Change For The Sake Of Change May Not Be A Good Thing

Well, with 31 days to go before the election where do we find ourselves? First and foremost the American electorate is furious at Washington. Washington business as usual is no longer acceptable to the American people. It doesn't matter if your jersey is red or blue, if your an incumbent your in trouble. This is a shift from anti-Obama rhetoric, to anti-establishment tones. However, it still poses a problem for Democrats because as logic would dictate, they are in power and have more seats to loose. The people are tired of being ignored by both parties. The result being many of the candidates currently holding their party standards, mostly the tea party folks, are change for the sake of change. Many are not qualified to hold a flying kite, let alone a state house, or seat in Congress, yet there they are? They hold no policy fixes, no new ideas, no populist mandate, simply put they are not incumbents. No matter how out there they are, they have won primary after primary on "change for the sake of change", but is this the answer? Unfortunately these were the choices, and they fit the bill, but when the nation wakes up on November 3rd this country may have the biggest collective political hangover in history! "OMG I voted for who, what was I thinking?!" People have to look at these choices NOW, not LATER.

Recent polling has both Republicans and Democrats equally unpopular with people, as well as, even on who should control Congress. A deadlock created by unpopular political posturing by both sides. A toll paid currently by mainstream Republicans, and potentially incumbent Democrats. One poll puts 75% of people wanting an end to outside political influence in public policy. I wholeheartedly agree, but not at the expense of a Congress filled with right wing Tea Party nut jobs. Everyone wants lobbyists out of the policy picture, except for the lobbyists themselves, and the politicians who take their money. So how high a price are you willing to pay for that? First of all the question is moot, graft and special interest money has greased the wheels of Capitalist Democracy since the early Greeks, it's not going anywhere. It makes for great speeches, but talk is cheap and if it was a problem we COULD fix, do you think it will come at the hands of the Tea Party crowd and Republicans?

I am still not convinced the Republicans will take the House of Representatives. As the election draws near people tend to settle down and examine the candidates a little closer. Simply watching some of these Tea Party wing nuts in a debate, should be just the smelling salts we need to help stop the electorate from making that terrible mistake of actually voting for these loons. I will concede the Democrats will face losses, but the jury is still out as to whether they will be big enough to loose the majority. So keep those fingers crossed and hope a little reality sinks into the American people, on the other hand keep some alka-seltzer ready, November 3rd is fast approaching.