Two weeks before the mid-term elections and OMG it looks like the crazies (as if it weren’t crazy enough) are about to take over DC. It seems the public has had enough of the way congress is treating them. The general consensus is to throw the baby out with the bath water. Put anybody, even if they don’t make any real sense in that congressional seat because the corrupt bastard now there is worthless and/or too corrupt.
The mainstream news media is making all this out to be Obama’s fault. It’s NOT his fault! He was handed a pile of crap, like eight years worth of crap. Including a broken economy a couple of foreign wars and God knows what else from the previous administration. The media says that the public has a selective and short memory. I say they make it that way. Before you FOX viewers go ballistic keep in mind that your favorite supposed news network doesn’t give the President not one inch of support on anything. Even for the good things he has done. That is what is happening and the other networks are piling on. Partisanship in this country has gone completely off the deep end. That said let’s elect the craziest bastards we can find out there. Oh, I don’t know, how ‘bout a couple of Senate candidates who are way out there.
There’s Christine O’Donnell a candidate from Delaware who seems as whacky as they can get but who is trying to act normal so she can get elected (I’m You). Dismissed by her own party and Karl Rove (which says something about her right there) she probably doesn’t have a real chance in predominately (north of the canal and highly populated) Democratic Delaware. Then there is Alaska’s Joe Miller, an attorney and self-described "constitutional conservative" (his constitutional conservatism is much like Glenn Beck’s with a make it up as you go attitude) backed by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express, who defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the primary. These are only a couple of a list that if all elected would set our country on its collective political ear.
Oh, and let’s not forget Carl Paladino, whose anti-gay remarks will probably ring in his ears for the rest of his life. That’s what he gets for reading cold (or near cold) copy without any revisions. What the hell was he thinking? He didn’t need that Jewish vote anyway. Way to go, Carl.
If you think that our congress is not getting anything done now, wait until these wing-nuts are elected to office. What they’ll do is make our already partisan congress even more so. Looking for their own brand of laws shaped to the way they interpret the constitution or laws already written and passed. Just what we don’t need is finally passing the “flag burning bill”.
What makes me really crazy are these Tea-Party people who think (I use that term loosely) that their way of looking at our government is the best of the conservative way. Let me paraphrase here “every man for him-self!” That was/has been the Republican mantra for years. Now it’s split between the Republicans and Tea-Partiers. Add to that the Tea-Partiers angst for taxes (how would we get those super highways built?) and it makes you wonder how incredibility insane (more like non-logical) these folks really are. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition was a popular song in the ‘40’s. It shouldn’t even fit today. But strangely enough it does. We’ve become the society that Eisenhower feared in the 50’s. The military industrial complex has taken over the economy and doesn’t want to let go. If they do then so does big oil. So they send X number of lobbyists to DC loaded with cash and bennies and corrupt each and every congressional representative they can come in contact with.
What we do need is clear and professional thinking on how to cure the problems facing our country. Something that hasn’t been done in over 20 years. Think of what could be done. Real change could happen, you know, the kind you voted for in 2008.
This is my real disappointment with President Obama. Too much talk, not enough action. I believe he tried to take on too much at once. Instead of focusing on getting the economy fixed he decides he wants to take on everything. I applaud his tenacity but way too much was screwed up before he even took office.
Also, he hasn’t been tough enough on the opposing party. He should use his position as leader of the Democratic Party to step on them as hard as he can. The reason he can’t is because the help he would need from congress wouldn’t be available because of a lot of Democrats there are right-winged. What really needs to happen is that he needs to introduce legislation to re institute the fairness doctrine (that’s if the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive war applies, as well. A doctrine is a doctrine, ya know). With the fairness doctrine in place those 24 hour news channels (all of them including FOX) would have to report news instead of opinion. If it was opinion they gave they would have to give equal time to the other side. Doesn’t that smell sweet? Why we just might get some of the right people in office.
Let’s call it like it is. What we all want is the America we had in the 40’s and 50’s. Slightly naïve and just patriotic enough to elect people who wanted to do the people’s business instead of constant campaigning.
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