Recent news stories remind me of an old Sunday Peanuts comic strip. Snoopy is out jogging one day when his knees start to complain about the punishment they are taking from the jog. The feet then chime in about how they are taking the most pounding and how much they hurt. The lungs then volunteer that they are absorbing the most punishment since they have to work so hard pumping air into the body. The ears even complain about how cold they are and why were they outside jogging anyway. At that point, the heart says something to the effect that they are jogging for the heart’s benefit because if the heart goes, everything goes. At that point, all body parts go silent and the jog continues.
So it goes with the Federal budget deficit and our skyrocketing national debt.. If we cannot fix our fiscal situation, nothing else matters. Much like the heart, if the financial foundation of our country is destroyed, then nothing else has any importance. You cannot even talk about global warming, a national energy program, improving public schools, fighting drug addiction, defending the country, helping out the needy, creating and maintaining job growth and economic growth, nothing else. If the heart goes, it does not matter how strong your legs are or how much air your lungs can pump. Much like the heart, sound fiscal policy makes everything else possible.
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When president Obama and the Obama administration were trying to pass Obama Care, they told the Republicans they want to work in a bipartisan way. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a media staged event, and after it was all over President Obama who probably had to go to the bathroom after sitting there that long made a very brief few comments. He basically told the Republicans in the room that if they didn’t like what they we’re doing, and they didn’t have any suggestions to help them do what they were doing, then they were going to ram it down their throats anyway, of course the way he said it was much more eloquent, as is his style.
Still, now that the Obama Care bill has passed, now the president wants to work on a Cap and Trade Bill, which has been referred to as Cap and Tax, as it will put a cap on the amount of CO2 that coal-fired plants, and other emitters of CO2 put out, and financial penalties for such emissions, and that money collected will then be funneled towards research and development, and subsidizing alternative energy generation.
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Republicans are basking in the victory of Scott Brown in a heavily Democratic state. The red dogs are barking loudly at the blue dogs. Democrats on the Hill are already recanting on some of the policies they just last week backed fervently. All in an attempt to woo voters back to them and keep their jobs. Nothing much has really changed. Politicians trying to morph into the candidate they believe their constituents want them to be.
Scott Brown’s successful campaign was no different than those before his. Brown seized on the anger and fury of the voters in his state, much like Obama did just a little over a year ago. This is typical American politics. When one party seizes the swing of favoritism of voters, the other party simply sits back and waits until the party in charge screws up. Once the party in charge does screw up, the other party pounces on the hot issues and proclaim they possess the change that is needed. The problem with this philosophy is that the “change” is always short lived. Once the other party comes back into control it is back to business as usual. And thus the never ending cycle of swing politics continues.
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