Revolting, is how the federal budget impasse feels. Revolting, as in nausea and not a political movement. My sense is that the American public is finally exhausted by The David Copperfield Economy, where strange results emerge from nowhere and real equity disappears although our hands cover our wallets. It has been four years since the housing bubble popped, and the current GOP effort to stir antagonism toward Obama and Democrats using the culture wars (again) is not going to work.
Every tea bag finally gets used up. That's how I feel about the culture wars today. Keeping the pot on high boil with Planned Parenthood and environmental protections? Not going to work. People have a lot more on their minds than abortion. Although carbon emissions have gotten all the attention, in Florida Big Sugar and Associated Industries and the Chamber have organized around the idea that protecting the environment is too costly and that to get our economy humming we need to pollute our rivers and streams and bays and the Everglades. Even Joe the Plumber realizes that the solution to an oversupply of housing is not more permits. Joe sees who profits as a result. Not him.
So, pregnant women and the environment: that's how the GOP has organized its grand plan. But the decline of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck sends different signals. There will be a backlash. How big the backlash depends on Democrats learning how to paint the picture for Americans of culture wars as a failed model for state and national politics. But in the meantime, enormous damage is being done in the states.
In Tallahassee, a legislative revolution is under way as the snatching and grabbing goes on unimpeded by a Democratic minority. Why haven't prominent Democrats in Florida found the voice and language to explain how the thieves broken open the doors to the warehouse and stolen all the grain? Because many are enablers. If it takes much longer for Democrats to get their house in order in Florida, we will never recover what was lost in the confusion.
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Both party's are culpable here. Obama's deficit, and I'm paraphrasing someone here, made Bush look like he tipped over the piggy bank.
With 24 hour news cycles, neither party is stellar and both will pay.
The Reid/Pelosi/Obama legacy will cost the US taxpayers like nothing we've ever faced in this county.
The Dodd/Frank banking legislation is a slap to all of us, knowing what those two were really doing behind the scenes.
As to the Pub's - abortion is legal! The environment produces air we ALL breath, water we ALL need to drink to stay alive. They've gone off in to never land with their policy's, to save money? Nope, to save their donors.....Strip the land and pave over it should be their new moniker.
Voter in this State and Country are so programmed to believe crap and not question any of it because "I saw it on the News", it's just more dumbing down of our population - so, let's just strip education while we're at it, only the dumb one's will keep voting all these moron's in to office, at the expense to the rest of us who vet candidates, make informed decisions, but are out numbered.
Disgusted in the US........A country my forefathers fought for and founded. I cannot imagine what the framer's would be making of all of this.
Personally, and I can't believe I'm saying this, I think Americans have simply had enough of everything. It's gotten ridiculous and embarassing and I'm pretty sure most Americans feel they could do a better job than these nincompoops.
As long as the Dem's keep Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi front and center, not even an intervention from G-d himself/herself (and I don't mean Genius) can help them.
If the Dem's can move a little more to the middle, I'd support them. I don't support the GOP either, I'm a registered independent.
our government can manage my underware drawer
If they actually managed any business it would fail
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