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I’ve gotten a few questions lately about a car wreck in my area involving two motorcycles and some deaths. Turns out one of the people involved was named Jason McDonald as well.
Just to clear things up, this wasn’t me. I wasn’t in Mt. Pleasant that day and have not been in a wreck.
As a follow up to my last post, “You just don’t get it.“, I saw this article today in Newsweek that has an interesting take on why congress doesn’t work. The fact that we have senators resigning because they feel that cross party feuding is preventing forward progress should serve as a wake up call to all congressional incumbents and hopefuls.
I’ve become increasingly frustrated lately with the state of politics in our nation (my nation, that is – the United States). It isn’t any one policy, program, or agenda that has me annoyed. While I do see both good and bad in healthcare reform, I’m not all that upset about it. I’m nervous about national debt but can handle it.
What I am finding myself growing more sick of each day is the constant fighting between the major political parties. These are the people that are supposed to be looking out for the well being of us, not themselves or their political parties. Instead there is a constant stream of rhetoric from all directions.
Some would argue that by being elected the views of the candidate effectively mimic the views of their region. However, this argument fails to recognize that the majority of elections are decided by a relatively thin margin. This means that the candidate could, at most, represent the total thoughts and desires of just over half of all constituents.
At a Tea Party rally Sarah Palin recently said, “Washington has broken faith with the people that they are to be serving”. She’s absolutely right – and she is part of the problem. Instead of focusing on roasting political adversaries our elected officials need to focus on fixing the problems. This applies to everyone, republicans, democrats, independents, etc.
If each official used their finger pointing energy to help solve problems our country would be much better off as a result. Bipartisan doesn’t mean split or whole – it means cooperative.
