Both Parties Are Asleep At The Wheel

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Tuesday April 19, 2011 · 11:16 PM PDT

2011/04/19 · 23:16

Why is it so difficult to have political conversations? I feel stuck in a box here. I am trying to be non-partisan, trying to create dialogue, trying to create a sense of urgency around the state of our political process, but I feel pegged in. I was told just today that "When you get the right and left talking, the Right caves into the Left and calls it 'compromise'." In this, I feel pegged as a "leftie" just for wanting to start dialogue. This is very frustrating.

Look at our political system. Less than two weeks ago, our federal government nearly shutdown. This over a budget bill that should have passed last year (we are six months into this fiscal year). I am not interested in the specifics of who came out looking better on this deal. I am frustrated that our political process is so broken.

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Tuesday April 19, 2011 · 12:13 AM PDT

2011/04/19 · 00:13

Cross posted at The American Way

Today is the first day of me trying to strip my own ideology from my input into this project. I am not this project. I am merely an observer.

So let's be blunt about this. There is no possible way that I can have no agenda. If you have been following what I have been writing here, the agenda I bring is unavoidable. I felt that it was most honest for me to show this side of me. It is time, though to get rid of this. For this project to progress, I need to leave my agenda aside.

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