you're losing me!

i never thought i'd say that.  and i admit to being a novice when it comes to current events and government.  but i know about calling it a duck if it walks and quacks like one.  and that's what i feel we're getting from our reps.

i am so sick of hearing status quo and how we don't have the votes.  i'm sick of baby steps.  i had no intention of picking on louise slaughter, so i'm taking my comment from her blogpost and putting it here for all our newly-(re)elected reps to see.

there's no free pass in washington, for the left or the right.  we intend to hold your feet to the fire.  get it right or get out of the way.

here's what i said:

it blows my mind (0 / 0)
that we haven't got a ghost of a chance of getting a timeline bill passed and that we would have to resort to these "compromises" to get crumbs or "a first step."  i thought of this as i watched bush's sermon on the mount this morning.  that guy couldn't answer a question or debate an issue if his life depended on it.  in the meantime, tweety comes on afterward and says that bush was "impassioned!"  that means what? that he said "making progress" and "hard work" more emotionally this time?

do i need to remind everyone that we voted you guys back in because we were promised change?

i personally haven't seen any change.  i keep hearing the s.o.s. over and over again, when i should be hearing everyone screaming "mutiny" on this blathering captain queeg who has no idea how to run a country, just as he had no idea how to run a baseball team.  every day it seems that a new scandal emerges and every other day the response seems to be that we can't do anything about it.

to me we are heading full speed ahead to fascism.  with the housing bubble bursting, the easy money credit catastrophe and low-paying and rarely created job market, the ex-middle class has disappeared and is now being turned into a slave class by an ever-wealthier upper crust.

i keep hearing about how the democrats are just as corrupt and self-protective as the republicans and no matter how scary keith olbermann's special comment was last night, i've a tendance to agree.

i feel duped and ashamed.  

i resent that our so-called representatives are already raising obscene amounts of money on way-too-premature campaigns, while saying next-to-nothing about what they intend to do about the disaster that is going on in our country RIGHT NOW!

i'm for change, radical change.  right now, there isn't one candidate who's speaking to me, and i intend to use my one vote very carefully next time around.

so let's get off the stump, people, and get to work!  give me some substance with which to really stick our tongues out at our republican counterparts.

to hell with the status quo, that b.s. is obsolete.