Please Don't Take the "2016" Bait

[SoCalDem]

25. Oooh, we LOVE this guy .. Yay we elected him.. Now, who's next.. this guy stinks

SoCalDem Donating Member....Mon Aug-15-11 06:11 PM

Oooh, we LOVE this guy (or woman) .. Yay we elected him/her.. Now, who's next.. this guy stinks




Our politics-on-steroids is doing us in as a nation. We can never get anything DONE, because we never allow the people who get elected to... ......well ......GOVERN.

The second the election is over, we seem to expect the world to somehow be different..more caramel-ly delicious..more bird sing-song-y, more blue sky-ey.

Loretta Sanchez was just on with Dylan Ratigan and she said something perversely true, without probably even realizing it.
Her comment.."Well, we're in the middle of an election cycle, so we won't be able to do it"..

I already forgot what "it" was, but the underlying message is that since we are ALWAYS in an election cycle, we can never get anything "done".

With our entire house of reps running non-stop to keep the job they have, they are always constrained in legislating boldly for things we really need, and with 1/3 of the senate up every 2 years, we are always on the verge of flipping power to "the other side".

It's a perpetual game of Monopoly, where we never get to be the banker, and we always land on Boardwalk with 2 hotels..