While perusing through the Internet this weekend and checking the Wall Street Journal online, I found something that could not possibly be true. It seems that our own “Cajun Obama,” U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, took a junket to both the South Pole and the Great Barrier Reef to study global warming, accompanied by the always lovely, Peachy Melancon. Such intense academic lessons on this “study” trip were to see penguins, scuba dive the Great Barrier, ride a cable car in Australia and I guess see some polar bears breed in the South Pole, or at least that’s what I’m guessing on the latter.
What I cannot for the life of me understand is the following: why in the hell is an inconsequential congressman, accompanied by the always lovely, Peachy Melancon, from a relatively insignificant district in Louisiana taking a $500,000 trip on our nickel, during an economic depression, to study something that is strictly a theory. The first thing that I thought of is that this “carbon footprint” left by this trip should be the size of Sasquatch.
These clowns in Congress, of both parties, who feel that their election to a seat in the nation’s capital ultimately shows that they are of royalty now, should be immediately discharged from their service at the earliest possible election.
Melancon has lost touch with his district long ago and now is hiding in some secure location, I’m assuming, so that he will not have to answer for his progressive voting record as of late. His appalling and arrogant behavior is beyond reprehensible and should show all of his constituents that C.O. (Cajun Obama) has not lived up to our expectations regarding a representative from a conservative district and it’s time for him to paddle back down the bayou to Napoleonville.
This is just a snapshot in time of hypocrisy. Take a look at the whole picture and you’ll see the Congress of the United States.
Christopher J. Gary
New Iberia
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