If we got thirty drops of rain from Tropical Storm Bonnie I’d consider it a flood. Just kidding. As I watched the Weather Channel on the computer as Bonnie tried and failed miserably to make herself into a full grown hurricane I was again grateful I don’t have cable. Or disk. I have a television, but when I moved in April of 2009 I refused all offers of television hookups. As I said, the little storm that couldn’t made me happy that I had chosen to be with television. I would have been screaming at it, maybe throwing something at it, and generally be downright irked about the coverage of Bonnie. Because I have seen it so many, many times before, the constant coverage with anchors and anchorites spouting off inane comments and trying to be all worried about the storm. Don’t kid yourself. They aren’t worried about the storm and how it will affect millions of peoples lives, oh no, they secretly want it to be a Category 5 monster, Katrina-like storm. I am convinced that is true.
Everyone seems to be holding their collective breaths waiting for this coming November’s mid-term elections. The Democrats are worried, as well they should be, that they will lose both the House and the Senate. Although I am not a political science major, nor am I an expert, I thought Bill Clinton would lose both times he ran for president, I have a problem with whoever wins in November. Oh, about Hussein’s (I refuse to call him Obama) victory in o8? I did predict that he would win. It was a done deal. The Republicans had no one to run against him, but I’m not too sure Ronald Reagan could have pulled off a victory in that race. Ah, race. The key word here. If Hussein has been a white man McCain might have stood a chance, but he wasn’t and he didn’t.
What has me scratching my head thinking about the coming political races this November is not will the Republicans win, and win convincingly, but what happens after these newly elected Republicans will do when they march into
I fear for
I am the worst kind of conservative, but I gotta tell you, I have about had the course with the Republicans, too. They seem to have crawled in bed with liberals at every twist in the road lately and made a hybrid breed of political elitists on the Hill.
ReplyDeleteOur present politicians only have two agendas:
1 - Get elected
2 - Stay in office at all costs
They rarely, if ever, vote what the people who sent them there are asking for if it angers the powers that be in the Houses. I don't expect that to change until we put term limits on both Houses.
Being a Congressman or Senator was never intended to be life-long career track. But that is what it has turned into and is the reason they keep us screwed over perpetually.
If they don't serve the "good old boys," they won't be there next term and they know it. It usually doesn't take a newbie very long to get spoiled on the excesses available to them at our expense as long as they stay elected. And just like most other government jobs, it's nearly impossible to get fired once you have found favor.
If you would have asked a Frenchman in 1781 if he ever thought things would change for the better in his world, he would have laughed in your face. But a short 8 years later their whole world turned upside down.
I don't think we are very far from that here if something major does not change most quickly.