Ever get the feeling that virtually nobody with power gives a crap about your life?

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4. The real irony here, to me, is that the dysfunction at the Federal level is...

...essentially a reflection of the collective dysfunction at the state level. In other words, while the President is rather unique in his position, the House and Senate- but especially the House- should, on some level, be a better reflection of the state of our affairs and priorities as a country. I do see some hope in the Democratic Party in the House but much less in the Senate.

And yet, these people are not grown in Washinton, DC. They're grown, at least theoretically, out where you and I live. And, as the story goes, we pluck the best of them and ship them all off to one place where they can go make our future a place to look forward to.

And since I don't see that being the case, I'm just assuming that the lack of public accountability has reached such dismal lows, collectively, that we are truly getting the government we (collectively) deserve.

I expect a further degradation of the situation. The Democratic Party Leadership and this administration combine to form a kind of throwback Tammany Hall kind of environment, not the thing we really, desperately, needed after eight years of Bush.

If I'm a passenger on an airplane and I look out the window and I see one of the engines fall off, and I turn to my fellow passenger and say "I think this plane's going to crash" they don't reply "Don't open you mouth unless you can fix the engine."

I think this plane's going to crash.

PB