I'm no turkey!

So, I have a request to the members of the Congress of the United States of America (in session).

Just stop.

Just stop even pretending that anything you do at all is other than tweaking the tax code and doling out tax dollars for those wealthy and privileged enough to give you big campaign contributions.

Stop with the to and fro about health care reform - it's so clear that you're just going to give MORE money to the health industry, just like you did with Medicare reform - just leave us be.

Stop with the agonizing about financial re-regulation or making it harder for people to get home loans - we know you don't care about people with social security numbers and direct deposit twice a month and ten thousand or so in their 401(k) program.

It's okay that you're shoving rules down our throats that require school districts to buy software and test models from the Bush family, and that some other insider has a contract to sell the RFID technology for the new driver licenses. We know you're about to re-privatize the TSA and lord, who KNOWS how many zeros will be on that check? We know that you're going to continue to reward those highest paying corporations with enormous contracts, mostly for weapons and contracting related to defense - defense against what?

No one cares to ask anymore.

We know that you are pushing hard for the guy who gave your daughter a $250,000 consulting gig six weeks out of her Bachelor's - and that she's not required to keep office hours.

We know that you pontificate about pretty much anything that will get you face time - FREE face time - on television. We know that you are focused on two things - delivery for those that wrote you the checks, and re-election to keep the checks coming.

We know that you don't give a damn about abortion rights, or the right to privacy, or equal access to the public airwaves - you don't care about "public" anything if you can sell a piece off to someone who'll drill another big check into your offshore account.

Just stop. Stop talking to us. Stop telling us that you're going to do anything for anyone that's not listed on the Fortune 500. Stop telling us anything at all, just keep getting your face on TV.

Wait, I think that has already happened. Maybe that's why the pontificating has gone so far into the realm of the absurd. If one added some pratfalls and a few exploding cigars, you'd have a Marx Brothers show. Some of you would embarass the Three Stooges.

Maybe the answer is for us, the people, the people who have birth certificates and not corporate charters, lawyers and lobbyists, to tune you out for good. Ignore you entirely.

Maybe the answer is for us to all of us just stop participating in this bi-annual sham called "national elections".

Maybe if we, the people, those who have voter registration cards, focused as much attention on ignoring you vacuous money grubbers as we now do on arguing in favor of whatever squid ink you're squirting into the media waters - maybe, if no one voted at all, responded to your polls, gave your campaign Twenty Dollars, signed up for your Facebook fan page, signed up on your email lists - maybe, just maybe - you'd have the constituency you actually represent.