Ever since the election of President Obama in 2008, it seems that there's been no end to the vitriol aimed at him by certain people who blame him for everything that is wrong with our country. As a result, the opposing party has made it their agenda, from Day One of the Obama Presidency, to take him down, to stymie him at every turn and to do everything in their power to assure that he fails at every single thing he attempts to do so that he will be remembered as a mediocre one term President who got nothing done. It's appalling to think that the people who are supposed to be working for the greater good of this nation are so busy planning internecine warfare against the President that they aren't bothering to do anything to address the serious problems facing this country. For them, it is in their best interest to keep people down and unemployed, to see to it that our economy remains stagnant and to make sure that the unemployment numbers stay frighteningly high so that they can ride in on a white horse offering all kinds of solutions to our economic woes that in essence aren't really going to help at all, but will sound good to a public accustomed to thirty second sound bytes. Washington has become a place where party warfare has been raised to a new art form and where people are paid outlandish salaries to do nothing but fight one another instead of working to make this a better country. It's sad and it's shameful and I wish like hell that something could be done. They almost need a strict schoolmaster sort of person to go into Congressional chambers and sober them all up and tell them to start acting like adults instead of a bunch of schoolyard bullies. No wonder Congress has such a low approval rating. Since when did they ever do
anything that benefitted
anybody but themselves? Most of them are in the back pockets of the corporations that donate ridiculous sums of money to their re-election campaigns. After all, it takes millions of dollars these days to run a campaign and these Congressmen and Senators rely on the generous corporate cash doled out to candidates to be able to win elections.
I am beginning to be convinced that money has become the corrupting influence in Washington. It takes so much to win elections that legislators become seduced by it. They have to befriend rich and powerful lobbyists who will see to it that the corporations they represent will endow them with plenty of cash in order to run their re-election campaigns. Members of the House of Representatives, in particular, can't really get anything done because their terms of office are only two years long and they need to spend nearly their entire terms raising the cash they need in two years time to be re-elected. In their spare time, they may vote on a bill or two, maybe host a town hall meeting back home in their district, but for the most part, they become disconnected from the reality of every day people because they badly need to spend their terms of office raising millions of dollars for campaigning. Since it takes about a year to campaign for office, that means that their first year as a member of the House they can get some things done, but their entire second year must be spent raising money and being on the campaign trail, not very conducive to being able to listen to the problems of the very people whose vote put you in Washington in the first place. Heck, I am already getting campaign calls from candidates who won re-election in the midterms back last year who are already raising money for the 2012 election cycle! It's ridiculous how much time they have to spend on fundraising in order to win an election. There's got to be a better way to do this than to have to spend almost your entire time in office fundraising to get yourself re-elected. However, now it seems that our voices won't count anymore anyway since the
Citizens United Supreme Court ruling gave carte blanche to corporations to go out and buy the candidates of their choice, effectively putting an end to our democracy. Worse, some of the shadowy PACs out there raising money for their candidates do not have to reveal who their donors are, so our country could, in essence, be bought by foreign investors who donate money to some of these PACs run by the super rich. It's enough to make my blood boil, but there's nothing we can do since the Supreme Court made what is obviously an activist ruling. Is it any wonder that so many people are so fed up and angry? Sadly, they are directing their anger at the wrong person in the White House. They should have called the previous administration to account, but they got away with murder, literally, and no one called 'em on it. This administration is vulnerable since Obama is not only the first African-American President, but he is
literally African-American since his father was born and raised in Kenya, putting Obama's citizenship in doubt to some who still insist he's foreign born and not eligible to be President. What utter nonsense. No other President has been forced to do more dancing with opposition to try to prove to them that he's not the anti-Christ. When and where it will end is anybody's guess, but some folks won't be happy until he's on a helicopter flying out of Washington and back to Chicago forever. Sadly, that may come sooner rather than later, if things don't start turning around soon, and Republicans are going to see to it and work their behinds off to make sure that things stay as bad as possible so that they can make themselves out to be the white knights who will come in and make it all better. Yeah, and if you believe THAT..........
Ever since the election of President Obama in 2008, it seems that there's been no end to the vitriol aimed at him by certain people who blame him for everything that is wrong with our country. As a result, the opposing party has made it their agenda, from Day One of the Obama Presidency, to take him down, to stymie him at every turn and to do everything in their power to assure that he fails at every single thing he attempts to do so that he will be remembered as a mediocre one term President who got nothing done. It's appalling to think that the people who are supposed to be working for the greater good of this nation are so busy planning internecine warfare against the President that they aren't bothering to do anything to address the serious problems facing this country. For them, it is in their best interest to keep people down and unemployed, to see to it that our economy remains stagnant and to make sure that the unemployment numbers stay frighteningly high so that they can ride in on a white horse offering all kinds of solutions to our economic woes that in essence aren't really going to help at all, but will sound good to a public accustomed to thirty second sound bytes. Washington has become a place where party warfare has been raised to a new art form and where people are paid outlandish salaries to do nothing but fight one another instead of working to make this a better country. It's sad and it's shameful and I wish like hell that something could be done. They almost need a strict schoolmaster sort of person to go into Congressional chambers and sober them all up and tell them to start acting like adults instead of a bunch of schoolyard bullies. No wonder Congress has such a low approval rating. Since when did they ever do anything that benefitted anybody but themselves? Most of them are in the back pockets of the corporations that donate ridiculous sums of money to their re-election campaigns. After all, it takes millions of dollars these days to run a campaign and these Congressmen and Senators rely on the generous corporate cash doled out to candidates to be able to win elections.
I am beginning to be convinced that money has become the corrupting influence in Washington. It takes so much to win elections that legislators become seduced by it. They have to befriend rich and powerful lobbyists who will see to it that the corporations they represent will endow them with plenty of cash in order to run their re-election campaigns. Members of the House of Representatives, in particular, can't really get anything done because their terms of office are only two years long and they need to spend nearly their entire terms raising the cash they need in two years time to be re-elected. In their spare time, they may vote on a bill or two, maybe host a town hall meeting back home in their district, but for the most part, they become disconnected from the reality of every day people because they badly need to spend their terms of office raising millions of dollars for campaigning. Since it takes about a year to campaign for office, that means that their first year as a member of the House they can get some things done, but their entire second year must be spent raising money and being on the campaign trail, not very conducive to being able to listen to the problems of the very people whose vote put you in Washington in the first place. Heck, I am already getting campaign calls from candidates who won re-election in the midterms back last year who are already raising money for the 2012 election cycle! It's ridiculous how much time they have to spend on fundraising in order to win an election. There's got to be a better way to do this than to have to spend almost your entire time in office fundraising to get yourself re-elected. However, now it seems that our voices won't count anymore anyway since the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling gave carte blanche to corporations to go out and buy the candidates of their choice, effectively putting an end to our democracy. Worse, some of the shadowy PACs out there raising money for their candidates do not have to reveal who their donors are, so our country could, in essence, be bought by foreign investors who donate money to some of these PACs run by the super rich. It's enough to make my blood boil, but there's nothing we can do since the Supreme Court made what is obviously an activist ruling. Is it any wonder that so many people are so fed up and angry? Sadly, they are directing their anger at the wrong person in the White House. They should have called the previous administration to account, but they got away with murder, literally, and no one called 'em on it. This administration is vulnerable since Obama is not only the first African-American President, but he is literally African-American since his father was born and raised in Kenya, putting Obama's citizenship in doubt to some who still insist he's foreign born and not eligible to be President. What utter nonsense. No other President has been forced to do more dancing with opposition to try to prove to them that he's not the anti-Christ. When and where it will end is anybody's guess, but some folks won't be happy until he's on a helicopter flying out of Washington and back to Chicago forever. Sadly, that may come sooner rather than later, if things don't start turning around soon, and Republicans are going to see to it and work their behinds off to make sure that things stay as bad as possible so that they can make themselves out to be the white knights who will come in and make it all better. Yeah, and if you believe THAT..........
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