The Dog Ate My Homework
It is a classic. And, it seems about all we’re getting from the White House these days.
Do you remember Candidate Obama? The man was flawless. He had a cogent and endearing answer for every situation. Now that the rubber has met the road, it isn’t as cut and dried.
His first dog was named George Walker Bush. It didn’t seem that he fully moved in before that was the source of all unsolved problems. I didn’t find it attractive. It was obvious and self-serving.
Now we have the oil spill. Barak Obama is not responsible for the oil spill. Government failure to solve it isn’t his fault either. And, changes to the departments that may have been overly lax in monitoring the off-shore drilling seem to be progressing as well as they can in politics. Yet, the White House can only drag out some dog bemoan their lost homework.
It seems like a bit of honesty just isn’t possible – even when it’d do them some good. Maybe it is time to think about some Trumanesque honesty. It kicked Dewey’s arrogant butt while all the political pundits were writing Harry off. The American people can accept the truth about a bad situation when they feel the guy is meeting the problem head on without pulling punches.
I know I keep bashing Democrats like they were the only evil. That’s because they have extreme power and can force good or evil without regard for the electorate. The “Republican solution” is every bit as self-serving as the White House’s approach. All they can do is complain like they were me or some other powerless schmuck.
As soon as one side says something, the other trashes it. It is knee jerk politics that serves the party ahead of the nation. There is no difference between their rhetoric and that of Candidate Obama – except Obama did it a lot better.
We’ve a third party. It sounds refined. They are serving tea. No scones with clotted cream though. The media is almost unanimous in painting them as kooks. A lot of them are. They’ve a very diverse collection of messages. It does include the old John Birch crazies. The Neocons have snuck in the back door as is their want. But, it also includes an interesting and party spanning cross section of the populace – which most media ignores being there. There is a surprising mix of blue and red in their paint pot.
While the ideas they represent are quite diverse, they unite in the view that something isn’t working and has gotten out of hand. If they could come together, they might get some change but it doesn’t take a Vegas bookmaker to know that is a long shot.
What is sad across our new, somewhat three party system is that nobody has the clout or reasoning to really institute some change. All the angry shouting identifies that there is problems. But all that shouting doesn’t do a damn thing to solve them. It takes some honesty and a willingness to work together and for instead of always against.
ADDENDUM:
Keep Indiana’s Governor Daniels in your spotlight. He’s denying that he’ll run but hopefully that is just a bit of wise politicking. He’s been a Washington insider so he won’t be stuck with the Carter problem that won’t work for the tea party either. The important thing here those is that he’s willing to honestly talk about a problem.
He ran for governor in a weird seeming way. He had a motor home and drove around the state. He’d stop in local coffee shops and not only talk but listen. He didn’t use big rallies spouting focus group generated sound bites. He just talked about the problem being faces and the solutions he saw. He owns the Governor’s mansion and his popularity even brings about common goals in a legislature with mixed party control.
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My RSS feed is pretty diverse. Some are those I can frequently disagree with or are polarized far more than I appreciate. But, it makes for thought.
Here is one that made me think a bit and relates a bit to today's blog.
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