Do as Peter King Does, Not as Billy Long Promised Voters: What Happened to Fed Up With Career Politicians?

Congressman Peter King (R-NY) has introduced another piece of legislation, and to no surprise, Billy Long is once again the co-sponsor of the legislation. Now this is interesting since Billy Long said he was fed up with career politicians in Washington, because it's obvious now whatever Peter King does Billy Long follows.

King is an 18 year veteran Congressman, which definitely qualifies him as a career congressman. He was sent to the Hill in 1993. In the early days of this new Congress, if King introduces a bill you can count on Billy Long's name to be on it. This concerns me after King said there needs to be more gun control after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, and we know how Long responded as he abused his government powers asking the FBI to investigate a blogger that was critical of Mr. Long.

So in two months, King has sponsored three high profile bills and Long's name has showed up on everyone of them, including the ones that grow government like the "If You See Something Say Something Act of 2011," which gives Janet Napolitano more power through a citizen spy network that you will soon see take form on video monitors at your local Walmart. As well, King and Long have been criticized for their collaboration to taken HAM radio frequencies and use them for emergency broadband internet WiFi frequencies, something that looks like it might be set up for the Internet kill switch. Now Long has put his name on King's Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Security Authorization Act of 2011, H.R. 901, proving once again, Long is hanging with the career politicians rather than offer anything fresh to DC culture.

What does HR901 do? It extends by seven years the authority of DHS to regulate the security of high-risk chemical facilities. In other words, more government security like the crackpot TSA teams overseeing chemical facilities all over the United States. The DHS is the same people who's mis-trained and grope happy thugs allowed three box cutters on an airplane at JFK just less than two weeks ago. More inefficient government in the name of national security is what King and Long is giving us.

Back to the original point, Long was never fed up with career politicians, and he shows everyday he loves hanging with them, especially gun-grabbing Peter King.