I recently receive an email from a close friend. In it my friend brings up a number of interesting discussion points. I'm posting my friends thoughts in a series of posts, and I'm commenting to each post. Please feel free to add your comments as well.
Part 1 - On the Executive and Legislative branches
Doug,
I am wrapping up my chores early tonight and, after one glass of Chardonnay, I have screwed up the courage to write tou you about politics. After eight years of "Dubya" it is obvious that you and everyone else wants "Change". My concern is the quality and strength of change. For years we have been puzzled about the leadership in the White House and in Congress. The present occupant of theWhite House is the easy target so we all take shots at "The Bush Administration" as if the executive branch of our government is the only hand on the rudder of our ship of state.
Everyone will be sorely dissapointed when "Dubya" is out of office and we are still in a quagmire militarily, fiscally and
politically.
Yes we need change but it does not all hinge on the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. The spineless US congress must make a few about face turns ..if they have the guts and the presence of mind to really understand the situation.
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We've got at least two thoughts going here, executive and legislative, and I need to discuss them separately.
First the executive. If Dubya has done nothing else, he has demonstrated just how much the executive branch can drive the country. Our government was founded based on a balance of power between three groups. The balance is quite out of whack at the moment. I must believe that this situation will be self correcting - that balance will be restored. I can't predict how the balance will be restored. But it must be.
Anyone who expects a sudden turnaround on Jan 20 would be sorely disappointed. It took 8 years to create the current military, financial and political situation, and that can't be changed overnight. I'd guess that it will take longer than 8 years to right the ship. Typically, doing the crime takes little time. Paying for it usually takes much longer.
Second the legislative. I couldn't agree more that congress needs an overhaul, and needs to develop guts and understanding. As part of the magic triangle, they're certainly not holding up their end. I find it incredible, how totally ineffective that bunch of buffoons are right now. In Arizona, we call our congresspeople dwarfs - and we should apologize to the little people! The current US Congress is not much better. The only solution I can think of for this is the people themselves - they voted these idiots in, and only they can replace them. That solution doesn't seem to be working - the people keep sending the same idiots back to Washington.
Having said this about our exec and legis branches, I must say this also. The country must change course. A Republican president will not change our course, of that much I am certain. A Democratic president will try to change our course, and that is all I can hope for initially. Of course, I hope that the course change is successful in the long term. But I know in my heart that the current course is fatal.
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