How did it come to this in exactly one year? Last January 20 I was freezing my butt off trying to find my way to the area of the presidential inauguration to which I had tickets. Everything was so hopeful. Today the guys in the black hats have won their obstructionist spot: they have nothing to offer, so they block.
Frankly, the Democratic politicians deserve what they got. President Obama proved to be a wimp, Senate Majority Leader Reid proved to be nothing of the sort, House Speaker Pelosi proved she couldn't politick her way out of a paper bag.
It was a new era of change we could believe in, of hope, of peace. Instead we got endless war, derailed health care reform, same old same old. Martha Coakley proved to be a worse candidate than Virginia's Creigh Deeds, which I didn't believe possible!
So now, Fast Eddie's seat goes to the 41st Republican senator, the one who can shut the whole thing down. Let's all close the store and go fishin'.
2 comments:
Good idea – fishing. Shutting the whole thing down is even better. The mistake was in believing anything was going to change. An even worse mistake was to think that that change could have a messianic quality in it. Humans continue to be human. Why is that a surprise? -Gayle
Combining comments on Haiti with the state of our country, I think of Robertson who said Haiti had made a pack with the devil. In my view, it is we (the US) who've done so. With the exception of a phenomenal few like the 10,000+ volunteer/non-profit organizations of people who were already a presence, on the ground, in Haiti prior to the earthquake, the rest of us are just a vicious people.
Not happy with my world, Anne
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