To put it succinctly for those who may not have gotten this thing, basically this woman sounds off about how she was a lifelong registered Democrat until “the last Presidential election,” at which time she switched party allegiances. NOW she’s dropped BOTH parties, stating her impression that NEITHER represents either her own nor the interests of ANY American Citizen. She tasks those sitting in the marble halls of Washington to get off their collective duffs & do ANYTHING to show their support of those who ELECTED them & to heed OUR voices when they vote on matters of national importance, rather than lining their pockets, pushing legislation through that may or may not be such a hot idea, listening only to special interests, ad infinitum. In summation, she concluded with a line to the effect that if they DON’T do this, We The People are coming to get them OUT of the offices WE put them into in the first place—because We The People sure as hell aren’t impressed or pleased with anything coming out of D.C.
I have two things to add here:
1) DO AWAY WITH PRESSING “1” FOR ENGLISH, DAMN IT! If you COME here, YOU NEED TO LEARN ENGLISH! I promise you, nobody took pity on my mother’s grandparents when they arrived from Hungary around the beginning of World War I, changing street signs over to Hungarian for them any more than business was conducted in Gaelic when the Irish influx hit after the potato famine or Italian/German/Polish became the languages du jour during WWII. Along with closing the immigration loophole, make English the official language of the USA already. I didn't take Spanish in high school--with good reason (it's called, "I wasn't interested" and took French instead!).
2) Time for a state by state assessment of a similar nature. After all, I live in the state that was abandoned by its governor for most of two weeks, not even leaving the lieutenant governor in charge. I am of the opinion that, if the lieutenant governor is considered to be MORE inept than the fool who left us hanging with NO chief executive in charge while he went gallivanting off to “the Argentine end of” the Appalachian Trail (as if!), it’s time to fire ‘em both & start all over again. (I couldn't care LESS about Mark Sanford’s extramarital affair--let Jenny Sanford deal with that, though I feel that if I were in her position, I’d leash him in the future!). I do, however, believe he should think with the head on his shoulders and vacate Columbia’s corridors of power to someone with better discretion.
He’s only the latest—he’s by no means the first, the last, or the only governor to screw up during his current term of office (remember Jim McGreevey in New Jersey being replaced unceremoniously by Jon Corzine or Elliot Spitzer’s epic screwup in Albany, New York leading to David Patterson?). And WHAT is Sarah Palin thinking, vacating office only halfway through her FIRST term?! That makes no sense whatsoever to me. Buh-bye, Sarah--you shan't be missed.
In closing, let me cite Alexander Hamilton: “The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original foundation of all legitimate authority.”
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