Dude, you've got to chill out on the extreme political dogma. You're missing the point. It's not Democrats versus Republicans; it's Spy vs. Spy; it's us versus them; it's the citizens versus the political machines. I don't have too much experience with independents or Libertarians (or Librarians for that matter) but in my 52 years of watching our political process I have found that you can't trust any of the mainline political parties. The mainline political parties, just like organized religions, need to be monitored like paroled pedophiles because both the political and religious institutions are so far away from the wise men and prophets that founded them.
The pending health care legislation is splitting our elected representatives right down party lines but there is one issue that both the democratic and republican senators and representatives agree upon: it won't apply to them. They will have their own seperate life-long guaranteed platinum health care benefits. You can't trust any of them.
And regardless of who is "in charge" it will still be a cluster. Bush wasn't the smartest stinger in the beehive certainly. He believed that there was no problem that couldn't be solved with the proper amount of explosives and Dick Cheney probably told him that math skills were not a pre-requisite for the job of the chief executive, but for all the damage that he did ( or is perceived to have done) in international relations and the economy remember that the Democrats were in control of both houses of congress during his second term and they didn't do too much to forsee or prevent the financial collaspe even though they headed up all the finance and banking committees. You can't trust any of them.
The men and women in Washington flush more money down the toilet in one hour than you and I would ever see in 100 lifetimes. Bush racked up a record setting deficit in 8 years but Obama has shown exactly what an under-achiever he really was; he tripled Bush's deficit in a matter of a few measley months. Don't get me wrong, a huge wad of cash was needed to get things moving again but these bills and bailout packages are stuffed with more pork than an Arkansas barbeque pit on Labor Day. The legislators, both Republican and Democrat, who do that should be hunted down and have industrial metered volts of electricity pumped through their private parts. You can't trust any of them.
They pass bills that none of them have read. For God's sake, doesn't Evelyn Wood have an office in the beltway? You can't trust any of them.
Bush put a man in charge of FEMA who ran a horse track and Obama put a man in charge of the Treasury that didn't pay his taxes. You can't trust any of them.
We are no longer looking for the best candidate but the lessor of two evils. What a sad state of affairs.
The last administration had a hard time admitting that the economy was in a recession; the current administration is having a hard time admitting that we are still in one. You can't trust any of them.
Everyday I see news postings where an administration official is asked if the economy is improving. The official shakes his Magic 8 ball and says "all signs point to Yes". I'm not seeing it in my paycheck or my savings plans. The only organization thriving in the current economy is Wal-Mart which I suppose is appropriate since they spearheaded the collapse by buying all of their merchandise from sweat-shop overseas manufacturers. It won't be long before Lady Liberty is standing in the harbor wearing a blue vest and holding a Wal-Mart sales flyer instead of the bible and the inscription at the bottom of her base wll be changed from "Give me your tired, your poor" to "Welcome to Wal-Merica, would you like a shopping cart? We have a great sale on politicians and dignity this week".
We went from Bush who was pretty far to the right to Obama who is so far left that he is passing Socialism, collecting his $200, and progressing on to Communism. And you my friend, above all people, should remember that John Lennon wisely said that "if you go carryin' pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make with anyone, any how. (I truley hope) it's gonna be alright".
