I'd like to reiterate the happenings of last Friday's little "get together" on the Hill. Somone please correct my opinion if it is wrong....
1)The PA guy (Dem)... puts forth a resolution for a planned withdrawl from Iraq. ( i think it was 6 months to get the plan settled)
2)The CA guy (Rep) attempts to FORCE an immediate decision regarding troop withdrawl...
3)He does this by putting forth his OWN resolution that DOES get passed... This resolution is to actually Decide right Then and There whether or not to Withdrawl IMMEDIATLY from Iraq.
In other words... He did this for no other reason than to put the original "unpassed" resolution in a bad light.BECAUSE.. they KNOW that the public is only going to hear waht the media dumbs things down enough for a simple and casual understanding of the motives of our representatives..
SO..
Waht does the Public hear??? They hear that the Democrats want IMMEDIATE withdrawl (not true) and that the Republicans fought against this and shot it down.(once again not true, all they were voting on was whehter or not to Pass the Republican resolution to even concider the Dem's resolution.
The Reps. basiccally ReWORDED the original resolution in a way that makes it seem frivolous and irresponsible to the public... and shot down their OWN RESOLUTION.. that was under the pretense (from public standpoint) of being the resolution to actually Withdrawl Immediately.
The Reps. then attacked the Dems. for that origianl resolution... based on the fact that the terrorists can use it for motivation.. and the the troops would wee it as de-motivation... WEHN IN FACT!!! No resolution was EVER even SIGNED UNTIL the REPUBLICANS concoccted this Sceme which actually DID involve a resolution for Immediate withdrawl!! THEY have created a sign document for it.. THAT is waht would be used in terrorist propaganda more than any unsigned resolution....
So I challenge anyone to tell me that this indeed was nothing but a political power-play designed to do nothing but make the other party look bad. Had nothing to do with compromise.. nothing to do with "protecting the morale of the troops" NOTHING except PURE and BLATANT Partisian politics.
And waht is the Republican strategy???
It is to play upon the EMOTIONs of the public.. saying things like "Don't let little Danny-boy die in vain!! Stay the course!!! Only cowards duck and run!!"
I ask you... How can the general public defend themselves emotionally from such cowboy-rhetoric??
I honestly try to not take sides in these matters.... Dog Will Hunt.... but in my opinion, this kind of political dodgeball game is a clear cut example of how politician play uon and TAKE ADVANTAGE OF the ignorance and impetuousness of the general public!
You may come in and tell me that it's just the way that it's "supposed to be".
No, it is that attitude that makes things the way that they are.... and it really troubled me to no end that I have YET to see any News station fully attempt to explain waht IS Actually going on...... it's all just a bunch of home-spun gossip with not enough actual Truth to even be noticable...
You may say "who cares" and "waht can we do about it"
Well... it really is all about education isn't it? Anyone with an incomplete picture can create a logical explanation.. yet without the actual facts of the matter EVERYTHING becomes skewed and disarrayed....
I for one do NOT think that it has to be this way... but our public likes to keep itself isolated from politics, right? We like to keep ourselve JUST far enough to point our fingers at our leaders wehn somthing isn't going right.....
..or it may be that our politics likes to keep itself isolated from the public.... It's prlly a bit of both..
If the public can profess ignorance.. then they can hapily stand at the sidelines and assume that "things" will be taken care of.. and if they are not... they can always say "hey, I'm not a politician"
Well, it works the other way around too, doesn't it? Only the politician don't often have to explain themselves because the public is too uneduacated to ask the right questions... and that's just how the people on the Hill like it.
They don't want the public meddling in the affairs of the government do they?
..and totally "forgettting" the fact that the government is supposed to be subordinate to the public.....
so instead they happily go on playing their game.. the entire time puttig forth the smoke-screen that everything that goes on is "too complicated" for the public to comprehend anyway.... so instead settle for half-assed explainations...
There really is no one to blame.
Those on The Hill can go on with there power-trip.. Can you really blame them for becoming so removed from the public wehn the public really doesn't give a ****?
or can you really blame the public for not taking an interest in things that are beyond the scope of their daily lives? As long as they can gas up their cars.. and get home to watch football.. they could care less about waht goes on in DC...
and now,
Barbarians at the Gates???
Rome wasn't built in a day? Did the construction ever stop? or if it did.. did the Decline and Fall ever finish? OR are we continuing that Empirical tradition in this modern age?
We certainly do live in interesting times....
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