scared of their own shadow, pushover, pathetic excuses for public servants?”
That’s the opinion of music legend Charlie Daniels, who calls himself a “proud American” and blogs on the website for his Charlie Daniels Band.
“The courageous politicians that once championed this nation have been replaced, for the most part, by a breed of milksop, politically correct, scared of their own shadow, pushover, pathetic excuses for public servants who are supposed to be representing a constituency of citizens who have to live with the circumstances of their timid folly,” he wrote in an “open letter to Congress” this week.
Citing the courage of previous generations of Americans, he singles out the current Congress for its actions regarding the Obama administration’s deal with Iran. The agreement will provide the rogue Islamic government that wants to wipe out Israel with hundreds of billions of dollars and, according to critics, virtually ensures Tehran will get nuclear weapons.
“It took a lot of old fashioned guts for the Continental Congress to stand up to the world’s mightiest military and tell them that we demanded our independence,” he wrote. Likewise for Abraham Lincoln to “push the country into a Civil War” or for American troops to “storm the beaches of Normandy.”
To Congress directly, he wrote: “You don’t even have the courage to face down an out of control president, even when he makes a deal with the devil. Don’t you bunch of timid capons even care what kind of world you’re leaving to your children and grandchildren, not to even mention the rest of us?”
He urges Congress to go and look into a mirror.
“Ask the person you see this question, ‘Do I really believe that Iran will not use the money we’re releasing to them to finance terrorists to kill Americans, and, when, not if, but when, the Iranians develop their nuclear device, will they really use it against America and Israel?'”
He said Congress’ faults are many.
“You have allowed Obama to tilt the Supreme Court so far to the left that they’re little more than a shameful extension of the executive branch. You have talked for decades about the porous southern border but have done absolutely nothing… You have allowed cities … to declare themselves sanctuary cities where they protect the worst of the worst criminal aliens.”
Further, he said, “You watch an impossible national debt balloon completely out of control knowing full well that a day of reckoning is coming that will seriously curtail the quality of life for coming generations.”
He also cites “corrupt government agencies like the IRS.”
“I wish you bunch of sold-out, jaded, burned-out hacks would just go home and let some people who still have some vision and whose consciences haven’t been seared past the point of reminding them when they’re wrong take over and start to claw this nation back.”
What does he REALLY think about Congress?
“You’re no longer men, you’re puppets, you’re caricatures, jokes, a gaggle of fading prostitutes for sale to anybody who can do you a political favor.”
“‘For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?'” he quoted from the Bible.
Daniels was born in 1936 and has been a major figure in the American music industry since the 1950s. He’s probably best known for his hit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” and he was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in 2009.
His list of accomplishments extends for pages, and he’s provoked the political class in the past with songs such as “Simple Man,” which was interpreted as advocating vigilantism. He also once said he was more afraid of Sen. Harry Reid than he was of terrorists.
One commenter on the website said: “I want to vote for: Trump an[d] Daniels!!!!”
A recent survey of polls found that only 15 Americans in 100 approve of Congress’ performance, while five times as many disapprove.
