The U.S. Congress finally swung into action this week aroused by admissions of marital infidelity and the surrounding scandal. Like most Americans I was glad to see Congress take its oversight responsibilities seriously. We all know that a Congressional investigation into the Petraeus affair is of the utmost importance in these dangerous times.
And rightly so Congress will continue to ignore less important matters that at this point can only be distractions. For example investigating the President and Executive Branch for maintaining that the government can kill Americans without judicial due process. Everyone knows that the American public embraces this policy because the government can be trusted to only kill the right Americans.
Another minor irritation that troublemakers might harp on at this politically critical juncture is the growing use of drones over the United States by the government to spy on its own citizens. Congress is well aware that the only people bringing up this issue are those who obviously have something to hide. Their tired appeals for the respect of "civil rights" can't be seriously considered now, with the current state of the country.
Don't even get me started on people who want Congress to investigate the government programs that capture citizens' email messages and mobile phone conversations. Or war. Or voting rights.
We should all be thankful that the "do nothing" Congress has recently learned its lesson and that it will begin to probe deeply into the critical matter of juvenile female posturing and infidelity by males in powerful positions. Covered interminably by a 24 hour, hype driven, low information news media, I expect this matter will be investigated thoroughly by Congress until it has extracted the maximum political value.
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