Check and balances that is. There is a lot of talk cause talk is cheap, but still talk can be misleading or informative. NO where do words slip better from a slide of mouth than they do in the political arena.  Such a plethora of double speak examples abound  in the political sphere it’d take several lifetimes of personal thought to sift through the mountain of it to find the most meaningful examples. Fortunately groups like factcheck.org or other sites focused left or right are available for anyone to look at and read the interesting blusterous misdirection spoken by politicians (Remember a bunch of Baboons is called a congress of baboons).

One ferris wheel of thought I laugh at is circling in the news now-a-days. You’ll recognize it; it goes like this: President Obama has no political savvy, he can’t get anything done! Or like this: President Obama hasn’t kept his promises. That’s funny, as in a congress of baboons funny.  Why? Here’s the deal in numerous nut shells. (Sorry about that).

The question that should be asked any Republican currently running to get  his party’s nomination is simply put like this:  what would you do if the opposing party said within one week after your election that their main agenda is to make sure you don’t get re-elected? What would you do if the opposing party’s most influential speakers proclaimed they wanted you out of office and would not back any of your platforms. But even worse, what would you do if every bill you sponsored and supported was nearly 100% opposed and voted against by every opposing party member every time? How would you then get anything done if this were the case? Maybe you think these questions are slanted to support President Obama’s successes and failures during his first three years of office. But I say this IS the question each Republican Primary suspect, oops, err, candidate should answer in the next debate.

What would any Republican  currently hoping to run for President do if once they were elected every Democrat voted against everything he proposed?

But there is another circus in town that is free to watch right now as well. It is called the Republican Primary. I have to laugh that Romney is under attack by fellow Republicans for having made millions by using the free market and for buying businesses that went  bankrupt to his gain!( Look up How Romney made his money).  The trouble here is the guys calling foul are all supposed to be members of the “We believe in the free market” crap shoot gang. So now that Romney has the lead all of a sudden earning money over the laid off bodies of working Americans is some sort of crime? Give me a break. I mean is it a free market at all costs as Republicans all claim it should be or not? Or is it just the brutal face of the de-regulated market in some cases is too disturbing to look at ,perhaps too uncomfortable to sleep with,  and that we do as a civilized society need at least some Government regulation? But blow-me- down that would be talking and walking the democratic talk and walk. This is just what every other Republican Presidential Primary candidate has done just this  past week by criticizing Romney for putting his money-making skills to use!

And I don’t bring this up because the Bush administration did more with the prescription  drug bill alone to expand the government than any liberal administration has  been able to do in the forty-three years since Lyndon Johnson gave us Medicare.  And I do not bring this up because the Republican fantasy of a regulation-free life has given us  the greatest economic crash since the Depression. And certainly I do not bring this up because of  the 31,000 people who may die each year because we refuse to regulate guns, since  nobody in the pro-life party gives a damn about that.
Read more on this dated 2008 article but an interesting one none-the-less: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/republican-party-strategy-post-election-111808#ixzz1hn27gfEl

No! I only bring this up because it is true that the Republican representative bloc vowed to vote against President Obama and to make him a one term President before he even had presented one single bill to congress. How fuzzy American Feeling is that? See not so much.

There hasn’t been a check and balance in Congress since this Democratic President took office. All the so-called centralists should look to this and figure out who really stepped away from our true American debate and system of government.

Franque23

(  Often I bat thoughts around with my wife and some hits on my blog reflect these conversations. I try to always keep an open ear whenever she speaks cause as per my blog The Wonderful World of Women the world would be a better place if men had done this sort of listening from our beginnings….just saying. But currently the Republican Female Primary candidate wasn’t up to snuff. )

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