Electile Dysfunction

Now, just to be clear, I don’t think that a two party system is the worst thing in the world, but when both of those parties are full of extremist weirdos, well that’s pretty bad.  Why is that bad?  Well, do you really want to be caught in the middle of a tug of war over the future of our country?  Sure, if you’re on the very end of one side of the rope you might last longer, but most people are closer to the middle of the rope, and those people are going to end up in the mud.

Soon-to-be Speaker of the House John Boehner (that’s what she said) commented last night that “it’s clear tonight who the real winners are, and it’s the American people.”  If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge I’d like to sell you.  And I’m not saying that because I disagree with his politics, or because I am mad that some people I like lost yesterday.  I’m saying that because of quotes from top Republicans like, oh look, John Boehner, who said “this is not a time for compromise.”  And Mitch McConnell, who said “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

Really?  That’s what you want to accomplish?  You want to not compromise, and focus all your efforts on hampering Obama.  Huh.  Because a while back, you were all bitching that the Democrats who were in control would not compromise with you.  You hated that they had the majority and would not listen to you, and remember all those “Anyone but Bush” stickers?  Pretty much all that the democrats talked about for years was getting rid of ol’ Dubya.  And now you are saying that you are going to turn this country around?  YOU HAVE EXACTLY THE SAME GOALS AS THE PEOPLE YOU JUST REPLACED!

Not once have I heard an idea coming from the republicans that does not include trying to repeal something Obama did, trying to stop Obama from doing something, or trying to not compromise, and hold firm to the values of whining and complaining and not compromising.  It’s almost like when Obama took office, and we started getting rid of stuff that Bush did.  Ok, Bush was an idiot, so that’s a bad example, but the point is, if every party’s goal is to undermine the other party, then no one can ever win.  And the American people, with their short attention spans and twitter accounts, no longer want to wait 4 or 8 years to see if someone can fix something like the economy.  They want it to be fixed, like yesterday.  So every election or two, we vote out everybody in charge and give the power to the other guys, and when they can’t fix anything (thanks to those first guys, who will not compromise and hamper their every efforts), we switch it back again.    And does anything ever get fixed?

 What we need is a party for the normal people.  The middle management folks.  Jon Stewart recently held a “Rally to Restore Sanity” which was for the people who don’t go to rallies.  What our government needs now is a political party for people who hate politics.  People who want the government to govern, rather than squabble.  People who don’t think your political future should depend on how much money your parents have, or how much money corporations give you.  Of course, people like that don’t have enough money to run for office anyway, so it’s a moot point.  I guess we should all just move to Canada.