As one who spent nearly two decades in the DC legislative and regulatory arenas, I can tell you first hand that the importance of the thousands of people who make the government work cannot be over stated - working my butt off yet coming up ‘allegedly’ short in 2000 and knowing the consequences of subjecting the country to the Reign of Error of loyal Bushies remains one of the great frustrations of my life.
Hope is reborn, thoughtfulness, not Palinism will soon retake our Capitol, and someday I’d like to write a book " The Best and the Brightest- Renewal in the Age of Obama’ .
May the tendrils of the Flying Spaghetti Monster touch all who choose to serve in the new Administration.
It’s over (or nearly) – eight years of incompetence and incoherence masquerading as down-home patriotism.
It’s over – an Oval Office dripping with contempt for scientific expertise, where the work of Nobel laureates is edited by college dropouts who chief expertise is theological fevor.
It’s over - a government run by a theocratic kiddie core, wholly unqualified (and in the case of Monica Goodling hopefully wholly disbarred) whose view of government is that it serves the temporary occupants of high office, and not the people who created it via the Constitution.
It’s over – a ruling clique so arrogant and delusional that they ‘think’ they can make the world believe the sky is orange merely by saying so.
It’s over – the scandal that the home of the Bill of Rights would embrace the torture of human beings as its official policy, and destroy our nation’s moral standing in the world.
It’s over - a self-righteous, ill-informed exceptionalism that has left American foreign policy in tatters.
It’s over – having to listen to Karl Rove prattle about a "permanent Republican majority."
It’s over – watching the federal budget sink ever deeper into a red sea, thanks to the wacky Laffer delusion’s grip on the nation’s fiscal policy.
It’s over –having to worry that the next new Supreme Court justice will share Antonin Scalia’s extreme, ahistorical take on the Constitution.
It’s over – watching the planet warm as the CEO of its most powerful and profligate nation twiddles his thumbs.
It’s over – thousands of talented, experienced federal workers trooping out the doors, disheartened by working for a boss who clearly didn’t want them to succeed in their appointed missions.
It’s over – eight years of the devastating delusion that businesses can be left to police themselves, with the alleged magic of markets somehow protecting the public interest.
It’s over – listening to a president whose definitions of patriotism and bipartisanship both come down to "everyone agrees with me, without complaint."
It’s over – an administration that uses Orwellian tricks to disguise the true intent of its policies.
It’s over – a White House that claims a nearly monarchical exemption from the useful oversight set up by the Constitution.
It’s over – the era when Fox News served as the unofficial propaganda arm of the ruling party.
The new ruling majority elected today will make its own mistakes, overreach in its own ways, and possibly succumb at times to the temptations of arrogance.
It also will have to foreswear, or at least delay, many of its fondest goals and promises – because of the urgency of cleaning up the myriad messes left by the Bush wrecking crew.
Any organization, be it a sports franchise or a political one, takes on the tone of its leader.
For the last eight years, arrogance, willful ignorance and incompetence, and government whose prime task is perpetuating the party in power is what we have endured as a nation for nearly eight years.
I do not think I am projecting my own passion for excellence in all endeavors, and well thought out solutions to problems upon Barack Obama - I believe it is the trait in him I find most appealing.
As one who spent nearly two decades in the DC legislative and regulatory arenas, I can tell you first hand that the importance of the thousands of people who make the government work cannot be over stated - working my butt off yet coming up ‘allegedly’ short in 2000 and knowing the consequences of subjecting the country to the Reign of Error of loyal Bushies remains one of the great frustrations of my life.
Hope is reborn, thoughtfulness, not Palinism will soon retake our Capitol, and someday I’d like to write a book " The Best and the Brightest- Renewal in the Age of Obama’ .
May the tendrils of the Flying Spaghetti Monster touch all who choose to serve in the new Administration.