Mad As Hell

With The War in Afghanistan raging since October 7, 2001, and the Iraq War, ongoing from March 20, 2003, It is easy to understand American's ever increasing feeling we are stuck in an ever deepening and costly quagmire.


While the Bank closings and collapse of the "Sub-Prime" markets never brought us to the depths of the "Depression," there is a sense that the "New-Normal" is dreary at best. Yes, we have improved greatly from the numbers at the end of the Bush administration when we were loosing 400,000 - 750,000 jobs per month- in fact we have seen jobs growth. What we have not seen is any truly bright light at the end of the tunnel.



As a result of years of deregulation, we now wake up each morning to hear about another 50,000 plus barrels of oil pouring into the Gulf, destroying some of American's most delicate wet-lands.



Our Local Governments are broke, Schools are being forced to increase class sizes to 35 despite clear data showing the negative effect such changes will have on our students.Roads have potholes large enough to swallow a dog and many of our bridges seem held up by rust and duck tape.



It is with this in mind that a new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that 57% of Americans state they have "just some" or no confidence in President Obama ability to make the right decisions for America. Before the opposition "Licks it's chops," they better read that 73 percent had just some or no confidence in congressional Republicans to make the right decisions for the country..





We are Mad as Hell- But we don't have the slightest idea WHO to be mad at!



Fiscal conservatives are angry at what they see as an exploding deficit for which they will lay blame at Obama's feet, while the smartest of them recognize that the previous Republican showed a complete lake of fiscal discipline. Liberals who invested an allegiance in Obama that one often reserves for saints; have found him unable to bring forth the Utopian dreams his cadency promised. And the "Tea-Bag- People" seem somehow irate to find that we are no longer living in the 19th century.



The hard to face truth is that America faces some difficult challenges. While common sense tells us that our greatest hope of setting our country back on tracks is for Democrats and Republicans to work together for a common good; the current political climate makes such self-sacrifice beyond hope.