Congress, You're on Notice

Enough already. Suspend the ideological differences with respect to governance until things start to improve for the majority of Americans. Minus the overlords of the global/new world order, most of us are suffering with our finances, health care, and education (public and higher schooling) to name a few difficulties, not to mention just getting by from day-to-day.

For a month now, there has been a lot of feather-fluffing in both parties, and no one is really coming up with solutions - "bipartisan" has become a dirty word, and pronouns such as "us," "them," "we," and "they" are being tossed about recklessly as if the problems and faults rest in one party or the other. News flash: both parties are equally complicit and guilty in one form or another. If Congress could come to this simple conclusion, they would be on the same page as the rest of America's reality with respect to public opinion.

Rather than coming together to fight a common cause (i.e., the economy, health care, etc.), the Republic is divided more than ever now. What I have observed over the past eight-going-on-nine years is what I call a "social civil war." We have an old-fashioned stand-off, and to quote Dr. Phil, "Someone needs to step up and be the hero..." We're dying out here: we're losing homes, barely making it, without health care, without jobs, and getting laid off, just to name a few points of desperation.

Like it or not, we elected a president who campaigned on the platforms of change and hope. Every candidate opposing President Obama took a page from his messages and claimed the same for their own campaigns. The proverbial party is over now, and now that push has come to shove, no one wants to do the unpopular thing (whatever that might be with respect to each party’s ideologies), irrespective of their parties. The rules of physics apply to Congress and the state of a nation in much the same way as they apply to nature: objects in rest tend to stay in rest, and entropy is a natural state when no energy is exerted. It will take a lot of effort to turn this nation around or in a new direction.

So Congress, I'm putting you on notice. Make nice, get your stuff together, get along, work together, and get over your pettiness. Instead of worrying about the next election you might not win, worry about being of public service - that service which you were elected to do. We didn't elect you to sit on your backsides and make useless interviews so that you can play hardball or entertain us (no offense Mr. Matthews). Every day you do nothing is one more day that we remain uncertain about where things are heading because we are on unchartered territories. Stop asking, "What's in it for me?" and ask, "What can I do to serve my people best?"

Play politics on your own time - on your days off. You're on the clock, and the taxpayers are paying your salaries, not to mention the salaries of the beneficiaries of many of your positions. You've bailed out the banks without accountability in the first go-round, and you've smugly pointed to your opponents for the fallout for these measures. I no longer beseech or ask you to listen to the better angels of your nature for that is not possible; instead, I’m telling you to consider who your employers are and how it is that you hold public office. Don’t disappoint us again. Do something differently.