I recent poll taken by NBC/WSJ shows that people are sick and tired of Washington, DC politics. This goes for Dems and Reps, the President and Congress--it's everyone and everything. Supposedly, those arrogant elitists in DC are apoplectic over the results. I firmly doubt that.
These polls, well, there is something wrong with them. Either people are lying, deliberately or otherwise, or the wrong people are being canvassed or the wrong questions are asked. Something is wrong.
With this latest poll in mind, how then to explain yesterday's primary results in Michigan? I'm mostly talking about the Republican primary. The Democrats are all pretty much the same--they want to take some people's money (certainly not theirs!) and give it to others. They believe that big government, that is, the Democrats, knows everything better than anyone else and is the only solution. They, because they are smarter than the rest of us (and, of course, they aren't, not at all, but think they are) they think they should tell us how to live, what to do and what not to do in more and more aspects of our lives--through big government.
No, I'm talking about the Republican primary. Here in Michigan at least, there were a lot of real opportunities to do something different, to nominate candidates who will change things--or at least try. But, voters didn't do that. Looking up and down the results, esp in my districts, the winners were incumbents (the ones who are responsible for the current mess) or those running with the support of the Establishment Republicans, that is, the Republicans who more and more also believe in big government; the statists. Why didn't voters reject the incumbents and throw out the Establishment Republicans, esp if, as this poll suggests, American voters are sick and tired of the status quo in DC? There can be only one or two answers. One has to do with a flawed poll and the other has to do with people saying one thing and doing quite another.
Let's toss in another thing that people grouse about politics--money. Oh, is there anyone (other than the big spenders) who hasn't bemoaned the recent Supreme Court rulings on campaign spending? No, there aren't many. "They are buying our elections, our government...." So, who was nominated yesterday, from both parties? You guessed it, the ones who spent the most on the primaries. If we were really upset about having our government "bought and paid for," we'd vote for those who spent the least. But, again, we say one thing and do another.
Of course, I must take yet another shot at the LameStreams. Even if the Reps take the Senate in the fall, they'll be happy. Either way, Dem-control or Rep-control, the LameStreams win. They are no longer independent, serving as beacons or watchdogs. They are in bed with the status quo. They can't stand the idea of shrinking big government. They, like the Dems and Establishment Reps, expect big government to do something. And making government smaller isn't doing something, not to the LameStreams. Here's a case in point, something about which I've written many times. The losing Rep candidate for the US House, sort of a Tea Partier, was today again identified as "reindeer farmer" who "plays Santa Claus." I saw none of the incumbents from either party, anywhere in the state, similarly identified as "career politicians, sucking at the teat of taxpayers." In fact, the LameStreams celebrate the long-termers, even when they are so old they just babble on incoherently. (OK many of them babble like that even before they are too old.)
How disheartening to me, in many ways. I supposed I knew, deep down, that there would be no difference, that voters and parties and candidates wouldn't change. I guess I hoped against hope. But I'm not really surprised; after all, I have worked with teachers for 44 years and they are the same way--say one thing and do another. They complain and criticize (most often justifiably), but they are too afraid to do anything to really make things better. That's what yesterday's primary results mean to me.
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Amen coach. Our electorate (in general) is plain clueless with respect to the term "big government". Most people just cannot relate to billions and trillions of dollars. People perenially bitch about taxes and the IRS, yet rarely praise the few with the stones to point our how ridiculous our tax system is. "Make the rich pay their fair share!", they say. Herman Cain proposed a flat tax, that makes everybody pay their FAIR share, and the media saw an instant threat to Obama and shot him down.
Sadly, politicians won't champion term limits. That would be the best thing this country could possibly have happen. By far!
If the average IQ of our electorate were not 90, voters would see that the democrats/socialist idea of gigantic government will fail every time. That the more we allow our federal government to mingle in things, the more things fail. It is not speculation...it is fact. Where is the media to call the blowhards out?
Same result, different reasons for the republicans. Can we please somehow make the Rick Perry's, Barbara Bachman's, and Rick Santoram's of the world just go away? There is no argument against "good family values", but the extremeism just does not fly in the 21st century. The republicans of today, as you state, speak from both sides of their mouths. They will hammer the Dems for wanting huge revenue from the taxpayers, then rejoice at that very revenue when they gain control.
The republicans are running out of time to get their crap together and come up with a plan. They MUST know that they need to get votes from minorities (blacks, hispanics, and women) and the youth of this country as well. IMHO, there is only ONE potential candidate that is intelligent, honest, and capable enough to pull it off, and, as you know, that man is Dr. Rand Paul. I hope our electorate listens to him. He is the only one that has the stones to speak from his heart and preach the serious changes that are needed to literally save our economy. He screams that our federal government must get out of our lives and get its hands out of things like education, taxes, the federal reserve, etc., and stop sending gazillions of OUR dollars all over the world. Amen.
Thanks for providing a forum for me to rant, coach. It takes a load off on a peaceful Sunday morning. Now I can focus on today's games. Maybe another ball will, with perfect timing, fly over the fence from the bullpen and totally screw up a play!
Allow me to change "as you know, that man is Dr. Rand Paul" to "as you know, (for me), that man is Dr. Rand Paul". I sounded like I was putting words in your mouth. Sorry!
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