I’ve missed posting for a few days now whilst I contemplate life after the elections. A painful process indeed as I despise (but do not ignore) politics with a passion. Must be one of the rare times in my life where I’ve taken the elections seriously since most election years, presidential or midterm, is just more of the “same ol’-same ol’ that you end up with no matter who’s elected. But I don’t think it’s that simple this time.

This time there’s a power in the house who’s only agenda is to do their utmost best to destroy everything current President has managed to accomplish so far. That, and put a kibosh on anything he may have yet on the table of course. Back to the old GOP standard of cut, slash, do-away-with, cater to big business, cater to the wealthy and never mind the needs of the average Americans, way of doing business. Yet many of these average Americans seem to believe that bringing back those who actually created this current mess we’re in will actually improve the situation.

What’s the true definition of insanity again?

“We’ll listen to what the American people are telling us” , John Boehner repeatedly replies to the majority of questions the press throw at him during his first press conference after the Republicans won the House. No matter what those questions were, the topics that formed those questions or how the questions were worded. Same canned answer was put forth in reply.

Nothing but BS and rhetoric. Spent less than 15 minutes along with his cohorts saying absolutely nothing at all. The GOP has made their so-called plan perfectly clear though. Destroy the current President and anything that has been accomplished so far by said President and his administration. Has everything Obama has done so far been the right thing to do? Or as much as could have been done? No, of course not. Nobody can do everything right but the majority of his accomplishments have been the right ones or at least headed in the right direction and no one will ever convince me differently.

Look, anyone who knows me well will tell you that I’m the most apolitical beast in existence. I staunchly hold the opinion that we’d get a whole lot more accomplished if it wasn’t for the damn politicians (that includes most lawyers as well). But I also have the unique viewpoint that my time in the Cold War submarine service has given me. One which tends towards the sensible end of things. If there’s a job to be done then get to it and get it done. If you have to talk about it first then do so but make it quick, get to the point and get…the…job…done! And the view that I’m seeing right now is that while the current President of the United States of America is busting his butt trying to shovel this country out of the mess it’s in, “We, the People” have successfully voted in a group into power whose sole agenda is to see him fail.

Well, gee whiz. That’s certainly going to get a lot accomplished, isn’t it?

This whole situation is starting to read like an historical time line in the back of a Robert Heinlein novel. Something like:

02-November-2011: Republican Party takes the majority of seats in the “House of Representatives” of the United States Congress during what was then known as; the “Midterm Elections”, thereby successfully thwarting any further effort by then President, Barack Obama, to further the recovery of the of the early 21st century “United States”. This event is often referred to as the beginning of the balkanization of the United States of America although some historians believe that period actually began when Obama was unable to secure a second term in office.

(sigh)

I think the thing that really irks me about this whole thing is that the GOP had an excellent opportunity to say something meaningful, do something meaningful instead of just bucking the (current) administration and giving forth lip-work. To stand there wide open and state as a fact that they had heard what the American people had said (say it only once, not answer every damn question with the same phrase or interpretation thereof) and that they were going to work with President Obama every step of the way in order to find the best way to go about getting this country back on it’s feet. That they realize there will be disagreements as to how that should happen from time to time but there is absolutely no reason why compromises can’t be reached in a timely manner, etc, etc and so forth.

But no, what we get instead was John Boehner at press time, stammering through a half-assed “canned ham” speech that stated absolutely nothing at all. So he gets all tearful the night before, so what? That doesn’t say anything either except that he might cry all over congress from time to time as house speaker?

Alright, maybe I’m just pronouncing doom and gloom here or I’m just plan plain disgusted with all this worthless time wasting of our very partisan government (or more likely both) but I just wish the ‘Grand Ol’ Party’ had taken the opportunity to show that they had taken a serious interest in actually doing something positive for a change rather than just bucking the current system.