One Small Voice: Congress, not America, is rotting

The release of the Mueller Report was an anticlimax for me.

Though I did not expect a full-blown condemnation of the president, I did expect some definitive evidence of explicit wrong-doing on the part of our fearful leader.  After all, during the course of the investigation by Mueller’s team there were several indictments, several admissions of guilt, the handing down of sentences for those who had admitted their guilt, and, not least of all, what could only be described as suspicious behavior on the part of the president himself.

Trump tweeted and threw tantrums when it appeared something akin to poo was going to hit the fan.  He spoke “no collusion, no collusion” like a frenzied parrot.  He struck out at individuals, called names, pronounced edicts, declared a national emergency whose occurrence was of his own making, and continued to extol the praises of tyrants while debasing a deceased national hero of his own party.

The mere unhinged appearance of the president had me convinced that he was guilty of something.  (And he may yet be found guilty by the Southern District Court of New York of other crimes.)

But despite the anticlimax, I found myself just plain disgusted by Republicans and Democrats alike, who rapidly devolved into children, assigning blame, calling names, threatening retribution, creating enemies lists, promising further probes  into presidential misdeeds, ad nauseum.

How dispiriting to watch the people WE elected to serve US devolve into self-serving, politicking toadies who had totally forgotten for whom they were supposed to be working.

I’m sure I’m not the only person who is sick to death of the litany coming out of the halls of Congress.

Having read today’s column by Ranger Rick, I have to disagree that the president  is owed an apology.   The apology, if there will ever be one, is owed to us, the American people.

We didn’t sign on for any kind of carnival during the 2016 election.  We didn’t expect to see well-educated men and women regress to irrational, immature adolescents who refused to speak civilly to one another, or to seek reasonable solutions to their disagreements regarding Supreme Court appointments, questionable firings of FBI directors and Attorneys General, or honest immigration reform.

For now I choose to stay silent and watch.  How will these supposed leaders from around our nation comport themselves as we all sort out the particulars of the Mueller Report?

Without doubt, there is more to that report than what we have been privy to since the release.  Certain Republicans are already throwing their weight around regarding the release of the full report to Congress and the public.  Certain Democrats are threatening to probe in committees whatever they can because they are so disappointed that incontrovertible evidence of collusion with the Russians was not proven.

America is not, in my opinion, rotting from within. America is us, and for the most part the Americans I see and interact with daily are far from rotting.  They are fine, upstanding, compassionate and hard-working people.

But as of the release of the Mueller Report, in my humble opinion, Congress is rotting from within.  I can only sigh my disappointment.