We Gotta Get Out of This Place

I know I've had very little to say in the past few months. One of the reasons for this long silence has been my frustration with our government. Has anyone else been as frustrated as I have been? You know it's bad, when I don't even want to think about politics. Sure, I watch Hardball and 15 minutes of Morning Joe on most days. I still read a few newspapers regularly, but I haven't even wanted to talk politics. I have to admit I've wanted to escape from it all. I even started rereading Lord of the Rings.

Here's Why I'm Frustrated

One side comes into power after a big election and that side gets almost nothing done for eight years. Then, the American people get frustrated and elect a new group of politicians who get almost nothing done for eight years or four years if they are terrifically bad and the other side can make this case effectively.

I didn't like the direction our country was going in, under George Bush. And I was very happy to see the Bush era come to an end. The American people agreed with me and decided to elect Barack Obama and throw the Republicans out of the House and the Senate.

But the pattern repeats. The Democrats seem to not have learned from the mistakes of their Republican predecessors, in that their agenda does not reflect the will of the American people. I know very few people that are truly happy with what the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress are trying to spend their time on. I agree with the administration that health care is tremendously important, but from the beginning the process was flawed in that they did not address the main concerns of the American people.

We gotta get out of this place.