If President Obama has proven anything so far, it’s that talk doesn’t get anything done. Not a health bill, not an energy bill, not any substantive bill. Yeh, it persuades the naïve and the dreamers to do some things they wouldn’t otherwise do… for a while. Then they lose interest. Quickly. Because all that talk hasn’t quickly produced the dream that sounded so good.
And congress? All the dreamers left long ago. Either disillusioned or blended in with the reality of politics.
Among the many difficult-to-keep promises Obama made as candidate, were those having to do with stopping the bickering in Washington. Working both sides of the aisle, etc., etc. We really should say, instead of “difficult to keep,” impossible.
“The American people don’t want it.” Heard that before? Of course, and not just from Obama. It’s one of those popular phrases. But nobody can stop the bickering in Washington. Just a discussion of stopping the bickering could unleash a barrage of bickering. And probably a dozen or so bills, each a thousand pages or more. Then everybody would immediately start looking for ways around the bills they had just passed.
Maybe those guys back there – the ones we choose to call forefathers – secretly knew what would happen. That things would just take care of themselves when future politicians like those we have now started trying to control every little thing Americans do. Maybe those wise men, who allowed themselves to be guided by a higher power, knew things would just bog down to this horrible thing called gridlock every time too much self-importance set in.
So why can’t we just do what everybody wants and be done with it? Because all the roads in and out of doing what everybody wants lead to what nobody wants.
What’s the solution? Easy. Don’t stop the bickering. And leave the gridlock in. If not for them, our government would have sold America down the river years ago.
